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Whisper Aero Chooses First Resonance ION Factory OS System “to Assist Building Ultra-Quiet Propulsor” for Electric Jet

Whis­per Aero, a U.S‑based cut­ting-edge, next gen­er­a­tion elec­tric propul­sion com­pa­ny, announced recent­ly it has cho­sen the First Res­o­nance ION Fac­to­ry OS Sys­tem to assist in build­ing its “ultra-qui­et propul­sor” pro­duc­tion, reports airframer.com. As the company’s web­site states, “The future needs to be as con­sid­er­ate as it is com­pelling.” (Robert Downey Jr)

The ION Fac­to­ry OS Sys­tem is able to “cap­ture every­thing that hap­pens on the fac­to­ry floor, includ­ing process­es, parts, inspec­tions and red lines. This will sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the time it takes to com­ply with the rig­or­ous audits required for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion,” explains the arti­cle. This ease of exe­cu­tion sup­ports Whisper’s “ramp up in pro­duc­tion” and is “antic­i­pat­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce cycle times with each propul­sor pro­duced.”

Whis­per is set­ting up its first man­u­fac­tur­ing line at the company’s Ten­nessee head­quar­ters. The choice of ION’s real-time ana­lyt­ics and inspec­tion con­trol check­points is influ­enced by sev­er­al key fac­tors, includ­ing:- 

: Advanced trace­abil­i­ty fea­tures. 

: Sup­port for AS9100 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

: The sys­tem’s ease of deploy­ment and main­te­nance.

Ian Vil­la, COO and CPO at Whis­per Aero, explained, “As we gear up our new Ten­nessee facil­i­ty, our goal is to begin pro­duc­ing propul­sors before the end of this year. After eval­u­at­ing mul­ti­ple ven­dors, ION by First Res­o­nance emerged as the sole solu­tion capa­ble of meet­ing our aggres­sive time­lines and exten­sive require­ments.”

Whis­per Aero Team (Ian Vil­la bot­tom left)

Through­out the ini­tial test­ing and pro­duc­tion phas­es, Whis­per is “to lever­age ION’s as-built Bill of Mate­ri­als capa­bil­i­ties to auto­mate data cap­ture relat­ed to mate­r­i­al, process, and pro­ce­dure changes. Post-pro­duc­tion, ION Fac­to­ry OS will con­tin­ue to play a vital role in main­tain­ing com­pre­hen­sive trace­abil­i­ty, over­see­ing ser­i­al num­bers and man­ag­ing sign-offs,” con­tin­ues the arti­cle.

As a com­pa­ny engaged in DOD con­tracts, strin­gent data secu­ri­ty and achiev­ing AS9100 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is imper­a­tive. The arti­cle points out, “ION Fac­to­ry OS aligns seam­less­ly with these pri­or­i­ties by stream­lin­ing the audit process required for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.”

In a com­pet­i­tive land­scape where speed to mar­ket is para­mount, Whis­per Aero’s choice reflects the company’s urgency to estab­lish its fac­to­ry. First Res­o­nance’s ready-to-deploy sys­tem, allows it to focus on build­ing ground­break­ing propul­sors with­out the need for exten­sive soft­ware cus­tomi­sa­tion.

Vil­la con­tin­ues, “We chose ION because the sys­tem is ready to go right away, where the team has deep expe­ri­ence in aero­space, so they know exact­ly what we need.”

Karan Talati, CEO and co-Founder of First Res­o­nance, brings engi­neer­ing exper­tise from SpaceX, hav­ing expe­ri­enced first­hand the chal­lenges of pio­neer­ing advance­ments. He remarked, “We are priv­i­leged to join Whis­per Aero’s jour­ney and ush­er­ing in a new era of envi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly air trav­el in the aero­space indus­try.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.whisper.aero/

https://www.firstresonance.io/ion

(Top image: Whis­per Aero)

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