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For over 132 years, through economic ups and downs, Goodrich Corporation has stayed the course, delivering long-term value to our shareholders and customers, and providing a challenging and rewarding place to work for our employees. Our hallmarks include:
- Strong financial performance. Our goal is superior returns through consistent, predictable revenue and income growth.
- Global leadership. More than 40 successful acquisitions over the past 16 years, coupled with internal growth, have created an unparalleled portfolio of world-class aerospace systems.
- Balanced business mix. We have purposefully diversified our product market and customer mix to counterbalance industry cycles in aircraft production.
- Value-creating processes. Strategic planning, value-based management, operational excellence, innovation and business platform "roadmaps" are among our purposeful processes that deliver value.
Innovative solutions. Developing breakthrough innovations is part of our culture. We systematically look for ways to leverage our
technological strengths through aerospace - and beyond.
Role in project and reason for participation
GCSL's role in the project is to provide defective PCBs in order to validate the NDT techniques developed by the SMEs. As an LE and
end-user their input is invaluable to workpackage A, specification & procurement of defect samples, and at the end of the project when
all the workpackage deliverables will be integrated to form the final Microscan system.
MICROSCAN is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, X-TEK Systems Ltd, Lot Oriel GmbH, Machine Vision Products Inc, Microtel
technologie elettroniche s.p.a., Beta Electronics Ltd, Ultrasonic Sciences Ltd, Goodrich Control Systems Ltd,
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. and Kaunas University of Technology. The project is co-ordinated and managed by
TWI Ltd and is partly funded by the EC under the CRAFT programme ref: COOP-CT-2003-508613.
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