NH90 GPATE
General Purpose Automatic Test Equipment for NH90 Avionic Equipment
Customer
France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands
(managed by NAHEMA and in collaboration with NHIndustries, Leonardo, Airbus Group, Fokker Services)
Project Description
The General Purpose Automatic Test Equipment (GPATE) is a generic test bench to test and maintain various Avionic equipment (Line Replaceable Unit = LRU). Its task is to localize defect boards and validate after repair the conformity of Units under test (UUTs) against their specification. Measurement instruments can be exchanged and Test Program Sets (TPS) can be enhanced to modify and add test and failure analysis capabilities to the customers need.
This test bench is currently used by European nations within the NH90 program for the maintenance of 34 different avionic equipment of the NH90 helicopter.
The GPATE is the ideal support solution to:
- guarantee maximum operational availability of your military systems
- increase the self-sufficiency of forces
- be deployed in the armed forces permanent maintenance workshops or directly in operations
- the support of electronic and optronic equipment of a large number of military planes or helicopters and armored vehicles
Advantages
- High TPS compatibility to other SPHEREA platforms
- Ability to validate high power and HF applications
- Fieldproven TPS deployment and update process
- Support through our TPS development and the associated TPS runtime environment UTMS.neXt including documentation of the test results
- Active obsolescense management including long term support
- Low development costs by reusing existing HW and SW components
- Cost effective and easy to maintain due to the usage of commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) elements
- Customizable based on individual customer needs
Application Area
Used for maintenance testing of major equipment families like:
- Radar/IFF
- Mission computers
- Radio communication
- Engine Control Unit
- EW-Systems
- Fuel Management Computer
- Cockpit Panels
- Microwave Landing System
- Distance Measuring Equipment
- Data Link Interface
