Purchasers and buying agents for electronic product corporations need the secrets – the inside scoop on sourcing vital wire and cable supplies and who to steer clear of
Electronic Components Shortages: Worldwide Effects Of The Pandemic
One way to fight against this inflation is to procure early in order to maintain price for your customers longer. It is inevitable that there will be increases over time, but we can at least help the situation by holding stock for longer that we know will be used by our faithful clients. This adds risk to manufacturing, so there needs to be some commitment from the customer side as well to limit that risk as far as promises to continue buying for the lifecycle of the product.
Get Expert Results: Outsourcing To Custom Wire Harness Manufacturers
It takes many years in business to curate a reliable vendor list for raw certified materials. Making orders for materials, seeing the products come in and their quality, lead time analyzation and volume cost breaks all must be top of mind as an outsourcing company to be able to provide a long service life for parts at the best prices.
Wire Cutting & Crimp Die Machine Setups: How To Limit Variability
Having a great setup tech is key to a crimp die operating properly. Every aspect of the material from feeding the terminals into the fixture, positioning, application and cutting off of the terminal from the carrier reel can create variability in the finished product if everything is not aligned, sharp and accurate.
Professional Wire Processing: Semi-automated Crimping of Terminals Onto Stripped Wire ends
Achieving a gas tight, quality crimp onto a stripped wire is always the desired result of any good wiring harness manufacturer. The best way to achieve quality is to make sure first that the wire itself is stripped properly and not missing any strands of copper that might have been removed or damages by the stripping process. Another consideration is the length of the strip and perpendicular cutting of the wire end sets up the correct situation for crimping properly. Having a well-trained, astute cutting worker means everything to the beginning of high quality parts. Each different type of crimp …
Wiring Harness Manufacturing Quality Issues: Adhering To Best Practices
Many business owners, engineers, production managers, and other personnel, who are responsible for the quality and knowledge of their electrical or electronic wire processing, lack the information and training necessary to make sound decisions about quality issues concerning custom wire harness and cable assemblies. When it comes down to it, this information disparity is partly due to the fact that the knowledge, and information necessary to expose the issues involved in wire harness or cable assembly has typically been kept amongst a relatively few individuals inside the industry. People who own, and or at one time or another worked for …
Producing Beautiful Custom Wire Harnesses: Canadian Made Quality
Quality wire harness manufacturing doesn’t happen by accident. Two main quality certifications govern the safety, performance, and repeatability of OEM wire harness and cable products. CSA (Canadian Standards Association) and 2. UL (The Underwriters Lab of America). These certifications guarantee that manufacturers create products using only certified, high quality components produced by reputable companies like TE Connectivity, Panduit, Molex, Amphenol, EDAC, and JST to name a few. The true lifespan of a wire harness is a matter of long term experience building wire harnesses and knowing the intricacies of proper crimping methods, as well as having a wire harness quality …