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Engineering Services
FCI maintains a technical staff of skilled engineers
with multiple disciplines in electrical, mechanical,
software and qualification design and verification.
Our customers frequently invite FCI to participate
in project definition and system design to optimize
the application of the FCI sensor technologies in
their systems.
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Technical
Support with Sensor and System Design and
Qualification
This includes review of system operational
objectives, participation in the development of the
Statement of Work and specification documents, and
active involvement in concurrent engineering design
improvements. This assures efficient and timely
completion of the program deliverables after
contract award. Where this effort leads to source
specification, FCI is pleased to offer this service
to the customer free of charge.
FCI’s technical staff is often able to reduce the
number of instruments required by the customer for
systems by recommending multi-variable sensors that
provide multiple outputs including combinations of
temperature, flow, liquid level and pressure for a
single sensing element installation. In addition,
FCI electronic designers are often able to integrate
the customer’s control function requirements into
FCI designed transmitter circuits, thereby reducing
the need for separate circuit boards for sensing and
control functions. Finally, FCI engineers have
worked closely with their customer’s technical staff
to integrate the FCI sensor electronic requirements
into the customer’s central control systems. These
efforts have reduced cost, weight, complexity and
maintenance of onboard systems, while increasing
reliability and performance.
Once the design is complete, FCI engineers have the
capability to complete the qualification
verification of the newly developed or modified
design. This qualification effort normally includes
a combination of analysis and test. FCI’s existing
library of approved test reports provides the basis
to reduce the need for expensive outside testing on
previously qualified designs. When testing is
required, FCI qualification specialists are able to
design and supervise tests using in-house and
outside facilities in an economic and timely manner.
This assures completion of qualification
requirements in the most efficient manner possible.
Once the analysis and tests are complete. FCI
technical personnel provide a complete test report,
supported by all the completed calculations,
similarity analysis criteria and actual test data.
Flight Test Sensors and System Dynamic Modeling
FCI prides itself in being the premier Flight Test
Sensor House in the aerospace market today.
Utilizing its multi-million dollar NIST approved
calibration facility combined with expertise in the
design and application of aircraft, spacecraft,
vehicle and marine sensors, FCI is able to support
the flow, temperature, liquid level and pressure
measurement requirements of commercial and military
Flight Test Programs. This includes the accurate
measurement of air, fuel, coolant, hydraulic oils
and other process fluids required for the operation
of new aircraft and systems. With access to FCI’s
proprietary thermal dispersion designs for small,
light weight, versatile flow sensors, FCI is often
able to measure flow rates in inaccessible locations
on complex aerospace systems providing its
customer’s development engineers with vital
information about the performance of newly designed
systems.
FCI personnel utilize customer provided ducting,
piping and system components to create operational
simulation models in FCI’s calibration facility to
support performance validation of new systems on
Flight Test Programs. Our engineering staff is
expert at building “mock ups” of the customer’s
aircraft systems with FCI provided NIST traceable
flow, temperature, liquid level and pressure test
sensors. Our customer’s technical personnel utilize
these “test beds” to wring out their designs.
Finally, FCI is also able to provide highly accurate
Coriolis flow meters for ground based test systems
supporting its customer’s “iron bird” test
facilities. The Coriolis flow meters are capable of
wide range sensing with accuracies to 0.2 % of
reading accuracy.
FCI has provided this support on numerous commercial
programs like the Bombardier Global Express,
Regional Jets 100/200/700, and the Boeing MD90 and
717 Programs. Military program support has been
provided on the Rockwell B1B Bomber, Boeing V22
Tiltrotor and the Lockheed Martin F22 Fighter.
FCI participates in the exciting business of flight
test instrumentation, as it provides a close
technical relationship with customers solving
instrument problems on new programs. Through the
support of these programs, FCI has expanded its
participation in new production programs.
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