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TRANSIT CASE AND RACK SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Transit Case Integration of high quality rugged rackmount computer systems!
Chassis Plans is a recognized leader in integrated transit case systems, configured rack systems, and configured turnkey integrated industrial rackmount computer systems. We offer the engineering experience and program management capability to assure high quality / low risk system solutions, start to finish with no detail too small to do right!
Properly integrating racks and transit cases is a difficult and time consuming endeavour. Chassis Plans can lower your total system cost by relieving your organization of that task. You receive professionally engineered and integrated systems instead of boxes of disparate parts from multiple vendors. We accept system responsibility for 3rd party components such as UPS's, network switches, power distribution, environmental systems, etc. Chassis Plans will work with you to specify, procure, store and inventory, configure, test, certify, package for delivery, install, post delivery technical support, and future upgrades of integrated systems. One single purchase order instead of a dozen or more! Our goal is to make your life easy.
Chassis Plans offers a broad line of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) rack mount enclosures and Long-Life Industrial Motherboards or Single Board Computer systems.
Close working relationships with rack, transit case, accessory, drive, video and I/O adapter
manufacturers allows our experienced Sales Engineers to define
an industrial computer system exactly tailored to your unique application requirements.Close attention to detail, unexcelled custom system design experience, strict revision control and material obsolescence management means trouble free program management for long life platform stability and product support. Chassis Plans' Systems are Engineered to Perform!
Each customer's application is unique in requirements and environment. We build systems exactly tailored to your needs to solve your problems. That is why you won't find a list of pre-configured systems, motherboards, etc., on our site.
Highly
experienced technicians working in an ESD free environment
assures our customers their systems will work out of the box
and provide trouble free operation. Today's systems are highly
complex with potential component incompatibilities, drive
and raid issues, cooling and power requirements, and operating
system subtleties. Having integrated thousands of these types
of systems means Chassis Plans' technicians have previously
solved these issues and can quickly deliver you a system tailored
to your exact requirements.
System Definition - Our experienced Sales Engineers work closely with the customer to help define the desired system based on required functionality, cost, form factor, and performance. An intimate knowledge of the industrial computer market allows the Sales Engineering Team to narrow down the product selection to a system definition that will work and exactly meet customer expectations.
Component Selection - Chassis Plans offers a wide variety of proprietary products but we don't claim to have 100% product saturation. The Sales Engineer knows what products are available from what sources, what works with what, and what products are supported by the required operating system. The final system definition will then comprise an optimal mix of Chassis Plans' products with other manufacturer's third party components.
Custom Products - Often customer requirements cannot be met by an off-the-shelf product. Chassis Plans has extensive experience in Custom Product Design and manufacturing for a wide variety of industrial and rackmount products including: rackmount chassis, LCD displays and keyboards, single board computers, backplanes, analog and digital I/O cards.
Procurement and Stocking - Chassis Plans will source, purchase, receive, inspect, and stock required third party components. In addition, we can receive and segregate customer supplied material.
Static
Control Program - Chassis Plans has implemented a comprehensive
static control program to prevent component damage. All company
employees undergo training in the control and prevention of
static damage. The floor in the integration area is painted
with Desco
Statguard conductive paint and is regularly maintained
with Statguard Dissipative Floor Finish. The Integration Department
work areas are delineated by floor tape and hanging signs.
The work benches are metal and connected to earth ground.
The work surfaces are ESD conductive material grounded to
the benches. Everybody entering the integration area must
wear a blue conductive smock. Anybody working on any system
is plugged into the bench ground. The smocks and ground straps
are checked twice per day for effectiveness. The entire system
including floor impedance is regularly verified by a third
party for compliance with established antistatic standards.
All components remain in factory packaging in the inventory
area and are never unpacked or handled except at an approved
antistatic station. Carts in the integration area are equipped
with drag chains and all surfaces are conductive and grounded.Integration - Our highly experienced Integration Team, working from a computer generated work order system, assembles your specified components into a neatly organized and reliable system. Component placement is per the System Definition Folder that travels with each order. Plug-in boards are placed for optimum system operation, cooling, and cable routing. Optimum processor heat sinks are selected to assure the lowest processor temperature. Cables are nicely finished both to protect the components and to minimize impact on cooling flow. As required, additional cable and connector retention can be applied for high vibration environments. The operating system is installed, configured and optimized. As required, system specific drivers are installed and updated.
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.
System Test - Each system is burned in and tested using Microscope 2000 and PC Doctor Factory test software to assure full system functionality. Board specific test software is used as required. Test results along with serial numbers are recorded and documented for full traceability. Extended burn-in is available per customer specification. Thermal cycling and extended high temperature burn-in is available as required for specific high-rel military contracts. Additional testing including mil spec, shock and vibration, heat, cold, humidity, dust, etc., is available on request.
Shipping - The order is checked for completeness and packaged in high quality boxes with product specific foam for protection. As required or justified, shipments can be palletized for additional protection. We can use any shipping carrier or freight service as specified by the customer.
Agency
Certifications - As required, Chassis Plans can provide
complete system certification services for national and international
emissions, safety standards, shock, vibration, environmental
including, but not limited to:
- Safety: UL 1950 / CSA C22.2-950 / IEC 60950 / EN 60950
- Emissions: FCC Part 15, Subpart B, ICES-003 (Canada), EN 55022 / CISPR 22, EN 61000-3-2 - Harmonics, EN 61000-3-3 - Flicker
- Immunity: EN 55024 / CISPR 24, IEC 61000-4-2 - ESD, IEC 61000-4-3 - Radiated RF, IEC 61000-4-4 - EFT, IEC 61000-4-5 - Surge, IEC 61000-4-6 - RF Conducted, IEC 61000-4-11 - Voltage dips, interrupts & variations
- NEBS: Levels 1, 2 or 3
- Certification Marks: UL, C-UL, CE, and NEBS.
- Mil-spec including 810E (environmental), 901 (shock) and 167 (vibration)
Integrated Computer Systems