AMREL (AMerican RELiance), headquartered in El Monte, California, is a maker/marketer of ruggedized computing equipment for industrial, medical and governmental markets. The company was founded by former Motorola VP Edward Chen who also co-founded Crete Systems, a Taiwanese premier rugged computer maker/OEM. The company is dedicated to a long-term support commitment of their customers and their specific rugged computer needs. AMREL is organized into a power products division that offers the eLoad programmable electronic loads and the ePower programmable DC power supplies; a computer division that manufacturers fugged military and industrial grade computers; and a medical division concentrating on medical computing platforms.
AMREL's general approach has been to create very flexible computing platforms in different form factors and then use those platforms as the basis for products customized to particular markets. Platforms include a rugged notebook, a rugged vehicle mount computer, a rugged PDA, and a rugged tablet computer. This COTS (commercial off the shelf) approach allows each platform to easily be adapted and customized.
The company's current platforms include the Rocky Mobile in-vehicle computer, the Rocky Apex tablet, and the Rocky Unlimited RT7-I in the industrial computer line; the Rocky Patriot DA5-M rugged PDA, the rugged RT7 and RK7 notebooks, and the rugged DR7 tablet in the federal/military computer lineup; and IEC 6060-compliant versions of these platforms in the company's medical computing division. AMREL is at 1-800-654-9838.
AMREL products described on RuggedPCReview.com:
AMREL ROCKY Patriot DA5-M rugged PDA
AMREL ROCKY Patriot DR-7M rugged tablet
AMREL ROCKY Apex rugged tablet
AMREL ROCKY RT7/RK7 rugged notebooks
AMREL MRK8 rugged medical notebooks
The PDA shown to the right is DA5-M rugged military PDA, introduced in the summer of 2007 as a state-of-the-art handheld with large 4" VGA display, a full PC Card slot and MIL-STD 461E electromagnetic emissions shielding.
