Follows are just a few examples of the many custom designs, rackmount and non-rackmount, chassis, systems and LCDs we have designed and manufactured. These examples highlight our capabilities as well as provide examples for future projects for other clients. CP Technologies’ engineers have been providing innovative solutions to industry since 1985 and are conversant in all aspects of design and agency certification. We have provided simple sheet metal boxes through highly complex ship-board Navy certified designs and telco Nebs certified systems. Please visit our web pages which detail our Custom System Engineering and Design Services and the steps involved in bringing a design to market. From prototype to production, CP Technologies prides itself on quality rackmount enclosures. For turnkey projects or specialized engineering services, CP Technologies understands how to overcome the technical challenges involved in converting innovative concepts into successful, timely products. Our design philosophy is to provide exceptionally engineered, cost effective industrial computers and rackmount enclosures at a competitive price. CP Technologies provides a turnkey solution for custom industrial rackmount systems, allowing clients to have quality industrial chassis with minimal investment in time or money.
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‘Son Of Monster’ Logic Emulation Enclosure
The Dini Group, a local designer and manufacturer of highly sophisticated logic emulation boards, approached CP Technologies to design and manufacture the enclosure for their new DN8000K10 Virtex4 based ASIC prototyping system. This incredibly advanced emulation engine required a 15×22.1″ PCB to hold the 16 FPGA chips and 9 daughter… Read More
Network Security Appliance
Koolspan had been marketing their SME Lock Private Networking appliance in a single channel version. They wanted to expand to the enterprise marketplace by offering a multi-channel rackmount version. CP Technologies designed a 1U enclosure that allowed four of their Private Network modules to be rackmounted. The enclosure provides redundant… Read More
Custom IC Manufacturing System
A large multinational integrated circuit manufacturer required a new enclosure and integrated system to replace the ancient VAX computers originally used. This required CP Technologies to engineer an enclosure that fit an odd sized hole in their equipment. Cooling was a primary concern. There is also a custom controller interface… Read More
Custom 1U Network Appliance
The customer required a custom chassis to house two FPGA development boards to monitor network traffic in an effort to reduce network overhead and improve client responsiveness. CP Technologies provided a custom network appliance type design with a 1U redundant power supply, mounting for the two boards, rear panel connectors,… Read More
Special Integration Sun Tape System
The customer was purchasing systems from Sun Microsystems to house a Sun SCSI tape subsystem drive. The enclosure from Sun was too deep for a particular application leaving the customer without a solution. CP Technologies provided a specially integrated 1U F6000 chassis. We had to design and fabricate new cables,… Read More
Secure Submarine LCD Display
Lockheed contracted with CP Technologies to design and manufacture an LCD/Keyboard combination for use aboard nuclear submarines. The principle use is for officers to be able to connect to both the secure and non-secure systems from their quarters. Included is a 17″ TFT LCD, full feature keyboard and glidepoint mouse… Read More
Wall Mount Paint Control / Display
Haden asked CP Technologies to design a controller for their Liquid Paint Application Control System. The wall mounted enclosure featured a passive backplane, single board computer and their control cards. The lid was designed to accept different overlays allowing multiple uses for the same enclosure.… Read More
DVR Security Appliance
A manufacturer of Digital Video Recorders and related digital security products approached CP Technologies to design and build their next generation security appliance. Difficult design constraints included a depth limit of 21″, four high speed large hot swap raid drives, a vibration isolated fan system to prevent drive errors, high… Read More
Custom Video Amplifier Enclosure
An affiliate company of the Digital Video Recorder shown above required a custom enclosure for a multi channel video amplifier system. CP Technologies worked closely with the board designer on the layout of the PCB to ensure good heat management, component selection to fit a 1U enclosure, and ease of… Read More
UAV Controller
A large defense contractor specializing in tactical ground control shelters required a rugged diskless system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control. Time to delivery was critical. CP Technologies leveraged an existing COTS design to quickly and inexpensively meet the requirement. Starting with the D3Chassis, we shortened the chassis to 18″… Read More
AMC Module Chassis
Advanced Mezzanine Cards, or AMC modules, were originally developed to add I/O capability to CPCI and ATCA products. An AMC products developer approached CP Technologies to design and manufacture the first rack mount system to enable the use of 10 AMC modules in a 2U enclosure. This is bleeding edge… Read More
Reverse Engineered Power Supply
The customer had been purchasing a custom power supply enclosure from a local vendor for several years. They required several enhancements to the design and the vendor had no engineering documentation. CP Technologies reverse engineered the enclosure to fit within their system. In addition to their required changes, CP Technologies’… Read More
Custom Paint and Logo
Custom paint and logo to customer specification is our most common special. In this case, the customer wanted the entire chassis painted to a Pantone specification and their logo silk screened on the door. The base chassis is the C3CHASSIS. Multicolor logos and front panel silk screened accents can… Read More
Ultra High Res 1600 x 1200 Keyboard LCD Display
A military customer required an ultra high resolution LCD display / keyboard but had a height limit of 1U. In addition, there was limited depth available. CP Technologies performed by modifying our standard CPCSD1-17 Clamshell Keyboard LCD to incorporate the Samsung LTM190 panel with a proprietary high performance LCD controller.… Read More
Innovative High Speed Switch Packaging
A major defense electronics manufacturer approached CP Technologies to design and manufacture the enclosure for their sophisticated high speed switch. The system houses 3 hot swap modular cards, rear mounted CPU module, dual hot swap power supplies, 4 hot swap fans and an internal backplane tying all the electronics together.… Read More
ASI Switch Platform
A manufacturer of PCI silicon products for PCI Express interface needed a development platform for their customers. CP Technologies provided a simple 1U enclosure to mount their PCB. Using a modified off the shelf 1U ATX power supply simplified their product and lowered their costs.… Read More
Ultra Light Short Depth Keyboard LCD Display
A defense customer required a light weight 1U LCD Display / Keyboard to fit in a Hartig travel case. The requirement was a weight less than 22 pounds and an installed depth less than 20 inches. CP Technologies exceeded the design requirement by producing a keyboard weighing 19.6 lbs with… Read More
4U Battlefield Tactical Situation Server
A major supplier of battlefield qualified systems required a continued supply of the Appro 4408 chassis which Appro no longer offered. The specification from their military customer did not allow for another chassis to be substituted. CP Technologies exactly reproduced the Appro 4408 chassis dimensionally and functionally. The chassis looks… Read More