What Is M12 Cable?

M12 4 Pin Connector

Needing a M12 4 pin connector manufacturing expert to help out with your next industrial or technical project? Technical Cable Applications in Washington state is your best option for all cable manufacturing needs. Our high quality cable manufacturing facility has been shipping and building cables, harnesses and much more all around the United States for decades, and we’re prepared to provide reliable M12 4 pin connectors for your company, project or construction. Our engineers and technicians can produce excellent M12 cables, whether you have an existing cable that needs to be manufactured faster and more precisely or need a custom solution that uses M12 connectors. Our custom cable engineers can prototype and test M12 cables for your needs, no matter the industry you need it for. 

We have highly experienced teams for every step of the cable process including  prototyping, testing, manufacturing and shipping, so we are the M12 4 pin connector experts for every part of the process no matter your needs. Not only can we build custom M12 cables to meet your exact specifications, we use only the best and most trustworthy materials and manufacturing tools to make every cable and pin is reliable and safe. We invest into new tools and improving our facility each year and have only improved as being the best M12 4 pin connector manufacturer you can choose for your needs. 

M12 4 Pin

Our cable manufacturing facility is in Auburn, Washington in King County but we can work with anyone in the US and make sure your product can be safely shipped to your location. This area is the perfect place to be a manufacturer in because of the proximity to so many industries and companies that thrive in Seattle, but it also allows us to ship to any location on the West Coast very easily and elsewhere in the States as well. Every new project is an opportunity for us to improve our craft even further and help create amazing buildings, facilities and tools that advance technology in the States further, so we’d love to discuss your project and see how we can help make it happen. We have expanded our facility’s manufacturing size by 50% just in 2022 and purchased additional cable molding and crimping tools in order to increase our efficiency, so we can serve you with more speed and efficiency even if you’re on the other side of the country.

We take pride in being the best and most reliable suppliers for M12 4 pin connectors and all other M12 cable and harness products. We can also provide generators and power suppliers that will be just right for the M12 4 pin connector cables, both female and male connections. All of our manufacturing is done right here in the United States, and whole team works in the same facility making it easy for us to prototype and test new cable blueprints in-house and consolidate the process. While we’re proud to be a United States based manufacturer, we made the effort to pass the ISO’s 9001:2015 certification as a cable manufacturer in 2021 to confirm that our manufacturing processes and products are good enough not just for America, but other countries around the world as well. No matter the industry your cable needs are stemming from, or the location of your business, Technical Cable Applications has you covered with excellent cable manufacturing solutions for your M12 4 pin connector needs. 

M12 4 Pin Cable

We also have a unique advantage of being equipped to produce and manufacture Ethernet cables for your project as well, to help cover that need if required. One of our unique advantages is the ability to manufacture M12 Ethernet wires and cables (often known as D Coded Connectors) alongside manufacturing standard connectors and all our other products. If you’re in need of high speed data Ethernet cables that are highly durable and reliable, or even completely custom to fit your unique product or project need, we can manufacture them with extreme accuracy and quality. There’s no need to make your cables in-house or force your products to work with off the shelf cables that aren’t as high quality or powerful when Technical Cable can handle making products exactly the way you need them. Especially in industries where cable failures can be catastrophic like the aerospace, cybersecurity, marine or medical fields, there’s no room to cheap out on poor cables that won’t hold up to your business’s needs. We would love to see the cable you need manufactured or the requirements you have for a brand new cable, and speak with you to discuss partnering with us for your cable needs.

Our team of engineers and testers can prototype your custom M12 4 pin connectors to make sure they can handle your project-specific needs. If you need your cable to fit into a very tight space, or be weatherproofed for intense outdoor heat conditions, or any other specific requirements you have, our team can work with you and test a cable that’s perfect for your need. Once the cable is finalized, our manufacturing team will build the amount you need with extreme high quality standards and ship them out to you safely. We partner with shipping companies that do excellent work and can get you your products on time and ensure that the cables we work so hard on are transported properly. We also do our best to keep a solid inventory of M12 and other connectors so that we can quickly prototype custom cables and get started on orders quickly.

