The Thales Project

Involved in a project for Thales are both GPV Electronics and Mechanics with GPV Electronics Aars, Denmark as the project's governing party.

A project team is set up for each of the plants with a project manager in charge as collaboration across sites works perfectly.

Thales is a Dutch company that specializes in radar equipment for military use. The Danish Navy is at the Odense Steel Shipyard building 3 patrol ships for which the Thales radar systems are meant.

The patrol ships will be finished in 2010, 2011 and 2012, meaning this is a project with a long duration. GPV will deliver the last part of the order in 2011.

The order consists of 7 different cabinets with communication electronics, and 384 so-called Column Assemblies, which is part of the radar module itself. In addition comes the delivery of the mechanical framework to APAR antenna (Antenna Frame). Each ship is provided with two different radar systems.

One of the radar systems is a non-rotating multifunction radar (APAR) guiding missiles against any enemy weapon launched against the ship. The second system (SMART-L) is a multifunction 3D radar that can detect objects at a distance of 1000 km and is able to see a topic about the size of a tennis ball 400 km away.
 

For GPV the order means a project with approx. 16.000 items being divided among more than 1300 part lists. These are covering topics ranging from Antenna Frame, a mechanical precision assembly of 2x2 m with a tolerance of the plan of 0.05 mm, with printed circuit board with embedded components being installed in a newly built clean room in Aars, climate controlled to observe the accuracy.




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