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The International CANEUS organization together with the French Space Agency (CNES) is pleased announce the creation of an international Consortia on “MNT Reliability for Aerospace” with participation of Space Agencies, Aircraft / Spacecraft stakeholders, MNT Developers and Laboratories from Europe, Canada and USA.
International Standards: MNT Reliability for Aerospace
Held on May 29-30, 2008 at the French Space Agency – CNES, 85 participants at the MNT Reliability for Aerospace Workshop identified and initiated an important step to bridge the “gap” between aerospace end-users and MNT technology developers / laboratories, with the evolution of the “International Consortia”.
CANEUS MNT Reliability International Consortia, aims to mitigate risk collectively for all participants by investigating the various issues such as Standards and Guidelines for Aerospace missions (TRL 5 and higher), Structuring the Roadmap for Space Agencies worldwide, POF (Physics of Failure), and Space radiation effect on MEMS. The 2-days meeting represented a crucial step towards creating international standards.
The workshop Chaired by Dr. Philippe Perdu of the CNES, built upon the foundation established at the Working Group’s meeting in Toulouse in August 2006 by focusing specifically on international collaborations to identify and formalize the diverse MNT Reliability testing needs of Aerospace end-users and stakeholders.
Key Challenges
Several high-level speakers led by Denis Chapuis, VP of EADS and Philippe Goudy, Deputy Director of CNES identified the key challenges, especially for low volume and high reliability applications in various fields like Space, Aerospace, and Defence, and the need 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.
Aircraft, Space and Defense Needs
End Users representing Airbus (Jean-Pierre Daniel), French Ministry of Defense DGA (Xavier Grissom and Frederic Souchon), EADS Astrium Space Transportation (Thierry Abensur), Thales Alenia (Claude Drevon, Olivier Vendier and M. Sotom), CNES (Gian Andrea Quadri), ESA – European Space Agency (Laurent Marchand) Canadian Space Agency CSA (Wanping Zheng) focused on a clear identification of the end-user reliability and radiation tolerance needs, and technical solutions required to deal with MEMS design for reliability, virtual prototyping, technology analysis, failure analysis, test, qualification, and system versus component reliability trades.
Technology Providers and Reliability Testing Laboratories
The goal of this workshop was to identify MNT reliability and testing programs with broad applicability for dealing with a diverse set of MNT systems and vendors for these systems. The technology providers included: Tronics (Stephane Renard), Freescale (Frederic Puel), and Colibrys (Jean-Michel Stauffer). The reliability testing laboratories were represented by NOVA MEMS (Xavier Lafontan), CEA (Didier Bloch), LIRMM (Norbert Dumas), LAAS (Fabio Coccetti), and XLIM (Arnaud Pothier & Pierre Blondy).
The cross fertilization of presentations and inputs from end users, manufacturers, test, characterization and FA labs, is expected to trigger new opportunities for MEMS reliability activities.
Existing initiatives: (corporate, clusters, partnerships)
Laurent Latorre of the LIRMM, Sebastian Giessmann of the MEMUNITY, and Bruno Fouche of the EADS CCR - POLYNOE offered an overview of existing initiatives that may compliment the proposed CANEUS international consortia.
Proposed Consortium
The workshop conclusions emphasized cooperation to be set up at a worldwide level and build Consortia and funding mechanism for its implementation. 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/
About CANEUS International “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group: The CANEUS International “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group is an international forum promoting the advancement of a broad range of issues with reliability of Micro and Nano-devices and systems for use by the global aerospace industry. Membership in the working group includes all the primary industry stakeholders, including new technology developers, system integrators, and aerospace end-users.
The CANEUS “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group is the steward of the aerospace industry’s strategic and technology roadmap for reliability technologies. The CANEUS “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group has established a collaborative environment wherein resources from member organizations are pooled to focus on high-risk, high-cost initiatives aimed at accelerating the infusion of emerging wireless technologies into aerospace applications.
The Consortia / Working Group also acts as the broker for licensing intellectual property jointly developed by its collaborative consortia. System integration efforts focus on the development of the appropriate supply chain organizations. The CANEUS “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group is the premier advocacy group addressing regulations, the development of standards and certification requirements for RF and other MEMS devices. The Working Group manages an industry portal for members’ technologies.
In summary, the CANEUS “MNT Reliability” Consortia / Working Group is chartered with creating and sustaining the entire MNT reliability requirements for aerospace applications. Beginning with a strong participation by MNT developers and worldwide industry stakeholders, the Working Group will establish a robust supply chain to sustain the entire technology development pipeline.
About CANEUS
CANEUS is a worldwide organization serving the needs of the aeronautics, space and defense communities by fostering the coordinated, international development of MNT (Micro-Nano- Technologies) for aerospace applications. As a "hands on" organization, CANEUS is focused on the practical aspects of transitioning MNT rapidly and efficiently from the concept to the aerospace system level. In achieving this goal, CANEUS brings together technology developers, aerospace end-users, governmental policy makers and investors from across the world. www.caneus.org
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