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FOR THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
While there are any number of companies who claim to be able to reverse engineer and manufacture dual sided PCB’s, the skills necessary to create form-fit-function replacements of multilayer pcb’s in the world of military equipment and systems, reduce this list substantially. Competencies required for this analysis go well beyond point to point connectivity and encompass the full spectrum of electrical component and load analysis all in service of a form-fit-function replacement at the boundary. Keep in mind that depending on the goals of the project, the new pcb might internally look quite different than the original pcb design when one considers goals of cost reduction, part obsolescence, and component availability.
What Capabilities are needed for CCA Reverse-Engineering? When an original TDP is incomplete, incorrect, or not at all available, then a team like PHT Aerospace is needed to insure that a fully procurable, cost effective spare can be created and manufactured. To perform this work, the following capabilities are critical:
In just one example, PHT was able to successfully reverse engineer the pcb for multiple CCA’s for an advanced radar system for the F16 fighter jet. In this application, existing schematic documentation was incorrect and original Gerber files for the multilayer pcb were not available. In our analysis, we found small but catastrophic missing, erroneous, or out-of-date technical information which we had to verify and correct in order to be able to develop and manufacture a FFF CCA. As part of this work, PHT Aerospace developed a methodology, which mitigates many of the known performance and qualification risks and resulted in a CCA that worked in the rest of the system, even though documentation for the rest of that system was not even available. Contact PHT Aerospace Today for your Obsolescence Challenges PHT Aerospace is an AS9100D certified company. For further information on our team and our capabilities in the military aerospace arena and beyond, please contact us today. Content originally posted on: https://www.phtaerospace.com/multilayer-pcb-reverse-engineering/
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