Electronic Enclosures Inc.
Custom Rack Mount Chassis Enclosures
Electronic Enclosures, Inc. (EEi) engineers and manufactures custom rack mount chassis with full or partial integration. Today’s rack mount appliances are getting more compressed in size while increasing watt density that push heat dissipation to extremes. Competing for vertical rack space makes this an issue. To balance power, cooling, EMC, and physical constraints requires innovation and new solutions. Four decades of developing custom rack mount enclosures for diverse industries has propelled EEi’s necessity for advances in engineering and manufacturing methods that meet these ever-changing requisites.
Raising the Bar for Custom Rack Mount Chassis Enclosures
High-performance and mission-critical appliances may need redundant hot-swap PSUs, hot-swap fans, FRUs, tool-less rack slides rails, etc., resulting in little or no interruption of runtime performance. For EEi, cost is king, even for high-performance datacenter appliances. EEi delivers critical engineering foresight to every rack mount enclosure and system we engineer and manufacture. Because we’ve been immersed in many technology industries over forty-plus years, we frequently cross-pollinate proven strategies from one industry to another, giving your product innovative differentiation and competitive advantages.
Rack Mount Enclosures – Cost vs. Quality
At EEi, this is not an either-or-proposition. As watt densities increase, internal configurations become more sophisticated, and cooling systems must adapt to deliver new levels of efficiency. Having foresight early in the product’s development process for thermal management and effective airflow or conduction becomes vital. EEi has also developed effective, low-cost EMI containment manufacturing methods that are applied at the early engineering stage. Applying “Band-Aids” to meet EMC compliance just before product launch adds needless expense to your reoccurring costed BOM. EEi also keeps an eye on safety compliance requirements, another area where we can constrain costs. We do this while improving quality, not sacrificing quality.
Rack Mount Enclosure Manufacturing Cost
EEi’s engineers supply a notable distinction of having many years of hands-on shop-floor trade experience in fabrication, machining, and tooling. This influences how we engineer your rack mount enclosure. One designs very differently with a trade background in sheet metal, plastics, tooling, etc., than one with predominantly an academic background. This is knowledge that’s not taught in academia or written in texts. They know first-hand how to engineer out costs of materials, runtime, setups, secondary operations, and labor while increasing repeatability and quality. Engineers who have this experience possess the knowledge of where and how to remove labor, often the greatest portion of your reoccurring production cost.
Building Blocks for Rack Mount Enclosures
After decades of engineering custom rack mount chassis from scratch, EEi has prepared dozens of different chassis configurations to accommodate the simplest enclosure to the very complex. We can quickly modify our existing IP to any depth, 1U or greater, switch between aluminum or steel materials, and incorporate our tool-less slide rails. These chassis designs may include hot-swap PSUs, hot-swap fans, hot-pluggable drives (RAID or JBOD), electronic modules as FRUs, card cages, and backplanes, etc.