Not all organisations have the luxury of on-staff designated engineering representatives (DERs) to assist the development team with proper process, documentation, and traceability. If your organisation is like most, your standards compliance process to achieve FAA or EASA certification is in large part a manual and tedious process.
Challenges to stringent FAA and EASA certification
- You may be required to comply to multiple standards with complicated guidance, not just DO-178B/C, DO-278A, and DO-254
- The development process must be consistent, repeatable, and transparent
- Product development is open to oversight at any time, and production of hard-copy compliance data is expensive and time consuming
- Applicants must show independence according to design assurance level (DAL), providing evidence that verification activities are performed by a verification tool or an engineer other than the originating engineer
- Programs can expect four to eight major audits, and compliance data must be produced and archived for each audit
- Applicants must not only contend with complicated standards, they must also contend with complicated regulators
Certification & Regulatory Support from LDRA
- LDRA Certification Services (LCS) provides comprehensive support for certification to commercial aviation standards and conformance to the FACE Technical Standard
- LDRA Compliance Management System (LCMS) is a cloud-based or locally hosted compliance management server for ARP 4754A, ARP 4761 and DO-297 applicants as well as DO-178B/C/DO-278A and DO-254 applicants
- A Tool Qualification Support Pack (TQSP) supports your process of qualifying the LDRA tool suite for use as a verification tool in your project environment
- LDRA Testbed with TBvision is the static analysis engine and graphical interface that enforces compliance with stringent coding standards
- LDRA TBvision also provides critical support for Data Coupling and Control Coupling that complies DO-178C objectives
- TBmanager is a role-based requirements management tool that lets teams work on individual activities and link models and source code back to low-level requirements
- The TBobjectbox module adds object code verification required for Level A software
LDRA offers comprehensive and fully compliant FAA/EASA certification services and FACE Verification Authority services.
These services are performed by our on-staff team of certification industry experts, including Level A DERs, who are credentialed across all aviation disciplines and approved by the FACE Consortium.
The LDRA Certification Services (LCS) team is also aligned with development and verification specialists who use the LDRA tool suite and other complementary tools to accomplish the activities that get your products ready for certification. In addition, the LDRA Compliance Management System (LCMS) helps you develop the infrastructure to become compliant to ARP 4754A, ARP 4761 and DO-297 as well as DO-178B/C, DO-278A, and DO-254 standards, whether you have a DER on staff, a consulting DER, or leverage our certification services.
