Certification Together is an initiative to create exchanges between all kinds of companies involved in airborne projects, facing certification challenges, and to provide expert solutions.
One main aspect is to leverage the expertise and synergies of several internationally recognized expert companies in the certification of critical systems. This collaboration also involves schools like ISAE, ENSEEIHT, the ONERA R&D lab, the Toulouse Aeronautical Test Center (CEAT), as well as tool and component providers.
The Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster, with headquarters located in Toulouse (France), has selected Certification Together as their international Center of Expertise for Certification resource. It confirms that our joint initiative is providing benefits for the entire Industry community.
Certification Together provides a structured offer to help companies achieve their certification objectives. This offer includes:
- Training for all the certification domains: ARP 4754, ARP 4761, DO-178B (C), DO-254, DO-160, DO-278,…
- Expert Consulting :
- Audits to analyze gaps between the current situation of a project or process and what is required to meet the certification objectives (i.e., gap analysis)
- Expert support during the Gap Filling, plan writing, process improvements, and other project activities
- Support for preparation of Certification audits (pre-certification audits)
- Support for tool assessment and qualification
- Support to equipment manufacturers for monitoring their subcontractors, as well as supporting subcontractor process improvements to make them more autonomous regarding certification objectives
- Technical expertise for analysis and/or assessment of emerging solutions, tool qualification aspects and packages, COTS and IP, and so on
Certification Together also integrates animation and management of collaborative initiatives:
- Creation and management of User Groups, to exchange experiences and difficulties about new standards or updates of standards. The DO-254 User Group in both the US and Europe is a good example. We plan to create equivalent groups related to the DO-178C, ARP 4754A, etc.
- Exchanges with high schools to provide them with good input for their training programs, to share training resources, etc. It is also a resource for R&D labs who need to position their technologies and solutions in the avionics domain.
- Exchanges with tool vendors, component providers, and other stakeholders who need to understand their customers’ certification needs, in order to provide new features, dedicated reports, specific documentation packages, and so on.
Through Certification Together, we will organize in 2010 the first Systems, Software and Airborne Electronics Hardware Certification conference in Europe. Learn more about this conference.
