Posted to News on 5th Mar 2024, 12:30
Rugged fixed or portable enclosures, COTS components and HMI solutions
Foremost Electronics continues to expand its range of field-proven MIL-grade rugged enclosures, COTS components and HMI solutions which offer users uncompromised reliability.
Recent additions to the company's enclosure and components portfolio bring together key players in the market to offer customers value-added flexible solutions for rugged portable and fixed equipment.
At the heart of the new offering are NVent Schroff system enclosures including VME, VPX, CPCi and small form factor variants. These can now be offered either as an individual chassis (including backplane, power and cooling) or as a solution with Kontron products including:
Single board computers (SBCs)
CompactPCI PICMG2.16 BLADE processors, Communication Transition Modules (featuring dual HDD sockets, dual Gigabit, a Serial port and VGA)
Industrial Ethernet Switches
In addition, Foremost offers ruggedised server and computing solutions from Trenton Systems, including ruggedised COTS, MOTS and custom TAA-compliant servers.
For a fixed installation the system can be housed in an NVent Schroff Mil-Std cabinet. The NVent Schroff Varistar CP MIL 901E Cabinet is military certified for shock, vibration, EMC and corrosion. It is doubly protected against corrosion, being zinc-plated and powder-coated. It also incorporates four shock absorbers at the bottom and two shock absorbers at the top.
For portable applications Foremost can provide the rapidly deployable and rugged MILEX transit case from Desapro:
Water and dust proofed, shock and vibration absorbing aluminium transit case for 19 electronic equipment
NATO approved and designed to meet the rigid requirements of U.S. MIL specifications and other MIL standards worldwide
A wide range of accessories are available for the MILEX case including cooling systems, racks, drawers and slides provides the most comprehensive range available today for the safe packaging of mobile electronics.
Dave Martin, new business director of Foremost Electronics, says: We are the UK Platinum Partner for nVent Schroff and have a wealth of experience in providing bespoke, value-added systems based on their very wide product range. With several new synergistic additions to our portfolio we can now provide fast turnaround fully functional computing systems in both fixed and portable rugged enclosures for defence systems.
