Press Releases

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of virtual maintenance training solutions, has been selected by the U.S. Army to develop a prototype Family of Maintenance Trainers (FMT) – Common Core architecture and software baseline to support the existing FMT Product Line and future Maintenance Training Systems (MTS). The purpose of this effort is to analyze existing systems, develop a prototype Common Core Product Line Architecture and software baseline, and validate the Common Core Architecture by developing prototype maintenance trainers for multiple vehicle platforms such as Stryker, Bradley, Abrams, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), and Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV).

“We are excited for the opportunity to provide the U.S. Army with a mature solution that builds upon DiSTI’s comprehensive, proven, and end-user approved Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT) Framework to reduce cost, schedule, and risk across all technical objectives,” said Joe Swinski, CEO of the DiSTI Corporation.

Although the current trainers have common software within a particular platform’s MTS (i.e., within the Diagnostic/Troubleshooting Trainer (DTT), Part Task Trainers (PTT), and Hands On Trainers (HOT) for a single platform), there is no commonality across different platforms. Each platform’s software architecture and source code is unique and stove-piped. With this prototype effort, the Army desires to establish a Common Core (CC) software baseline to replace the current stove-piped software architecture with a common product line architecture that completely supports the entire FMT Product Line (PL). The FMT-CC will produce a set of plug-and-play applications in the PL architecture that are applicable across the FMT product portfolio of legacy and future combat/tactical vehicle training systems without a loss of current functionality.

DiSTI, a member of the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) consortium, will leverage its twenty-five years of experience working on virtual training solutions for the development of the prototype Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Trainer (DTT) which is part of the FMT PL.

Working in conjunction with teammates Leidos, CAE, AIT Engineering, O’Neil & Associates, and Design Interactive this exceptionally qualified team will combine the specific experience needed for FMT success coupled with the commitment and skill to implement a Common Core that is adaptable to address new and emerging technologies for future training needs. The developed solution will allow the U.S. Army to define curriculum on a grand scale, train on multiple variants at the same time, while developing standardization of training across all models.

Discover what DiSTI can do for warfighter readiness and the virtual maintenance training solutions for defense by contacting Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of graphical user interface development software and solutions to the automotive, aerospace, and medical industries announces the use of its GL Studio^® software in the production of the Hyundai Palisade instrument cluster, GL Studio^® serves as the software user interface layer for the display unit.

The recently released 2019 Palisade features a full digital advanced Instrument Cluster designed and built by Hyundai MOBIS using the GL Studio UI development software platform. These interfaces were conceived entirely in-house at Hyundai MOBIS. The Palisade’s digital display allows users to experience state-of-the-art graphical features and user-definable customization. The simple and intuitive instrument cluster, featuring GL Studio, enables the LCD display to respond to vehicle data and driver inputs for ease of use for drivers.

“GL Studio’s Workflow and built-in Safety-Critical capabilities are poised to revolutionize the production lifecycle for vehicle instrumentation and HUDs for many years to come,” said Christopher Giordano, Vice President of UX/UI Technology at DiSTI. ” We are proud and honored to be selected again as a supplier by Hyundai MOBIS for this and several other future digital display user interface development programs”

DiSTI worked with Hyundai MOBIS to deliver this new platform. After a highly competitive evaluation process, and multiple proofs of concept iterations, Hyundai MOBIS adopted DiSTI’s GL Studio toolkit for its unmatched performance, flexibility, rapid support, and ability to produce feature-rich high quality 3D embedded applications.

Another critical factor for the adoption is GL Studio’s built-in support for ISO 26262 Safety-Critical UI development which has been pre-certified up to ASIL D. Strategically crafted to successfully meet or exceed internal design demands, Hyundai MOBIS implemented the use of GL Studio for embedded UI prototyping and production target instrument clusters.

The world’s top automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers trust DiSTI’s GL Studio HMI software development tool. Please contact Sales@Disti.com to learn more about our automotive solutions.

