Corporate Profile and History

Equipto Electronics Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of packaging products for the electronics industry. We make a variety of enclosures from full size cabinets to subracks and completely custom enclosures. We generally may be considered a metal fabricator. However, as opposed to a job shop, we have a large standard line of multiple products and accessories, based on the EIA RS-310 standard (often referred to as the 19" standard), all with patented designs

Since the company's founding in 1960, our products have been modular. Because the enclosures are modular, equipment can be moved from a vertical rack to a sloped front console, work station or instrument cabinet without modification. By adding shelves, drawers, turrets, casters, lift bolts, standard or special panels, plug molds, fans, blowers - in fact an almost endless list of accessories and options, today's design engineer can create the perfect electronic enclosure out a catalog of standard products - many of which can be manufactured and shipped by Equipto Electronics in just five days.

Of course, we also recognize that our customer often have special requirements. Our large engineering staff works directly with customers to specify and design enclosures for unique situations. Because of the wide variety of our standard product, seemingly very special requirements can often be met with modification of only a few components.

History

Our company has a firm foundation in the beginnings of the electronic industry in America. Equipto Electronics Corporation was founded in 1960 by Herb Golz. To understand where our company came from, and our continued direction, we need to look at our founder, and how his ideas developed. Herb began his career as a metal fabricating engineer, eventually specializing in electronic packaging. In the 1930's and 1940's, every manufacturer produced products to their own specification. There was neither standards nor modularity.

Recognizing these needs, Herb began his quest by addressing the issue of standards. With every electronic manufacturer having their own set of standards, the concept of modularity was useless. Because Herb was a leader in electronic packaging, he was asked by the Federal Government shortly after the second world war, to head a committee to develop standards. The result was 19", 24" and 30" panel widths, and heights that had 1 3/4" increments. The hole pattern for mounting the equipment had a sequence of 5/8", 5/8", 1/2", repeated along the entire mounting area.

Panel widths were chosen to match the then common equipment sizes. The standard increment is a combination of the hole pattern. But where did the hole pattern come from?

In the forties, General Electric and Western Electric were the principal electronic contractors. Because of the dominance of these companies, and the amount of equipment they had in the field, both company's hole patterns had to be considered. The overlay of the two patterns yielded the standard we recognize today.

With the problem of the standards solved, Herb Golz was free to fully develop his concept of modularity. A design that offered the ability to exchange various electronic manufacturers products from one enclosure to another, or use them interchangeably.

Today, with dozens of modular enclosure manufacturers producing products, the concept seems obvious. At the time, the idea was revolutionary. He took prototyping from years of engineering an enclosure package, and many thousands of dollars in development and manufacturing the first unit, to a simple catalog order. It allowed both the large and small user to show their electronic products off with a truly superior look. The use of accessories, special colors and a custom unique design allowed new products to stand out as a proprietary development of superior quality.

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