Controlled design
Every product starts from a specification, passes design and qualification reviews, and leaves with a frozen definition: drawing, bill-of-materials and software indices. A change gives a new index, never a silent modification.
// CERTIFICATION & QUALITY
Certified to aerospace standards.
Quality is engineered into every ETEP product — from design and production to in-house qualification testing.
EN 9100
v2018 · CERTIFIED 2023
The aerospace quality management standard, reinforcing rigorous process control across the full product range.
Download certificate (PDF)ISO 9001
v2015 · CERTIFIED SINCE 2005
The international quality management standard ETEP has maintained for two decades of continuous improvement.
Download certificate (PDF)NATO NCAGE
CODE F9281
Registered NATO Commercial and Government Entity code, identifying ETEP as a qualified defense supplier.
// IN-HOUSE TEST LAB · SINCE 2020
Qualified on our own equipment.
A complete environmental test laboratory on premises lets ETEP qualify every product — climate, vibration, shock and EMC, right up to crash-recorder fire survival — without depending on external schedules.
01 Climatic chamber — DO-160G temperature cycling, down to low-temperature operation
02 Electrodynamic shaker — vibration profiles, operating & crash shocks, axis by axis
03 EMC anechoic chamber — radiated emissions and immunity testing (DO-160)
04 Units powered and recording live throughout every test run
05 Calibrated instrumentation, verified by an accredited metrology laboratory
// WHAT THE CERTIFICATE COVERS
A quality system built for airborne equipment.
EN 9100 is the aerospace declination of ISO 9001. It adds what matters for equipment that flies: configuration management, control of suppliers, prevention of counterfeit parts, traceability of every unit. The certificate is renewed through third-party audits; the current one is downloadable above.
Configuration management
A commercial reference describes one precise configuration, down to the channel count and the cartridge options. What changes the way a product is ordered or operated is published as a product notice, dated, on the Support page.
Traceability by serial number
Each delivered unit carries a serial number that links it to its configuration, its acceptance tests and its warranty. It is what makes in-service follow-up, repairs and calibration possible twenty years later.
Suppliers and components
Critical components come from evaluated suppliers. EN 9100 requires the prevention of counterfeit parts and the watch on obsolescence; both are handled at component selection, not discovered at repair time.
// HOW WE QUALIFY
Qualified means demonstrated, test by test.
A product is qualified when it has shown, in a test chamber and on a shaker, that it holds the environment printed on its datasheet. We apply DO-160 in its edition G, whatever edition a specification quotes, and MIL-STD-810 methods for the programmes that require them.
An explicit qualification form
Each DO-160 qualification is summarised in the standard’s environmental qualification form: section by section, the category demonstrated is declared, and what was not demonstrated is written as such. No grey area for the airworthiness office.
Powered and recording
Units are powered and recording throughout climatic, vibration and shock tests. A recorder that restarts has not passed; we know because the data is replayed after every run.
EMC and power quality
Radiated and conducted emissions and immunity are tested in our anechoic chamber to DO-160 sections 20 and 21 or MIL-STD-461; 28 V products are tested for MIL-STD-704 power quality, including transients and interruptions.
Similarity declared, not assumed
When a variant reuses a qualified product, the form, fit, function and qualification equivalence is the object of a signed statement of similarity, which also says what differs.
// THE EVIDENCE WE SHARE
Qualification you can verify.
A qualification is only worth what you can check. This is what exists for each product, and how to obtain it.
These documents also describe our customers’ programmes. They are shared under confidentiality agreement, stripped of anything that belongs to another programme, and never quoted from one customer to another.
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Qualification test reports
The full report, applied levels and measured results, for the tests run in-house and for those entrusted to a third-party laboratory.
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Declaration of design and performance
The document that states what the product does and what it withstands, with the environmental categories demonstrated.
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Acceptance test reports
Every delivered unit is tested before shipment; the report follows its serial number and comes with the delivery.
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Reliability prediction
A computed MTBF per product under a stated environment, on request, to size spares and compare designs.
- Warranty
- 2 years
- Systems tracked in service
- 1,100+
- DO-160 edition applied
- G
- ISO 9001 · lab · EN 9100
- 2005 · 2020 · 2023
A qualification file to assemble?
Tell us the platform and the specification: we say what is already demonstrated, what a statement of similarity covers, and what a test campaign would add.
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