By using Technical Cable Applications, you’re finding much more than just a builder for your M12 4 pin connectors. Our M12 manufacturing company is renowned in the industry of cables for building the best products on the market. Let’s get started together! Contact us today online or via our sales phone line. 

M12 Connector

Seeking an M12 industrial cable assemblies manufacturing company to assist with your next big industrial, automotive manufacturing, or warehouse automation project or product line? Look no further than Technical Cable Applications, located in the state of Washington, in the greater Seattle area. Our manufacturing company has been manufacturing and shipping M12 connectors, wires, accessories, sensors, relays, switches and many other cabling solutions throughout the United States for many years to companies in the automotive, marine, telecommunications, medical, and agricultural industries along with many others. We’re ready to provide reliable M12 connectors, sensors, switches, relays, switches and assembly solutions for your company, upcoming project or other needs. Whatever connector system or assembly product you’re in need of creating, TCA’s unique range of tools and experience will be your greatest asset.

We handle all steps of the process including prototyping, testing, assembly and shipping your M12 cables, sensors, switches, relays, accessories and connectors, meaning that we are the industrial connectors company for your needs no matter how big your project or product need is. As M12 assembly builders, we focus first and foremost on providing high quality in our products and all their connectors, pins, sensors, accessories adapters, relays, accessories, and components.

We manufacture and ship M12 connectors and cabling products across the nation and internationally. We also partner with two excellent cabling solutions facilities in Guadalajara that have enabled us to offer nearshore manufacturing of connectors, sensors, accessories, switches, and relays along with full assemblies and wire harnesses to help our clients who need to avoid overseas partnerships and minimize shipping delays. These nearshore manufacturing partnerships have also enabled us to offer much lower MOQs (minimum order quantity) for our customers in need of custom power solutions, connectors, accessories and sensors, which makes prototyping significantly more cost effective along with being faster.

Our customers on both the East and West coast will tell you that is there no substitute for the quality Technical Cable Applications brings to our products and projects. We love coming alongside companies, manufacturers and industrial powerhouses with the perfect M12 connectors, cable assemblies, circuit boards, wire harnesses, sensors or accessories for their specific needs. We can do this for you as well! Just send us your assembly drawing and any power or data transfer speed specifications for your products as needed, so we can get you a quote.

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We pride ourselves on being the most professional, reliable and trustworthy suppliers for pin connectors, electrical sensor needs, assembly products, custom switches, relays, and automation coding needs. We are capable of providing cables for power generators and suppliers using both female and male connectors and parts, along with other M variants of cables as needed for unusual pin configurations. We manufacture these connectors industrial items and cables right here in our Washington facility, and also are able to specially prototype custom cables and assemblies for any customers’ needs, whether it’s for automotive, agricultural, marine, telecommunications, or any other industry. One of our unique advantages is the ability to manufacture Ethernet wire and connectors in-house alongside manufacturing all other types of connectors and all our other products. We promise that anything you desire is possible when you work alongside TCA, no matter the scope of your M12 assemblies, connectors, products, or sensors need.

We will treat your automotive product or facility project as our own! Whether you need a custom made M12 connectors solution, wire products or other molding system needs, our facility and engineers can handle it. Our coding experts can help prototype the perfect M12 connectors solution whether you need straightforward cabling, or a complex power harness for your product line with multiple connectors including M12, Cat-6, coaxial and whatever else you require. Meanwhile our testing team will make sure it can handle your specific needs, whether it needs to be a micro cable assembly and fit in very small spaces, be waterproof or heatproof for outdoor needs, or any other specific requirements you have for data transfer speed or power supply. Finally, our manufacturing and assembly teams are professionals who will complete the final connectors and assembly with precision and care before shipping them out to you.

