Autonomous and Electric Mobility recently asked Vander Putten, global product manager at Molex, to explain why zonal architecture is important to the automotive industry.
A team of young engineers at the University of Tennessee is using a six-axis collaborative robot to automate assembly steps such as terminal insertion and wire routing.
The automotive industry tends not to fix what ain’t broke, especially when it’s technology as elementary and time-tested as electrical wiring. Multiple carmakers and top-tier suppliers, though, ...
A shortage of wiring harnesses continues to hurt the automotive industry and has prompted some to suggest it could speed up the adoption of electric vehicles. Many of the industry’s wire harnesses are ...
At one time rewiring a classic truck usually meant going to the parts store for a couple of spools of wire and a bunch of butt connectors all in an effort to try and save what was left of the ...
I don't know about you but I'm perfectly happy fabricating chassis, welding and doing body and paintwork, and physically putting a car together, but I've always left the wiring in my projects to ...
Yesterday, Q5D revealed the five-axis automated wire harness fabrication cell that it will be manufacturing for sale, which can also terminate wires into connectors and 3D print structures in ...
For some reason, dual horn relay wiring harness kits are difficult to find lately. The Eastern Beaver dual horn relay harness (review) that I’ve used before is no longer being made, unfortunately. But ...
One of the most appealing qualities of old trucks is that they are simple, which generally makes them reliable—and easy to fix when they are less than reliable. That was the situation we were in with ...
In our last installment on Scarlett, our ’72 coupe project car, we routed all the engine wiring through a single circular connector on the firewall in preparation for integrating the LS3 wiring and ...