Spain

— 2008 – 2011

First presence of AKKA in Spain with the acquisition of Planitec and Aeroconseil Iberia

— 2012

Merger of all Spanish activities into AKKA Aeroconseil Spain. We reached 100 employees in Spain

— 2013-2015

Strong diversification and growth in the main two markets; Aerospace and Railways. Creation of the system engineering centers of excellence

— 2016

Acquisition and integration of Matis, complementing our presence in the energy sector

— 2017

Focus on a development strategy based on Competence Centers. We reached 400 employees

— 2018

Strong growth in Railways and Energy. Acquisition of Edelway Spain, complementing our offer in the life-science sector. We reached 500 employess

— Environmental and crew systems (EFA, L&M)

In 2015, our customer commissioned AKKA to develop new L&M programs requiring a redesign of the ventilation and cooling systems for each aircraft. Because of the Eurofighter’s operation specifications, it was necessary to modify certain aspects of the environmental control system (ECS) to satisfy its requirements. AKKA worked on the modeling of the ventilation and cooling systems, the calibration of the models according to the rig tests, the simulation of several ECS conditions in order to estimate thermal loads on the force-cooled equipment, the validation of the results with other approaches and establishing a solution that better fits to the specification.

— RAMS–rolling stock

Between 2012 and 2016, AKKA worked on different projects for a leading rail customer.

We provided RAMS documents performance (PHA, IHA, hazard log, safety cases, safety notes) with reliability analysis performing RBD studies for all systems in trains, feedback on clients’ demands, analysis of REX RAM values and proposal of new intrinsic contractual values to achieve, LCC development took customer and AKKA REX into account to evaluate EMU project viability.

Because of our adaptability and reactivity, we could supply our customer with railway know-how for the project according to its needs, with a commitment to on-time delivery and rigorous quality control.

— WISH Project

Studies have indicated that the wind & solar generation are highly complementary when a wind farm’s evacuation capacity is not exceeded. In 2016, AKKA was asked to create and modify the electrical schematics and conduct protection studies for limiting the output power at the point of connection to power network:
- Preliminary design
- SCBA algorithm for WISH protection
- Detail engineering reviews

With AKKA, the customer saw added value benefits in:

- Hybrid plant power control centralization
- Different operational modes: wind priority, solar priority and hybrid balance
- Maximum hybrid plant power limitation
- Maximum resource utilization
- Control of multiple owners’ production
- Distributed solar energy integration into existing wind farm installations
- Use of standard equipment
- Long track record of WTGs and photovoltaic inverters