Representatives of Aircraft, spacecraft and Defense insudtry end users, MNT technology providers, Reliability Testing laboratories, and related ongoing international initiatives will meet in Toulouse, France, at the French Space Agency - CNES on May 29-30, 2008 to formulate an international "MNT Reliability for Aerospace Industry" Working Group Consortia project under the auspecies of the International CANEUS organization.
The partial list of confirmed participants include :
- Thalès Alénia Space, DGA (France), EADS, Airbus, NASA Safety Engineering, CSA and Brazilian Embrear, representing end-users
- Tronics, Silmach, Infineom, and others as technology providers
- CEA, CNES , LIRMM, LAAS, XLIM, EADS CCR, Sandia National Laboratories and NRC Canada as the reliability testing laboratories
- IMS, LIRMM, and others representing existing initiatives.
Worldwide "MNT Reliability for Aerospace Industry" Testing Programs
The goal of this workshop is to develop an MNT reliability and testing program with broad applicability for dealing with a diverse set of MNT systems and vendors for these systems. The proposed consortium project will be based on a clear identification of the end-user reliability and radiation tolerance needs, and technical solutions to deal with MEMS design for reliability, virtual prototyping, technology analysis, failure analysis, test, qualification, and system versus component reliability trades. http://reliability.caneus.org/workshops/2008/objectives/
Project Consortia and Funding
The cross fertilization of inputs from end users, manufacturers, test, characterization and FA labs will trigger new opportunities for MEMS reliability activities. Conclusions will emphasize a possible cooperation to be set up at a worldwide level and at the end of the two-day workshop; we hope to be in a position to formulate the project consortia and funding proposal submission.
The CANEUS/CNES "MNT Reliability for Aerospace " Working Group is an international forum promoting the advancement of a broad range of issues related to reliability of Micro and Nano-devices and systems for use by the global aerospace industry; technical solutions to deal with MEMS Design for Reliability, Virtual Prototyping, Technology Analysis, Failure Analysis, Test, Qualification, and System versus Component reliability trades.
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