Engineering

Spur’s extensive heritage and proven expertise in electronic component engineering provides our customers with unrivalled support at all levels of system integration and utilization.

The Engineering team at Spur Electron offers essential component engineering support, ranging from sourcing obsolete components, through high reliability procurement and screening, to full scale centralised procurement programme management.

The department has the ability and means to design, assemble, screen, test and deliver the full range of EEE components, and our laboratory can provide component analysis at any point from wafer fabrication to components in active field use.

Engineering Services Include:

• Qualification and Line Approval Qualification
  Providing full line set-up & qualification including:
  

  Environmental testing
  Micro-sectional analysis
  Report creation
  Report review
  Final Presentation and support during review by authorising authority

• Component Obsolescence Management
  Either by recommending available alternatives, locating redundant stock or by low volume assembly and test.
• World Wide Component Procurement
  Procurement on any scale, on all part types, in any quantity.
• Screening and Up-Screening
  (within maunfacturer’s tolerances) To improve user confidence.
• Re-Life
  After market screening and re-test required to re-validate old stock parts.
• Specifications
  Compiling component procurement specifications in ESCC,MIL, or customer format.
• Off Site Services
  Pre-Cap, Final Source Inspection, Buy-Off and Data Review.

Radiation Assessment:

• Evaluation of Requirements
  Assistance to customer in assessment of requirement specifications. Assist in formulation of appropriate response and preparation of radiation effects control plans.
• Testing
  Coordination and management of test programmes.
  • Total Ionizing Dose
  • Single Event Effects
  • Heavy ion, proton, neutron
  • Dose-Rate Effects
• Component Procurement
  Advice on selection of technologies and manufacturers. Advice on RVT requirements and preparation of test plans. Assessment of RVT results.
• Databases
  Assistance in development of project radiation effects databases. Evaluation of declared component lists against various data sources.
• Hardness Assurance
  Consultancy in all aspects of hardness assurance: plans, management, component selection, definition and implementation of countermeasures.