Power Solutions, LLC is committed to providing best-in-class expertise to support engineering for critical power and cooling products and services. We are a vendor and technology neutral resource, and pride ourselves on deep product knowledge for the widest selection of power and cooling products in the industry. Our collective experience of over 100 years working with all the major, and in some cases, less known, manufactures allow us to design and configure critical power and cooling solutions that completely satisfy project specifications.
Benefits of Vendor Neutral Engineering for Critical Power and Cooling
- Complete focus on your success – Power Solutions, LLC is purposely structured to provide innovative, thoughtful client-based solutions. We provide technically valuable and unbiased advice. This vendor-agnostic approach allows us to participate in discussions as a trusted partner and make recommendations that are in the best interest of the project owner.
- Enhanced industry knowledge – Different manufacturers excel at different things. Some are better at certain technologies than others and they all have a slightly different focus in their product development. That means not every manufacturer will have the exact solution that caters to project requirements. It’s critical to have a partner like Power Solutions that can provide objective recommendations based on project needs.
- A Holistic Solution – When working with a vendor-specific resource, such as a manufacturer’s rep, the solution offered may be incomplete or deviate significantly from project specifications because of the limitations of that specific manufacturer’s product line. Our deep product knowledge spans the complete critical power infrastructure – from generators and rotary UPS to switchgear and power distribution, static UPS, and data center cooling. Given the variety of the products and services we offer, successful project execution usually requires combining products and services from multiple vendors.
- Objective Engineering Support – Our application engineering team specializes in identifying and securing the best solution for a specific application regardless of manufacturer. This objective approach means we can help engineers establish the best option for basis of design for each component of the critical power and cooling specification.
- Industry Inside Knowledge – Our vendor neutral model allows single-source access to the widest range of critical power and cooling products available in the industry. We carefully review and train on all the product lines we work with so we can offer engineers and customers carefully considered solutions without manufacturer or vendor bias. We always consider budget and timeline objectives when making recommendations. Daily interactions with our best of breed manufacturers provide us a unique perspective on behind-the-scenes considerations such as quality and production, supply chain and lead times, and pending price changes.
Power Solutions, LLC can simplify the execution of your project with a single phone call. As your trusted partner, we become an extension of the project team. Our application engineers can help with critical power and cooling systems design, support project engineering teams in refining specifications and determining basis of design, identify products that best meet those specifications, and assist with procurement.
Tools we have readily available for engineering support include:
- A library of proven data center designs and drawings
- Data center modeling including CFD analysis
- Basic specifications and product collateral with sample submittals
- Guide Specifications for most power and cooling equipment
- Detailed feature and benefit analysis of competing products
- Deep product knowledge including capability, cost, and lead time
- Competitive pricing for procurement
Send an email to [email protected] to reach our engineering team for more details.
Frequently Asked Questions
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis is a simulation technique used to model how air flows through a data center or equipment room. It helps engineers predict hot spots, validate cooling designs, optimize airflow management strategies (such as hot aisle/cold aisle containment), and ensure that cooling capacity is properly matched to the heat load of IT equipment. CFD analysis is particularly valuable when designing new data centers, adding high-density server equipment to existing facilities, or evaluating the impact of a planned infrastructure change on thermal performance. Power Solutions offers data center modeling including CFD analysis as part of its engineering support services.
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Basis of design (BOD) is the foundational document that defines the technical approach, equipment standards, and performance criteria for a critical power or cooling system. It captures the key engineering decisions — such as UPS topology, redundancy level, cooling architecture, and generator sizing — that all subsequent design, procurement, and construction work will follow. Establishing a clear and well-justified BOD early in a project prevents scope creep, simplifies procurement, and ensures that all stakeholders are aligned on the system’s intended performance.
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Power Solutions provides application engineering support across the full critical power and cooling infrastructure. Services include systems design and configuration, specification development and refinement, basis-of-design analysis, competitive product evaluation, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) data center modeling, single-line electrical diagram digitization, and procurement support. The engineering team also maintains a library of proven data center designs and guide specifications for most major power and cooling equipment categories, which accelerates project timelines and reduces design risk.
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The easiest way to engage Power Solutions’ engineering team is to call 800-876-9373 or email the engineering team directly. When reaching out, it helps to have a general description of the project scope, the facility type, any existing equipment constraints, and your timeline and budget parameters. Power Solutions engineers are available to participate in early-stage design discussions, respond to RFIs, and provide detailed product recommendations — at no cost for initial consultations on most project types.
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Power Solutions provides objective engineering support to help design engineers and facilities teams develop, refine, and validate product specifications for critical power and cooling equipment. This includes providing guide specifications for most power and cooling equipment categories, conducting detailed features and benefit comparisons of competing products, identifying products that meet specific performance and compliance requirements, and advising on real-world considerations such as lead times, supply chain availability, and total cost of ownership. Because Power Solutions works daily with all major manufacturers, it has current, behind-the-scenes insight into factors like production quality, pricing trends, and product roadmaps that are difficult to obtain elsewhere.
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Power Solutions provides competitive pricing and procurement support for all the power and cooling equipment it engineers and recommends. As a value-added reseller with relationships across more than 20 manufacturers, it can consolidate procurement across multiple equipment categories into a single transaction — simplifying vendor management, reducing administrative burden, and often providing more favorable pricing than buying from each manufacturer separately. This single-source procurement model also ensures better coordination between lead times and delivery schedules, which is critical for keeping complex projects on track.
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Critical power infrastructure is a system of interdependent components — UPS, generator, transfer switches, distribution, batteries, and cooling all interact with each other. A holistic design approach ensures that each component is properly sized and compatible with the others, that the system performs as intended under both normal and abnormal conditions, and that there are no gaps in protection or capacity. Working with a vendor-specific resource risks an incomplete solution because that manufacturer’s product line may not cover every component needed. Power Solutions’ broad product knowledge across the entire critical power stack enables it to deliver fully integrated, end-to-end solutions.
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Power Solutions engineers solutions across the complete critical power and cooling infrastructure stack. This includes rotary and static UPS systems, standby generators, automatic transfer switches (ATS), switchgear and power distribution equipment, PDUs (power distribution units), precision cooling and thermal management systems, DC power systems for telecommunications, battery systems, and DCIM monitoring software. Because no single manufacturer offers the best solution in every category, Power Solutions’ vendor-neutral approach enables it to combine best-of-breed products from multiple manufacturers into a single, cohesive design.
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Projects that benefit most from Power Solutions’ engineering support include new data center builds, data center expansions and refreshes, UPS or generator replacement projects where the existing specification needs to be re-evaluated, facilities undergoing power infrastructure upgrades to support higher IT loads or improved energy efficiency, and any project where multiple manufacturers’ equipment must be integrated into a cohesive system. Organizations that lack in-house critical power engineering expertise also benefit significantly from Power Solutions’ application engineering team, which can serve as an extension of the internal project team throughout the design and procurement process.
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For more information about Engineering for Critical Power and Cooling,
call 800-876-9373 or email [email protected].