The DiSTI Corporation, the global leader in commercial HMI software and architecture consulting services, signed an agreement with Perspecta, Inc., to develop two-dimensional (2D) cockpit and dashboard panels for accident investigation and analysis training. The 2D panels will be implemented by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (USACRC) Digital Collection and Analysis and Integration Lab (DCAI) located in Fort Rucker, Alabama.

“We are looking forward to working with Perspecta to expand the capabilities of their training systems,” said Chris Giordano, VP UX/UI Technology. “ The use of GL Studio will enable Perspecta to complete rapid development and save significant production costs and time for the U.S. Army.”

Perspecta has provided flight data management and Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance for more than 20 years bridges the gap between regulatory requirements and daily technical solutions for flight safety, maintenance effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

“The Perspecta/DISTi partnership enables our team to more efficiently produce superior aircraft models for our Department of Defense customers. We look forward to continuing our work with DISTi supporting the US Army and other Perspecta customers,” said Adam Adams, Director of Software Solutions/President of SimAuthor.

GL Studio for rapid development of virtual instrumentation will develop more than 40 cockpit and dashboard panels for Perspecta in support of the following vehicles:

• DHC-8-315 Aircraft
• DHC-7-100 Aircraft
• FMTV Cargo Shelter
• LMTC Cargo Shelter
• Stryker
• MRAPS 4 Wheel
• MRAPS 6 Wheel
• M1A1 Abrams
• M2/M3 Bradley
• HMMWV Passenger/Cargo
• HEMMT Cargo/Tanker

GL Studio is a powerful, intuitive, and object-oriented HMI development tool that enables programmers in any industry to create state-of-the-art, reusable 2D or 3D graphical user interfaces. These interfaces can apply to maintain or replicating even the most complex systems, including military aircraft, cockpit displays, automotive dashboards, process controls, and communications equipment.

To learn more about DiSTI’s virtual cockpits and 2D simulations, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions, announces that STARK Learning, headquartered in the Netherlands, is the newest VE Studio Certified Solutions Partner. STARK Learning specializes in creating innovative digital learning solutions for the industrial, energy, and education sectors.

According to Milan Vogelaar, Managing Director of STARK Learning, “we are experiencing growing demand from enterprise customers wanting to implement virtual and augmented reality technology to improve skills, operational, and maintenance procedural training. To provide scalable solutions that fit our customers’ requirements, we selected VE Studio.”

The initial attraction to VE Studio was the robust feature set and in use by leading Aerospace, Automotive, and Energy companies around the world. After conducting a detailed technical and financial assessment, Stark Learning identified that they could reduce development time significantly while at the same time allowing them to efficiently publish training content across multiple platforms using Unity as the rendering engine. Stark Learning points out that VE Studio enables more efficient and flexible development cycles due to its patented data-driven approach to content creation and management. Reducing cost and development time is a real win-win for their customers and Stark Learning.

Partnering with DiSTI extends STARK Learning’s capabilities to deliver and support scalable learning solutions to industrial, energy, and educational organizations across Europe. The partnership enables both companies to address businesses across the region.

John Cunningham, Chief Revenue Officer of the DiSTI Corporation, cites, “There is growing global demand for virtual and augmented reality solutions and end-users and solutions developers such as STARK Learning are facing challenges when using traditional manual development methodologies. Hand-coded development is time-consuming, not scalable, and expensive. VE Studio’s training development platform approach allows organizations to significantly reduce development costs, use non-software developers to develop content and to scale training across the enterprise on desktop, tablet, VR, and AR technologies. We look forward to working with STARK Learning as our Certified Solutions Partner to address virtual training needs of customers in Europe.”

Virtual training solutions are transforming the power, energy, and industrial sectors. Find out how you can develop your own custom training with VE Studio by contacting Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of graphical user interface software, and Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN), provider of advanced embedded solutions, including automotive, today announced their collaboration.

