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Source Approval: How Aerospace Primes Actually Qualify a New Supplier A part can be fully qualified and still be unbuyable until the prime approves the supplier. Source approval is the gate that decides whether a new source makes a fiscal deadline.

Source Approval: How Aerospace Primes Actually Qualify a New Supplier

MIL-DTL-38999 Series I, II, or III: How to Specify the Right Hermetic Connector Series I, II, or III? A practical guide to specifying MIL-DTL-38999 hermetic connectors for aerospace and defense programs — coupling, mounting, and sealing.

MIL-DTL-38999 Series I, II, or III: How to Specify the Right Hermetic Connector

How Hermetic Connectors Improve Long-Term Reliability in Harsh Environments Hermetic connectors improve long-term reliability by closing the path moisture and gas use to reach the contacts.

How Hermetic Connectors Improve Long-Term Reliability in Harsh Environments

What Is Glass-to-Metal Sealing? How Hermetic Connectors Are Actually Made Glass-to-metal sealing is a manufacturing process that fuses molten glass to a metal connector shell and to the conductor pins passing through it, forming a permanent, inorganic hermetic barrier.

What Is Glass-to-Metal Sealing? How Hermetic Connectors Are Actually Made

Can You Get Custom Hermetic Connectors in Low Volume? Prototype and Quick-Quote Sourcing The short answer is yes. BoldX Industries accepts low-volume and prototype hermetic connector orders

Can You Get Custom Hermetic Connectors in Low Volume? Prototype and Quick-Quote Sourcing

Hermetically Sealed Connectors for Medical Devices: What Changes vs. Aerospace and Defense The connector that keeps moisture out of a missile guidance section and the feedthrough that keeps body fluid out of an implanted pulse generator rely on the same physics

Hermetically Sealed Connectors for Medical Devices: What Changes vs. Aerospace and Defense

When Your Qualified Connector Source Disappears: Managing DMSMS in Defense Programs Sometimes it arrives as a formal end-of-life notice with twelve months of warning.

When Your Qualified Connector Source Disappears: Managing DMSMS in Defense Programs

Machining to 2 Microns: What Tolerance That Tight Actually Requires ±0.00008 inches. Two microns. For scale: a human hair runs somewhere around 70 microns across.

Machining to 2 Microns: What Tolerance That Tight Actually Requires

U.S. Hermetic Connector Manufacturers: Alternatives to Glenair and Amphenol for Aerospace, Defense, and Medical Most engineers who start searching for an alternative to Glenair or Amphenol are not unhappy with either company.

U.S. Hermetic Connector Manufacturers: Alternatives to Glenair and Amphenol for Aerospace, Defense, and Medical

MIL-DTL-5015, 26482, 38999, or 83723? Choosing the Right Circular Connector Spec Somewhere in your drawing package, a connector is already specified. You didn't pick it, and the engineer who did retired years ago.

MIL-DTL-5015, 26482, 38999, or 83723? Choosing the Right Circular Connector Spec

Hermetic Connectors 101: What They Are, Where They Go, and Why QPL Qualification Matters Three words on a program spec stop procurement cold: "QPL required."

Hermetic Connectors 101: What They Are, Where They Go, and Why QPL Qualification Matters

What a First Article Inspection Actually Proves (And What It Doesn't) The FAI is signed. The FAIR package is closed. The program office has accepted the first lot.

What a First Article Inspection Actually Proves (And What It Doesn't)