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| Joint Working Partners - Racal and Melss |
RACAL
Instruments appoint MELSS as their exclusive System Integration
partners in India
Racal Instruments
(RI) is one of the leading test equipment and
test solution
companies with a world wide customer base. RI supply a comprehensive range
of products from individual test instruments to complete turn key test systems
(test equipment
and application test program sets).
What differentiates RI from other test equipment organisations is that we understand fully the requirements of the military and avionics market place and are geared up to provide life time support to our products which is often in excess of 25 years. No other test equipment supplier has proven to provide the same level of continuing support for the life time of the prime equipment supported by the test systems.
RI continue to provide full support for test systems which were originally delivered in the 1970s. One pertinent example of this level of commitment is that recently offered, in response to an RFQ, for a full mid life update of the India Seaking Test Systems originally delivered in the 1980s. This update programme will extend the life of the Sea King Test Systems by upwards of 15 years.
Racal Instruments have now appointed MELSS as their exclusive System Integration Partner in India. MELSS with their 20 years experience and 7 offices located in India will bring Racal Solutions to Indian customers.
Racal's product range includes:
| Instruments:- | IEEE 488 and VXI instruments. RI also provides VXI chassis and system components. |
| Hand Held Test Sets:- | Small man portable, equipment specific, test systems designed to provide the man on the ground with first line test facilities capable of confirming the prime equipment is functioning correctly. Typical test applications include man portable missile aiming units, weapons, vehicles etc. |
| Air Portable Test Systems:- | Designed to be transportable by land, sea and air these systems are easy to set up on location. Air portable test systems are modular, each module being packaged in a rugged field transit case. The modules are connected together on site to form the test system. These test systems are generally configured to provide a full serviceability test capability for the supported equipment, with diagnostics to a failing field replaceable module. Test systems capable of diagnosing faults to component level can also be provided in this format. The construction of the air portable test system makes it ideally suited for installation on board ship, giving ships the same level of test capability as depot workshops. These on board test facilities are capable of providing a comprehensive test facility for helicopter and the ship born, weapon, electronic warfare, navigation, and communication systems. |
| Mobile Workshops:- | These systems are generally installed in vehicle mountable shelters and provide test facilities for first and second line field workshops. They can be configured to provide full base workshop test facilities in a mobile workshop environment. RI have provided mobile workshops to support electronic control systems, electronic warfare systems, communication, avionics and, thermal image systems.RI are the largest supplier of mobile test facilities to the UK MoD. |
| Base Workshop Test Systems:- | Full test systems tailored to meet the customer's specific test requirements. Based on the RI FREEDOM range of test automatic systems (see web site) these test systems are designed to be flexible and are capable of being upgraded throughout their life to cover new and future requirements.Base Workshop Test Systems can be supplied to meet a wide range of environmental operating conditions. |
| Factory Test System:- | Designed for production testing of electronic modules and systems, these test systems are based on the successful RI FREEDOM range of test systems. To date some 1200 FREEDOM test systems have been delivered worldwide. |
| Jet Engine Test System:- | Specifically designed to test jet engines. These test systems are suitable for use in any location, including on board ship. (see web site) |
| TILS:- | Technology Insertion into Legacy Systems (TILS) is a facility designed by RI that enables the replacement of obsolete instruments in existing test systems without the need to rewrite the existing test programs. This facility overcomes the major problems associated with the replacement of obsolescence of test system elements, the high risk and expense of rewriting existing test programs. |
| GENIE:- | GENIE is the RI test program environment providing all the facilities required to develop and run test programs on modern test systems. GENIE has been produced to enable test programs to be supported easily over the life of the host test equipment. It also enables the test programs to be re-hosted on any alternative test system equipped with the correct test resources. |
All RI test systems are designed to be resilient to obsolescence and supportable over a 25 year in-service life.
| Handheld Data Logging Device - Portable measuring and recording of weight and data logging |
Features:
· Accurate
digital measurement of weight
· Automatic digital recording of data
· Selection switch for weight and other data logging
· Automatic shut off after 90 seconds
· Measuring range up to 100kgs
· Adaptable to many applications
· Back lit 2 line 16 character LCD display
· Versions with and without loadcells
· Contact less infra red data transfer to PC
· Ideal for field weighment and field data collection
· Unit comes with a data-transferring unit and windows compatible software.
