Walk into almost any depot or manufacturing floor supporting a legacy aircraft program, and you'll find at least one test rig that's been running longer than.
If you've ever opened one of our test cabinets, the first thing you probably noticed wasn't a tangle of one-off wiring. It was a chassis. A single, dense enclosure doing the work that used to take a bench full of separate boxes. That's the PXI.
Budgets are up. Backlogs are historic. Modernization is everywhere you look. If you spend any time in aerospace and defense circles right now, you've heard some version of that story more than once.
Every aerospace and defense prime faces similar problems, whether they say it out loud or not: engineering talent is scarce, program timelines don't move, and internal manufacturing floors can only stretch so far.
Much like Elvis at one point, the term “PXI” is everywhere in aerospace and defense test. It shows up in program specs, drawing packages, and procure conversations as if everyone already.
Three terms used almost interchangeably...and three very different pieces of equipment.
Ball Systems creates, develops, and delivers custom test systems and produces comprehensive build-to-print systems for companies that craft or manufacture critical electronic or electromechanical components for aerospace and defense, automotive, and consumer appliance applications.
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