DiSTI’s GL Studio is a comprehensive UI development tool for seamlessly creating cross-platform 2D and 3D user interface content without sacrificing the performance, safety, and reliability required of the embedded system. GL Studio streamlines UI asset creation through implementation readiness in one platform without compromising the original designer’s vision. By consuming industry standards file formats such as Photoshop and 3D Studio Max, the graphic artist drives the user experience while the implementation engineers deploy the embedded system with the UX/UI workflow. GL Studio enables development efficiency reducing the time to market and cost.

The GL Studio runtime library has acquired functional safety certifications for ISO 26262 ASIL D in automotive, DO-178 B/C Levels E to A for aviation, IEC 62304 for Class II medical, and it has proven itself safe and highly reliable. The compact and mature runtime library exercises high rendering performance and low CPU utilization on resource-constrained embedded target systems, enabling developers to run advanced and sophisticated 2D/3D UI on a wide variety of embedded systems.

“Japan is a highly skilled and technical market for embedded technology, and automotive which is a perfect fit for our award-winning GL Studio”, said Christopher Giordano, Vice President of UX/UI Technology at the DiSTI Corporation. “As this collaboration continues to grow DiSTI is honored to be working in close cooperation with such a prestigious company as Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) to support the local Japan market.”

The GL Studio design tool supports a series of rapid iteration development processes from product concept to prototype and mass production. The highly functional and flexible WYSIWYG UI development environment promotes cooperation between UI designers and programmers, improving development efficiency to a maximum, making it possible to shorten the time to market.

• Importers that support industry-standard file formats such as Photoshop and 3ds Max
• Native C++ code generators that eliminate the need to write low-level graphical code
• State machine function that enables implementing UI control by drag-and-drop elements
• Settings and tools that can easily customized development workflow, including extensible third-party integration and cross-platform build procedures for One Touch Deployment

DiSTI and Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) provide GL Studio and Embedded Development Services to customers in the automotive and embedded systems field in Japan. This partnership allows advanced and sophisticated 2D/3D UI on safety-critical embedded systems, to improve development efficiency, to make them contribute to business development.

To learn more about DiSTI’s strategic partnerships, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of graphical user interface software, has expanded its Software VAR contract portfolio to include Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim). BISim is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations.

“DiSTI is highly regarded as a world leader in simulated instrumentation, and we’re pleased to be able to offer sample instruments to customers in future versions of VBS4 as well as a route for customers to add highly detailed instrumentation,” said Oli Arup, BISim’s Senior VP of Product Management.

VBS4 provides a comprehensive virtual desktop training environment with a whole-earth rendering for tactical training, experimentation, and mission rehearsal. The software performs as a powerful simulation host for any image generator. It offers a massive step-change in modularity, openness, and ease of use. VBS4 features the performance and terrain-enhancing capabilities of BISim’s new engine, VBS Blue. VBS4’s new workflow and capabilities enable users to start training faster, make edits and updates to training scenarios, and terrains with greater ease and collaboration. Using VBS4, users can simulate training scenarios anywhere on the virtual Earth. The VBS Simulation Software Development Kit supports VBS4. SDK provides developers with a library of APIs and source code to customize virtually every aspect of VBS4 and produce custom applications.

For 20 years, The DiSTI Corporation’s GL Studio has been a pioneer in the development of graphical user interface software. As a leader in UI design and the user interface software industry, DiSTI helped set the technological standards for creating high-quality user interfaces. Customers around the world rely on GL Studio’s suite of products to deploy HMIs for their products. Including critical systems in avionics, automotive, transportation, and medical, to maintain their capabilities and have a competitive advantage in the market.

“All of us at DiSTI are very excited to have this new VAR relationship in place with Bohemia Interactive Simulations,” said Christopher Giordano, VP of UX/UI Technology at The DiSTI Corporation, “The integration of GL Studio with VBS4 is key for our mutual customers’ success in Simulation & Training. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial working relationship with the entire BISim team globally.”

This integration is part of Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ strategy to work with best-of-breed software technology in the simulation market and combines seamlessly with DiSTI’s continued approach of expanding access to its world-class product offerings and solutions.

DiSTI has been a leader in simulation training solutions for over 25 years. To learn more about our avionics, HMI software tools, or virtual cockpits, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

‍