articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . january 2015 the disti corporation type privately owned company industry modeling & simulation simulation and training founded 1994 headquarters orlando florida key people joe swinski president and ceo william k. andrews senior vice president darren humphrey chief technology officer website http www.disti.com the disti corporation is a company that provides software tools for the development of 2d and 3d graphical user interfaces integrated into software for simulated training and embedded systems . the company was founded in orlando florida in 1994 by joe swinski darren humphrey and william bill andrews . the three founders continue to actively participate in the day to day business . in 2009 disti made revenue of 6 million 1 as a small business allowing them to hire 30 new employees . contents 1 company 2 history 3 products 4 professional services 5 notes 6 external links company edit disti concentrates its business on innovating software to produce high fidelity 2d and 3d graphical user interfaces to aid in the creation of simulated training prototyping and deployment of embedded systems . their software is often used in the development for virtual maintenance training systems desktop trainers as well as embedded avionics automotive and medical devices . their cornerstone product is the gl studio toolkit which has been implemented in the development of the embedded avionics for scaled composites 2 and virgin galactic s 3 commercial spacecraft the vss enterprise and vms eve . history edit disti was formed by joe swinski darren humphrey and william bill andrews in 1994 in orlando florida . swinski humphrey and andrews met while working together at the institute for simulation and training ist at the university of central florida in orlando fl . at ist swinski humphrey and andrews were aiding in the development of simulation training classes for graduate students but they saw an opportunity to give the simulation and training industry the same type of training solutions . what began as an opportunity to provide training classes to the industry culminated into a full fledged software and training solutions company . it was under a sbir small business innovation research contract completed june 24 2000 that disti developed the gl studio toolkit . disti now makes software that help developers create virtual training environments to teach technical complex activities such as maintenance on airplanes engines and power plants . disti s patented software also creates human machine interfaces such as dashboards gauges and control screens . 4 disti technologies and solutions are used by companies worldwide including boeing lockheed martin honeywell raytheon thales group bae systems dassault group among many others . products edit in 2011 disti changed their product offering . they introduced their latest interactive software application replic8 and re organized their gl studio offering to introduce a new toolkit that streamlines the creation of interfaces for enhanced embedded applications . this introduction became a part of disti s repackaging move in order to more closely match different global vertical market demands . 5 replic8 a tool that merges the design and development phases of an instructional design process . it is an out of th box 3d lesson framework that integrates into any extendible learning management system . it allows instructional designers subject matter experts or 3d graphic artists to easily produce 3d interactive level 3 and 4 courseware without programming . 6 gl studio basic a suite of tools that enable developers to build high fidelity graphics and fully interactive controls into their software products . 7 all of the gl studio packaging is based on the need of the development and come with different features . code generation options c code generator java code generator safety critical embedded c code generator plug ins glsmenu library glsvideo toolkit gl studio dt desktop a toolkit that offers essential features to developing high fidelity desktop graphical applications to develop desktop based interfaces . gl studio es embedded systems one tool that takes the developer from prototyping to testing to embedded system deployment through a single code base gl studio sc safety critical the tool for safety critical systems and the recognized industry standard for the rapid prototyping of safety critical human machine interfaces hmi . disti map toolkit allows for the development of real time moving map display applications . it provides the capability to combine multiple geo referenced map imagery formats and user defined symbology across multiple layers to produce a single real time 2d map view data director toolkit ideal for the human factors and prototyping communities this toolkit connects multiple data sources such as math models or simulation data to user interface objects with no programming approach plate toolkit this plug in converts digital instrument approach procedures iap charts into correlated geo referenced gl studio objects suitable for a variety of aeronautical based applications . pre built content a variety of complete turnkey photo realistic virtual cockpits . a partial list of pre built cockpits includes a 10 e 6 ch 47 f 15 f 16 f 18 oh 58 th 57 ah 64 hh mh sh uh 60 piper malibu t 39 t 45 hemtt hmmwv lmtv lcac rso bundles pre built reusable software objects rsos include the appearance and behavior of the object coupled with a well defined interface . professional services edit virtual maintenance trainers uses disti commercial off the shelf tools and technology to replicate the form and function of any real world device resulting in a virtual representation of the operational device along with associated test equipment and support tools . cockpit and dashboard instruments produces virtual instrumentation to meet customer design specifications and application objectives desktop learning and adl virtual environments of operational devices suitable for use in courseware web based training and distributed learning applications embedded hmi uses gl studio to develop and deploy embedded and safety critical human machine interface displays notes edit walsh daniel p. 2010 may 20 . disti poised for growth in software development . orlando business journal . http www.bizjournals.com orlando stories 2010 05 24 smallb1.html scaled composites official website . http www.scaled.com virgin galactic official website . http www.virgingalactic.com walsh daniel p. 2010 may 20 . disti poised for growth in software development . orlando business journal . http www.bizjournals.com orlando stories 2010 05 24 smallb1.html janakiraman shamila . 2011 nov. 23 . disti unveils enhanced version of its gl studio software toolkit . tmcnet info tech spotlight http it.tmcnet.com topics it articles 239530 disti unveils enhanced version its gl studio software.htm van dyke tara . gametech 2012 editor s note exhibitor highlights . military training technology magazine . http www.military training technology.com mt2 home 403 mt2 2012 volume 17 issue 3 may 5504 gametech 2012.html stults kim . june 2007 . gl studio brings realism to aircraft cockpit simulator displays . crosstalk the journal of defense software engineering . vol . 20 no. 6 . http www.disti.com corporate multimedia publications pdf crosstalk june2007.pdf external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title disti & oldid 736553973 categories software companies based in floridacompanies based in orlando floridahidden categories orphaned articles from january 2015all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate 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