Error Detection – Tolerances – Headroom

Important: When selecting the test equipment and test methods, care must be taken to ensure that the crimp connection is not damaged by the testing process!

A micrograph tells you a lot about the inner structure of a crimp connection. But what if you don't happen to have a micrograph laboratory and still need to check the insides of your crimped connection?

Oh-oh! ... The wire strand count on the micrograph of your crimp connection reveals that there a missing wire strands. As a result, the crimp connection is evaluated as poor. The production batch scrapped.

If this crimp connection is part of a wire harness or a number of pre-assembled wires, one question inevitably arises: Are there any other crimp connections that are also affected? How big is the potential damage?

Quality standards in crimping technology are becoming ever more stringent. Particularly for connections that are integrated into systems that directly serve the protection and safety of people, like ABS anti-lock braking system, airbags, emergency call systems, medical equipment, etc., quality requirements are constantly being increased.