CARBON AERO Reference is our answer to the Aerospace Industry most common demands and requests: traditional systems in the market are too heavy, too difficult to install and with a lack of accuracy and repeatability. We invite you to discover, one by one, the innovative features and solutions that make CARBON AERO Reference the most powerful, flexible and easy to use Aircraft Weight and Gravity Centre measurement solution in the market.
Aerospace Grade Aluminium & Carbon Fibre
The weight reduction, compared to cast aluminium or machined steel, greatly facilitates platform handling during installation, bringing significant improvements to your team work and safety conditions, and reduces also the time required to prepare the system for a weighing cycle.
The height reduction allows the use of thinner and shorter levelling ramps, which are easier to install, providing also smooth and safe aircraft towing environment.
Electronic-Assisted Installation
The signal from each load-cell is analyzed in real time during platform installation, making a continuous evaluation of platform position on the ground. The user receives clear information through the optional local display interface or at the remote Bluetooth control unit, helping them to adjust the feet of the platform until equilibrium is reached. In this way, the user can repeat laboratory calibration position every time a weighing is performed.
This exclusive tool guarantees the best weight balance possible among the four sensors, ensuring that the load-cells are been used inside their best range and consequently increasing the quality of the measuring data, together with the system reliability, fidelity and repeatability.
Wireless communications
That’s why we provide all our CARBON AERO Reference platforms with wireless communications. Customers may choose among WiFi or Bluetooth LE platforms, to receive in real time all the data measured by the system at their information systems. We provide also a communication protocol tailored to our customer’s requirements, making easy for your TI Department to ensure CARBON AERO Reference integration in your processes.
Wireless Remote Control
We’ve implemented in the protocol all the commands required to perform the most typical actions concerning a weighing instrument. In this way, remote operators can set the scales to zero, fix a tare value or change the instrument working mode among “Measurement Mode”, “Parameters Mode” and “Gravity Centre Calculation Mode” by sending a simple command from their Information Systems.
This innovative feature allows the weighing cycle to be full automated by using computer aided tests systems scripts, common in the Aerospace Industry, ensuring that the designed test procedure is perfectly repeated every time the aircraft is measured.
Weight & Gravity Centre measurement
We continuously monitor the signal coming from each load cell, amplifying it by means of zero drift instrumentation operational amplifiers and subsequently attacking the analog to digital conversion stage by 24-bit noise-free sigma-delta converters. The signal already digitized is treated by DSP algorithms and evaluated in its quality to be later converted to weight values by applying the multipoint calibration parameters stored in the system.In this way we guarantee that each weight value delivered by the system corresponds to a perfect measurement.
In the same way, the simultaneous access to each single load cell is the start of our exclusive algorithm for calculating the center of gravity, which allows us to know in X and Y coordinates the exact position of the load on the platform with millimeter precision.
Optional ground-embedded installation kit
The fixed installation makes the system always ready to be used, by avoiding the use of ramps and the time to install, and later to store it.
For these situations, SYSTRATEC has designed a specific fitting kit, consisting of four frames in mechanized aerospace aluminium and a steel index plate designed to keep each platform in its place of work indefinitely. No element of the system protrudes from the ground plane and, thanks to its robust construction, allows the circulation of both the aircraft and the most common traction elements in a FAL or in an Aeronautical Maintenance Factory.
Specific Accessories
– Platform manual transport tool: designed to transport each platform from the storage car to its working location for the aircraft weighing.
– Access ramps and separators: available in several sizes, allowing to adjust the installation of the system to any aircraft footprint.
– Storage, charging and internal transport car: designed to transport the system to different locations inside the factory. It allows the vertical storage of the complete system, including ramps and index plates, and the easy extraction of all the elements for its installation. It also provides charging infrastructure for the batteries of the platforms while they are stored.
– Specific flight-case for sending platforms to the calibration laboratory: robust construction and interior in high density foam, adequately protects each platform during transport from the factory to the calibration laboratory and back, for periodic verification operations.
High-End aeronautical systems require same level documentation, tools and after sale services
Detailed Weighing Procedure
Detailed Mechanical Maintenance Procedure
Detailed Metrological Maintenance Policy
Long term Spare Parts Policy
Custom Manufactured Control Tools
Ordering Information
We deliver our standard CARBON AERO Reference platforms in two different ranges: 10 000 kg y 20 000 kg. For the 20t capacity platform there are two variants: long (920mmx520mm) and short (762mmx520mm). For special requirements, we are ready to manufacture your CARBON AERO Reference system perfectly adapted to your required weighing range and to your aircraft footprint size and geometry.
We also deliver all our platforms with their first calibration certificate, issued under our strict quality management policy in our laboratory and the end of manufacturing process.
Standard
- Aerospace-Grade Aluminium and Carbon Fibre Structure
- Electronic-Assisted Feet Height Adjustment
- Total Height: 47mm
- Weighing Footprint: 500mm x 280mm
- Total Surface Size: 540mm x 370mm
- Total Weight: 18kg
- WiFi or Bluetooth LE Bidirectional Communications
- Internal Rechargeable LiFePO4 Battery
- Embedded Bubble Level
- Optional Local Interface Module
- Optional Embedding Kit
- OIML Class III Calibration Certificat
Standard
- Aerospace-Grade Aluminium and Carbon Fibre Structure
- Electronic-Assisted Feet Height Adjustment
- Total Height: 68mm/75mm (depending on sensor)
- Weighing Footprint: 870mm x 400mm
- Total Surface Size: 920mm x 520mm
- Total Weight: 48kg
- WiFi or Bluetooth LE Bidirectional
- Internal Rechargeable LiFePO4 Battery
- Embedded Bubble Level
- Optional Local Interface Module
- Optional Embedding Kit
- OIML Class III Calibration Certificate
Custom
- Aerospace-Grade Aluminium and Carbon Fibre Structure
- Electronic-Assisted Feet Height Adjustment
- Low Profile
- Weighing Footprint: custom
- Total Surface Size: custom
- Light Weight
- WiFi or Bluetooth LE Bidirectional Communications
- Internal Rechargeable LiFePO4 Battery
- Embedded Bubble Level
- Optional Local Interface Module
- Optional Embedding Kit
- OIML Class III Calibration Certificate