We value every step of the process greatly and do everything possible to ensure that no portion of connectors or sensors production slips through the cracks and causes a quality issue, nor holds up progress and prevents us from making deadlines. While international tensions and policy changes affect our industry just like any other, our aforementioned partnerships with facilities in Guadalajara allow us to minimize reliance on overseas parts, which has been a huge boon for many of our customers who are required to only use North American assemblies, sensors, power cables, connectors, accessories and products.

We are committed to staying as efficient and on time as possible with every order, which includes keeping a strong inventory of connectors, sensors, products, tools and supplies as best as we can, and continuing to improve our manufacturing speed with new equipment as long as it allows us to maintain our quality standard. We use automated work instruction systems developed with our partners at Scout Systems that are extremely advanced and help to minimize waste and mistakes in manufacturing our products, utilize a highly advanced Schleuniger 36SP Crimp Center that has greatly increased our efficiency with crimping steps, and are always acquiring new molding equipment and dies that allow our in-house molding processes to be far more versatile and get orders done sooner.

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Contract Manufacturers M12 Cable

When it comes to working alongside a contract manufacturer for your M12 cable needs, it’s important to work with a trustworthy and reliable company that you can trust. While there are many contract manufacturers and related affiliates across the United States, selecting the right manufacturer for your project is an important corporate responsibility. 

The M12 cable is a highly sought after custom wire connector, with many uses and abilities. Many corporations are utilizing the unique benefits that come with these particular connectors, and you must ensure that you’re getting the highest quality product available to you for your project. With remote accessibility and easy communication, our team in the state of Washington are here for your custom cable and wire needs. 

Manufacturers M12 Cable

We are the leading manufacturer of M12 on the West Coast. With decades of experience under our belts, we are proud to say that our abilities are elite, and top of class! When you work with our team, you’re gaining a business partner. We aim to exceed the expectations of our clients, and hope to work with you for years to come. Our prototyping abilities are phenomenal, and we make it a priority to be communicating with you throughout the process of manufacturing connectors.

No matter what type of project you need an M12 cable manufacturer for, we’re here for you! Call our trustworthy electrical experts for any information regarding cable manufacturing, cable assemblies, wire harnesses, or any M12 cable project. We’ve established secure and successful relationships with businesses and corporations across the United States, and we are qualified to take on your company’s project. 

Purchase M12 Cables

We build our M12 connector units by using back-shells, in addition to wireable connecting agents. We’ve invested in high performance mold-dies to improve our ability to over-mold the M12 cable connectors. We are one of the sole companies across the United States to domestically mold M12 cables. This remains our advantage, as we have the ability to create large and small production runs of cable assemblies. 

If you’re a purchaser looking for M12 connector cable products for your company, give our team of suppliers and manufacturers a call. We have a highly reputable and established team on our assembly line, and they’re ready to take on your project! We deliver high quality industrial products to give our customers the results they need. 

M12 Cable Manufacturer

Looking for a manufacturer for your next project, and looking for an M12 cable builder or wire manufacturing company? We are Technical Cable Applications, located in Washington State near Seattle. For decades we’ve been building M12 cables and wire for purchasers across the United States, and we’re here to help you with reliable cable manufacturing for your next project. From prototyping to our our high quality production, we’re the contract cable industrialist for you. 

As M12 cable manufacturers, we take pride in the value of our projects. We are located in the heart of Pierce County, Washington, but we focus our efforts on manufacturing M12 cable byproducts across the nation. We’ve been providing companies and other manufacturers with the M12 cable they need for their specific project, and we can do the same for you. 

We create solutions for all robotic and automated systems. If your project requires an M12 cable or unique wire, we’re available to make sure your prototype and ideas come to life.  

M12 Manufacturing

We are professional and reliable suppliers for electrical and power products and wire. We are the suppliers and power generators for both female and male parts. We build these electrical parts locally, and have the ability to customize them for each customer’s needs. Our unique advantage is our ability to combine the manufacturing of the molded Ethernet alongside the remainder of our companies premier manufacturing abilities. We believe that anything is possible when you work alongside a qualified contract manufacturer. We care about your project, and work around the clock to ensure it’s completed to the best of our ability. We aim to exceed your expectations! 

