American Power Systems News, Updates & Expert Resources

It’s been a great year here at APS, and we’re so grateful to our customers, vendors and partners who have made it so. Thank you! As 2018 wraps up, we’re looking back on the people, places and happenings that stand out: January | We started the year with a big announcement: The new Thomas K. Evans Memorial Scholarship invited local students pursuing a college degree in science, technology,...

American Power Systems, Inc. has joined the Iowa Lean Consortium. The Iowa Lean Consortium (ILC) is a member-led non-profit organization that aims to advance the principles of Lean, a business thought process that seeks to eliminate waste and provide value to customers through continuous improvement. The ILC provides information and education to its members, who come from a variety of types...

Clients trust APS when the need for power is critical and the stakes are high. Proving this point is our latest case study outlining recent work with a Toyota LandCruiser 79. A rugged, popular truck around the world, the Land Cruiser was upfitted with a chain gun for use as a remote weapon station. The challenge? To isolate the vehicle battery from that associated with the weaponry. You can...

APS President Amy Lank has been appointed to the Industry Advisory Council for the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) at Iowa State University. Read the official press release.

APS is currently being featured online by two Iowa entities: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources' Iowa Waste Exchange program features APS's comprehensive recycling program as a "success story" on its website. Check out the story here. The Center for Industrial Research and Service at Iowa State University covers APS in its Summer 2018 newsletter. You can read and download the CIRAS...

Cole Caleo of Moline has been named as the 2018 recipient of the Thomas K. Evans Memorial Scholarship. Caleo, a recent graduate of Alleman High School in Rock Island, will receive $5,000 toward tuition at Iowa State University, where he plans to study engineering in the fall. “I kind of shot high for this one,” said Caleo of his application. “It’s an honor to be given an award by a local...

Once in a while, APS gets the chance to provide power for some pretty awe-inspiring applications. Recently we learned that APS large-case, high output alternators were used on Hugo Boss, a top-tier racing yacht expertly sailed by Briton Alex Thomson to take second place in the 2016-2017 Vendee Globe. Hugo Boss (left) is shown here in Barcelona in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Estrella Damm Fotos...

In June 2017 APS started recycling at our company headquarters in Davenport, Iowa. We set a big goal of recycling 20,000 pounds in our first year—and we promised here on the APS Blog to keep you informed. We're happy to report that one year in, we've recycled about 24,000 pounds of material, exceeding our goal. We also learned a few lessons about recycling along the way—and that's the real...

APS's newest offering The Advanced Energy Storage System—has received editorial coverage from Jane's 360, a large and well-known British publisher of military, aerospace and transportation magazines and blogs. The AES system was prominently featured Tuesday in the Eurosatory 2018 Show Daily, a tradeshow magazine distributed to 11,000 exhibitors and visitors at Eurosatory and viewed online by...

American Power Systems, Inc. (APS) is pleased to publish a new case study describing recent work on a special operations vehicle platform. The case study, “28-Volt Power for Special Operations,” is being released ahead of 2018 SOFIC, the Special Forces Operations Industry Conference taking place May 21-24 in Tampa, Fla. The case study describes the collaboration between APS and Polaris...