TRaC

TRaC is a leading UKAS accredited test laboratory specialising in testing, validation and certification of military equipment.

TRaC’s military test capabilities are built around the requirements to replicate the electromagnetic, climatic and mechanical environments and qualify the survivability, reliability and interference-free functionality of land systems equipment. TRaC military services include:

Military EMC Testing

TRaC’s secure facilities are designed and approved to meet the highest levels of national and commercial security for the military and aerospace markets. TRaC EMC services include:

• Radiated and conducted emissions to military and aerospace standards
• Radiated, conducted and transient immunity (susceptibility) to military and aerospace standards
• Lightning strike test capabilities
• Heavy Vehicle Semi Anechoic Chamber (HVSAC)
• TEMPEST testing
• Stirred mode chamber for high intensity RF fields
• Commercial EMC and CE marking
• Notified body service
• Automated indoor and outdoor Open Area Test Sites (OATS)
• Mobile site test teams

Military Environmental Testing

TRaC’s environmental test services provide access to the UK’s largest independent test laboratory where customers can benefit from carrying out a complete programme of environmental testing on one convenient site. TRaC environmental test services include:

• Vibration and shock
• Temperature, altitude and humidity
• Driving/blowing sand and dust
• Climatic testing including corrosive atmosphere, solar heating and fluid contamination
• Dustproof and waterproof ingress protection (IP) testing
• Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)
• Fixture design
• Bespoke dynamic testing

Safety Assessment & Testing

TRaC provides a safety testing and assessment route to manufacturers, designers, importers, exporters and distributors of equipment to ensure that they fulfil their legal obligations and demonstrate full compliance with the requirements of countries around the world.TRaC safety testing and assessment services include:

• ATEX Explosive Atmosphere Certification
• Machine Safety Directive (MSD) machinery inspection
• Low Voltage Directive (LVD) safety assessment and test
• General Product Safety (GPS) assessment
• Notified Body service
• Safety cases

Telecom, Radio & Wireless Testing

TRaC provide specialist testing and approvals services for testing telecoms, wireless, radio and IT related products to ensure that they meet the operational and regulatory requirements for global market access. TRaC telecoms, wireless, radio services include:

• Full R&TTE (Radio & Telecoms Terminal Equipment) testing of wireless products to cover CE requirements for EMC, safety and radio spectrum parameters
• Military communication systems
• R&TTE notified body service
• Compliance testing and certification to US (FCC)
• requirements
• RF protocol assessments and testing
• Component validation to ensure product compliance is maintained when components are changed

Finite Element Analysis expertise:

TRaC’s dedicated Finite Element Analysis service enables our customer to assess and validate fatigue, impact and thermal designs issues ahead of prototype manufacture, accelerating development times and reducing development costs.

Areas of analysis expertise:

• Shock and impact response
• Underwater shock effects
• Gunfire loadings
• Acoustic effects
• Cooling and durability of electronic equipment
• AV mount optimisation
• Multibody dynamics and motion studies
• Fracture mechanics, creep and durability assessment
• Extreme climatic effects
• Development of tailored tests
• Land, sea & air transportation and operational loadings

Testing, Regulatory and Compliance Solutions

TRaC provides testing, regulatory and compliance solutions for component suppliers through to complete platform integrators to the most demanding industry requirements including:

• Military EMC, including:
  Def Stan 59-411, Def Stan 61-5, MIL STD 461, MIL STD 285, MIL STD 1275
• Military Environmental including:
  Def Stan 00-35, MIL STD 810, Def Stan 07-55,
• Aerospace EMC, Environmental and Lightning Strike, including:
   RTCA DO160 and various industry derived standards (e.g. Boeing D6-16050-5)
• European Standards, including:
   2004/104/EC, 2006/95/EC, 1999/92/EC, LVD 73/23/EC
• CE Marking, including:
   EMC, R&TTE, Safety, GPS, MSD and ATEX directives
• Automotive:
   VCA and E-marking approval

Military Testing and Approvals Solution

TRaC’s breadth of services provides our military customers with a single source solution to the complete approvals process, avoiding the hidden costs, time and communications barriers from dealing with multiple test laboratories.

We provide qualification support services through the complete life cycle of our customers’ product development, including:

• Bid support
• Test plans
• Pre-compliance testing,
• Design de-risking leading to confidence in qualification
• Formal qualification and approval testing
• Internationally accepted test reports
• Safety cases
• Analysis of in-service failures

UKAS accredited

TRaC is a national UKAS accredited body recognised by government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, and provide certification, testing and inspection services.

One Stop Service - TRaC provides combined services covering all aspects of EMC, ATEX, Machinery, Radio, Environment and Safety testing. We can coordinate testing in all the areas mentioned. TRaC has the expertise in the fields of CE marking and Military and Aerospace approvals to be able to advise you on how the requirements interface with one another.

Flexibility - Our engineers have the expertise and experience to assist with budgetary and project scheduling. You can trust our skilled engineers to provide you with a more efficient way to address regulatory requirements. Extended 24 hour days can be organised to help meet strict deadlines.

Confidentiality - In the highly specialist areas of Military and Aerospace EMC, our secure test facilities are and approved under Section 5 of the Firearms Act. Our engineers are Security Cleared and customer focused. We take pride in assuring the confidentiality of your business.

TRaC can easily identify which range of standard tests exist which must be passed by equipment if it is to fulfil the requirements placed upon it. We will work provide relevant documentation to help identify the cost effective route to compliance, and demonstrate test standards and limits.

Technical file Documentation

TRaC provides accurate test procedures, plans and test reports that ensure your tests are correctly performed and documented. Our Test reports are recognised worldwide, our test reports clearly define the results through the use of text, photos, diagrams and data.

Consultancy

TRaC can provide direct technical support to assist in developing your product to meet regulatory specifications. Early consultation with TRaC will ensure you have accurate cost and timing estimates. At this stage we can help you plan the most cost-effective and timely test programme for your product. Planning for conformance testing will not only help you reduce the overall cost and testing time.

We can easily identify which range of tests exists that must be passed by your equipment if it is to fulfil the requirements placed upon it.