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ATS Officially Granted Access for Government Contracts

COTS Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc., (ATS), is now officially in active status with the United States Federal Governments System for Award Management (SAM). The System for Award Management (SAM) is the Official U.S. Government system that consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA, and EPL, for vendors doing business with the Federal government.

Military electronics systems include communications, weapons, reconnaissance, targeting and evasion, delivery and functionality. Power dissipation in these devices is at an all-time high and thermal management is becoming even more of a critical issue. Along with power and heat challenges, engineers must factor in remote locations, rough handling and temperature extremes, in which systems must continue to function reliably. Further, many military systems require small form factors leaving less room for conventional heat dissipation solutions. ATS has already received its several contracts with the US Government and expects to expand its current role in the military, defense, and aerospace markets.

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New Consulting Project Subscription Plan

ATS has released a Consulting Project Subscription Plan (CPSP) for engineering services. From our corporate headquarters in Norwood, Massachusetts,we offers comprehensive thermal management analysis and design services for the telecommunications, medical, military, defense, aerospace, automotive, and embedded computing industries. The new plan allows ATS engineers to become an extension of your team for a pre-determined amount of hours, providing expert thermal and mechanical engineering consultation, design, simulation, testing and validation.

ATS Design Services

Services include Design, Simulation, Testing, Analysis & Prototyping

The CPSP includes the use of ATS thermal lab facilities and covers all projects approved by an authorized representative of subscribed customers. ATS thermal management analysis and design services encompass both experimental and computational simulations using proprietary tools and computational fluid dynamics software packages such as FLOTHERM and CFdesign.

Thermal Testing & Analysis

Thermal Testing & Analysis

The new subscription plan gives customers priority access to ATS engineering and manufacturing resources for all chip, board, enclosure, and system related projects. ATS studies the full packaging domain, including components, circuit boards (PCBs), shelves, chassis, and system packaging.

Consulting capabilities include:

– heat sink, board and fan characterization

– heat sink design and optimization

– PCB & fan tray design and optimization

– liquid cooling design

– prototyping of heat sinks and complete cooling systems

– wind tunnel testing of components, PCBs, chassis and enclosures

ATS offers rapid prototyping of machined parts and cooling systems from its US facilities. Sheet metal fabrication and cut heat sink prototypes are quickly provided from international partners.

Liquid Crystal Thermography

Liquid Crystal Thermography

ATS believes that customers who wish to remain competitive should consider a design-to-suit opportunity solution first. Contrary to common perception, this proves to be less expensive to the customer in the long run, because of the ensuing gain in product efficiency and compatibility. Working side-by-side with customers worldwide, ATS engineers provide tailored solutions to thermal and mechanical packaging challenges on real projects with real schedules.

To learn more about the consulting project subscription plan, call 781-769-2800, email ats-hq@qats.com, or visit www.qats.com.

ATS Design Services Contacted for ECL’s New Recycled LED Street Light

Eco City Lights (ECL), a leading supplier of commercial and industrial LED lighting products, recently contacted ATS design services for help in solving thermal challenges on a newly developed application.

ATS performed a full thermal analysis on ECLs retro-fit solution for cobra head street lights. Services provided by ATS included simulation, validation and reporting for the heat sink, enclosure and system level applications. Experimentation was done in order to validate and optimize the current design and the thermal solution. Using IR Technology and multiple sensors throughout the fixture, LED, heat sink, and power supply, testing was performed to determine the true temperatures of the output and enclosure parameters. After numerous studies were conducted, in addition to reviewing 3D CAD models of the enclosure and application components, ATS was able to successfully analyze the existing thermal management solution for the retro-fit street light.

ATS performed testing and analysis on the LED application

ATS performed testing and analysis on the LED application

Eco City Lights felt it was most important to find a thermal management company to evaluate, analyze, and comment on our led lighting solutions. “After researching our options ECL determined that ATS was the best qualified to handle our project. After personally visiting with Joe Gaylord of ATS and talking with their engineers, we now have a product line that is thermally tested, proven, and cost effective. As our company continues to grow, we will be adding addition products and look forward to working with ATS in the future” said Ken Moeller, President of Eco City Lights.

ECL's Cobra Head Street Light

ECL’s Cobra Head Street Light

Eco City Lights LED products are used in street, sidewalk, parking lot and warehouse applications for municipal, government, and commercial enterprises. It is crucial that the LEDs thermal performance is maximized, ensuring product reliability and an extended lifespan. The new recycled LED streetlight module is proven to save customers over 60 percent of energy consumptions costs, providing long lasting, low maintenance, and energy efficient LED lighting.

From its computational facilities and thermal/fluids laboratories in Massachusetts, ATS specializes in providing thermal analysis, mechanical and design services for the telecommunications, networking, medical, aerospace, defense, embedded computing, and automotive industries with high performance electronic products. To learn more about ATS Design Services, call 781-769-2800, email ats-hq@qats.com, or visit www.qats.com.