Summary
Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In 2006, Boeing was the world’s largest civil aircraft company in terms of orders, overtaking Airbus for the first time since 2000.
Projects
Boeing projects with a Tcl component include
- Common Open Research Emulator
- a tool for emulating networks
- Enhanced Integrated Satellite Factory Test Environment
- See Enhanced Integrated Satellite Factory Test Environment ,Jack L. Amsell
Resources
Users of Tcl at Boeing have included
- Robert Ratcliff
- Developed a distributed engineering analysis system framework for Boeing Phantom Works used for preliminary design. It was implemented using a TCL/TK/ITCL/Tix GUI, MySQL relational database and a CORBA communication layer (2000-present). (See Multidisciplinary Design Optimization System Using Higher Order Analysis Codes and Modern CORBA-Based Approach to Ad Hoc Distributed Process Orchestrations Applied to MDO
- Giovanni Moises Rodriguez Casillas
- Developed the automation script for the blackbox testing of the code for the CSMC of the Boeing 747, the script language use was TCL/TK, 2009
- Robert A. Lindley
- Jaleh Ferdowsian
- System tests include spacecraft attitude verification with TCL/TK test codes in clean room environments (ATLO) and subsystem tests include ADA SW verification, 2003
- Bernie Borenstein
- porting a program from SGI to Linux, 2002
- Sibren Isaacman
- user interfaces in Tcl/Tk for the Common Test Executive, a general testing system for spacecraft, for Boeing Space Systems
- Mark Bailey
- 1997
- Doug Schuler
- 1992
Literature
- [L1 ]
- 2011, a marketing brochure which includes Tcl and Tk in the list of technologies
- SimpleGraphics: Tcl/Tk Visualization of Real-Time Multi-Threaded and Distributed Applications
- Scott Arthur, Moody Samuel, Kwok Dale Karr, Boeing Information Space and Defense Group Seattle, Washington, 1998