Engineering support
Take your cable designs to the finish line
Collaboration
We’re the cabling experts. You don’t have to be.
When you have a design, our team is prepared to promptly begin the quoting process and get production up and running. (If this is you, get a quote in three days or less here.)
But it’s possible your drawing isn’t completely ready for production. That’s fine, too. And even if it is ready, we can help you engineer cable assemblies for better costs, lead times and reliability.
DfM
Where our expertise comes in
We help OEMs at all levels of cable assembly know-how improve their designs. Here are some of the most common tasks we handle:
Finalizing your design for performance and manufacturability
You know what the end product must do but understand what you have drawn up may not be the best approach. We step in to improve reliability and manufacturability.
Keeping obsolete parts out of your specification
You don’t have an intricate working knowledge of the cable assembly supplier ecosystem, so it takes a lot of your time to research and source compatible replacements. We do it for you.
Lacking cable and wire expertise internally
And you still need to achieve a design that performs without failure and fits within your lead time and cost parameters. That’s when you might lean on us.
Precision
What our recommendations look like
They vary by project, and aren’t a discrete service, but just part of working together.
Our goal is to achieve a cable design that meets your needs, 100% — anything else is a non-starter. Once we understand what you need to achieve, we’ll work together to streamline and improve your design. Here are some ways how:
- Pointing out materials that cause sourcing issues down the line, such as parts further along in their lifecycle that will lead to manufacturing disruption or recently introduced components that aren’t yet produced at significant volumes.
- Suggesting component alterations to streamline costs. Unnecessarily small connectors, for instance, are one of the largest contributors to increased cable assembly cost.
- Switching out materials to better meet lead time goals. For example, panel mount versions of connectors with preassembled leads save significant soldering time during production.
- Determining best-fit choices for sourcing, such as asking whether a proposed supplier is within the recognized ecosystem of ECIA-authorized manufacturers and distributors.
- Discussing design considerations to balance quality, availability and lead time. For example, if a design goes counter to best practice (improper shortcuts or incompatible parts), the product may end up sacrificing quality or deadlines.
- Making improvements to manufacturability. An assembly may be physically possible to build, but it may not be manufacturable from a technical standpoint.
- Catching potential instances of overengineering. Unnecessarily tight tolerances or extremely specific ratings on materials will likely increase price and lead time with a negligible effect on performance.
Other ways we offer support
We’re industry leaders for a reason. Here are some of the other reasons OEMs trust Multi-Tek.
Your first stop is a cabling expert
We’ll learn about your project and proactively communicate suggestions throughout the design process.
ISO, UL and IPC certified
We’re ISO 9001:2015 registered, UL certified and our assemblers are IPC/WHMA-A-620 certified.
Robust supplier and distributor relationships
We have direct contact with manufacturers and leverage that knowledge to your advantage.
99.8% on-time delivery
Standard quotes are completed within three days and standard lead time is three to four weeks.