Foremost Electronics increase range of enclosures

Recent additions to their 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 (SBC’s)
• CompactPCI PICMG2.16 BLADE processors, communication transition modules (featuring dual HDD sockets, dual Gigabit, a Serial port and VGA)
• Industrial Ethernet switches

Note: These are also available as individual products.

In addition, Foremost are pleased to offer ruggedised server and computing solutions from Trenton Systems:

• Ruggedised COTS, MOTS and custom TAA-compliant servers

For a fixed installation the system can be housed in an NVent Schroff Mil-Std cabinet:

• NVent Schroff Varistar CP MIL 901E Cabinet is military certified for shock, vibration, EMC, and corrosion. Doubly protected against corrosion, zinc-plated and powder-coated. Four shock absorbers at bottom and two shock absorbers at 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 US 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 a comprehensive range for the safe packaging of mobile electronics.

Dave Martin, New Business Director of Foremost Electronics, says: “We are the UK Platinum Partner for nVent Schoff 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”

Foremost also offer a wide range of MIL Standard manufactured LEDs, Joysticks, toggle, and pushbutton switches.