GAIA Converter

Leading aerospace manufacturers seeking the next avionics platform to produce advanced, efficient, and safe aircraft emphasize a reliable power solution. The quest is for a partner that guarantees products will not become obsolete for decades and provides the technical support for their mission-critical applications.

With its DNA in avionics, GAIA Converter is leading the charge in providing OEMs worldwide with high-reliability modular power solutions and power architectures designed for mission-critical operations. It has established a strong reputation as a center of competence for power electronics in the industry.

“We are singularly focused on power electronics,” says John Imaz, vice president of sales and marketing at GAIA Converter. “We ensure our clients always have the right power solution and as long as they need it.”

GAIA Converter upholds the highest quality standards while providing power solutions from 4 to 500 watts. Through simplified functional building blocks, the team empowers power and design engineers to accelerate time to market. It develops and manufactures highly efficient COTS-isolated DC/DC converters with maximized performance and power densities. Designing and managing innovative, configurable solutions, including AC/DC converters and full product solutions, the team supports the life cycle of clients’ programs and offers full support every step of the way. The products offer high power density and have one of the best (MTBF) meantime before failure values.

Its product portfolio is designed to address (SWaP-C) size, weight, power, cost, and compliance issues while helping clients achieve compliance with stringent requirements, such as transients, DO-160/461... standards and monitoring specifications.

It also offers test jigs to accelerate design and validation for clients. Gaia Converter provides all the functions necessary to design modular DC/DC and AC/DC power supplies. Acting as an extension of a client’s design team, it understands their requirements and provides the most reliable and complete solutions that align with operational needs.

The hallmark of GAIA Converter’s offerings is durability and the ability to deliver the desired results. Integrating the latest technologies into its products for the most constraining and harsh environments, the company has assured the success of projects of critical importance for decades. Delivering long-lasting solutions guarantees that products will never be obsolete. Driven by this core value, it still services products created over 20 years ago.

Client satisfaction is always a top priority for GAIA Converter. Having its NA headquarters in Montreal, Canada and offices worldwide, it provides clients with exceptional technical and logistical support, ensuring seamless service delivery.

With R&D at its heart, the company draws upon over three decades of industry experience to design and produce products for new aircraft programs worldwide. It draws upon its industry leadership and market relationships to focus on the next trends in the market.

Differentiating GAIA Converter is its ability to walk the extra mile to anticipate client needs. For example, it has partnered with the University of Madrid, Spain, to leverage the expertise of its excellent power group and bring solutions that drive the industry’s future. It has worked on the concept of more electric aircraft, endeavoring to develop a complete and democratized solution commercially available to meet future needs like compactness, cost and efficiency. Besides aerospace and defense, GAIA Converter caters to industrial and transportation sectors.

An icon of quality and long-term commitment to addressing client needs, GAIA Converter spearheads the future of avionics. It is the OEMs’ preferred destination for all their power electronics needs to succeed in their mission-critical operations in the aerospace and defense sector.