Turnkey Integration

Turnkey System Integration Overview:

IRON has the manufacturing capacity to handle your platform business whether you plan to ship tens, or thousands of units per month. IRON provides unique forecasting, software image control, engineering change order, custom configuration management, software builds, and image loads for every OEM platform. This allows your product development resources to focus on developing new products and confidently leave the rest to us.

IRON Global offers a full line of services to help you better design, modify, migrate and integrate your products. Let IRON Global provide you and your customers with a full range of integration services. From purchasing to program planning to small-lot manufacturing and drop-shipping to customers, we can help you get your products to market by assisting in the time-consuming integration process, allowing you to focus on what you do best.

Iron has the ability to scale to meet customers’ needs and can deliver both large and small-run productions of high reliability  systems. Engineers and technicians are trained to assemble a wide range of systems from single processor servers to complex servers, storage and blade systems.

• Custom Hardware Design: Multi-Vendor Integration.
• Custom Software Design: Custom OS, application setup, testing and support.
• Fast response: Semi-custom systems can be delivered in as little as 48 hours.
• Faster Time-to-Market: Ready-to-use products and service plans.

Key Advantages:

• Allocation of Resources With Iron as an outsourced manufacturer, companies no longer need to worry about personnel resources during peak times.
• Manufacturing Support Customers have access to production forecasts and schedules throughout the production process.
• Production Testing During production testing, the final prototype specifications serve as the basis for all builds. All processes are documented using ISO 9001 reporting procedures.
• Testing and Quality Assurance Iron provides a full range of testing services. These tests are matched with the Company’s ISO 9001 quality processes to ensure the highest standards of quality are maintained.
• Quality and Reliability Iron follows a rigorous ISO 9001 registered production process.
• Time to Market Iron offers inventory services to ensure the proper components are in stock. Finished goods inventories also may be kept in order to provide same-day shipping of complete systems.

Integration Services: List of Services

Frame Level System Integration

Our engineering staff has extensive design experience with network equipment and systems. We can assist with initial frame design, create assembly and verification procedures, manage and prototype modifications, and ensure compliance with appropriate standards.

The faster next-generation network equipment can be built and deployed, the sooner operating companies can start growing revenues from new services. Iron provides OEMs world-class, comprehensive frame level design and integration services that offer. Once the rack is integrated and tested, Iron ships the fully integrated frame in custom packaging that complies with industry standards for arrival at any site, ready for operation.

Key Benefits:

• Faster deployment Dramatically decrease order-to-installation times.
• Tailored solutions Helps meet special requirements.
• Consistent quality Comprehensive testing processes and strict ISO governance.
• Procurement and Staging By procuring and staging all necessary equipment prior to the start of a frame build, PDSi reduces implementation time and minimizes logistics issues. A program manager facilitates this process to ensure third-party and consigned materials are available and to expedite any in-process changes.
• System Configuration In addition to assembling and integrating components into the frame, we ensure correct installation and configuration of BIOS, operating systems, middleware and application software on each of the component platforms.
• QA and System Testing Prior to shipping, Iron performs a series of software and physical tests to ensure the system is fully operational and meets the necessary standards.
• Accelerated High Temperature Thermal Testing We perform thermal testing on individual or multiple systems and fully integrated rack enclosures both for design validation and production screening. Thermal testing for multiple systems and integrated racks can be performed in a heat room from 70° to 105° F (21° to 40° C).

System Configuration Management:

Electronic component manufacturers regularly switch hardware revisions and firmware in the middle of a production run. On the surface this doesn't sound like a huge issue, but it can be a nightmare for technicians, who end up with different computers in the exact same chassis having the same specifications. Worse yet, it can result in a near-impossible situation when the customer tries to upgrade 1,000 systems with new software only to find that systems with different components behave and perform differently.

The problem is exacerbated when it comes to BIOS settings and other firmware upgrades. OS release levels, software patches, integration testing (making sure new hardware works with the old/new software and vice versa) are additional reasons why our Configuration Management Program becomes mandatory for any project where large numbers of computer systems are expected to perform identically throughout their product life cycles.

Iron’s advanced Test Plan and Configuration Management Program provides comprehensive management and version controls to track and manage changes to hardware, software, firmware and documentation throughout the computers systems entire product life cycle. Thus systems performance remains predictable and uninterrupted even during periods of hardware and software upgrades.

BOM and Document Change Management:

Iron offers the most advance Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) services that enable engineering, manufacturing and its extended supply chains to work better together—from first prototype to full-scale production to End of Life.

Key Benefits:

• Item Management Bill of Materials (BOM) Management and Documentation: Centralize bills of materials (BOMs) ensures that all stakeholders are collaborating around the latest version of product data.
• Bill of Materials (BOM) Management Centralize bills of materials (BOMs) ensures that all stakeholders are collaborating around the latest version of product data.
• Product Documentation Management Centralize documentation ensures that all stakeholders are collaborating around the latest version of product data.
• Change Management Change requests and change orders (ECRs & ECOs) and automated approval routings for efficient and accurate change management.
• Customer and Supplier Access and Sharing Provides secure access to OEM customers and suppliers to enable real-time collaboration and ensure that the correct design is always built.
• Compliance Ensure part, product and process compliance (such as RoHS, FDA, UL, CE and ISO9000) with compliance reports and audit trails.
• Integration Fully integrated with CAD, PDM, EDA, ERP/MRP systems for accurate data transfer.