AWSM TAPped by Navy Program for Phase III Commercialization

The U.S. Navy's Transition Assistance Program (TAP) focuses on taking select SBIR and STTR Phase II technologies and transitioning those technologies to commercial products suitable for contractors and other private sector companies. The selection process is highly competative, and TAP selects only the most promising projects for participation in the program.

KBSI's Agile, Wireless-enabled Workflows for Ship Manufacturing and Repair (AWSM) has been selected by TAP for Phase III development. AWSM addresses challenges at the heart of manufacturing planning and scheduling: how to close the gap between the state of the shop floor represented in planning and information systems and the real-world state of the shop floor itself. In other words, how do you plan and schedule for processes already in progress--processes tied to rapidly shifting workload and resource contingencies that threaten to make plans and schedules obsolete before they're even implemented? AWSM offers a wireless solution for agile and responsive shop floor planning and scheduling particularly suited to manufacturing environments.