In any scenario where you need a custom made M12 cable or wire product, our company is at your disposal. We have a large team of professionals working on the assembly line, who are trained to create perfect cables. Our cable assembly is what allows our team to be the leading company for M12 cable manufacturing, and our number one goal is customer satisfaction. Until you’re completely satisfied with the product we’ve built for you, we’ll keep working. 

M12 Cable Distributors

At Technical Cable Applications, you’re getting more than a builder for your M12 cables. If you’re looking for a conductor, we can help. You’re also getting an outsourced partner and team member.   When we begin working with a company, it’s important to us to ensure we establish an excellent business relationship. We hope you’ll continue to use our company as a resource for any industrial cable project. Our M12 manufacturing team is well known in the industry of cable manufacturing to build the best products on the market. Let’s work together! 

M12 Cables

Technical Cable Applications, founded in 2002 and located in Auburn, WA, builds custom cable assemblies and wiring harnesses for original equipment manufacturers who need rugged, repeatable connections. Whether you need an established M12 cable assembly produced in volume, or a single prototype that has to survive a wash-down bay, our engineers and technicians can design, build, and test it in house. We manufacture standard configurations as well as fully custom cable assemblies, and we back both with an ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system.

M12 cables are the connection of choice wherever data and power have to cross an unfriendly environment, and they have quietly replaced office-grade hardware across the plant floor. Below is a practical guide to how these cable assemblies are built, how to specify them, which connectors pair with them, and what our shop can do for the products you are bringing to market. Our M12 cables, connectors, and molded harnesses go into products across a dozen industries, from packaging lines to marine equipment.

Why Circular Threaded Connectors Took Over the Plant Floor

Industrial Ethernet has become the backbone of the modern factory, and the miniature circular connector standardized on the M12x1 thread has become the default hardware for carrying it. The reason is simple: an RJ45 plug was designed for an office wall, not for a machine that vibrates for twenty hours a day in the presence of oil mist and pressure washing.

A threaded circular shell solves several problems at once. The coupling nut clamps the mating faces together so vibration cannot back a contact out. The seal that forms between the plug and the receptacle keeps coolant, dust, and moisture away from the contacts, which is why these connectors are commonly specified to IP67, IP68, or IP69K ratings. The shell also gives molded cable assemblies a place to terminate the shield, so electrical noise has a low-impedance path to ground instead of coupling into the data pairs. Sealed connectors are what keep products running through a shift that would flood an unsealed jack.

Because the interface is compact — roughly 12 mm across the threads — it fits on the housing of a device that has no room for a full-size industrial connector. That combination of size, sealing, and mechanical retention has turned these into one of the default interface connectors on automation hardware, and it is why so many of the products our customers build depend on these cable assemblies. M12 cables now appear on nearly every class of equipment that has to report data back to a controller.

Codings, Pin Counts, and What They Are Used For

The most common point of confusion for buyers is coding. Shells look nearly identical across variants, but the keyway geometry differs so that incompatible circuits cannot be mated. Getting the coding right at the drawing stage prevents an expensive mistake at assembly.

A-coded connectors are the original and still the most common variant, used for sensor and actuator connections, DC power, and general device wiring in 3-, 4-, 5-, 8-, and 12-pin arrangements. A 4-pin A-coded cordset feeding a proximity switch is probably the most-installed of all M12 cables.

B-coded connectors are reserved for fieldbus applications such as PROFIBUS, so a bus drop cannot be plugged into a device port by accident. Products that ship into legacy bus networks still call for them.

C-coded connectors cover AC devices in older installations and appear less often on new equipment.

D-coded connectors carry four-conductor 100BASE-TX Ethernet at up to 100 Mbit/s and are the workhorse of installed industrial Ethernet. A large share of the M12 cables in service today use them.

X-coded connectors use eight shielded contacts arranged in four pairs, with an internal shield wall between quadrants, and support 1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T. If you are specifying a new gigabit network, these are usually the connectors to choose.

