Capabilities & Experience
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Rugged Systems
From concept to production - AP Labs has a long successful history of integrating complex systems for the defense, aerospace, and commercial marketplace. |
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Avionics Systems
Over 20+ years of experience in creating highly advanced computing, storage and communications solutions, AP Avionx is the ideal partner to bring your In-flight Entertainment & Connectivity (IFE&C) system to life. |
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Rugged Enclosures
AP Labs' enclosures are designed for strength, serviceability, and modularity and offer the newest technologies for VME, VME64X, CompactPCI, VXS, PC104 and custom implementations. Convection, conduction, liquid-cooled or thermo-electric, AP Labs has expertise in all forms of thermal management. Rack-mount or ATR form factor, shock-isolated or hardmount, AP Labs enclosures are tuned to a variety of shock, vibration and EMI standards, based on operating environment. |
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Manufacturing Services
With over 15 years of cable assembly and wire harness manufacturing experience, AP Labs is well positioned to meet your build-to-print requirements. |
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AP Labs is a leading provider of rugged computer systems and specialized platforms to support a wide range of military, aerospace and industrial applications. Over the past 25 years, AP Labs has also built up a strong set of in-house engineering and manufacturing capabilities, plus an array of specialized product designs that can be readily adapted to meet the demands of new programs and emerging applications.
With experience from hundreds of projects, AP Labs also offers the broad expertise and organizational flexibility to seamlessly work within a variety of programs and multi-partner development scenarios. A full set of qualifications such as ISO-9001-2000 certification, DCAS accounting compliance, FAR 19.102 small business status, and MIL-SPEC capabilities, enables the company to successfully fulfill a variety of roles, such as product supplier, sub-contractor, prime contractor and/or program manager.
Products & Technologies:
Ruggedized Chassis and Enclosures – Convection, Conduction, Liquid & Thermoelectric Cooling
Rugged Rack-mount options – Internally shock mounted or hard-mount
Backplanes & Bus Architectures – cPCI, VME, VPX and other common bus architectures
Aircraft Data Bus development and implementation: Mil-Std-1553, ARINC 429
Video displays – rack-mount, desktop, or ruggedized, with a variety of sizes and resolutions
User interfaces – Keyboards, trackballs, touch-screens, rack-mount and desktop
Networking & communications – rugged/rack-mount network switches, general IO options, Data storage – various sizes, interfaces & mounting options (front-mount, rack-mount, hot-swap)
Transportable systems – ruggedized, non-ruggedized, various weights & sizes
Operating software – real-time and all standard operating systems
Manufacturing Services
Turnkey Electromechanical Assembly and Test - Turnkey Approach to Outsourcing Needs
Metal Fabrication - Including Procurement and Assembly
Design Engineering/Prototyping - Manufacturability and Cost Effective Design
System integration – platform level integration, testing and qualification
The key staff capabilities in the San Diego location include:
- Project Management
- Engineering & development services
- Thermal Analysis
- Structural Analysis
- Parametric Modeling
- Qualification Testing
- Project Cost / Schedule Control and Reporting
- Government Accounting Compliance
- Mechanical/Electrical Packaging Design
- High speed interconnect and backplane design
- Systems Integration & Test
- Software Engineering
- Technical Field support
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