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About Launch Point!

Our Story

We developed out of the Industrial Training Institute as a technical consulting company.  Launch Point!  consist of a combination of senior, mid-career and younger engineers and the name points to the fact that we take ideas and launch them into industry.

Our Approach

We predominantly operate as a remote-working company, but some cases (such as testing of systems) may necessitate on-site activities.  


Our approach to any contact is to

  • Really understand the problem
  • Think deeply about the challenge and the solution
  • Understand the full extent of what we do
  • Take responsibility for every step we take
  • We are not irresponsible, but we are not afraid to fail ether, since we can only learn if we make mistakes.

This whole approach is captured in an excellent, knowledge-focused, documentation process.

Areas of expertise

Guidance, navigation and control

Guidance, navigation and control

Guidance, navigation and control

We can do comprehensive guidance, navigation and control design for unmanned aircraft, unmanned vehicles, manned aircraft and guided weapon systems.  Our design process is based on fundamental understanding, so we do not design control systems using tuning methods.

Aerodynamics

Guidance, navigation and control

Guidance, navigation and control

Our aerodynamic ability is based on fundamental understanding and ranges from fundamental semi-empirical methods to computational fluid dynamics.  

Modeling and Simulation

Guidance, navigation and control

Mechanical and Structural Design

All our designs are based on modeling and simulation.  We develop all our simulations from first principles and if forms the foundation of our principle of "understanding".

Mechanical and Structural Design

Mechanical and Structural Design

Mechanical and Structural Design

Mechanical design and analysis is critical to the safety and integrity of all aircraft.  A large part of our development process is founded on the ability to not just do algorithms, but also to take responsibility for the mechanical design of the system. 

Embedded Software and Hardware

Mechanical and Structural Design

Embedded Software and Hardware

We have extensive experience in the specification, development and implementation of digital and analog hardware, embedded software and application software.

Mechatronics

Mechanical and Structural Design

Embedded Software and Hardware

Mechatronics is the interface between mechanical and electronic/digital systems.  Our ability in this field ensures that servos, moving cameras, lading gear and all other types of actuators comply to the requirements.

Systems Design

Aircraft Characterization

Systems Thinking

Our top-down systems design process aims to integrate all aspects of the system.  Our design process in empowering to everyone in the team and we strongly focus on the capturing of knowledge during the design process.  We follow a modification of the Systems Engineering process where we follow the principles of the Systems Engineering process to ensure quality, but we simplify the documentation requirements to reduce the load on the designers.

Systems Thinking

Aircraft Characterization

Systems Thinking

We believe in a top-down systems design process that is founded on the fundamental understanding of the problem at hand.  Our policy is that "We cannot design something if we do not understand the problem that must be solved."

Aircraft Characterization

Aircraft Characterization

Aircraft Characterization

A large part of the model-based control systems development process is to have a model of the aircraft to use in the design.  The characterization team works closely with the modeling and simulation team to developed high quality, representative models of the aircraft that can be used in the design process.

The Team Members

Our team consists of a range of skills, but all of u.   Here we introduce the different members of our group.

Francois du Plessis (PhD)

Our Mission

Our Mission

Our Team

Our Services

Arda Bayar

Our Mission

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Goodness Adedeji

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Jephtah

Our Mission

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Mohamed Imtiaz

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Tanya Ganesan

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Contact Us

Please contact us to discuss how we can contribute to your project.

Launch Point!

contact@industrial-training-institute.org

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