L-coded and K-coded connectors exist specifically for DC and AC power transmission, while S- and T-coded variants serve related power roles in drive and control cabinets.

Pin count, coding, and shielding decisions all interact with the jacket and conductor set inside the cable, which is why it pays to specify complete cable assemblies as single part numbers rather than buying pieces and hoping they mate. Our engineers do that specification work with customers every week, and the resulting cable assemblies arrive ready to install.

Overmolded Cable Assemblies Versus Field-Wireable Hardware

There are two ways to get one of these connections onto the end of an industrial cable. The first is a field-wireable connector or an assembled back-shell, where a technician terminates conductors on site with screw or spring clamps. It is flexible, and it is the right answer for a repair or a one-off retrofit.

The second is an overmolded assembly, where the connector is molded directly onto the cable jacket in a controlled process. Overmolding is what we do in Auburn. Low-pressure injection molding forms a sealed, strain-relieved transition between the connector and the jacket, so there is no cavity for moisture to collect in and no screw terminal to loosen. The result is a part with consistent geometry, consistent electrical performance, and documented pull strength, produced the same way on the tenth unit and the ten-thousandth.

For products that ship to customers, molded M12 cables are almost always the better choice. Field terminations vary with whoever built them; molded connectors do not. Consistency matters most on products built in volume, where one bad termination in a hundred becomes a service problem instead of a rework ticket. They also handle motion better, which matters in robotics, gantries, and cable carriers where a cable may see millions of flex cycles across its service life. Continuous-flex cable is a different construction from static cable, and we will steer you toward the right one rather than let a static part fail in a carrier six months after launch.

Orientations, Keying, and Custom Pinouts

We mold both plugs and receptacles in the orientations your equipment layout actually requires. Male straight and right-angle connectors, female straight and right-angle connectors, single-ended pigtails, and double-ended M12 cables are all available, and keying position can be rotated to match the connector orientation on your housing. Shielded and unshielded cables can be built in any of those configurations.

That flexibility matters more than it sounds. A straight plug projecting 40 mm out of a drive housing is a part waiting to be sheared off by a passing pallet; a right-angle version routes the cable flat against the machine and survives. When customers send us a housing drawing, we work back from the available clearance to a configuration that will not become a warranty claim.

Because we build to your pinout and key configuration, we can also match legacy parts you already buy. Send us a sample, a print, or even a failed part pulled off a machine, and we can quote replacement cable assemblies built to the same interface. Custom pinouts, non-standard lengths, and mixed conductor counts are routine work here, not special requests.

Shielding, EMI, and Signal Integrity

Data and power rarely travel far apart in a modern cabinet. A shielded signal cable routed alongside a variable-frequency drive lead is exposed to fast switching transients that can corrupt packets, trip watchdogs, and cause intermittent faults that are miserable to diagnose.

We build shielded cable assemblies with continuous coverage along the full length, with the shield terminated 360 degrees at the connector shell rather than pigtailed to a single contact. That termination detail is the difference between a shield that works and a shield that is decorative. Foil-plus-braid constructions, drain conductors, and individually shielded pairs are all options depending on the electrical environment and the data rate the link has to support. Unshielded cables remain perfectly adequate for DC device power.

We also test what we build. Continuity and shield integrity checks are part of the process, and our cable testing and inspection services can be extended to customer-defined acceptance criteria when your quality group requires it.

Hybrid Harnesses: Mixing Connector Types in One Assembly

Very few machines use a single connector family. A typical panel carries a mix of circular industrial connectors, RJ45 jacks, rectangular power inlets, and board-level headers, and the harness that ties them together has to terminate all of them correctly.

This is where building both the molded parts and the harness under one roof pays off. We integrate M12 and M8 interfaces, standard RJ45, and other industry-specific or customer-specified connectors into single assemblies, drawing on connectors from Molex, TE, Hirose, JST, and other manufacturers. A breakout that starts as a molded circular cordset on the machine side and ends in a rectangular connector inside your enclosure is an ordinary job here.

