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rane Aerospace & Electronics, one of five business segments of Crane Co. (NYSE: CR), is a major supplier of systems and components for critical aerospace and defense applications. The Aerospace & Electronics Groups are organized into solution sets, combining the experience of long-time industry leading companies to give manufacturers and airlines one integrated source for power, sensing, braking, electronics and more. The Electronics Group’s products are organized into the following solution sets and brands: Power Solutions (ELDEC®, InterpointTM, Keltec®), Microwave Solutions (Signal Technology, Merrimac®) and Microelectronics Solutions (InterpointTM).
Our Power Solutions is a global leader in providing power conversion products for the aerospace, defense and space markets.
Under our ELDEC, Interpoint and Keltec brand names, Crane pioneered the introduction of standard dc-dc converters, high voltage traveling wave tube (TWT) power supplies and DAL A compliant flight controls power for large commercial aircraft. Since 1957, Crane has continued to provide innovative solutions with highly efficient (98%) and low harmonic distortion ATRUs, space qualified dc-dc converters and high power dc-dc converters for AESA radar applications. We provide both Standard Power Products and Custom Power products through facilities located in Lynnwood and Redmond, Washington; Fort Walton Beach, Florida and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Power Solutions products are used in applications from post-generator to point-of-use, spanning a range from <10 W to >100kW. Our products are used to provide power to or within electronic systems on a variety of commercial aerospace, military and space platforms.
Crane’s Power Solutions meet the current and future needs of our customer's applications: • Standard DC-DC Converters and EMI Filters Interpoint high reliability dc-dc converters and EMI filter modules have proven performance in defense, space, commercial aerospace and industrial applications.
• Power for Avionics and Utilities Our standard and custom products power the internal computational and user interface circuits for communication, display, mission computing, flight controls, weapons systems and utilities such as aircraft environmental controls.
• Power for Electronic Warfare & Radar Low voltage solid-state or high voltage TWT based high power products and subsystems for mission critical defense platform and payload applications. High power quality interface to aircraft sources using active or passive means to limit total harmonic distortion.
• Aircraft Secondary Power Products and Subsystems Low weight, high power quality and high efficiency platform secondary power distribution and management based on proprietary technology. We can provide significant weight and volume savings through integrated power conversion, bus control, and power control.
For further information or project consulting queries, please contact power@crane-eg.com or visit www.craneae.com/power.
Provided by Sarah Moline, Marketing & Communications Manager,
Crane Aerospace & Electronics – Electronics Group
ICE COMPONENTS, Inc.
Helping Engineer the Technology of Power
 CE Components is a leading supplier of magnetic components for the advanced power electronics market, both in the United States and abroad. We strive to deliver innovative and cost effective design solutions, meanwhile providing best in class support throughout the product acquisition cycle.
In business for over 30 years, ICE Components is a company founded by engineers for engineers. We understand the complexities of the development process and the abbreviated timelines in which you must deliver. ICE Components offers one of the broadest lines of standard and custom magnetics for advanced power applications. Our goal is to be a one-stop shop for today’s time pressed engineers by providing a range of choices within each product category.
Our core product offering includes Power Inductors, Output Power Chokes, Off-line Transformers, Gate Drive Transformers, Current Sense Transformers, SMT Power Inductors, Common Mode Chokes, Differential Mode Chokes and Line Filters. ICE Components also offers custom magnetic solutions to meet your specific design needs.
ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES
ICE Components works closely with the leading IC manufacturers to understand the problems our customers will be facing in the future and to make development decisions accordingly. We continually strive for advancements in the areas of current density, efficiency and high frequency performance. ICE Engineers bring to market innovative components that enable better and more advanced end-products for our customers.
Our engineering services include SMPS Transformer Design, Rapid Prototyping, Plastic Injection Molding, and Ferrite Core Tooling. In addition, our in-house machine shop provides test fixtures, assembly jigs, core gapping, core coating and custom mounting bases.
MANUFACTURING & CUSTOM CAPABILITIES
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Since inception, ICE Components has operated a manufacturing base in China. Our factory in Shenzhen China employs over 2,500 workers with a production capacity of 2,500,000 transformers and 3,750,000 inductors per month.
Our flexible production line easily accepts small quantity runs up to million piece production runs. Should you need a custom solution, our engineers will provide solid support in the early stages of your design in order to help you find the most efficient, cost competitive solution available to you. RAPID TRANSFORMER SAMPLE SERVICE
ICE Components has teamed up with Power Integrations to offer the Rapid Transformer Sample Service (RTSS). This innovative service enables customers to trim days off the power supply prototyping schedule by taking advantage of the quick turnaround on transformer samples. Typical lead-time on RTSS samples is two weeks and samples are provided free of charge to qualified accounts. Lead-time can be reduced to one week in special cases.
In developing this service, ICE Components worked closely with Power Integrations to minimize the number of design iterations and better determine the right transformer for specified applications. To simplify the process even further, customers requesting samples from RTSS can submit a Power Integrations design tool spreadsheet from the company’s PI Expert Suite PSU design software, saving the time needed to create detailed documentation.
POINTS OF DISTRIBUTION
Today, ICE offers one of the broadest product lines, including more than 1,500 standard parts and custom solutions. Based in Marietta, Georgia, our warehouse supports lean manufacturing, is flexible and offers a quick turn-around on inventory requests.
With the help of partners overseas, we now serve customers in Europe, Israel, India, Australia, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Mexico, Brazil, and Costa Rica. In 2011, ICE joined the Mouser network of suppliers offering its most popular standard products for immediate order and fulfillment.
QUALITY ASSURANCE & CUSTOMER SERVICE
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At ICE Components, we are dedicated to providing unsurpassed quality and customer service. We understand that quality is not an end goal but a process of constant improvement. We believe in total quality management and statistical process control. ICE Components is ISO14001:2004 registered.
Many of our loyal customer relationships date back more than 20 years--a clear testament to our top-notch customer service. We have a dedicated team of sales professionals and customer support representatives on hand and ready to assist you, both in the United States and Internationally.
As we look toward the future, it is with the continued goal of expanding the product base and entering new markets, both domestic and abroad. By leveraging the knowledge and engineering expertise built over the past 30 years of operations, ICE Components will continue to offer value-added engineering services and custom solutions to the ever-changing market of advanced power applications.
Provided by Marley Hopper,
Marketing Manager, ICE Components
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