Legacy ATE Recovery & Reverse Engineering
Brought in to recover an automatic test equipment programme for Safran — a global leader in aerospace, defence and security — where critical test capability depended on ageing legacy systems.
The Challenge
Critical automatic test equipment depended on legacy systems whose original tooling, documentation and institutional knowledge had eroded over time.
When the systems that validate flight-critical hardware are themselves legacy, every hour without recovery increases risk. The programme needed compliant, commercial recovery before it was too late — not a ground-up rewrite.
What We Did
Working from the running equipment back to first principles - so the recovered systems could be validated against their true requirements rather than assumptions.
Reverse Engineering of Legacy Systems
Working from the live hardware and code back to a clear understanding of how each element behaved and why — recovering knowledge the available documentation no longer held.
Specification Analysis
Detailed reading of the original specifications, reconciling what was documented against what had actually been built — establishing a trusted baseline for validation.
Recovery Within Constraints
Delivery planned around the programme’s real commercial position — remaining budget, hard targets and stakeholder expectations — not an idealised restart.
A critical programme going off course?
We recover legacy and distressed projects commercially - analysing what exists, reconciling it against specification, and delivering within the budget that remains. Let’s talk before it’s too late.
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