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ATS Contract Manufacturing Services

Posted on February 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

A “best kept secret” about Advanced Thermal Solutions is our contract manufacturing services.   That’s right, ATS does contract manufacturing on a very wide variety of materials in both our rapid prototyping facility in Norwood MA and in our high volume facility in China.  ATS has been doing contract manufacturing on various materials for many years, but, up to now, we haven’t talked much about it.   The reason?  Our customers. They were the ones who let us know we were doing an incredible job and urged us to let others know.  So this week that is what we’ll be doing here at ATS’s electronics cooling blog.

Here’s a brief list of our capabilities:

Material

• Aluminum
• Metals
• Plastics
• Stainless Steel

Our Norwood MA facility does the rapid prototyping and low volume production,  here is a list of our equipment:

Machining Center

•2 CNC vertical mills 40” X 20”
•1 CNC vertical mill 36” X 16”
•1 CNC vertical mill 28” x 16”
•1 CNC horizontal mill with dual 16” X 16” rotary pallets
•2 Manual vertical knee mills 9” x 50”
•1 Mill/drill 28-1/2” X 8-1/4”
•1 Manual horizontal knee mill 14” X 62”
•1 Manual horizontal bed mill 11-3/8” X 51-5/8”
•1 Manual Lathe 7” X 40”

 

Saws & Shears

•1 Foot shear 36” x 16 Ga.
•1 Power shear 52” X 12 Ga.
•2 Table saws 10”
•1 Vertical bandsaw 16” x 39”
•1 Horizontal bandsaw 12-3/4” X 12-3/4” with automatic feed
•1 Chop saw 10”

What else we got?
We have lots of stuff to talk about, but, rather than discuss the parts and pieces of our rapid prototyping and high volume manufacturing, its’ better to talk about examples, and we’ll be doing some of that this week here on ATS’s blog.  In addition, we’ll be highlighting a very important engineering article on how to manufacture cold plates.

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Learn How to Cool Consumer Electronics in our February 23rd Webinar

Posted on February 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

“Thermal Management of Consumer Electronics” is the topic of our next webinar, on Thursday, February 23rd, 2PM EST.  The free webinar will cover:

Consumer electronics are now being used in places that were once exclusive to business and military electronics. Products like Apple’s iPhone and iPad are sophisticated technologies with powerful processors housed in small spaces with restricted airflow. As a result, these devices, and others like them, are providing many new benefits, but they also bring higher thermal management needs. Attendees will learn the available cooling options, and important factors such as the importance of spreading resistance in component and system thermal management.

The webinar is going to be chock full of great information cooling consumer electronics.    The webinar is free and taught by Dr. Kaveh Azar, one of the worlds foremost authorities on heat transfer.  Click here to register: “Thermal Management of Consumer Electronics“

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ATS Releases Mobile Heat Sink Design Tool for Android

Posted on February 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

We’ve just released our FIRST mobile application for Android!   Our Heat Sink Design Tool is ready for you to download now from the Android Application store.  The application will enable users to design a heat sink on their Android equipped mobile device for cooling of their electronic devices. After the design, the user can select to search available databases to see such a product exists.  The app is 1.0M in size and requires Android 1.6 or higher.  Get yours now for free by clicking to Heat Sink Design Tool on Android

Use cases include:

  • Consultants:   Are  you on premise with your client?  Once you understand your needs for a heat sink, use our heat sink design tool to get a product fast.
  • Field Engineers:  If your in the field, taking notes on what heat sink to use might be impractical.   Use our heat sink design application to punch in the parameters for a heat sink and get it done right there.
  • Students:  If your in the lab working on your next project, why not use our convenient application on your Android device to get our project that much quicker to completion

You say you use an iPhone?  Well, we have an App for that too!  Apple iPhone Heat Sink Design App

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How To Make a Thermocouple Video from ATS

Posted on February 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

ATS’s Latest Video, “How To Make a Thermocouple”  has just been published.   If you’ve ever needed to make a thermocouple in your lab or shop, this is the video for you.  Let Greg from our engineering team show you how it’s done.

And for a more robust alternative to a thermocouple, consider ATS Spot Sensor,  you can learn more about our spot sensor at this link or get a quote at this link.

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Just going through a little housekeeping on ATS’ Electronics Cooling Blog

Posted on February 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Just a quick note to let our readers know we are doing a little housekeeping and maintenance on our blog here at ATS.    All our content is still here, it hasn’t moved nor will it.  But, we just needed to do a few things for maintenance.

Thanks for your patience!

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