Cabin Interior and Electronics
Collins Adopts Creative Cabin Management System Testing
When the pandemic shut down travel, Collins Aerospace figured out a way to conduct customer CMS testing remotely.
Collins Aerospace's Venue cabin management system must be tested in the customer-specified configuration before completing the hardware installation and then ultimate use by passengers.
Collins Aerospace's Venue cabin management system must be tested in the customer-specified configuration before completing the hardware installation and then ultimate use by passengers.

When the novel coronavirus pandemic curtailed travel, Collins Aerospace cabin management system (CMS) experts had to figure out a new way to run tests with customers. Typically, Collins would invite customer pilots, crew, principals, and the dealer who sold the Venue CMS to the company’s Cedar Rapids, Iowa headquarters.

The testing takes up to two days, depending on the complexity of the CMS and involves hands-on trials of the switches and controls, running on hardware installed on racks instead of in the airplane. The tests allow users to try out the software configuration and line replaceable units (LRUs) as if installed in the airplane and suggest any changes before the installation takes place.

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