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Connector selection, industry news and company updates

Connector selection is rarely decided by a datasheet alone. The useful questions — which shielding strategy survives a noisy cabinet, how a bend radius affects flex life, whether a thermal path will cope with a 400G module — are answered by the engineering behind the part rather than the specification table.

This section collects the guidance our team gives customers every week, organised into three areas.

Product information covers selection and application: how to choose between SCSI connector families, what M12 coding actually protects against, how drag-chain ratings are qualified and measured, and how to specify a camera cable that will not drop frames under load.

Industry news looks at the forces shaping interconnect demand — the effect of AI and HPC workloads on high-speed connector design, why servo encoder cables fail in service, and what RoHS and REACH compliance genuinely require from a supplier.

Company news records capability and certification updates, including our ISO 9001:2015 certification and the expansion of our authorised Amphenol stockholding.

If a topic you need is not covered, ask us directly. Most of the articles here started as a customer question, and a clear technical answer is usually the fastest route to the right part. Browse the product range or contact our engineering team.

How these connector selection guides are written

Every article here is written by the engineers who handle customer applications, not by a content team. That means the advice reflects what actually goes wrong in the field: a shield terminated at one end only, a cable run through a carrier at half its specified bend radius, a replacement part sourced on price that skews a differential pair.

Where a claim can be measured, we state the measurement conditions. A flex-life figure without its bend radius and travel distance is not engineering information, and we avoid publishing numbers we cannot qualify.

Connector selection topics readers ask about most

Reader interest clusters around a handful of recurring questions — how to specify a connector for a moving axis, how to stop camera links dropping frames, how to cross-reference an obsolete part number, and what documentation a quality system will demand. If your question falls outside those, send it to us and we will answer it directly rather than pointing you at a datasheet.

You can also review the quality control process behind the parts discussed here, or browse the connector and cable assembly ranges.

Standards referenced across these articles are published by ISO, the RoHS compliance guide and the USB Implementers Forum, among others. Where an article cites a standard, the primary source is linked directly.