Tas-I Cose Centre

COSE (COllaborative System Engineering) Centre is a multimedia centre which has been started by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) taking advantage of an EU/FP5 project called "VIEW of the future" (Virtual and Interactive Environment for Workplaces of the Future).The Centre is supported by its Technology Research Office (TRO), in cooperation with local universities, hosting the development of a VE platform called VERITAS (Virtual Environment Research in Thales Alenia Space), based on open-source components. Synergies with other domains have been investigated and contacts have been established with other domains, such as aeronautics, railway transportation, energy production, astrophysics and civil protection. The utilisation of the Centre brings positive results improving the relations with Customers and Suppliers because it allows reducing the time normally required for results evaluation/assessment by the programme teams usually composed by many different and multidisciplinary experts.