Building space-rated products collaboratively using a data-driven systems engineering approach with Stefan Siarov
In this episode we talk to Stefan Siarov.
Stefan holds a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a MSc. in Industrial Engineering from Ghent University. As an aerospace engineer, Stefan has fulfilled a variety of roles. During his time at the European Space Agency, he did research on 3d printing for in-space manufacturing with high performance thermoplastics and assessed the use of these 3D printing materials for radiation shielding. He did this while being part of the leadership team of an innovation team called Spaceship EAC, at the European Astronaut Centre.
Currently he is working at Valispace as systems engineer and marketing manager. Valispace is a browser-based software that enables engineers to collaboratively design better satellites, rockets and other complex hardware products. Since then, companies such as Airbus, Gomspace, DLR, LuxSpace, Momentus and others have become their customers.
Valispace was founded in 2016 by three satellite engineers with the goal to transform the way engineers collaborate in complex hardware projects. Today, engineers manage complexity with Excel-like spreadsheets, e-mails and document management systems (yes, satellites are built with Excel). This way of working has reached its limit and it’s showing in cost and schedule overruns. Valispace presents a solution to this problem by building a modern collaboration software and data storage which is easy to use and can be accessed by all team members from any web browser. By linking all data together in a single platform, engineers can be sure that they are always working with the most recent data and they can quickly get new insights and optimize their design.
The limits of today’s engineering are not the imagination of engineers, but the tools for collaboration: the more complex a product becomes, the more engineers need to work together on it. Valispace wants small engineering teams to be able to design highly complex systems fast and cheap and big engineering teams to build things which seem like magic to us today.
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