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Aeronautic

Commit to the aeronautics of tomorrow by combining safety and ecological transition through innovation

 

Guarantee an optimal level of safety for the entire civil and military aviation ecosystem.
The aeronautical world has been hit hard by the crisis, Apave is supporting the recovery, which will involve risk management, performance improvement, respect for the environment, and innovation. 

Apave and its experts can help you manage your risks on a daily basis.

Your challenges related

to risk management

Human Risk Picto Your challenges related to human risks

  • Security
  • The safety of personnel, passengers and persons overflown
  • The skill of your staff and their qualifications with the development of the most advanced training

 

Technic Risk Your challenges related to technical risks

  • The highest level of safety for materials and equipment used
  • Improving the service life of your equipment
  • Equipment qualification
  • Continuous control of process and product quality

 

Environmental Risk Your challenges related to environmental risks

  • Technical and technological innovations to limit your carbon footprint

 

Technologic Risk Your challenges related to Digital and Technological risks

  • Using Big Data resources to target risk-based observation (RBO) or to optimise performance of the equipment produced (aeroplanes, helicopters, aircraft, etc.), use of artificial intelligence for piloting
  • Operational excellence incorporating your technological innovations
  • Optimising your cyber security to preserve data integrity
  • Prevention of obsolescence of your IT and digital equipment

 

Financial Risk Your financial risk issues

  • The competitiveness of your organisation by controlling your management system
  • The performance of your organisation, your resources and your procedures

 

Regulatory Risk Your challenges related to the risks of regulatory non-compliance

  • Regulatory monitoring
  • Understanding the regulations through training and support for staff

 

By controlling all these risks, businesses in the transport sector will be able to develop new, more environmentally-friendly and more decarbonised systems worldwide, to contribute to tomorrow's world.

 

NO SAFETY, NO SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS

The complete Apave offer

to meet your challenges

Trusted third-party partners, Apave experts are positioned alongside businesses in your sector to help them face their challenges safely:

  • Contributing to your technological innovation projects by providing comprehensive support from the technical design phase to the training of teams and the tests/measurements
  • Safely supporting your routine operation by preventing risk for your customers and employees and ensuring that your activities comply with European regulations or your specifications
  • Certify your activities (organisation, processes, skills)
  • Testing the resistance of your industrial equipment
  • Ensuring the security and safety of your sites

Did you know?

OSAC is accredited by COFRAC as a Quality Management Systems Certification Body according to ISO 9001, EN 9100 and EN 9120.
Accreditation N°4-0605 scope available on www.cofrac.fr

Apave and The Bourget Air Show

an enduring relationship

An undisputed showcase for the aeronautics industry and its players, the SIAE welcomes numerous companies from the sector and service providers from the world of aeronautics. A place of opportunities and meetings, the Show is an opportunity for Apave to meet its partners, customers and peers, to convey the importance of safety in this sector.

Apave has been present at Le Bourget for many years to meet its customers and showcase its offerings, which evolve in line with the needs of the aeronautics sector.

From support and training to cybersecurity, the development of innovative tools for air safety and testing, Apave is there for all its aeronautical partners (aircraft and equipment manufacturers, civil and military authorities, aircraft operators and airports).

 

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You are

an aeronautics or aerospace companies

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An aircraft being checked in a hangar

Apave offers dedicated services through its subsidiary Sopemea, which has developed real expertise in tests and measurements for the qualification of structures, materials, systems and subsystems. Through its subsidiaries OSAC and Apave Certification, you will be able to meet the specific certification challenges of this sector:

   

Optimising qualification

  • Definition of equipment qualification programmes: definition of the environment, qualification and testing strategy
  • Carrying out vibration, climatic, EMC, hydraulic and electrical tests, on-site measurements, CE marking and qualification of ABD0100 and DO-160 standards

 

Obtaining the quality passport for the aeronautical sector

  • EN 9100 certification: audit of the company's quality management system and verification of its compliance with the requirements of the international aeronautical standard EN 9100,  through our subsidiaries OSAC and Apave Certification.

 

Supporting your development by ensuring equipment compliance

  • Assistance in the design phase through to the commissioning of equipment
  • Supplier qualification, NDT, suitability tests, compliance diagnostics, approval of packaging for the transport of dangerous goods, etc.

 

Improving operational safety

  • Reliability analyses, preliminary risk analyses to optimise the operation of production systems and processes

downloadSee our product sheet for manufacturers and equipment suppliers

You are a

Civil or Military Authority

OSAC, a subsidiary of the Apave Group, is authorised by ministerial decree to carry out civil aviation technical inspections. As part of the Authority, OSAC issues, monitors, suspends or withdraws approvals of production, maintenance and maintenance training organisations, aircraft airworthiness documents and aircraft mechanics' licences.

  

Strengthening oversight

  • Recommendations and monitoring of certifications: organisations / documents / products / persons...

 

Structuring organisations

  • Support for the State Security Plan (PSE), improvement of regulations, implementation of methods and procedures, staff training

downloadSee our product sheet for civil and military authorities

You are

Aircraft Operators

Apave offers dedicated services through its subsidiary Apave Aeroservices, which specialises in meeting the specific consulting, expertise and training needs of industry, aviation authorities and charterers, particularly in the field of safety, maintenance, airworthiness and aircraft operations.

