Success Stories

Dimac Red is Customer committed and focused on design-in activities.
Three significant examples in different markets and applications well describe the professional skills and collaboration of the Team.

Equipment Package to Alenia for EFA Programme

Eurofighter Typhoon, also known as EFA fighter is the world’s most advanced swing-role combat aircraft providing simultaneously deployable Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface capabilities. This aircraft is a twin-engine, canard–delta wing, multirole fighter, designed originally as an air superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH. 

Reliable partner for Space Market: SAR Lupe, for example

SAR-Lupe is Germany’s first reconnaissance satellite system and is used for military purposes. SAR is an abbreviation for synthetic aperture radar and “Lupe” is German for magnifying glass. The SAR-Lupe program consists of five identical (770 kg) satellites, developed by the German aeronautics company OHB-System with the important contribution of Carlo Gavazzi Spazio (CGS). The satellites are controlled by a ground station which is responsible for controlling the system and analysing the retrieved data. 

Dimac Red contributed to make a famous Super Car go Faster!

What sort of products or components or services were supplied by Dimac Red in order to improve the performance of a Lamborghini? Surprisingly, especially dealing with the flagship Aventador, it is neither a special turbine, nor an innovative injection system, nor an advanced microcontroller nor a sophisticated Software. It is a “Super Capacitor“!!

A Success Story

Equipment Package to Alenia for EFA Programme

Eurofighter Typhoon, also known as EFA fighter is the world’s most advanced swing-role combat aircraft providing simultaneously deployable Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface capabilities.
This aircraft is a twin-engine, canard–delta wing, multirole fighter, designed originally as an air superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH.
The aircraft’s development effectively began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a collaboration among multiple European Countries

Dimac Red has been part of the Supply chain of this fighter since the design phase. We supplied
components and sub-systems in every lot of production. The experts of Dimac Red has continuously
supported the Customers, members of the EFA holding company, in re-designs, fine tunings and components
deliveries. Their highly professional skills and customer commitment have been highly appreciated and
definitely helped EFA holding company to make this unprecedented challenge a success.
Dimac Red’s knowledgeable engineers supported the Customers in the Alenia equipment package:

FCC – Flight Control Computer
Computer Symbol Generator
Distribution Unit
LHGS (Left Hand Glean Shield)
Lighting Controller
Radar Altimeter
Captor

Even today, EFA fighter is in production and supplied to the Air Forces of multiple Countries in Europe and Middle East. Dimac Red is officially and actively continuing to support Customers.

A Success Story

Reliable partner for Space Market: SAR Lupe, for example

SAR-Lupe is Germany’s first reconnaissance satellite system and is used for military purposes. SAR is an abbreviation for synthetic aperture radar and “Lupe” is German for magnifying glass. The SAR-Lupe program consists of five identical (770 kg) satellites, developed by the German aeronautics company OHB-System with the important contribution of Carlo Gavazzi Spazio (CGS). The satellites are controlled by a ground station which is responsible for controlling the system and analysing the retrieved data. 

Dimac Red worked close to CGS Engineering Team since the very beginning of the design-in process, studying the Applications, attending meetings, working with the Suppliers in order to identify the most suitable set of standard and custom components. “It was a challenging task, but also very exciting”, said Mr. Valter Arosio (now CEO at Dimac Red, but formerly Head of Hi-Rel Product Managers), “a great achievement for Dimac Red Team, in recognition of our accountability and seniority; a remarkable success for the years to come.”

The Customer needed smart solutions, components and services, from multiple Suppliers, with an unprecedented level of reliability. In fact, SAR-Lupe’s “high-resolution” images can be acquired day or night through all weather conditions. The satellites are able to provide up-to-date imagery from almost all regions of the world.

 

The first satellite was launched from Plesetsk in Russia on 19 December 2006, about a year after the intended launch date; four more satellites were launched at roughly six-month intervals, and the entire system achieved full operational readiness on 22 July 2008. The constellation was planned for 10 years of operational life.

“Such an ambitious Program required excellent planning, management and execution capabilities: also Suppliers had to demonstrate knowledge and professional skills. I was proud to belong to an Organization with deep technical and commercial competences”, reminded the CEO of Dimac Red.

The five satellites operate in three 500-kilometre orbits in planes roughly sixty degrees apart. They use an X-band radar providing a resolution of up to approximately 50 centimetres (‘spotlight mode’, in which the satellite rotates to keep the antenna pointed at a single target). Response time for imaging of a given area is ten hours or less. Thales Alenia Space, other important Customer of Dimac Red across decades, provided the core of the Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors.

A Success Story

Dimac Red contributed to make a famous Super Car go Faster!

What sort of products or components or services were supplied by Dimac Red in order to improve the performance of a Lamborghini? Surprisingly, especially dealing with the flagship Aventador, it is neither a special turbine, nor an innovative injection system, nor an advanced microcontroller nor a sophisticated Software. It is a “Super Capacitor”!!

It’s simple really. One of the key requirements of anything that goes fast is weight. The lighter you are the quicker you can be accelerated and decelerated (Newton’s F=ma). One of the items that weighs a lot in a car is the lead-acid battery. Super Capacitors offer the automotive electrical system engineer the ability to reduce the weight of the battery.

The way it works is simple. The output of the battery is dominated by the need to start the car. The cranking current driving the starter motor is far more than the usual current in and out of the battery. If you have super capacitors in parallel with the battery then all of the cranking current is supplied from the super capacitors and the steady state current is supplied by the battery. The battery can be smaller, the weight is reduced and your Lamborghini goes faster.

The advantages don’t end there:

• Lead is polluting. Because the battery is smaller with super capacitors the amount of lead is less thereby introducing less lead into the environment.
• Battery life is extended. With no super capacitors the cranking current is supplied by the lead acid battery and the temperature rises due to the internal I2R of the battery. These thermal cycles stress the battery and contribute to battery failures. The Super Capacitors get rid of the thermal stresses of the battery.
• The super capacitors are very reliable. They can take 1M engine starts.
• The car will start even with a poor preforming battery. So long as the battery can trickle enough charge into the super capacitors they will deliver the high cranking current successfully.

There are other applications of super capacitors that are similar. Anything that needs short intervals of high power can be better served with super capacitors. There are multiple examples of Applications as valid examples where this technology is deployed.

Designing systems that use high power super capacitors is not as easy as it first appears. The super capacitor is not just a large capacitor. Characterisation of the super capacitors is required to provide a suitable model. The modelling needs to take into account the charge/discharge currents and the requirement to balance the cells. To achieve the greatest energy savings the characteristics of the super capacitor need to be matched with the demands of the system.

Dimac ReD S.p.A. is worldwide leader in the design and development of Energy Storage Systems based on super capacitors technology. The solid know-how has been achieved for many years  of involvement in several Projects with important Companies in multiple Fields: Industrial, Automotive, Railways.