DiSTI’s GL Studio® - Turnkey Solutions For Simulation and Training

The DiSTI Corporation is a leading solutions provider for companies specializing in Aviation. Our custom solutions and professional services cater to both military and commercial customers by helping clients improve the effectiveness of skill transfer, increase knowledge retention, and provide experiential training in real-time, data-driven applications.

DiSTI offers the best-in-class Human Machine Interface tools and services to support commercial, military, and general aviation. Industry professionals created our tools and designed them with an open architecture to be integrated into any development environment for various HMI displays.

GL Studio® is ideal for customers seeking Safety-Critical development in Avionic. The leading HMI software development tool, GL Studio®, was designed for DO-178C up to DAL A. DiSTI’s GL Studio® is leveraged by global industry leaders and manufacturers of aircraft and spacecraft flying worldwide. 

DiSTI’s HMI development tool, GL Studio®, facilitates the real-time creation of interactive 2D and 3D geometry through a WYSIWYG environment. Furthermore, GL Studio® eliminates the need to write lengthy and cumbersome low-level graphical code since DiSTI’s HMI development tool uses intuitive tools for drawing, grouping, ordering, and texturing for geometry creation.

Robust HMI software development tools enable designers and developers to create heads-up displays and other complex symbology that can be seamlessly integrated with third-party scene graphs and overlays on the scene. Additionally, OEMs and Tier-1 manufacturers harness GL Studio®’s expertise to reproduce complete aircraft cockpit layouts into touchscreen displays enabling lower-cost training.

DiSTI professional services and UI software solutions have convenience and utility at their heart. DiSTI’s HMI development solutions allow it to quickly and effectively perform cockpit functionalities pre-validation directly with the pilots and on customer sites.

GL Studio® offers a significant added value for the customer in terms of cost and time concerning the choice of cockpit functionalities to be adopted before simulator tests. The leading HMI development software enables rapid assessment of HMIs, reducing the recurring costs of conventional testing methods by almost a third and cutting the time required by several weeks.

The DiSTI Corporation provides turnkey solutions for simulation and training, allowing you to give your project a critical head-start with turnkey virtual cockpits. GL Studio® offers effective turnkey solutions that reduce project time and lower development costs, irrespective of your project needs, whether you are looking for fixed-wing, rotary, or land vehicle stimulation.

With Di STI’s expert turnkey solutions, the pre-built cockpits can be integrated seamlessly into your software designs with minimal effort. Customers using GL Studio® can modify as-delivered content for customization that fits their unique business needs.

GL Studio® simulation cockpits offer users with highly-realistic displays in 2D and 3D formats for an immersive training experience. The DiSTI Corporation provides virtual cockpits that enable users to:

• Enhance training

Learn both basic and advanced skills through simulation training.

• Maintain proficiency

Strengthen skills, reduce safety risks, and train effectively.

• Mitigate risks

Practice scenarios, situations, and emergencies to identify and assess risks.

Customer Testimonial

The DiSTI Corporation is a leading provider of graphical user interface development software and solutions to the aerospace industry. Scaled Composites, LLC, has chosen DiSTI’s HMI development tool, GL Studio®, after a thorough assessment of HMI development tools.

Scaled Composites, LLC chose GL Studio® for DiSTI’s unique ability to support prototyping, training, and the embedded target within a single HMI toolkit. The specialty aerospace and composites development company will use GL Studio®’s HMI software tools for research and development projects and programs focused on HMI display prototyping.

DiSTI has partnered with Scaled Composites, LLC, in the past, offering their leading HMI development tool, GL Studio®, to develop their avionics development program for rocket planes. GL Studio® has been a critical success factor in creating layout and design avionics displays while enhancing the display of information with GL Studio® generated code, helping create more capable HMIs supporting complex flight tests.

Scaled Composites, LLC, has adopted DiSTI’s expertise to develop more sophisticated tools that enable high accuracy vehicle maneuvering, responsive indicators, and updating aircraft systems with more straightforward and more accessible to maintain solutions using GL Studio®. Scaled Composites, LLC has a diverse portfolio of unique one-off aircraft with a custom avionics solution - GL Studio® offers the ease and flexibility to develop custom configurations and flight test data for future work.

GL Studio® offers Scaled Composites the flexibility and customization that facilitates the development of HMI displays, specialized for the unique needs of this industry. Unlike typical avionics displays, Spaceflight platforms need to be designed to endure the extreme conditions in space between radiation and temperature fluctuations. GL Studio® HMI development software offers the ability to address the complete lifecycle needs, from prototyping to production, through its unique reusability and efficiency.

Scaled Composites has opted for GL Studio®’s time-saving and innovative development benefits. GL Studio®’s ability to get to market faster saves time and money, which is critical for complex flight test endeavors. The first partnership between GL Studio® and Scaled Composites, LLC began developing prototype displays for the follow-on to SpaceShipOne, which took minimal effort and a fraction of time.

Conclusion

The DiSTI Corporation’s software products and professional services have been pioneering the advancement of UIs and Virtual Maintenance Training for Global 500 companies, military organizations, and commercial clientele worldwide.

DiSTI’s software and customizable solutions can be adapted and implemented into any industry needing user interfaces or maintenance training, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, industrial, medical, maritime, and transportation.

As the world’s leading provider of HMI development solutions, The DiSTI Corporation offers GL Studio® is utilized for a wide range of space programs, including simulation and training, rapid prototyping, spacecraft avionics, and next-generation spacesuits, and ground telemetry stations.

The DiSTI Corporation’s UI software and virtual training solutions enable designers and developers to manage workflow efficiency pressures without compromising quality, value, flexibility, or performance. We partner with our clients to meet demanding delivery deadlines, budget constraints, and stringent application requirements, all while providing them options for customization that are specific to their business.

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Visit our space solutions page to discover why DiSTI is a trusted solutions provider for companies specializing in space and beyond. To learn more about our safety-critical expertise and the cutting-edge HMI software developed by The DiSTI Corporation, please contact sales@disti.com