One of the benefits of the IPC/WHMA 620 Test requirements is that it establishes what is normal practice for testing cables and harnesses. Yet, other test specifications often surface. MIL Standard 1344 describes Dry Circuit testing in method 3002.1. Therefore, it must have a purpose. Yet, production testing of cable and harness assemblies is not one of them. To learn more about the purpose of this form of testing and how to respond to a customer that inquired about your failure to perform such a test, click on

Oxides and contaminates on contacts are usually wiped off when the connector is plugged onto its mate.

Have you discovered Wikipedia yet? This online encyclopedia is free and allows anyone to add content. That sounds like chaos but surprisingly many people looking over the shoulders of many people adding content allows the content to improve fast. In one research study by the magazine Nature, the number of errors found per entry was 4 in Wikipedia compared to 3 in the Encyclopedia Britannica. The errors in Britannica will wait for the next edition while the errors in Wikipedia were corrected soon after the article was published. There are helpful entries on Lean Manufacturing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing and 5-S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_%28methodology%29, and Kaizen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen. To see what is covered under terms used in our cable and harness applications see our links page on Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

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