Elma Electronic UK LTD

Elma Electronic designs and manufactures high-speed backplanes, rugged electronics enclosures, embedded hardware, and integrated subsystems following a modular open systems approach using OpenVPX, SOSA™ open standards. A leading participant in and contributor to major open standards efforts, our products align with OpenVPX, SOSA™, PICMG and emerging small form factor (SFF) standards like VNX+. Our long-term relationships with customers and partners span decades and are built on delivering highly reliable next generation computing platforms for a wide range of Aerospace and Defence applications including: C4ISR, SIGINT, EW, CEMA, Artificial Intelligence, CUAS and many more.

The company also offers a range of rotary and encoded switch products used in two-way radio & vehicle communication systems, weapon sights, and thermal imaging systems.

Elma has a global footprint but dedicated local Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Project Management out of our Bedford, UK facility which is ideally located to support UK customers working on long-term complex defence projects.

Company Certifications:

• ISO 9001:2015
• EN9100:2018
• Cyber Essentials Plus
• Joscar

Domains:

Our products are in service across a large number of platforms spanning Land, Sea, and Air, many of which are being supported with long-term support contracts for repairs, upgrades, mid-life upgrades, and technology refresh/insertion.

Compliance:

Designing products to withstand some of the words harshest environments involves experienced engineers working with the latest design tools backed by in-house verification prior to embarking on formal qualification and certification at a UKAS accredited facility.  This is all included in the product development cycle at Elma utilising the following:

Design Tools:

•            PTC Creo 10 (Pro-Engineer)

•            WindChill

•            Computamation Vutrax

•            Mentor Expedition

•            Altium Designer

•            Simcenter Flotherm

•            T-Cubed Systems RelCalc

•            Microsoft Dynamics AX

Test And Verification Tools:

•            Laplace Instruments Conducted and Radiated Emission EMC Measurement

•            ACS Discovery Climatic Chambers

•            Cambridge AccuSense Airflow and Temperature Measurement

•            Acoustic Noise Measurement

•            Portable Appliance Test and Measurement

Design Standards:

•            Def Stan 59-411 (EMC)

•            Def Stan 61-5 (Power Systems)                                              

•            Mil Std 461 (EMC)

•            Mil Std 1275 (Power Systems)

•            Def Stan 00-35 (Environmental)

•            Mil Std 810 (Environmental)

•            CE Marking (Safety / RoHS / EMC)

Customer Engagement:

Elma’s engagement with customers typically starts at the proof-of-concept stage with the supply of development platforms for use in the lab supporting software development.  The company has a vast range of “off the shelf” chassis and test racks that can be easily configured to meet the customers need for early product development. Migration from lab-based systems to fully certified deployable hardware is where Elma excels bringing products to market quickly and cost effectively.

If you need to package COTS equipment or process data in deployed applications, please contact us to learn more about how we can support your upcoming requirements.