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Certification Services
Marinvent's unique set of expertise can help you with any or all parts of the certification process, from
conceptualizing, to actual certification/flight test and acceptance by certification authorities.
Marinvent has worked on successful certification projects with Canada's Transport Canada Certification
Authority, the United States Federal Aviation Authority, and Europe's Joint Aviation Authority.
With multiple Canadian Design Approval Representatives (DARs) on staff, Marinvent can help you through
the process of certifying your products.
In addition to our unique staff, Marinvent also posesses two unique flying test beds, a Piaggio Avanti and
Piper Cheyenne. Both aircraft are equipped with state-of-the-art avionics, cameras, data aquisition systems,
and systems flight test capabilities to help companies get their products installed, tested.
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read more about these unique flight test aircraft.
Below are the phases of a typical certification project.
Click on a phase below to learn more about Marinvent's experience.
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Marinvent staff have participated in numerous systems engineering projects, ranging from an aeronautical
hand-held calculator to crew station evaluations for the International Space Station Program. The company
specializes in rapid prototyping for human factors optimization.
We can help you define concepts for certified or initial product development, and help you develop
the following for your project:
- Concept of use (COU)
- Task analysis
- Human factors
- Simulation (design, test)
- Rapid prototyping
By utilizing Marinvent's engineering simulator, we can help cut down on costs for creating new display
or hardware concepts for the cockpit. Marinvent simulator simulates the data, but not the data busses and power.
The simulator provides 28V aircraft power, and virtually any type of data bus you might need. Access to
state of the art CPUs provides all the power necessary to create new display prototypes or display concepts
and fly them around for proof of concept.
Need to do a flying demonstration of your concept? Do you want to show your concept to the press or VIPs?
Marinvent's unique flight test platforms are commercial, not experiemental, so we can fly VIPs without experimental flight
restrictions. Display your proof of concept displays in our glass cockpit for on the co-pilot side
of our aircraft so that VIPs can see it in action.
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We have an experienced team with military, space, and civil aviation background ready to help you
develop your project or system requirements. Marinvent has developed requirements for projects like the
NASA AGATE next generation cockpit, aviation charting, avionics software, and cockpits.
We can create requirements for:
- Systems
- Safety (and assessments)
- Software
- Hardware
- Human-machine interfaces (human factors)
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Marinvent has designed software and interfaces for applications such as Jeppesen's JeppView™
and JeppView FliteDeck. In fact, the original vertical tabbed design of the first version of JeppView has been
widely adopted by software and hardware manufacturers of EFBs.
Marinvent has experts who can help you develop system, software, hardware, and interface design for
cockpits, machines, GUIs, APIs, and more.
What design can we help you with?
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Marinvent's software engineering experts can implement certified code for embedded systems and applications
compliant with RTCA DO-178B for avionics, GUIs, APIs, EFBs, or desktop systems.
Marinvent invented the world-wide standard for electronic charting now owned by Jeppesen. In 1999 Marinvent
certified this cross-platform vector graphics software, which became a part of Universal Avionics Systems
Corporation's UNS-1B product. Jeppesen/Boeing subsequently purchased the software in 2002. You can see
this DO-178B Level C certified software running on just about every major avionics manufacturer's avionics
displaying terminal charts from UASC, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, Avidyne, and Garmin.
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With our team of DARs on staff and verification experts, Marinvent can help you test from low level software to
avionics and systems flight testing.
Marinvent can save you time and money by using our engineering simulator to perform integration testing or
pre-flight testing with real aircraft power and data. The simulator provides the identical data as our
flight test aircraft. This means you can test your avionics or systems on the ground with real data, all without
the cost of flying an aircraft.
Once your system is ready for flight testing, it can be easily installed in our flight test platforms. Our
aircraft have multiple cameras that record what's happening in the cockpit, how pilots are using your system,
will full audio and data overlays. Aircraft data, cockpit audio and video can all be monitored from our custom
workstation. All aircraft data from a flight test including the video is digitally recorded for easy post
processing.
More on Flight Testing
More on our Simulator
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Marinvent has run numerous certification programs ranging from simple GPS installations, software certification,
to full cockpit re-builds. What makes Marinvent unique is our expertise in running
certification programs and working with the certification authorities (TCCA, FAA, JAA). We run our certification
programs tightly and efficiently - working with the authorities and planning ahead so that work is completed on
schedule.
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... to a full UASC glass cockpit.
From a two tube EFIS, MX20 panel...