Design to Order Racks

Design

Through our experience, we help customers to achieve their vision using innovative mechanical and electrical design. Our specialists ensure full consideration is given to power conditioning, distribution, management and control to optimise dependability.

We engineer thermal management and effective airflow to extend the operational life of the platform while assessing application needs from the outset to reduce your total cost of ownership. By defining the equipment, protection and through-life support you need, we ensure the platforms perform reliably.

Compliance and Certification

Our structures, processes and teams ensure that work is planned, checked and reviewed against project, functional and legislative compliance. We also ensure compliance to order specifications, project plans, budgets and schedules.

Through the use of our third-party accredited test houses and the support of our in-house testing facilities, we can design and build to guarantee certification. This ensures you can sell, install and operate the equipment where required.

Procurement

Purchasing a complex bill of materials (BoMs) from multiple vendors and manufacturers is difficult to manage. Integrated rack assemblies often require BoMs with varying levels of sub-assembly with differing lead times, which need to be timed, sourced and delivered to strict deadlines.

By combining our procurement and materials management expertise with our in-house capabilities, we streamline purchasing without losing the agility required for more demanding programmes. With us, you can procure under a single part number with a fixed cost. This enables you to outsource the time, risk and complexity of managing a highly complex BoM to a specialist partner.

Manufacture

Every customer and project has its own unique needs, and even these need to be able to progress through controlled evolution to keep up with end-user and customer needs.

We consider the individual demands of each project and select the most effective method of build. Our industry-leading facilities, with mature production processes, can flexibly accommodate any project using multiple build cells and lean flow lines. Our scheduling, tracking and expediting experience ensure that no matter what the demands of your rack are, it’s delivered on time and to budget.

Our highly trained technical staff, have a wealth of experience and know-how in working on specialised or demanding applications for defence, aviation, marine, rail, medical, oil and gas and many others.

Through Life Management

The functional needs of a rack do not expire with the warranty of an item. Many programmes require through-life support with essential spares and maintenance.

Your rack needs to perform continually and be future-proofed through managed refreshes and generation of hardware.

We can support the operational life of our racks for up to 30 years. We work with you to implement BoMs that are most appropriate for the lifespan of your platform. We carefully consult manufacturer’s roadmaps to identify life critical items and implement change control, obsolescence notification and last time buy options to ensure you are aware of the change before it impacts your application.

We offer a full suite of support packages to ensure that your rack is supported throughout its life cycle.