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