DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
DOCUMENTS
What travels with a batch.
A connector order arrives with paperwork or it arrives as a bag of parts. These are the documents worth asking for, and what each one establishes.
- Material certificate
- Contact alloy and insulator, traceable to the batch
- Plating certificate
- Thickness in microns, because that is the wear life
- Tooling specification
- The press, the die and the setting the batch was made with
- Pull-out record
- On samples, per the declared table for the cable used
- Coplanarity record
- Pin height across the row, because a lifted pin misses
- Continuity record
- Shell bond resistance, measured on shielded parts
- Revision statement
- Which revision the batch was made to, and its tool setting
- Interchangeability statement
- What it mates with, and what it does not
An illustrative list for a fictional range. A real programme agrees which documents are required, in what form, and how long they are retained.
The one that is most often missing.
The tooling specification. A batch made on a press setting nobody recorded cannot be repeated, and a mass-terminated joint cannot be verified afterwards by any other means.
Why the continuity figure is a resistance and not a yes.
Because a shield bond either conducts well or conducts badly. A statement that the shell is bonded describes a connection; a resistance figure describes how good it is.