Your Industry

Defense / Military & Aerospace / Aircraft

As a manufacturer, retailer or importer of products used in military/defence and aerospace environments, Bureau Veritas Electrical is your ideal partner to help you become first to market with qualified products and a qualified organization.

• Global approach for testing and qualification programs
• Dedicated structure for your projects
• Responsive experts network

Our competences

• Electrotechnical
• Electronics
• Functional safety 
• EMC 
• Mechanical
• Electrostatics
• ATEX
• Physical and Chemical
• Corrosion
• Materials

Improving dependability of equipment and sub-assemblies

We provide you with solutions and specific advices answering your needs and requirements, all along the product life cycle.

Qualifying your products according to aeronautic standards 

Our testing capacities and deep expertise allow us to guide you through the qualification process of your products, according to aeronautic standards (DO 160, GAM EG13, MIL STD 810, MIL STD 461...).

We are also able to perform explosion proofness (DO 160, Section 9).

Prevent consequences linked to industrial risks and how they impact on your production process

We provide you with our 20-years experience acquired in the area of industrial risks, to help you securitize your equipment and installations

Train your teams

We listen to each of your needs and can provide you with experts able to train you and give you specific knowledge through training sessions, either general (catalogue) or customized (on-site).

Your local contact points

• France
• United Kingdom

Why Bureau Veritas Electrical

• Location – Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 and has in excess of 23,000 employees located in 140 countries. We have access to 5,000 employees in 40 countries worldwide within the Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Service group with electrical focussed office and laboratory locations in USA, France, Germany, UK, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
• Knowledge - Access to our dedicated information resource center tracking the electrical legislative developments and advising on its impact
• Capability - Access to our comprehensive accredited EMC, Safety and Environmental Test facilities in all three continents
• Knowledge - Future legislation consultants who can advise on the impact of legislation as it develops
• Price – With offices and facilities all over the world, we can offer incredibly competitive rates for our services

Bureau Veritas Electrical Services

Testing

Environmental Stresses

• Mechanical testing : vibrations, chocks, shakes
• Climatic testing : humidity, rain, temperature, temperature shocks, sun, dust, saline mist, corrosion
• Combined mechanical / climatic testing
• Accelerated ageing testing

Electromagnetic Compatibility

• Measures for radiated and conducted emissions
• Immunity assessment to radiated and conducted emissions

Electrical Testing

• Electrical testing
• Testing on power supplies
• Testing on cables and other equipment (dielectric, traction, fire resistance)

Static Electricity

• Measures for resistors, and decreasing time frame related to charge or potential
• Measures for charge accumulation of a material or equipment

Certification

Access to certifications and international marks (regulatory or voluntary)

• LVD
• EMC
• R&TTE
• Machine
• Pressure Equipment 
• ATEX...
• Other European Directives
• RoHS/WEEE
• VHU, ...

Consulting

Regulatory studies

• Depending on your product type, we analyse the regulatory issue linked to their exports
• We provide you with a regulatory frame your products have to fit with
• We deliver regulatory consultancy within this framework

Development

• Assistance in drawing up specifications
• Identification of applicable standards and regulations
• Assistance in building the conformance file
• Definition of test programs
• Pre-qualification and conformity testing according to the requirements of standards, client specifications and other references
• Assistance in selecting materials (qualification, timelessness and obsolescent studies of electronic components)
• Characterization of  materials and components
• Numerical calculation: mechanical, fluid temperature, electrostatics, EMC, using the following softwares: IDEAS, ANSYS, ESTET

Control of industrial risks - Industrial production sites

• Identification of dangers
• Analysis of special risk in accordance with recognized methods: HAZOP, AMDEC, Failure trees, APR…
• Simulation of risk scenarios : atmospheric dispersion of dangerous gases (2D ou 3D), explosion, fire…
• Constitution of the application file for authorization to operate
• Lightning study
• Study on electrical safety and analysis of networks
• Pollution measurements: physicochemical analysis; air, water, earth, acoustical measurements

Explosive atmospheres (ATEX)

• Building the ATEX file
• ATEX zoning
• Technical assistance for choosing material to  be used and limitation of the ATEX zones
• Testing
• Certification of ATEX equipment

Static electricity

• Measurements of  resistance, resistivity, decrease time of charge or potential
• Measurement of the capacity of accumulation charges of a material or equipment 
• Test reports
• Diagnostics
• Risk analysis and assistance in decision making
• Certification of NF EL-STAT materials
• Expertise on defective materials

Training

• Safety functionality: equipment, software and systems
• Testing and measurement for EMC, reaction in environments
• Failure and physicochemical analysis
• Production and maintenance
• Batch selection (components, connectors, cables…)
• Durability and safety studies, safety of installations