Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...

As semiconductor packages grow more complex, conventional continuity tests are no longer adequate for screening out open circuits and pin-to-pin shorts. Most test methods were designed for devices ...

All it takes is a kink in the cable, somebody running over it with their office chair, or a poor crimping job on one end (like leaving way too much wire untwisted) to make the cable not work. I'd ...

Platinum Tools, a brand of preparation, installation, hand termination, and testing solutions from NSI, is proud to announce the launch of its new PT-OTDR-100 mini OTDR tester. The PT-OTDR-100 is ...

One test motion cables undergo at cable maker igus inc. is repeated twisting. Here, cables sit inside Twisterband cable carriers, which rotate thousands of degrees per cycle. When science-fiction ...