Choosing the Right Components for your Wire Harness
How do you convey to your manufacturers and designers the features that are most important to the success of your wire harness? If you’re not working with a manufacturer that has years of experience in a variety of fields, it can be tough to ensure that they have a full grasp of the wide array…
Choosing the Right Wire Harness Components
The cable assembly—it’s one of the most critical parts of any electrical product. When a manufacturer is designing a given product, they have to ensure that they create a wire assembly using Wire Harness Components that fit the particular needs of the product. In other words, when designing a product, a manufacturer has to pick…
Wire Harness Basics: Picking the Right Wiring System
Picking the correct wiring system for your product is an absolute must. Choosing the wrong kind of Wiring System —one that’s not designed to handle the product’s noted electrical load, for instance—can lead to a commercial setback, as both you and the main manufacturer will have to scramble and waste production time trying to find…
What to Remember During Production
Finding the right manufacturer for your product is a time- and research-intensive process. So, once you’ve found the right manufacturer, there’s a temptation to simply step back and take a hands-off approach to the production process. Unfortunately, that’s a poor course of action: it’s important for companies to work closely with their manufacturers during the…
How to Choose a Cable Assembly Manufacturer
Choosing the right Cable Assembly Manufacturer might sound like an arduous task, but it can actually be a simple process—just as long as you make sure to do your research beforehand, of course. When seeking a manufacturer, it’s important to find a manufacturing firm that best fits your particular manufacturing need. If you choose an incorrect…
Best Practices for Prototyping Cable Assemblies
Prototyping Cable Assemblies As any manufacturer knows, Prototyping Cable Assemblies is absolutely critical to a product before manufacturing and distributing it. However, prototyping amounts to more than just simply sketching out a rough design—it involves designing an actual, physical product that will not only function properly, but will also be relatively simple to manufacture and…
Cable Assembly and Wire Hire Harness Design for Manufacturing Guide
Design for manufacturing (DFM) is a critical concept that all manufacturers, ranging from wire harness manufacturers to cable assembly manufacturers, must master in order to achieve commercial success. DFM relates to designing a part of a product, a specific service, or even a particular manufacturing process with ease of manufacturability in mind—in short, DFM allows…
Common Industrial Uses for Custom Cable Assemblies
Custom cable assemblies are the driving force behind some of the greatest technology. These cable assemblies allow inanimate objects to come to life, from the wires to make it function to the cables needed to allow it the proper amount of power. In today’s age of improving speed while minimizing size, custom cable assemblies are…
Exploring the Benefits of Custom Cable Manufacturing
Meridian Cable has been designing and manufacturing cable assemblies across many industries for over 25 years. We have proven our expertise in custom solutions; more than 70% of the products that we produce are products that we design. By choosing to customize your cable assemblies with Meridian Cable, you will be afforded the five following…
The Many Advantages and Uses of Coil Cords
If you are old enough to remember those old non-cordless phones, then you are old enough to remember coil cords—but what exactly are coil cords and what are their practical uses in today’s world? What is a coil cord? Coil cords are recognizable for their spring-like shape, but that coiled design provides the cord with…