  

Improving safety and performance

  • Operational audits, aircraft inspections and organisational consulting
  • Certidrones®: An air and ground risk assessment methodology to evaluate the safety of drone operations. downloadDownload the brochure

 

Supervising maintenance

  • Asset management, maintenance planning and control, organisational consulting

downloadSee our product sheet for aircraft operators

You are an

Airport

Strengthening surveillance

  • Recommendations and monitoring of certifications: organisations / documents / products / people...

 

Structuring organisations

  • Support for the State Security Plan (PSE), improvement of regulations, implementation of methods and procedures, staff training

 

Optimising airport security

  • Compliance with specific aviation regulatory requirements, optimisation of the organisation, integration of national and international security regulations and training of personnel.
    security regulations and staff training

 

Supervising maintenance

  • Asset management, maintenance planning and control, organisational consulting

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specialised in aeronautics

Subsidiary
aeronautique
OSAC
Air safety control missions
Subsidiary
aeronautique
OSAC
Air safety control missions

A subsidiary of the Apave Group, is authorised since 2010 by ministerial order to carry out airworthiness oversight in civil aviation.
As part of the Authority, OSAC issues, monitors, suspends or withdraws approvals of production, maintenance, continuing airworthiness management and maintenance training organisations, as well as aircraft airworthiness documents and aircraft mechanics' licences.
With the agreement of the DGCA, OSAC provides paid inspection and support services to civil and military authorities and certification services to private companies in accordance with ISO 9001, EN 9100 and EN 9120 standards.

 

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Subsidiary
Logo Apave Aeroservices
Apave Aeroservices
Risk and safety management solutions to the civil and military Aviation community
Subsidiary
Logo Apave Aeroservices
Apave Aeroservices
Risk and safety management solutions to the civil and military Aviation community

A subsidiary of the Apave group, provides auditing, consulting and project management services in the civil and military aviation sector to improve risk management.

Missions are to work on raising aviation safety standards and efficiency, support customers getting aligned with international aviation standards, improving the performance of their organization, improving the efficiency of their Safety Management Systems and developing the expertise of their personnel.

 

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Subsidiary
Aeronautique
Camas formation
Airport training specialist
Subsidiary
Aeronautique
Camas formation
Airport training specialist

Leader in airport training, it is 30 training centres in France and abroad with a strong presence in airports: Roissy Charles de Gaulle, Orly, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lille, Reunion, but also in South Africa, Ivory Coast, China, Bolivia, Morocco, .... 50,000 people are trained each year in IATA, ICAO, DGAC and SGS certified training courses, with e-learning and videolearning.

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Subsidiary
Transport
BVT
Specialist in dangerous goods training and laboratory testing
Subsidiary
Transport
BVT
Specialist in dangerous goods training and laboratory testing

BVT, an organisation approved by the national and international authorities in the field of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, offers you a complete range of training and laboratory testing services.

  • It is a test laboratory that allows packaging and its contents to be tested under real transport conditions.
  • It is also a training organisation for the transport of dangerous goods by air and the risks that may be associated with it, in the context of respect for employees and the environment. BVT is IATA - CBTA certified.

 

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Subsidiary
Test and measurement
Sopemea
Expertise in mechanical, climatic and electrical EMC testing and test engineering services
Subsidiary
Test and measurement
Sopemea
Expertise in mechanical, climatic and electrical EMC testing and test engineering services

Sopemea offers a range of qualification support and testing services for the Aerospace and Defence markets. Sopemea's laboratories are CIR, CII and COFRAC accredited, scope available on www.cofrac.fr - N°1-0090, N°1-0805, N°1-1787, N°1-6748, N°1-1479, N°1-6807, N°1-6808 (in France and UKAS in the UK). Sopemea offers its customers a wide range of testing services (climatic, hydraulic, vibration, EMC, earthquake simulations, etc.), as well as on-board or on-site measurements, numerical simulations of tests, maintenance of test facilities and training in testing.

 

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Subsidiary
Certification
Apave Certification
Recognised and independent (third party) certification engineering organisation
Subsidiary
Certification
Apave Certification
Recognised and independent (third party) certification engineering organisation

Apave Certification relies on a network of qualified internal and external auditors throughout France and abroad.

Apave Certification works on both voluntary and regulatory certifications.

Apave Certification's services are based on 5 major areas:

  • Management systems
  • Skills
  • Products
  • Services
  • Labels / Assessments

 

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Subsidiary
Digital
SixFoisSept
Company specialised in SmartData and artificial intelligence
Subsidiary
Digital
SixFoisSept
Company specialised in SmartData and artificial intelligence

SixFoisSept is a company specialised in DataScience and Artificial Intelligence for informed decisions. We design tools that remain simple to understand while taking full advantage of Machine Learning algorithms. SixFoisSept works with large groups in the health, insurance and aviation sectors, particularly in the context of risk-based monitoring RPBO/RBI.

 

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Decarbonizing air travel: it's already tomorrow

Air transport has long been innovating to reduce its CO2 emissions and its overall impact on the environment. A revolution is underway, marked by new aircraft, new ways of flying, and the arrival of green fuels.
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Why choose

Apave?

1

A comprehensive service

For each customer, we appoint a project manager and a multidisciplinary team to cover all aspects of your business as well as all impacts linked to risk management, offering efficient and pragmatic local support.
2

Shared values in a shared approach to progress

For a safer and more sustainable world: Our DNA brings a high level of technical capability by guaranteeing optimum project management taking account of your situation, aims and operational limitations, while also incorporating local regulatory requirements.
3

Expertise in your business activities

With our dedicated subsidiaries: Apave Aeroservices, BVT, OSAC, SixFoisSept and Sopemea.

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