Wire Processing Assembly

Tariffs Have Moved Some Production From China, but not to the US

November 4, 2019

Recently, I received an e-mail from a U.S. electrical products company warning me that, on Oct. 15, the tariff on power supplies and power cords imported to the U.S. from China would increase from 25 percent to 30 percent.

CAMI Research, Doyle Manufacturing Form Strategic Partnership

October 30, 2019

ACTON, MA--CAMI Research Inc. and Doyle Manufacturing Inc. have formed a strategic partnership to market the popular CableEye test system.

TPC Wire and Cable Acquires Cicoil

October 30, 2019

MACEDONIA, OH--TPC Wire & Cable Corp. has acquired Cicoil LLC., a leading manufacturer of flat cable and cable assemblies based in Valencia, CA.

Prototyping Complex Harnesses

Designing, building and testing complex wire harnesses takes planning, attention to detail - and a good tester

Jon Quigley

October 10, 2019

Vehicles have become increasingly electrical over the years. This is not just power electronics, but also sensor data, communications and many other coordinated electrical signals. For aircraft or commercial vehicles, wire harnesses can be even more complex with hundreds of interconnection points.

Soldering System is Powerful Enough for Engine Maker

Jim Camillo

October 9, 2019

Drones have come a long way in a fairly short time, commercially speaking. In less than 20 years, these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gone from being used by the CIA to attack the Taliban in Afghanistan, to soon being used by Amazon to deliver a wide range of packages to homes.

Interesting and Unusual Applications of Cable Testing

From underwater vehicles to crash dummies, these case studies showcase the benefits of using a versatile and adaptable cable tester

Christopher E. Strangio

October 9, 2019

Over the last 26 years, since the founding of CAMI Research Inc., customers and friends have asked why the company would focus its efforts on such a mundane, low-tech, and uninteresting device as a cable tester, particularly since a variety of such devices already existed.

OEE and Wire Processing

Rob Boyd Robert Suess-Wolf

October 8, 2019

Digitization, Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) are buzzwords we hear quite often today. What do they mean for the wire processing industry? How will digitization affect our business, and how will we measure our performance?

Tesla Develops Robot-Friendly Wiring Architecture

July 29, 2019

PALO ALTO, CA—Engineers at Tesla Inc. have developed a new wiring architecture that enables more robot automation in the manufacturing process and uses fewer materials.

How Well Do You Know Your Crimping Process?

Engineers need objective evidence to determine if their equipment and operators are producing quality terminations

Terry Curtis

July 22, 2019

Companies make countless decisions every day. There are micro decisions affecting short-term operations and macro decisions affecting the company's big picture over the long term.

Processing Thick Cables

Special equipment is needed to cut, strip and terminate large-diameter wire and cable

John Sprovieri

July 19, 2019

About 2 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide in 2018, a whopping 57 percent increase over 2017, according to consulting firm Research and Markets. Some 69 percent of those were battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 31 percent were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).