Engineering and Innovation
Innovative interconnect
Specialising in design and development.
Amphenol Ltd.’s engineering resource and design capability is based predominantly in its UK Whitstable site, with additional engineering capability in Pune India. Specialising in the design and development of connector and interconnect solutions for both internal and customer specific needs, Amphenol Ltd can support your connector requirements with its extensive industry knowledge and capability.
Working with our customers, Amphenol Ltd is able to design and develop interconnect solutions to meet strict environmental and performance requirements, backed up with our in-house environmental test capability. Assisting in the customer engineering relationship are Amphenol Ltd.’s Applications engineers, who can assist in shaping customer needs & requirements while developing concept solutions.
Product development
Typically over 1200 new parts are released yearly, with internal or customer product ranges released every quarter.
Amphenol Ltd is proud of its product ranges and customer solutions, and holds numerous Patents for its internal product developments.
Key Facts
- Specialist team of Engineers, incorporating both Design & Applications Engineering specialisms
- Manufacturing & Quality engineers supporting pilot & production builds
- >1000 – new parts per year
- 3D printing / Rapid Prototyping capability
- Rapid Pre-Production & Prototype machining facility on-site
- On-site Electrical and Environmental Testing facilities
- Aerospace Accredited DFMEA / PFMEA & PPAP / APQP capabilities
Capabilities
Amphenol Ltd offers an end to end design and manufacturing service as well as providing access to the complete Amphenol Military and Aerospace (AMAO) portfolio of products and services.
We work with our customers to provide innovative interconnect solutions based on technical performance coupled with cost-effective design and manufacture.
Our capabilities include:
- Applications Engineering Team with extensive industry and interconnect knowledge
- Full end-to-end design service
- 3D CAD modelling
- Proposal drawings and wiring schematics
- High resolution 3D printing facilities
- High-speed data modelling, simulation and network analysis
- PCB and flex design – via sister sites
- Prototyping & Pre-Production CNC machining capability
- Fully gated NPI process to PPAP / APQP standards with pre-production support
- Fully equipped machine shop featuring multi-axis CNC turning centres with specific expertise in exotic materials such as Titanium and Nickel Aluminium Bronze
- Design and moulding of engineering rubbers and plastics
- Metal Finishing – includes on-site plating such as Cadmium, Zinc Nickel, Silver, Black-Silver and stainless steel passivate
- Connector, harness and complex electronic box assembly
- Fibre Optic Connectors and Assemblies
- Temperature controlled clean room
- Tool-room , supporting mould tool manufacture
- Low and high pressure overmoulding
- Independent Test House facility – electrical & environmental testing
- Automated cut, strip and crimping
- KANBAN, stocking and logistics support
- Automated in-process testing and certification
- Hermetically Sealed Connectors
