Systems RuggedizationGE Intelligent Platforms was among the very first companies to bring to market commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products that were rugged by design. Many of the military’s COTS-based systems require extensive modification to withstand the harsh conditions of a soldier’s environment. Military specifications often require operation at ambient temperatures from –40°C to +85°C, in high and low humidity, and while undergoing extreme vibration and shock.
Created to operate in the harshest environments, GE Intelligent Platforms’s products reflect the company’s unparalleled experience and expertise in ruggedization, with its unique combination of design evaluation and assembly and test practices through to advanced thermal management, mechanical engineering and hermetic control techniques. GE Intelligent Platforms ruggedizes its products by upgrading or screening parts for extended temperatures, adding mechanical stiffening bars, and/or changing substrate materials for thermal conduction. An integrated stiffening frame/thermal management assembly is used to optimize the mechanical dynamic and thermal performance. A variety of conformal coatings are available for humidity and static control. GE Intelligent Platforms’s five ruggedization levels offer increasing levels ofenvironmental durability, enabling operational goals to be met at the lowest possible cost. Each ruggedization level has been carefully tailored to provide the optimal trade-off between cost, performance and reliability. Selection will depend on the type of cooling required - either forced air or by conduction - and the overall requirements for environmental performance. Fully compliant with the ANSI/VITA 1-1994 VMEbus and IEEE Std 1101.2-1992 conduction-cooled specifications, GE Intelligent Platforms products can be used with complete confidence in conjunction with both in-house designs and other vendor products that meet the same internationally recognized standards. |
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