IPC has just released the new IPC-A-620B, “Requirements and Acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies,” and it’s available now from Document Center Inc. Also known as IPC/WHMA-A-620, the new issue includes greatly expanded criteria for molding, potting, splicing, crimp contacts without insulation support, inline insulation displacement connectors, connectorization, rigid and conformable cable, flexible sleeving, broomstitching, testing, and more!
The new Revision B now has 682 full-color pictures and illustrations – 125 are new or updated. It’s 19 chapters provide criteria for wire prep, soldering to terminals, crimping of stamped and formed contacts and machined contacts, insulation displacement connectors, ultrasonic welding, splicing, connectors, molding, marking, coax/biax cables, wrapping/lacing, shielding, assembly and wire-wrap terminations.
The document is a joint publication of IPC and the Wire Harness Manufacturers Association (WHMA). The new Revision B replaces Revision A from July 2006, which is now obsolete.
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