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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)

What Defense Primes Actually Look for in a Hermetic Connector Supplier Every quarter, a supply-chain team inside a defense prime sorts its connector and machining sources into two piles: suppliers they can defend to their own customer, and everyone else.

What Defense Primes Actually Look for in a Hermetic Connector Supplier

CMMC Compliance: Why Your Supplier's Cybersecurity Status Is Now a Gating Item for Award The next contract your program awards may hinge on a question that has nothing to do with tolerances, lead time, or price: can every supplier who touches the technical data prove they protect it?

CMMC Compliance: Why Your Supplier's Cybersecurity Status Is Now a Gating Item for Award

The Weakest Link Is Usually the Special Process A few months after a flight part ships, it comes back. Not because a dimension drifted — the machining checked out on every feature, first article through final.

The Weakest Link Is Usually the Special Process

DPAS Rated Orders: What a DO or DX Rating Requires From Your Suppliers A defense program can fund the work, qualify the supplier, and release the purchase order, and still slip — because the supplier put the order in the normal queue.

DPAS Rated Orders: What a DO or DX Rating Requires From Your Suppliers

Value-Added Assembly: Why One Partner Beats Three Vendors A production ramp rarely fails at the machine. It fails at the interfaces — between the shop that machines the housing, the processor that plates it, and the contract house that bolts the assembly

Value-Added Assembly: Why One Partner Beats Three Vendors