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The Trent 500 is a large jet engine designed to provide the thrust for a new generation of commercial airliners. The engine was designed and built in the UK. Each engine is independently controlled and monitored by a Full Authority Digital Electronic Controller (FADEC) mounted on the engine.
provided a design team for over 3 years to support the development of the FADEC in both software design and implementation. The team size averaged 12 engineers during the project, and peaked at 15. The team was an integral, but independent, self managed resource for the customer, allowing them to pass the project management responsibilities over to resource engineering projects for defined areas.
used the customer's processes and procedures and their tool sets to support them via a direct leased line into the customer's computer system.
were tasked with the design and development of real-time embedded software covering areas such as maintenance, actuators and sensors.
The engine maintenance software has the role of monitoring the engine and its components and recording events, notifying the flight crew of significant problems and storing information about all failures for the Maintenance crews to replace faulty components on the ground. A good maintenance system will allow the ground crew to turn the aircraft around quickly by identifying the maintenance actions to be taken and allowing the crew to run tests to validate the change has been successful.
was involved with the customer in performing the Top Level Design of the Maintenance System and provided half the team involved in this stage of development.
Once the Top Level documentation was produced informing the Detailed Designers how the system interacted to achieve its overall function, requirements were then partitioned into functional blocks and allocated to various teams.
was responsible for the detecting of the engine events/failure conditions, integrating the failures and ensuring that the highlighted fault was the most likely cause of the symptom.
was also responsible for the development of the Status message system used to inform the cabin crew of major events. This also required the tagging of the sub-events that caused the major events to ensure that the maintenance crew replaced all the faulty components to enable continued safe flights.
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Over 10 years experience in design and development of embedded real-time control software, in a self managed resource support role. |
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Control software developed and managed in house. |
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Quality product guaranteed. Adaptable and flexible to ongoing development. |
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Time and Materials project. This best suited the clients wish to be able to allocate the team to whichever part of the project needed support. |
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