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Triumph Group, Inc.

Triumph Aerostructures - Vought Aircraft Division

Triumph Aerospace is an industry leader in the engineering and manufacture of complex aerospace hardware and prototype systems for ground and flight test applications. Our engineers, scientists, and skilled craftsman provide design, analysis, machining, fabrication, instrumentation, assembly, and test support of high quality, complex test and developmental systems to customers worldwide.

Areas of expertise include:

Aerospace Systems
We have a long-standing reputation for providing high quality sub-scale through full-scale test articles and flight-qualified components and systems for a variety of aerospace programs.

Propulsion Systems
Triumph designs, manufactures, instruments, and assembles complex aero-propulsion test hardware and prototypes, from inlet to exhaust systems.

Engineering
Our engineers oversee in-house projects from concept to delivery, communicating closely with all departments throughout the cycle of the program. In this way, we are able to keep projects on schedule and avoid costly errors before they occur.
We offer full CAD capability in Unigraphics, ProE and CATIA, and we use MSC/NASTRAN, and ANSYS to perform detailed finite element analyses for static and dynamic stresses, thermal characteristics, modal analyses, and aeroelastic assessment.
Our primary CAD/CAM system is Unigraphics version 18. We also work in ProE version 2001 and CATIA version 4.2.2. We normally convert ProE and CATIA files to Unigraphics for CAM activities to support these CAD systems. We presently have 42 seats of Unigraphics, 5 of ProE and 2 of CATIA. We routinely send and receive complex CAD data in a variety of formats including IGES and STEP files.

Systems Engineering
Design integration and execution of complex systems requires the formal discipline and process offered by Triumph's systems engineering competency. This competency ensures completion of a careful requirements capture process and build-up of verification elements. Our methods have streamlined the design process, while a formal Risk Management implementation properly focuses discretionary resources on mission critical elements.

Mechanical Engineering, Design and Analysis
Our engineers and designers are well-versed in the development of integrated aerospace & propulsion test rig hardware systems. In support of the engineering design process, our analyst provide detailed assessments of systems structural and thermal properties.

Instrumentation Engineering
Using CAD programming we determine the optimum placement of instrumentation sensors, rakes and data-acquisition packages.

Manufacturing / Fabrication
Triumphsupports its engineering expertise with fabrication, instrumentation and assembly expertise in manufacturing for customized solutions of complex components, assemblies and integrated systems. Typically, Triumph's customers need custom prototypes or a limited production run of a component to meet a larger development project specification. We are recognized for the speed with which it can transfer a customer requirement into a low-cost solution.

Fabrication
Triumph's composite team is highly experienced in working with fiberglass, graphite and Kevlar materials to fabricate custom composite structures for ground test and flight applications:

Instrumentation
As part of its fabrication and assembly offerings, Triumph Aerospace builds and routes complex instrumentation that includes rakes and probes, strain gages, thermocouples accelerometers, and other types of sensors. This activity requires a high skill level to ensure that the instrumentation operates reliably manner throughout the life of the test program. Quality Assurance Triumph Aerospace uses a formal ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system to control all processes and verify compliance of raw materials, fasteners, and finished parts to customer specifications, tolerances, and requirements. Our quality assurance personnel utilize a variety of height gages, calipers, optical comparators, and sophisticated, state-of-the-art coordinate measuring machines to determine actual part geometries and compliance with the defining drawing or CAD model.