As an engineer, you’ve got a lot to consider. Not only if your design will work, but how will you most effectively build it and where will you get the exact parts you need. With all the steps along the way, some more demanding than others and even some issues you may not have anticipated, it’s easy to get bogged down and detoured from completing your project.
When it comes to building wiring harnesses, imagine how helpful it would be to have a capable distributor streamline and simplify the process for you. And with all the recent supply side issues, your authorized distributor should have the parts you need on hand. Here’s how such a partner can save you time, improve your designs and make your life easier:
Component Selection
For many design engineers, connector selection is something they’re familiar and comfortable with, needing little help. After that, they are getting samples, trying them out and making sure they fit and work. If additional help is needed, your distributor will have a broad and deep selection of styles and capabilities in inventory.
Some connector manufacturers even provide pre-crimped leads, that can be inserted directly into their housings, as a single in stock part number. No hand tooling and crimping required. True plug and play. Now you can make sure the connector fits and functions as you imagined. If it does, move to the next step. If it doesn’t, your distributor can offer more options.
Prototype Testing
Once you have the product you need, you can start prototype testing. For this you need production quality off the shelf (OTS) cable assemblies in lengths that are at least close to what you need in the final design. Your distributor will have them for you. You need molded over? They have them. Discrete wire? You got it. Whatever your needs, your distributor will have an option for you. You can take delivery and test until you are sure of exactly what you need.
Customization
At this point, select distributors can provide online customization tools to specify your exact needs, orientation, cable lengths and anything else you need to get a drawing and quote back from them. From there, your distributor will obtain all your part numbers and inventory in stock and ensure your requirements are met and products are delivered exactly as you need them.
In addition to offering a wide range of high quality components and seasoned expertise through every step of your design, an accomplished distributor can offer you two things invaluable in today’s fast-moving, ever-changing electronics world—available parts and an available partner—so that supply chain hang-ups don’t slow down your process and you have an invested source you can always depend.
For decades, TTI has worked hard to be the electronics component resource of choice that engineers rely on to provide the widest and deepest variety of quality parts exactly when customers need them along with experienced Specialists to help them with all their needs. We do what we do best—provide quality components and expertise—so engineers can do what they do best—create outstanding designs.
