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CUSTOM SYSTEM ENGINEERING AND DESIGN SERVICES
Chassis Plans' design philosophy is to provide exceptionally engineered, cost effective custom industrial and military grade computers at a competitive price. Chassis Plans provides turnkey solutions of custom industrial rackmount systems, allowing clients to have high quality computing systems with minimal investment in time or money. We have been providing custom solutions to a wide variety of industrial and military customers since 1985 and have an extensive database of base line designs to draw upon to create your system that exactly fits your application and environmental requirements.
Our engineering staff is the best in the business. We can provide conceptual studies and drawings in as little as one day and complex from-scratch hardware in as little as four weeks. Chassis Plans - Systems Engineered to Perform® .
- Custom System Definition Process
It starts with our Sales Engineers. These professionals are your first contact and will work closely with you to define a system that exactly meets your application and environmental requirements. They work with a dedicated Field Application Engineer (FAE) and the Engineering Department to flesh out the design concept. As appropriate, the assigned Engineer will create a system drawing showing size and component layout, showing system features, cooling management, shock and vibration management, etc. This concept will be tuned through with feedback until you are 100% satisfied your design requirements are met.
- Modify COTS or From Scratch?
Chassis Plans has a broad selection of standard products that can serve as the basis of a customer-specific design. Utilizing off the shelf hardware with application specific tweaks can result in significant cost savings and much quicker time to market. Modifications can include something as simple as custom paint and/or logo, front panel modification for product identification or function implementation, rear panel modification to accommodate specific I/O cards, connectors, or a dog-house for all circular mil connector interface. Virtually any component in a standard product is fair game for modification.
On the other hand, often times the application demands a custom solution. There is no better team than Chassis Plans to help you define that requirement and bring that design to fruition. The Chassis Plans team has been responsible for more custom computer systems and enclosures than anybody else. Our CUSTOM DESIGN WINS page is a great place to start looking for inspiration for your next design.
- Engineering Department & Tools
Tools are only as good as the people using them and Chassis Plans offers you the best rackmount industrial computer engineering staff. This engineering team brings you a wide variety of skills including a seasoned designer with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, another with 15 years working in the sheet metal industry building chassis, two of the original Industrial Computer Source engineers doing chassis and system design since 1985, an MSEE and an FAE who's "been there, done that" in the LCD and military markets.
Their tool box includes Autocad, Solidworks Premium 3D CAD with Cosmos Works Simulation Software (thermal, flow, mechanical, dynamic analysis), Orcad & PADS for board layout, in-house temp-erature chamber (-70 to 100 Deg C), captured shake table, and close relationships with agency and environmental testing houses. This team routinely designs custom systems that always work and do it in record time.
- ISO 9001:2008 Certified Engineering Quality
Chassis Plans is certified to ISO 9001:2008, signifying that its engineering docu-mentation and management standards meet the rigorous industry requirements of the ISO Certifying body. Full revision control and traceability for all engineered com-ponents and manufactured systems assures viable long-term support. Should you require system repair, we can tell you exactly what went into your system as well as have replacement components manufactured. Should you require additional systems in later years, you can be assured they will be manufactured identically to earlier systems.
- Integration Documentation
The hallmark of a professional integration department is shipment-to-shipment consistency. Chassis Plans utilizes extensive system integration documentation to assure the 500th system is exactly identical to the first. There is no 'tribal knowledge' involved in how a system is put together and it does not matter which Integration Technician is assigned to any particular project. The documentation includes both text and photographic instructions, component placement, wiring, component issues, software issues and BIOS details. You are invited to download a typical Integration Document (3.2M PDF) for review.