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GE Intelligent Platforms was among the very first companies to bring to market commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products that were rugged by design–as opposed to commercial products that were ruggedized as an afterthought. Created to operate in the harshest of environments, GE’s products now 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 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.
Knowing that our products will be deployed in a wide range of harsh military, aerospace and industrial environments, we offer five distinct ruggedization levels. Development systems are compatible and interoperable with deployed systems through the use of shared circuit design and software compatibility, allowing the most cost-effective option to be selected. Each of the five levels differs only in the mechanical build standard, type of cooling and the quality of the electronic components used.
GE’s five ruggedization levels offer increasing levels of environmental 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 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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