Cable assemblies, cable protectors, and strain-relief hardware all have to be considered together for a harness that will be pulled through conduit or flexed daily. We will tell you when a construction choice is going to cause a problem down the line rather than quietly building to a print we know is marginal.

Industries We Support

Technical Cable Applications serves customers in industrial, telecommunications, medical, construction, energy, manufacturing, agriculture, and marine markets. The products in those sectors have very different requirements, and the cable assemblies that go into them reflect that.

In manufacturing and industrial automation, the priorities are flex life, sealing, and fast replacement. In telecommunications, it is data rate and shielding discipline. Medical products bring sanitization and material selection into the conversation. Construction and agricultural equipment sees UV exposure, abrasion, and temperature swings that destroy an indoor-rated cable in a season. Energy and marine products add corrosion, salt spray, and long service intervals where nobody wants to be pulling cable to replace a failed part. The cable that survives a wash-down dairy line is not the cable we would specify for agricultural products, and the connector plating usually changes with it.

Because we build to order rather than stocking a fixed catalog, the same molding and assembly capability serves all of these markets. The jacket material, shield construction, connector plating, and overmold geometry change from program to program; the process discipline behind the products does not.

How We Build These Products

Our shop combines automated equipment with skilled hand assembly. Automated cable cutting, stripping, and crimping give us repeatable terminations at volume. Cable is pulled from the spool, measured, and marked to your part number before it ever reaches a molding press. Injection molding and overmolding produce the sealed transitions described above. In-house 3D printing lets us produce fixtures and prototype housings quickly instead of waiting on an outside vendor. Final assembly is performed by IPC-certified technicians, and we build to the IPC/WHMA-A-620 Standard Revision E requirements.

Prototype development is part of the same workflow. We would rather build three samples and let your engineering group put them on a real machine than quote a production run against an unproven design. Once a design is validated, the documented process moves into production with the same tooling and the same work instructions, so what you qualified is what you receive.

We also build coaxial and RF cable assemblies, wiring harnesses, and molded cable products outside the circular-connector world. A customer with a mixed bill of materials that lists cable assemblies, cable glands, and connectors from several families can source all of it from one supplier instead of coordinating three.

Quality, Certifications, and Compliance

Quality claims are only worth what the documentation behind them proves, so here is exactly what we hold:

• ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system, with our current certificate dated October 1, 2024.
• UL wiring harness certifications under file E363245 — ZPFW2.E363245 for the United States and ZPFW8.E363245 for Canada.
• ITAR registration, which allows us to work directly with defense and military contractors in the United States.
• IPC/WHMA-A-620 Standard Revision E workmanship requirements applied across our procedures.
• RoHS and REACH compliance documentation available on request. We produce parts to customer specifications and do not deviate from them without customer consent; verification of component-level compliance rests with the design authority for the product.

That certified quality system governs incoming cable and connector material, in-process checks, and the finished cable assemblies that leave the dock. A limited warranty applies to the parts we build, and our certificates are published on our certifications page so your supplier-qualification team can pull them directly.

Nearshore Manufacturing, Lead Times, and Order Quantities

Our main facility is in Auburn, WA, and we work with two partner facilities in Guadalajara, Mexico. That nearshore capacity does two useful things: it shortens lead times relative to overseas sourcing, and it lets us quote lower minimum order quantities, which matters when you are working on a prototype and do not want to manufacture thousands of units yet.

Both large and small production runs are supported. A validated design can be built in the quantity your program actually needs rather than the quantity a distributor’s stocking model prefers, and cable assemblies made in Auburn and in Guadalajara are held to the same inspection criteria. Cable and connectors for either location are purchased to the same drawings and specifications. Programs that start at fifty pieces and grow into thousands are common, and the part does not have to be re-qualified when the volume changes.

