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Aerospace and defense test is a complicated business. A lot goes into ensuring helicopters stay in the air, spacecraft stay pressurized, and passenger airplanes land safely every time. It’s a business full of complex elements—custom test fixtures, multiple technical compliance guidelines, and a ton of customer requirements. After more than two decades of designing hundreds […]

Maximize Your Test System Development: Optimize Your Performance, Reliability and Usability by Starting with Good Requirements   After reading through Ralph Hutson’s blog about whether to make or buy your next test system, you may have decided you want to hire G Systems to design and build your test system. To take that step, you need to

How to Make the Decision to Create In-House or Outsource  Today’s test engineering manager has many challenges. Chief among them is the decision to make the next test automation system internally or contract an outside company for test system development. This single decision influences most of the future decisions regarding each particular test system, and can

The most common mistake made in test system development is to focus on the hardware and software while ignoring infrastructure issues such as data storage, deployment, and scalability. Often, problems do not surface until the system has been deployed in production and at that point, fixing them can be very costly and time consuming. For

The September issue of Military Embedded Systems magazine features an article on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing for defense and aerospace testing systems. Written by the magazine’s Associate Editor, Mariana Iriarte, the column includes interviews with several industry experts — including G Systems Vice President of Engineering, Dave Baker.  Dave and other experts cover how, with HIL

What is the G Systems RF Path Loss Calibrator and how can it help your business? Improved accuracy, convenience and long-term cost savings are some advantages. Others include saving time as well as cable wear. The greatest savings stack up when you factor in labor costs. The RF Path Loss Calibrator helps alleviate the often

We recently announced the G Systems Valve Leak Measurement System (VLMS), a low-flow leak detection product that reliably measures slow leaks that are unidentifiable with conventional leak detectors. This system is already helping manufacturers test and ensure that critical valve seals are airtight, and it is perfect for applications that require a zero or near-zero

Why do you want an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) for your ATE (automatic test equipment) in the first place? There are many reasons to have a UPS. UPSs are useful in many industries. I will limit the following brief discussion to UPSs inside your ATE and those using battery back-up. I will not be discussing

When it comes to performing tests and acquiring data in harsh environments, such as in the desert in a Humvee, on an oil rig offshore, or in the cargo compartment of an aircraft or ship, standard test systems just won’t do. Conditions ranging from high temperatures and humidity to intense vibrations and pressures require the

Imagine you’re testing a system that has a long startup time, and you find a small change that needs to be made. Now you have to make the software change, rebuild the executable, shut down the application, deploy the new executable, and go through the long startup period again. What a waste of time!!! Wouldn’t