Pierre Franco Email & Phone Number

Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium

2017-2026Product Assurance Senior engineer2000-2007Instrumentation and automation engineerIndian Space Applications Center thermal vacuum Space simulator Electrical design of control cabinet, PLC programming and installation+ acceptance tests in India.Proba2 Second belgian satellite, Software and electronics support for Lyra Swap Esp instruments, design of a vacuum compatible 1kx1k CMOS camera (on Mentor PADS)Large Space Simulator teletest implementation at ESA/Estec.Transition from Unix to Linux for data acquisition and visualization. Siemens S7 PLC,WinCC SCADA.Planck : Instrumentation engineer with hi accuracy cryogenic sensors at -269 °C .Software QA for one of Herschel spacecraft instruments following ESA QA standardsIASI OGSE infrared collimator

Liège Area, Belgium

Louvain La Neuve

Protontherapy systems IEC 60601 certifications within product engineering with systems architectsFCC and RED compliance for the new wireless hand held remote control.Basic safety and EMC certification for the new Proteus One system.Support to testing laboratories - ensuring complete and adhoc technical file delivery.Training and compilation of guidelines for engineering.

Development of the FASTlab Multi-Tracer Platform in the PET radiopharmacy group.

At the former GE Loncin factory that became Medex, design of two new remote Rad/Fluoro X-ray positionner for GE Healthcare France and USA. Very tight planning and resources, but even so around 40 remotes were manufactured.

Région De Liège, Belgique

Design of a Surgical X-ray C-arm, based on custom embedded PC and CAN dedicated I/O boards

Risk management and analysis ISO 13485 14971, reliability plan, FMEA, HALT, HASS , IEC 60601quality control plan and manufacturing QC procedures, UL and FDA compliance, collaborative web based problem reporting and resolution. Software development life cycle according to IEC 62304 medical devices. Technical Design reviews. Six sigma trainings, quality champion.