Messier-Bugatti

Safran Group

Address: Vélizy-Villacoublay-F, France
Website of Messier-Bugatti: www.messier-bugatti.com
Website of Safran group: www.safran-group.com

General Information

Safran Group:

SAFRAN is an international high-tech group with four business branches: Aerospace Propulsion, Aircraft Equipment, Defense Security and Communications. It has 56,000 employees in over 30 countries and annual sales exceeding 10 billion euros. SAFRAN comprises a number of companies with prestigious brand names and holds, alone in partnership, global or european leadership positions in all of its markets.

Messier-Bugatti:

Profile:

• Wheels and Carbon Brakes. (57%)
• Braking Control Systems & L/G Monitoring systems. (25%)
• Electro-Hydraulic and Electro-Mechanical systems. (16%)
• Carbon brake disks for Formula One racing cars. (2%)

Carbon Brakes:

• 250 customer airlines
• 2 500 aircraft in service
• 37% of world market
• Commercial and business aircraft (Airbus, Boeing, Falcon, ATR)
• Military aircraft (Boeing, Dassault Aviation, EADS-CASA)

Industrial excellence:

• Two carbon disk production plants:
Villeurbanne (Lyon) in France
A-Carb in the USA
• Two carbon disk refurbishment facilities:
Molsheim (Strasbourg) in France
A-Carb in the USA
• Wheels and brakes production plant:
Molsheim, France
• MRO network in Europe, Asia and the United States (Messier-Bugatti-Tracer in Miami FL and Milwaukee,WI)
• Worldwide customer support and AOG Service

Role in DRESS

• System specialist for nose wheel steering system.
• Coordinator of the project
• Sub project leader for WP100, WP300, WP700.
• Task Leader for:
WP110, WP120 (Management & Dissemination)
WP 220 (Detailed system specification)
WP310 (System Architecture studies)
WP340 (Shimmy damping control)
WP530 (System nodes, RDC)
WP630 (System integration)
WP 730 (System evaluation)
• Participant in several WP