Defence and aerospace
Platform power, EMC and the cyber requirement that flows down with the contract.
Who buys this: Primes, sub-tier suppliers and MOD delivery teams.
Why it matters now
This is the sector Intepro UK has the longest record in, and the record is public rather than asserted: DE&S holds a current contract with Intepro UK Limited for in-service support of Power Supply Unit Automatic Test Equipment supporting UK Air Defence, awarded on the basis that Intepro is the OEM and design authority for it.
What the work actually involves
Platform DC supplies tested to Def Stan 61-005 rather than the American equivalent; EMC to Def Stan 59-411; and, increasingly, a cyber requirement that arrives with the purchase order. DEFCON 658 flows down the supply chain, so a delivered test system is in scope even when the contract is with somebody three tiers up. On a test rig the controls land mostly on the executive and the delivered software, not on the power hardware.
Assessed against
Systems we build for it
- Accelerated life and burn-in systems
Environmental stress screening and life test.
Equipment it usually needs
- AN61(F) programmable AC test power supplySupplied and integrated
500 VA – 120 kVA · 0–350 V · 15–1000 Hz (615/618) or 30–100 Hz (619) · AC, DC and AC+DC · 31 models
- AFC series AC source and frequency converterSupplied and integrated
0.5 kVA – 2 MVA · 5–300 V L-N (8–520 V L-L three-phase) · 47–63 Hz standard, 45–500 Hz Type B · 30 models
Talk it through
Tell us the standard and the device under test. That is enough for an engineer to answer usefully instead of sending a brochure.