Description:
The Model MELSS Fieldlog is a battery operated, handheld, light-weight data
acquisition system to meet a variety of requirements such as field weighment,
data recording such as temperature, rain data, field information on soil, pruning
cycle, fertilizer, pesticide and other input details .The unit is able to function
as weigh recorder for field weighments, and can carry a large number of employee
information for correlation. The system has various levels of security with
password protection. The housing is protected for the harsh conditions in the
field and powered by a 9V rechargeable battery. The unit uses the latest infrared
technology for the cordless data transfer to the PC at the end of the day. The
system also comes with and without weighment electronics as option. The model
without weighment is used as simple data logger and is named as Data log.
| Automated test system offers industry-leading specifications for multimode and singlemode testing of short fiber assemblies |
QUEBEC CITY, CANADA,
March 6, 2003-EXFO
Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced the
availability of the IQS-12001B Cable
Assembly
Test System for multimode patchcord applications.
EXFO’s Cable Assembly Test System, a key productivity tool for manufacturing
fiber assemblies and connectors, now automatically tests multimode (850/1300
nm) as well as singlemode fibers (1310/1550 nm or 1550/1625 nm) for connector
insertion loss and mandrel-free reflectance measurements.
This automated test system boasts best-in-class specifications for insertion
loss testing (multimode, ± 0.07 dB; singlemode, ± 0.03 dB) and
offers the best mandrel-free reflectance range in the industry (multimode, 10
to 45 dB; singlemode, 30 to 70 dB), even on the most difficult-to-test angle-polished
connectors (APCs).
“This new Cable Assembly Test System is designed to maximize production
throughput and quality for multimode and singlemode short fiber assemblies such
as simplex, duplex, multifiber and bundle,” said Étienne Gagnon,
Director of Product Management at EXFO. “Its new multimode fiber testing
capabilities responds to growing demand for fibers in the datacom and enterprise
markets where the volume of data traffic is still on the rise due to the deployment
of the Internet and data-centric network architectures.”
“This automated test system relies on our PC-based, Windows®-driven
IQS-500 modular platform and suite of plug-and-play test modules, as well as
a comprehensive software library, to deliver insertion loss and reflectance
measurements with the highest degree of accuracy and repeatability,” Mr.
Gagnon added. “Using EXFO’s modular platform design allows manufacturers
in the fiber-optic industry to retain full flexibility, future-proof their test
operations, and create unlimited and very efficient manufacturing automation
solutions.”
EXFO’s Cable Assembly Test System will be on display at booth 2341 during
OFC 2003 from March 25-27 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
For more information about this automated test system, visit EXFO’s Web
site at www.exfo.com.
| New ScanPlus Demo Board |
We are pleased
to announce the release of a new product called the ScanPlus Demo Board that
will obsolete
the current JTAG demo board and the Flash demo boards. All the functions that
we had in these boards and
additional features, were included in this new single demo board, shown in the
picture below:
The ScanPlus Demo Board is a high performance single board computer that is
based on the IBM PowerPC
405CR 32-bit RISC Embedded Controller. It was created to test and demonstrate
complex boundary-scan
applications such as interconnect testing, cluster testing, memory testing,
in circuit emulation, in system
programming (ISP) and Flash programming. The ScanPlus Demo Board has 16 switches
that insert faults for
demonstration of boundary-scan testing and diagnosis. The following are the
key features of the ScanPlus
Demo Board:
•PowerPC 405 based system
•1Mb (32k x 32) SSRAM
•64Mb (4Mb x 16) SDRAM (x2)
•4Mb AMD AM29LV400 (256K x 16) FLASH (for in system FLASH programming)
•16Mb Intel 28F160B3 (1M x 16) FLASH (for in system FLASH programming)
•ISP supported for the following CPLD devices:
.....-Altera 7032B (44-pin TQFP)
.....-Lattice Mach 4A3 (100-pin TQFP)
.....-Xilinx 9536XL (44-pin TQFP)
•User Programmable Xilinx FPGA
•BGA devices
•16 Fault Insertion Switches
User’s
Manuals and Getting Started
The Getting Started sections of the ScanPlus manuals now are designed around
the ScanPlus Demo Board.
All evaluation systems in the future will include only the ScanPlus Demo Board.
The older JTAG Demo Board
and ScanPlus Flash Demo board will no longer be included in evaluation systems
shipped in the future.
Benefits
The advantages for the customer are numerous. It provides a boundary-scan test
and in-system
programming learning tool using the latest technology, all contained in a single
board. It also helps him to
validate the functionality of the ScanPlus hardware before he contacts Corelis
customer support. This board
will be used for all future training and evaluation purposes and will be available
for purchase by the customer
for in-house needs. This board includes BGA components and nicely demonstrates
faults on these parts.
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