Customer: Airbus Defence and Space
Embedded Systems Testing / Customised Test Systems (2003-present)
AERTEC carries out engineering services for defining and developing the industrialisation of functional tests for all Airbus D&S programmes at the company's different sites: Seville (Spain), Getafe (Spain) and Bournemouth (UK).
The activity includes test engineering services in conjunction with the design department to improve the testability and functionality of the systems.
While AERTEC's service covers all aircraft systems, it has a particular focus on:
- Avionics and electrical systems
- Hydraulics and landing gear
- Fuel
- Powertrain
In the context of test systems engineering, the work carried out by AERTEC professionals focuses on the following areas:
- Editing and revision of ground test instructions.
- Production assistance for the execution of ground test instructions.
- Assistance to the design department in debugging test requirements and constraints.
- Technical assistance on the apron for flight testing, certification and approval.
- Management of agreements with the design department, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing quality and services.
- Definition of operational tests for specific elements, assembly and test benches.
- Review of electrical, mechanical and functional circuit diagrams.
- Improvement of industrialisation processes.
- Assistance to test media engineering specialists with regard to AFDX, ARINC429, etc.
- Editing delta reports in the aircraft configuration.
- Management of non-conformities, modification proposals and administrative closure of production orders.
- Study of fault diagnosis systems.
- Incident analysis and follow-up.
- Technical assistance at the Getafe and Bournemouth CAP during the conversion and ground test phases of MRTTs (production, engineering and analysis dept.).
- Modification of ground test instructions to improve key performance indicators (execution time, better understanding of scope, etc.).
- Reduction of testing times.
- Assistance in lean production processes (Lean Manufacturing).
- Training.