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Explore detailed engineering whitepapers featuring application insights, design considerations, and technical guidance to support confident decision-making across interconnect, electromechanical, and sensor technologies.
This whitepaper introduces the growing importance of high-speed interconnects in modern high-performance computing systems. It highlights how signal integrity, routing constraints, and thermal considerations pose challenges when using PCIe cabling. The whitepaper explains why designers are turning to advanced solutions such as 3M’s low-profile Twin Axial Cable Assemblies, which offer strong signal integrity, flexible routing, and compatibility with multiple high-speed connector standards.
Ensuring the optimum performance in solar, wind, or other energyharvesting solutions requires attention to every detail, especially
when it comes to the interconnects that lace the system together.
This whitepaper explores the critical importance of mitigating vibration-related damage in electronic systems deployed in harsh environments. With increasing demands across sectors like automotive, aerospace, medical, and industrial IoT, electronics are frequently exposed to mechanical stress that can lead to wear, connection failures, and system breakdowns. The paper highlights effective design strategies and protective measures—such as rugged enclosures, vibration-resistant connectors, and material damping—to ensure long-term reliability and performance.
The Internet of Things is redefining how modern systems operate. Connected devices now gather data about their own status and surroundings, share it across distributed networks, and form an ecosystem of autonomous technologies. This interconnected environment enables machines to analyze information in real time and make decisions independently, without human intervention.
This whitepaper explores the transition from traditional cadmium-based connector plating to modern alternatives such as J-Plating, particularly for applications that demand high corrosion resistance and reliable conductivity. It addresses key challenges such as corrosion protection, EMI shielding and meeting RoHS/REACH requirements, while showing how ITT Cannon’s Tin Zinc J-Plating delivers cadmium-level performance with improved environmental compliance.
Industrial robots are highly complex electro-mechanical machines that have been part of factory production lines since the early 1960s. Long a staple of automated production lines for operations such as welding, industrial robots are expanding their reach to more precise operations such as pick and place. This white paper discusses the new challenges faced by connector manufacturers in this new range of applications.
Discover how a leading innovator in inertial measurement units (IMUs) turned to NorComp’s COTS Micro-D connectors to meet the demands of military-grade reliability—without the cost or lead times of traditional MIL-SPEC components. Used across defense, aerospace, autonomous vehicles, and industrial systems, this solution helped accelerate development timelines while maintaining the high-rel performance required for mission-critical applications.
The whitepaper introduces the Switchcraft EP7 Series, a line of power connectors designed for demanding environments such as transportation, industrial equipment, lighting, and electric vehicles. These connectors offer high power handling, environmental protection, and mechanical flexibility to ensure consistent and reliable performance.