SYSTEM ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIESAND SERVICES (PTY.) LTD. (SETS)

• SETS is a consulting company who fulfil the role of System Engineers and Project Managers in a complex system development environment

• Scalable consultancy services - ranging from assistance / guidance to extant engineering teams through to complete turnkey solutions

• Founded: 10th May 1979• Proven track record across Air, Land and Sea Environments

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SETS• SETS core competencies reside in the extensive background of the two

founding company Directors• SETS encompasses the following skills and techniques:

• System Engineering:• Baseline Management:

• Requirements Baseline (RBL)• Functional Baseline (FBL)• Allocated Baseline (ABL)• Product Baseline (PBL)• Manufacturing Baseline (MBL)• Utilisation of DOORS requirements traceability software.

• Configuration Management • Domain Expertise

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SETS• MIL-STD-490A Type A system specification generation• MIL-STD-490A Type B development specification generation• System Engineering and design documents (MIL-961D)• Conducting design reviews (i.a.w MIL-STD-1521B), including:• System Requirements Review (SRR)• System Design Review (SDR)• Preliminary Design Review (PDR)• Critical Design Review (CDR)• Physical Configuration Audit (PCA)• Functional Configuration Audit (FCA)• Production Readiness review (PRR)

• Interface Control specification generation and management• Man Machine Interface (MMI) guidance• System Integration• Performing Trade-Off /Cost Benefit studies

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SETS• Technical Performance Measurement (TPM)• Generation and Management of:

• Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP)• Acceptance Test Specification (ATS)

• Test Planning and Management• Industrialisation• Customer Requirements Analysis (Expert choice

2000, Non Linear optimisation techniques, “Cost as an Independent Variable” analysis)

• Design for safety from system architecture down to detail design-SAE ARP 4745

• Aircrew operating conditions

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• IT• The full office suite• Matlab modelling tools• Pro Engineer CAD package

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• Programme / Project Management:• Building on decades of experience, SETS possesses a strong planning

capability and gets things done properly, on schedule and within budget• We report to all levels of Management regarding: Technical , Schedule and

Financial performance of a project• USA methodologies• Integrated Product Teams (IPT)• Scrum techniques• Risk Management:

• Technical risk• Schedule risk• Financial risk

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• Integration and Testing• Hardware test jigs and software• Integration bench design• Integration rig test procedure development. Manual and semi automatic testing.• Automated Interface Control and AOD based testing tools.• Bench (rig) tests• Ground and flight tests (Requirements, planning and execution).• MIL, FAR/JAR 23, 25 and 27• Field, flight and sea trials

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• SETS skills and techniques were developed over a number of different projects. These included:• Programme Management of an Air-Ground-Air (military RF communications)

system (Nov 85 to Aug 87)• Daphne class submarine external communication system mid life upgrade

(Sep 87 to Oct 88) • Development management of the Rooivalk combat support helicopter

weapon system (Nov 88 to Nov 90)• Management of all programmes existent in the Precision Products Group

(PPG) of Kentron (now Denel Dynamics) (Dec 90 to Nov 92)• Development of a primary stabilised (azimuth and elevation) sighting system

for deployment on the Russian T72 MBT (Dec 92 to Feb 94)

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• Management of the Armour engineering functional area of Lyttelton Engineering Works (LIW) (now Denel Land Systems – DLS) (Dec 94 to Jun 99)

• Cheetah fighter. Airborne tactical awareness data system (Jan 98 to Aug 98)• MAKO LCA. Design and specification of mission system suite (Jan 99 to Jun 01)• C130. Mission planning system software upgrade (Feb 99 to Jul 99)• Mirage 3 fighter. Missile and HUDWAC upgrade project (Mar 99 to Dec 99 )• Zeppelin Airship Certification of Avionics and Electrical System (Jan 01 to Dec 02)• Procurement of a R1 000 000 000 contract for Umkhonto Surface to Air Missiles for

Kentron from the Finnish Navy (Aug 01 to Apr 06)• Nordic NH90. Command and Control System (Jan 03 to Dec 04)• Augusta A109E Communication and radio navigation system (Feb 03 to Dec 06) • Development management of the ATES programme (May 06 to Apr 08) • Technical management of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle division–Project Vulture at

ATE now PAT (May 08 to Feb 09)

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• Level 5 System Engineering for the Missile Variant of the Hoefyster programme as well as Project Manager for the same project (Mar 09 to Jun 12)

• Level 5 System Engineering for the all of the training simulators for all of the variants of the Hoefyster programme (5 different variants) as well as Project Manager for the same project (Mar 09 to Jun 12)

• Project management of the development of a strap on weapon system for the Light Attack Helicopter (LAH) of a Far Eastern client (Feb 13 to July 13)

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• Through Armscor to the SA Navy• Through Armscor to the SA Air Force• Through Armscor to the SA Army• Armscor Industry Establishment• Houwteq• Bumar Labendi of Poland• Pakistan Army• Norinco of China• Airbus• SAAB Tech• Zeppelin Luftshifftechnik GMBH

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• Denel Aviation• Denel DATAM• Denel Airmotive• Denel Vektor• Denel Cumulus• EADS (Military Aircraft)• Grintek Avitronics• Grintek Communication Systems• Gauteng SAPS

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• Tim Willmot• +27 (0) 83 325 4143• tim@sets.co.za• www.sets.co.za (currently under construction)

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