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Custom Rack Mount Chassis

Electronic Enclosures, Inc. (EEi) designs, develops and manufactures production custom rack mount chassis for global OEM customers. Our custom rack mount chassis are designed to conform to your specific system requirements of the industry in which you market. Our typical customer has their core competency in electronics and software. EEi’s expertise in custom electronic enclosures is demonstrated by over four decades of integrated design and manufacturing of production custom rack mount enclosures that meet our customer’s specific requirements.

Mission and Performance - Critical Systems

Frequently, rack mount systems are strategically planned essential, mission and performance-critical systems that may require:

Many of these system components are fully redundant or implemented as N+1 into custom rack mount enclosures that can’t be scheduled as out-of-service for maintenance. For example, hot-swap power and fans can be upgraded or replaced on the fly. Card cages designed with N+1 plug-in cards or RAID systems with NVMe or HDD drives can also be upgraded or maintenance performed without interruption.

Reference Designs for Custom Rack Mount Chassis

Invariably, a customer’s CEO or Marketing Director will interject into the initial meeting a statement like “I have three requirements. Cost! Cost! and Cost!” But then we hear from the customer’s sales team about performance, reliability, minimizing rack space, regulatory compliance, aesthetics, and the list goes on as anticipated.

EEi has been engineering electronic enclosures for over four decades. In 2021, we used that history and developed over 30 baseline rack mount chassis reference designs and even more component options. Today, we often start a new custom rack mount chassis design not from a blank slate but from one of the baseline reference designs. In our first meeting, we’ll inquire about your physical architecture, power and thermal requirements, emissions, and immunity projections. The selected baseline chassis will already have many features that are most in line with your physical architecture requirements.
There are two primary benefits when we use our chassis and component reference designs:
  1. Reduction in NRE Costs
  2. Reduced Time-to-Market
Our baseline rack mount chassis reference designs and sub-assemblies, i.e., hot-swap power supplies, fans, etc., are intended to be modified to meet your specific product requirements. Each baseline reference design needs to be modified to length. I/O, ventilation, power, and cooling are added, etc.

When Production Costs Meet Production Quality

Production manufacturing is part of our design process. When it comes to cost and quality, we can’t separate the two. It makes an effective difference when each designer or engineer has years of hands-on, shopfloor manufacturing experience. Not merely managing or overseeing production but being day-to-day hands-on in production. Because of that experience, we instinctively know how to design out the costs of materials useage, post-processing, secondary operations, and labor. AND, in the same way, and at the same time, designing in repeatable production quality.

Emissions and Immunity Compliance

In designing and manufacturing for cost and quality, EMI/RFI compliance needs to be considered at the onset of any custom rack mount enclosure. Established suppression techniques in PC board design definitely add meaningful attenuation. EEi has developed containment techniques that are a fraction of the cost compared to beryllium copper finger stock, fabric over foam, etc., and seam welding.

Contact Electronic Enclosures, Inc. about your next custom rack mount appliance and speak with Don Goss, our CTO, about your next program.