BENGALURU: Park Controls and Communications Private Limited (PCC) has received a production order for 124 units of its PCAMi-1000, a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) Data Acquisition Unit (DAU) slated for the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited-built Tejas LCA Mk1A programme, in what the company described as a key milestone for indigenous, mission-critical aerospace electronics.

The PCAMi-1000 represents an indigenous alternative to a highly versatile and sophisticated HUMS DAU solution that was earlier sourced through imports from the USA, marking a decisive step towards reducing long-standing foreign dependence in this critical avionics segment.

The order comes about 10 months after the PCAMi-1000 received clearance from CEMILAC under the DRDO ecosystem for integration on the Mk1A platform, moving the system from approval and qualification to production-linked deployment.

At the core of HUMS is the ability to continuously capture aircraft health and usage data, enabling condition-based monitoring, faster fault isolation, and predictive maintenance, capabilities increasingly seen as essential as modern fighter fleets scale up their operational tempo. PCC noted that the PCAMi-1000 has been architected to match and, in specific operational parameters, rival the capabilities of the imported systems it replaces, with successive feature updates incorporated over multiple design iterations.

PCC said the PCAMi-1000’s design has been baselined and iterated over several years, shaped through repeated qualification cycles and avionics integration learning, a process that, in aerospace electronics, often determines long-term reliability as much as initial design intent. “This order is not just procurement; it is endorsement of reliability, manufacturability, and repeatable quality,” a senior PCC official said, adding that the programme validates the company’s long-standing design policy centred on ruggedisation and traceability.

The company also highlighted that the system significantly compresses maintenance timelines, reducing replacement cycles for faulty sub-systems from several months, typically associated with imported equipment, to a matter of hours, thereby improving fleet availability and operational readiness.

What this means

For the programme: A cleared system moves into volume production, indicating confidence in production readiness and quality consistency, while establishing a domestically developed alternative to previously imported HUMS DAU solutions.

For fleet readiness: HUMS-linked data capture supports higher aircraft availability by reducing unplanned downtime and lowering Aircraft-on-Ground (AOG) occurrences through predictive maintenance, faster fault isolation, and rapid sub-system replacement.

For PCC: The order marks a shift from development success to production delivery, strengthening credibility with customers, partners, and future platform programmes, while positioning the company as a key contributor to India’s self-reliance in aerospace electronics.

The company also indicated that the PCAMi-1000 architecture extends beyond HUMS into Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) applications, where high-fidelity data acquisition is critical to aircraft testing and certification workflows. PCC said the system is being positioned as a front-runner among indigenous DAUs for both HUMS and FTI applications, with relevance for future platforms including Tejas Mk2, AMCA, and TEDBF programmes.

Key capabilities highlighted by the company

  • High-fidelity, multi-parameter data acquisition for HUMS use cases
  • Design ruggedisation for fighter-class operational environments
  • Production-focused build discipline with configuration control and repeatability
  • Expandability to test-range and FTI requirements

Internally, PCC framed the development as the outcome of sustained engineering discipline rather than a single programme milestone. The company credited engineering, manufacturing, quality, certification coordination, and supply-chain teams for maintaining consistency across development cycles.

With India’s push for Atmanirbhar Bharat and increasing reliance on indigenous subsystems across fighter and unmanned platforms, PCC said it is positioning the PCAMi-1000 as part of a broader portfolio of mission-analytical systems designed for long service life and operational endurance.

Mission-Ready. Field-Proven. And now, Production-Scaled.