Industry Affiliations

• Open19 Foundation
• BICSI
• ESOP Association
• International Organization for Standardization
• Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
• Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• Telecommunications Industry Association
• The Green Grid
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Society of Telecommunications Consultants
• Uptime Institute

 

Here at Chatsworth Products we're proud to maintain a variety of important industry affiliations with many leading, long-established and world recognized governing bodies of industry and commerce. Through these alliances, CPI ensures its contractors, clients and customers the highest level of reliability and support when it comes to our products and services. 

Furthermore, CPI's staff works hard to maintain and strengthen these industry affiliations throughout the calendar year with regular attendance at various seminars, conferences and other related events to help drive innovation and information sharing. Our active approach to industry affiliations also ensures a variety of best practices through safer and more environmentally-friendly standards and regulations.

The following is a list of leading organizations that CPI is currently affiliated with:

Open19 Foundation

CPI is a member of the Open19 Foundation, an organization established to build a community for a new generation of open data centers and edge solutions. The Open19 Project is an industry specification that defines a cross-industry common server form factor, creating a flexible and economic data center and edge solution for operators of all sizes. This open platform will support any 19” rack environment for servers, storage and networking.

BICSI

BICSI is a professional association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry with information, education and knowledge assessment for individuals and companies. Through courses, conferences, publications and professional registration programs, BICSI staff and volunteers assist ITS professionals in delivering critical products and services, and offer opportunities for continual improvement and enhanced professional stature. 

ESOP Association

The ESOP Association is the number one advocacy group for employee ownership in the United States. The ESOP Association believes that employee ownership improves American competitiveness…that it increases productivity through greater employee participation in the workplace…that it strengthens our free enterprise economy and creates a broader distribution of wealth…and that it maximizes human potential by enhancing the self-worth, dignity, and well-being of our people. CPI is proud to be 100% employee owned.

International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the world's largest developer of standards. It is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries and is a non-governmental organization. Many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government, while other members have roots uniquely in the private sector. Therefore, ISO is able to act as a bridging organization in which a consensus can be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society.

View our  ISO 9001 Certificate here.

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) independently tests and certifies products for safety. UL evaluates more than 19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems annually with 21 billion UL Marks appearing on 71,000 manufacturers’ products each year. UL’s worldwide family of companies and network of service providers includes 66 laboratory, testing and certification facilities serving customers in 104 countries.

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) serves as a bridge between government requirements and industry capabilities, representing the top government, industry, and military professionals in the fields of information technology, communications, and intelligence. AFCEA, a non-profit international association, is dedicated to supporting global security by providing an ethical environment that encourages a close cooperative relationship among civil government agencies, the military and industry.

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) founded in 1894, is an international organization of 55,000 members. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education. 

CPI is a member and active participant in Technical Committee TC9.9 addressing Mission Critical Systems

Telecommunications Industry Association

 The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the leading trade association for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. As co-owner and co-producer of NXTcomm™, TIA serves ICT suppliers to global markets through its leadership in standards development, domestic and international policy advocacy, and facilitating member business opportunities. TIA represents the communications sector of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA).

CPI is a member and active participant in the Telecommunications Engineering Committee and sub-committees under TR-42.

The Green Grid

The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. In furtherance of its mission, The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies.

U.S. Green Building Council

 The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders committed to expanding sustainable building practices. USGBC is composed of more than 15,000 organizations from across the building industry that are working to advance structures that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work. Members includes building owners and end-users, real estate developers, facility managers, architects, designers, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors, product and building system manufacturers, government agencies, and nonprofits. USGBC's Mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.

Society of Telecommunications Consultants

 The Society of Telecommunications Consultants (STC) is an international organization of voice and data communications professionals who serve clients in business, industry, service organizations and government.

Uptime Institute

Uptime Institute provides education, publications, consulting, certifications, conferences and seminars, independent research, and thought leadership for the enterprise data center industry and for data center professionals.

Chatsworth Products’ (CPI) Regional Field Application Engineer Latin America, Emmanuel Castillo, is an Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer.