Instrumentation Design and Application
AneCom provides a comprehensive range of instrumentation services tailored to meet your testing needs. Our experience includes design, installation, calibration, test operation and post-test data management. Our instrumentation design and planning process defines required analog and digital measurements for data collection in the test plan and identifies each piece of instrumentation needed to collect that data.
Instrumentation design and detail engineering
We offer Instrumentation Design as part of “Test Vehicle Design & Make” scope or as a support package for Test vehicles at customer Test facility. AneCom by default applies in-house design standards and guidelines, and if desired, any customer Standard.
Our Capabilities
Requirements management, Risk assessment
Validation strategy
Rapid 3D concept design, static and rotating instrumentation, telemetry
- Pressure, Temperature, Strain and proximity sensors, Blade tip timing integration, BTC
- Large variety of temperature and pressure scope,
- Small and large test vehicles
FFMEA & DMFEA, Robust Design principles, Systems Engineering
3D detail design, 3D routing (optional)
Tooling design
Design to Manufacture, Design to Cost, Manufacturing Technology development
Design for Assembly sequence
Tools
- Siemens NX
- Catia V5
- Solid Works
Instrumentation application and assembly
AneCom provides various instrumentation and application services. We select and define suitable instrumentation and measurement methods in accordance with our customer’s requirements. In order to apply the instrumentation, we use standardised application methods or develop customised methods as specified by our clients, in collaboration with our experienced in-house instrumentation design and analysis team.
Our Capabilities
Rework of mechanical parts
Application of sensors on test hardware
- AC & DC strain gauges (quarter-, half-, full-bridges) on rotating/non-rotating parts
- High-temperature strain gauges applied with oven-cured paste cement, usable up to 900°C
- Thermocouples & semiconductor sensors for temperature and stress measurements
- Pressure and temperature probes
- Gas path rake & boundary layer instrumentation
- 3- & 5-hole probes for traversing measurements of temperature, pressure, and noise
- Installation of thermocrystals
Installation of measurement systems & transducers
- Dynamic, total, static, differential, & wet-pressure transducers
- Microphones in semi-anechoic chambers
- Tip clearance, tip timing & fiber optic probes
- Displacement probes (capacitive, inductive, optical)
- Accelerometers & vibrometers (piezoelectric, capacitive)
- Rotating telemetry systems & slip ring units
- Revolving sensors & rotating speed probes
Assembly, disassembly and inspection of test vehicle
- Integrated planning, purchasing, and logistics for smooth operation
- Close proximity to in-house design, analysis, and prototype manufacturing for rapid response
- Installation of instrumented hardware on test vehicles
- Assembly of components, from single parts to modules, up to fully integrated test vehicles, ready for testing with all required interfaces to the test facility
- Highly professional team of mechanics with a wide range of experience
Instrumentation Laboratory
- 200 m² air-controlled laboratory with daylight, humidity & temperature regulation
- 12 ESD-compliant workbenches with dry, oil-free air-driven tools & power supplies
- Precision mechanical work areas with computer-aided microscope & camera inspection
- Well-illuminated areas for visual inspection, documentation & quality assurance
- Monitored hazardous material storage (cold & dry) + 60 m² storage for instrumentation material
- Laboratory kitchen with vacuum system & ultrasonic bath for cleaning & other processes
- Equipment for external assignments at customer sites
- Team: 20 trained instrumentation fitters + 4 planners/work preparers/coordinators
Instrumentation Field services
Use our expertise wherever you need us – worldwide
- Team availability within a short notice of a few days
- Field service team can be deployed at customer sites worldwide as per work package or AÜG
- Comprehensive instrumentation inventory (e.g., strain gauges, thermocouples)
- Extensive turbomachinery and airframe expertise
- Fully trained staff (SCC, working at heights, confined spaces)
- Own tooling provided with a dedicated onsite lead as a single point of contact
Typical application methods
- Bonding processes for different materials (hot & cold test areas, ovens)
- Resistance micro spot welding on metal surfaces, including wedge wire welding
- Soft soldering of sensors & sensitive electronic components (ESD requirements)
- Autogenous micro tip torch brazing on components & high-temperature measuring extensions
- Laser welding & vacuum brazing (in cooperation with external partners)
- Pre-processing cleaning (ultrasonic bath, wiping & other methods)
- Sandblasting with various fused mineral-edged alumina blasting media
- Small fine mechanical reworks (grinding, drilling, polishing)
- Flame spraying
