TUSAS- Turkish Aerospace Industries
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) was established by Turkish and US partners in 1984 for the co-production of F-16 aircraft in Turkey. As a result of the acquisition of foreign shares Turkish shareholders, the company was restructured in the year 2005 and TAI became Turkey's center of technology in design, development, modernization, manufacturing, integration and life cycle support of integrated aerospace systems, from fixed and rotary wing air platforms to UAVs and satellites.
TAI, which ranks among the top hundred global players in aerospace and defence arena, based its business on five strategic pillars as shown below:
In addition, integrated logistics service is provided for all products designed and produced by TAI.
UBITECH
Ubitech is a leading, highly innovative and brand new company, established to provide leading edge ubiquitous intelligent technical solutions and consulting services to businesses, organizations and government in order to allow the efficient and effective access and communication with various heterogeneous information and services, anytime and anywhere.
Core objective of Ubitech is the development of intelligent applications and business software solutions, using and composing various ubiquitous technologies (i.e. Mobile Technologies, Wireless Networks, RFID, Smart Devices, Human-Computer Interaction and Communication), aiming at the transformation of current enterprise environments into highly innovative, intelligent ubiquitous network micro-societies (smart real places) that enable secure information exchange, processing and management anytime, anywhere, the development of intelligent business environments, and the execution of B2B and B2C transactions.
Dr Konstantinos Perakis
R&D Solutions AnalystVestel Electronics
The VESTEL group of companies engage in research and product development, manufacturing, sales and marketing in the consumer electronics, white goods and digital product segments with an expertise in embedded systems design,implementation, testing, integration and manufacturing on consumer electronics, information & communication technologies, digital broadcast receiving technologies, electronic media and networking. VESTEL includes a variety of products to its customers including but not limited to LCD, PVR, IPTV, Hotel TV, DVD Players/Recorders, PVR box, DVB-T and DVB-S set-top boxes, wireless products, home network systems, notebook PCs and household appliances.
VESTEL Electronics is the flag ship of the group of companies and the largest consumer electronics ODM/OEM company in Europe by employing 6000 people and total revenues of € 2.67 billion. One of the biggest forces powering VESTEL’s rapid advance towards becoming a global giant through the technologies that it develops its R&D activities are carried out with approx. 500 experts in 10 national and international research and development centers. The primary focus of R&D activities is related to platform digitalization, high-definition, mobility and connectivity.
VESTEL’s research fields cover a number of Strategic research Agenda items from Eurepean Technology Platforms (ICT, Networked Media and Consumer Electronics).
VESTEL collaborates to investigate new technologies and new consumer trends in collaborations with universities and research institutions, transforming this research into modules, systems, and products that qualify as internationally licensable and patentable intellectual property rights.
For information about Vestel, please visit www.vestel.com
AREAS OF R&D COOPERATION
Consumer Electronics(TFT TV, STB...), IT products, Smart Home products.- HW
- SW
- Test and verification
- Implementation
Dr Metin Nil
R&D ManagerVistek ISRA Vision A.S.
Vistek was founded in 2006 as a spinoff from Sabancı University – Turkey. In December 2009, a German company - ISRA Vision, which is number 1 in Europe and number 3 in the world in machine vision, became a partner to Vistek and the name became Vistek ISRA Vision. We have two application groups: 1. Industrial applications, 2. Social applications.
Industrial applications business unit develops solutions for quality inspection, assembly automation, smart production decisions for productivity increase. In essence, Vistek delivers enhanced “smart” camera based automation systems that can quickly and effectively scan various processes, and then output statistical analysis. Over the last five years, Vistek has offered sophisticated automating systems across a broad range of industries, including automotive, glass bottle / glassware production, white goods, LPG, etc. However, we are recently concentrating more on glass and food industries. Some of the applications we have developed include: glassware inspection, fig sorting (separating figs with aflatoxin), olive sorting, glass cullet sorting, 3D measurements of parts, etc.
Social applications are more in the R&D phase. We develop solutions for gender recognition, activity monitoring (especially for patients with dementia), to support caretakers and medics.