Design Capabilities

We perform design, modelling and testing of safety critical, fully packaged circuitry for control and initiation of detonators.

• Design and testing of high reliability, IM compliant detonators
• Design in accordance with DEF STAN 59-114, STANAG 4187 and MIL-STD 1316
  
• Comprehensive documentation to support type qualification and the unit safety case
  
• Reliability analysis using MIL-STD-217or FIDES
• High speed electronic circuit s​imulation (ORCAD, PSPICE)
• Finite element analysis using ANSYS (mechanical, vibration, thermal)
• Design, synthesis and simulation of FPGAs
  
• Full time safety management

Manufacturing and Test Capabilities

Teledyne Energetics' UK facility in Lincoln is licensed to store and test explosives and is approved to BS-EN-ISO 9001:2015,  BS-EN-ISO 14001:2015, and BS-EN-ISO45001:2018.

• All operators are J-STD 001. Soldering and all products are inspected to IPC-A-610 (class 3).
• The facility is ESD compliant in accordance with BS EN 61340-5-1:2016.
• Facility is fully equipped to manufacture, test, and validate explosively filled initiation units including shock, vibration, humidity, temperature, and pressure and acceleration test equipment.

Special to Type and Support Services

• Trials support services: on-site and in-field test support. Teledyne Energetics
  UK also develop special to type variants including:
• Instrumented hardware
• Telemetry substituting the HV output with telemetry pulse
• Detonator firing systems
• Design and support of trials equipment for qualification testing
  
• Surveillance life testing ongoing obsolescence management