Machine designers and builders typically try to keep installation costs low by choosing to hardwire the unit for power and signals.

Safe-T-Cable successfully completed all tests demonstrating enhanced weight savings and decreased labor hours during installation.

When people board an airplane, they bring with them the need for wireless data. This need, according to technology experts, is quite extensive: Trillions of megabytes of data annually for millions of continuous inflight calls, texts, chats, games and video conferences.

Makers of printed circuit boards aren’t the only manufacturers interested in packing more power into a smaller space.

If astronauts ever set foot on Mars, they'll get there with the help of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket ever built.

Automotive innovation is driven by environmental, safety and lifestyle requirements. This means manufacturers are putting more electronic content in their vehicles with ever-increasing numbers of electronic control units (ECUs).

A profound lesson of technological history is that a mechanical thing's purpose and function (i.e., how it achieves this purpose) may diverge over time.

Laser wire stripping was developed by NASA in the 1970s as part of the Space Shuttle program. The technology made it possible to use smaller sized wires with thinner insulations, without risk of the damage that can be caused by traditional mechanical wire stripping methods.

Wiring harnesses for complex assemblies, such as cars or airplanes, can contain hundreds or even thousands of wires. Routing all those wires from connector to connector is fraught with opportunities for error.

Cables, cord sets and wire harnesses are invariably assembled with at least some amount of manual labor, even when high volumes are needed. Sure, the process of cutting, stripping and terminating individual wires can be fully automatic.