C-17 production automated verification equipment (PAVE)

Author

Perez, R. ; Robertson, E. ; Wilson, D.

Author_Institution

Avionics/Flight Controls IPT, Boeing Airlift & Tanker, Long Beach, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-27 Aug 1998

Firstpage

639

Lastpage

645

Abstract

Manually testing aircraft functions during factory assembly has been a costly and time-consuming task. In addition, this problem has been compounded by the fact that deliverable cockpit avionics are required during testing and are therefore exposed to the damaging production environment longer. The C-17 aircraft currently requires 48 on-aircraft test procedures (OATP) to verify system operations and airworthiness prior to customer delivery. As a result, the current manual test method equates to over 15,000 test hours per aircraft. This paper discusses the implementation of the Production Automated Verification Equipment (PAVE). PAVE is an automated aircraft test system which, by emulating various cockpit LRUs and test procedures, automates the current manually intensive OATP testing

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft testing; automatic test equipment; military aircraft; military avionics; production engineering computing; production testing; C-17 aircraft; PAVE automated aircraft test system; aircraft functions; cockpit avionics; production automated verification equipment; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Assembly; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Cities and towns; Production facilities; Production systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '98. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference., 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4420-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1998.713510

Filename

713510