CT has been one of the main strategic partners in the S-80 Program from the very beginning, with over a decade of experience participating in the project. This successful collaboration has been possible thanks to the know-how provided by the members of our team, who, on average have over 10 years of experience working on different submarine programs since 2000.

The most notable work carried out by CT in for the S-80 Program includes:

Engineering: spanning all of the core disciplines of naval engineering – structures, outfitting, piping, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and electrical – CT’s team has carried out activities involved with design, manufacturing and assembly plans, equipment layout, piping and cable routing supports, among others.

Our engineering work has been focused on the submarine’s first construction unit, but currently we are already working on engineering projects for the second construction unit.

Production Management: our work is structured in two main areas: Production Planning, where we are in charge of planning and control the manufacturing orders in the workshop and Subcontracting, where we take charge of the supply chain, manage providers and order requests to the auxiliary industry to cover production needs and the technical specifications of the supplies.

Lifecycle Support: highlighting CT’s experience in this area, and not just in the naval sector, for the S80 Program we are carrying out various activities that include defining maintenance tasks, managing spare parts, providing support for the configuration or identification of critical safety elements (known as SAFETY).

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We mainly work in activities related to maintenance, engineering support and configuration control. For example, we:

• Analyze the characteristics and impacts of proposed modifications and evaluate associated tasks and developments (engineering support).
• Implement preventive maintenance methods to ensure that all elements receive the best maintenance (scheduled maintenance, MSG3).
• Provide support in the design, manufacturing, part number management and testing of ground support equipment, facilitating more efficient maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO).
• Analyze all aircraft data from fleets regarding operational maintenance to generate reliability reports (airworthiness, CAMO).
• Provide direct support to the final customer on any type of problem or technical issue related to the use of the product.
• Analyze the product configuration to know its status by serial number at any given time.

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• Aircraft software and hardware development, integration and validation.
• Flight clearance and civil / military certifications.
• Support flight tests and ground / flight testing workload reduction.
• Customer pilot training & in-service snag analysis.

To help our client study the complex operational and mission scenarios that this complex simulation test bench allows, CT is in charge of managing, operating and upgrading the facility with new capabilities, as well as supporting maintenance and test execution activities.

Our mission in the project was focused on the S401, the A400M integration laboratory, required for development, verification & validation testing and troubleshooting. We were also responsible for the bench architecture and simulation management, the S401 configuration, operation and acquisition as per test requirements, and finally, for workload planning and bench use at required efficiency.

The main challenges we have overcome were defining the capabilities of the S401 in line with the program requirements, performing hardware and software updates as well as simulation updates, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and ensuring coverage of the S401 testing workload.

Our tasks in the simulator have been key to successfully archiving the verification & validation tests of the S401.

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We have a vast experience in providing support during the maintenance tasks of the A400M, overcoming challenges such as concurrent engineering, the industrialization of new processes for maintenance tasks and the standardization of methods and processes.

MRO support is crucial to the optimization of time and resources in A400M maintenance. Within the MRO support, we take charge of concurrence with other departments, graphical work instructions, workshop support, material analysis, tooling and industrial means to accomplish maintenance tasks, as well as configuration control. We also develop and update the programmed maintenance program per aircraft/fleet, and the work orders for maintenance tasks.

Our MRO technicians create and implement a wide range of documents to inform on corrective actions or systems and components improvement, such as:
Service Bulletin (SB), Vendor Service Bulletin (VSB), Service Information Letters (SILs), Operator Information Telex (OIT), All Operator Telex (AOT), Airworthiness Directive (AD), among others.

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We are also using Catia Manufacturing Solutions to digitalize various activities, to support the workshop and reduce the environmental footprint through paperless digital documentation. Our team specialized in immersive technologies and software development is helping to transfer the documentation from the current digital tablet format to Virtual Reality using the new Microsoft Hololens.

Throughout the process of conversion of the civil A330 aircraft into an MRTT we have overcome different challenges using different approaches, such as concurrent engineering, the industrialization of new processes and the standardization of methods and processes.

Our contribution in the conversion consisted of managing concurrence with other departments and providing graphical work instructions, workshop support, technical support for production and defining Catia Manufacturing Solutions. As a result, we optimized the time and resources used in the conversion, while building synergies between different areas throughout the entire process.

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We can help you to reduce time and costs spent on training and better maintain your fleet, by giving you direct access to all the information you need, such as logistics, technical manuals, maintenance management, historical maintenance and much more, all in a single tool.

You can manage, visualize and edit all this information directly from a web portal that can be accessed through a tablet or other AR device. Augmented or Virtual Reality applications can be used to guide technicians during maintenance tasks or to train them in a specific vehicle.

With your tablet or AR device you can overlap virtual information on a real vehicle that provides step by step instructions on how to do a specific maintenance task.

This application has also been developed for training purposes. You can see the different systems, their elements and navigate through them using Augmented Reality overlaid directly on the real vehicle.

You can also update the database directly through your handheld device, adding comments, pictures, or any other relevant information.

This tool was developed for a vehicle fleet in the military sector but can be easily be used in any other industry.

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The Scorpène Class was CT’s first experience in developing engineering for this type of vessel, participating in different projects of submarines under the same class for the Chilean, Malaysian and Indian Navies, working in the functional areas, on the detailed engineering and RAMS (ILS & Safety).

Furthermore, CT arranged a support team to be sent to India to supervise the construction work for the submarines.

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We have analyzed and defined the instructions required to implement any modification carried out on Service Fleet. Some of the biggest challenges that our service bulletins team has faced included the retrofit of the aircraft’s aluminum frame, the installation of GPS antennas, DASS UK and PODs, Retrofit campaign Step2 and Batch 3.1.

Our service bulletin management service begins by studying the problem, followed by defining the procedures that need to be implemented, as well as coming up with a technical solution and finally the creation of a service bulleting with authoring and illustrations. Managing service bulletins can be complex for various reasons, such as different airplanes versions, and the need to coordinate work with other departments in order to reach the best solution, as well as all ATAs involved.

As a result, we helped Airbus to define a procedure to identify the documentation applicable to each aircraft (by s/n), as well as procedures with technical instructions to implement solutions in each aircraft.

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This amphibious assault ship, designed and built entirely in Spain, is one of the biggest naval engineering projects undertaken by CT.

Our engineering experts were involved in the project from the start, working on the basic engineering, detailed engineering, production engineering, RAMS (ILS & Safety) and tests & trials, being furthermore responsible for drafting the technical specifications for the purchasing a large amount of equipment.

We were constantly present throughout the project, showing CT’s ability to provide its customers with support at all the engineering and construction stages when building a vessel with such characteristics.

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