TRONICO, electronics supplier to the space industry

Industrialisation looks for and analyses reliable and sustainable solutions to optimise the manufacture of electronic assemblies. TRONICO’s industrialisation service facilitates and supports the transition from prototypes to series production. This industrialisation phase starts at the very beginning of the project in order to optimise production costs in the short, medium and long term.

The industrialisation cycle includes :

• FMEA (Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis) purchasing and supply: TRONICO manages risks and obsolescence thanks to its knowledge of the market.
• Process FMEA: TRONICO assesses and manages production risks
• DfX (Design for X)
• DfM (Design for Manufacturing): analysis of board manufacturability and integration
• DfT (Design for Test): definition and optimisation of the test strategy

These services are provided by TRONICO’s MPI (Process Methods and Industrialisation) department, the link between the designer and the manufacturing operator.

The cost and quality constraints required in the aerospace industry mean that we have to use methods from the automotive industry, such as APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning), encouraged by GIFAS (Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales). The use of these methods makes it possible to integrate feedback from past developments and ensure perfect control of processes through measurement loops.

In 2003, TRONICO set up an electronics plant in Tangier, Morocco.

With 300 employees, NADCAP and EN9100 certifications and an IPC A610 class 3 quality level, this factory works mainly for the civil aeronautics industry and remains the leading aeronautics electronics factory on the African continent.

Depending on requirements and the nature of the product, TRONICO can offer production at its French and/or Moroccan sites.

The Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine and Tangier sites are identical in terms of equipment, processes and certifications.

At the heart of the business continuity plan, resources and processes are fully compatible between the two sites.

The lifespan of aircraft can exceed 30 years, unlike the manufacturing time for electronic components, which is becoming shorter all the time. Faced with problems of obsolescence (components, processes, manufacturing files, etc.), TRONICO offers MCO (Maintenance in Operational Conditions) solutions:

• • Detection of counterfeit electronic components
  • Obsolescence monitoring
  • Re-design, reverse engineering, Form Fit Function re-engineering
  • Secure storage of components, boards or assemblies
  • Repair, multi-unit remanufacturing

The compliance of aeronautical electronic equipment depends in part on the tests it undergoes.
By combining the various production tests with a final functional test, TRONICO proposes an optimal test strategy for each electronic product. TRONICO designs, integrates and commissions automatic test equipment for this final phase of the production cycle.

On the basis of a test specification from its own design office or that of its customers, TRONICO will define an architecture, choose the test equipment, define an ergonomic HMI (Human Machine Interface), wire the equipment up to the interface of the system to be tested using connectors or bed of nails and provide operator training.

Bearing in mind the economic constraints of the project, the modular architecture of the TRONICO test benches means that several boards or assemblies can be tested on the same tool. What’s more, the automation of test sequences right through to the issuing of the Test Report simplifies and rationalises the daily use of the test bench by the operator.

TRONICO, as an approved training centre, provides technical training in certification, quality accreditation and the manufacturing and integration processes for electronic systems.
Our training courses are aimed at our entry-level and experienced workers, quality technicians and R&D engineers, but also at external needs such as our customers. For example, we have trained 24 Thales workers in manufacturing and, above all, in the varnishing process.
The training centre, which is closely linked to our manufacturing facilities, has its own dedicated space and resources. Trainees are put into real work situations to ensure better interactivity and integration of the training provided.
This centre of excellence is supervised by two full-time trainers within the Human Resources Department:

These trainers are accredited:

• IPC-A 610 certified CIP trainer
• IPCA 620 Specialist
• J-STD-001 (IPC Certified Specialist)