Specifying an Assembly: What to Send Us

A quote moves fastest when we have the following:

• Connector coding and pin count on each end, plus whether each end is a plug or a receptacle.
• Orientation and keying — straight or right-angle, and key position relative to your housing.
• Overall length and tolerance, measured the way you will inspect the finished cable.
• Jacket material and rating — PVC, PUR, or TPU, plus any oil, weld-slag, UV, or wash-down exposure.
• Shielding requirement and the data rate or protocol the link has to support.
• Flex requirement — static, occasional-motion, or continuous-flex duty, with expected cycle count.
• Environmental targets — ingress protection level, temperature range, chemical exposure.
• Cable construction preferences — conductor gauge, pair count, and any cable brand or part number you are standardizing on.
• Volume and schedule, including prototype quantity and expected annual usage.

If you do not have all of that, send what you have. Much of our work starts with a sketch and a phone call, and we fill in the specification with you.

Common Questions About These Cable Assemblies

Can you match a competitor’s part number? Sometimes. Send the print or a sample and we will either quote equivalent cable assemblies built to the same interface, coding, and length, cross-referencing the cable construction as well, or let you know what proprietary information prevents us from moving forward.

Do you stock standard M12 cables? We build to order rather than warehousing a catalog, which is what allows the custom pinouts, lengths, and jacket choices described above. Repeat programs are scheduled so the parts are ready when your line needs them.

How short or long can these cables be? Length is driven by the electrical requirement more than the process. For gigabit links, channel length limits apply; for power and device wiring, we build much longer runs. Tell us the application and we will confirm what is practical.

Can one assembly carry both power and data? Often, yes — either as a hybrid construction or as a pair of cable assemblies dressed together into one harness. Which approach is better depends on current, shielding, and the connectors available on your device.

Work With Our Team

Our reputation rests on parts that keep working long after they leave the building, and on excellent communication while a program is in flight. If you are evaluating cable solutions for your next design, we would like to be on that list. Standard solutions, custom solutions, prototypes, and long-running production programs all start the same way: a conversation about what the part has to survive. From a single prototype through a multi-year build, the cable products we ship are built to your drawing and inspected against your criteria.

Request a quote and we will get you an answer with real dates and real pricing.

IP67 Cable

We specialize in providing IP67 cable assemblies, which are waterproof and dustproof as denoted by the Ingress Protection rating system. Technical Cable Applications is also capable of manufacturing overmolded and shielded items as needed, or more flexible options like ribbon that can be placed anywhere. Our team of highly experienced engineers have the knowledge and expertise to ensure that your custom order comes exactly as expected. Any custom cable glands, IP rating and power capacity that you require will be ready as expected and ensure that your operation, facility or mission is completed without risk of equipment failure, data loss, or power loss.

IP67 Custom Cable Assembly

IP67 is a rating system called Ingress Protection, and both numbers in the rating denote specific ranges of durability. The “6” in the first digit means that the item is 100% guaranteed to resist dust ingress, while “7” in the second digit means it is water resistant, able to survive immersion in up to 1 meter of water for 30 minutes at minimum with no cable entry.  As long as these conditions and allowed operating temperature aren’t exceeded, power and data transfer of the electronics within will be maintained.

IP67 Electronics

Items that meet IP67 rating requirements are frequently used for industrial applications, where intense and fast moving manufacturing practices will quickly damage less durable harness or switch options. Since IP67 just denotes the protection level and not internal electronics or components, just about any bulk cables or connector type can be built to an IP67 rating. We specialize in all of the following connector types, and many more:

• M12 connectors and all variations such as the M8
• Coaxial connectors and all variations such as triaxial or RF
• USB connectors and all variations such as USB-C or Firewire
• Ethernet connectors and all types of data transfer

Protection from Water and High Operating Temperature

Our custom manufacturing capacity means that we can manufacture your connectors bulk IP67 cables, with the adapters connectors you require, and with any additional durability requirements as necessary for your needs. We are ISO 9001:2015 certified, and UL certified for industrial bulk cable assembly in the United States and Canada. We also manufacture IP67 rated items with our industrial partner facilities in Guadalajara, which are highly qualified and allow us to provide nearshore manufacturing of many items that would otherwise require overseas shipping.