Based in one of the most booming aerospace and aviation industry areas in the entire United States, including not only commercial but also military and space travel flight purposes, Technical Cable is perfectly suited and available for all aerospace wire, cable, harness, and assembly needs no matter how unique or reliable a cable solution needs to be to keep a plane in the air. There is so much intricate wiring required not only for aerospace vehicles themselves to operate with the power they need, but also for air control data at airports, facility management at military bases, and prototyping for experimental rocket companies as well. All sorts of unique connectors and types of materials need to be used for aircraft, aerospace service vehicles, and the systems helping them navigate the air and their home facility. The cables and assemblies used must also be extremely durable and reliable, to a level that few industries can match in terms of rigor. We have the engineers, tools, and resources to manufacture the high durability and specialized avionics cable required by aerospace companies and locations like SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Origin, Joint Base John Lewis McChord, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and all sorts of other aerospace facilities and endeavors across the United States. This industry is on another level in terms of technical and safety demands for maintaining safety and control for pilots, passengers, and now astronauts as well, but Technical Cable Applications is here to match that need with expertise and a high drive for excellence in manufacturing assemblies. Technical Cable Applications’ high tech facility based right here in Auburn, Washington by Interstate 5 is the best partner you can choose for aerospace assemblies, harnesses and cables for aircraft applications. You can also choose us for marine, automotive, agricultural, construction, industrial, and medical applications as our cable expertise spans dozens of industries and allows us to exceed no matter what you need.
Aerospace Coaxial Cable – Cable Assembly Manufacturing for Aircraft Applications
The engineering and production of aerospace cables is a very broad subject as there are many kinds of aero assemblies, not to mention the vast variety of aircraft projects and companies, including commercial or private airlines, revolutionary space travel initiatives, military and defense flight needs, and so much more. Even though aerospace is all about flight no matter what, a significant number of other types of harnesses and assemblies are needed for getting planes off the ground and landing safely, most of which may or may not ever leave the ground itself. This includes all kinds of air control data communications, radar systems, wired/wireless voice communication, service vehicle wire harnesses, and internal facility electronics that manage everything else that doesn’t go in the air like scheduling systems, transport shuttles, etc. Here at Technical Cable Applications, we have an expansive range of engineering experience, education, and tools to match any need from these fields under the umbrella of aircraft cables and aerospace engineering.
Our engineers are equipped and willing to go beyond what is asked and required for your goals and requirements for high quality military cables and aerospace wire harnesses. If it’s a military remote aircraft that needs extremely high quality signal priority electronic systems to function safely, developmental space travel that is testing with non-astronaut passengers with the end goal of space tourism, or high usage jumbo jets for commercial airlines that need excellent communication between flight crews and air control staff at all times of day and night, our drive for staying at the bleeding edge of the most innovative technologies while maintaining our bar for extremely tight quality control will be what you need on your side. There’s no reason to go with another cable assembly manufacturer when you’re in need of aircraft cable assemblies, choose TCA for high quality customer services and aerospace or military cable production.
We can provide coaxial, Ethernet, and power cables to assist aerospace control staff on the ground, and more specialized connectors and harnesses for internal aerospace engine, cabin, and temperature control systems as well. Just give us your cable drawing, requirements, and specifications and we’ll get to work with high urgency! Our cable experts would love to discuss the specifications you need for your thousands of electronic wire harnesses or cable assemblies to meet and ensure that it happens exactly as you envisioned. Our custom and off-the-shelf aerospace solutions are both extremely high quality, so whether you have exactly what you need ready and need it manufactured precisely in bulk, or need custom solutions to accomplish a new goal you haven’t met before, our facility is more than capable of handling it. Our partnerships with nearshore manufacturing facilities in Guadalajara allow us to provide even more niche and custom assemblies and services with lower MOQs, faster lead times, and enhanced quality control. This all contributes to high end cable performance being achievable with less revisions and hassle compared to past offshore relationships. If you’re curious about nearshore manufacturing of your cables but haven’t figured out where to start, partnering with Technical Cable is a great way to begin indirectly as we pass the benefits of nearshore partnerships on, directly to our high value clients.
Custom Aerospace Cables – Aero Cable Assemblies
We are also constantly doing our best to ensure that we are never behind the curve of the newest technology and data in use for aircraft cable harness assemblies. We hire new engineers whenever possible who will bring their expertise and fresh ideas with strong benefits, and also invest in new tools and technologies for wire crimping, harness assembly, and much more to stay at the top and never fall short of new industry requirements. In 2021 we completed our ISO 9001:2015 certification for cable assembly to show that we are not just good enough for United States standards, but qualified for the manufacturing of cables for any aerospace company in the world. We felt that while our quality has always gone above and beyond since our founding in 2002, this was an excellent way to prove that we are the highest quality manufacturer of cables that can fulfill nearly any project no matter the requirements.
We are also UL-certified for the assembly of cables in the United States and Canada, which not only gives peace of mind to our customers but also ensures that we can track every single part and step of manufacturing backward, so if an issue with our cables ever happens we can find exactly where the breakdown occurred and put requirements and practices in place to prevent it from happening again. We also recently became registered with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) through the Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC) for the United States, meaning that we can directly work with defense and aerospace contractors that we previously would not have been able to.
Finally, we use automated work instruction systems developed by our partners at Scout Systems, which ensure that steps performed by our technicians are done exactly right each time, and help us improve our processes all the time as we find new ways to improve efficiency and ensure that we meet the same level of quality with new types of harnesses, assemblies, connectors and more. Scout Systems also helps us maintain part quality as it makes it even simpler for us to track every single material, part, and connector back to its source and identify where problems first occurred before being detected, so we can improve our processes and requirements to avoid the issue appearing again, or find a better source for a faulty part or component.
We are always acquiring new equipment to increase our capacity for producing new cables for aircraft and aerospace applications like the powerful electronic Schleuniger 36SP Crimp Center we acquired in 2021 that massively improved our crimping processes. We are also constantly nurturing our partnerships with other facilities to speed up our lead times and improve our efficiency, including the aforementioned partnerships we’ve made with two facilities in Mexico that have allowed us to move more of our processes to North America, and thereby not only improve lead times but also avoid geopolitical risk. We love being on the bleeding edge of technology and creativity, while always being extremely strict about our high quality control requirements and testing to ensure that nothing is shipped out from our partner facilities or our main US production facility that doesn’t meet our high standards.
About Technical Cable Applications
Our leadership team is composed of highly dedicated and knowledgeable cable manufacturing professionals, who are committed to driving our company forward. Here are our main leadership and sales team members, although we have many more staff members who are extremely crucial to our manufacturing services, sales, facilities management, client services, and much more that we couldn’t do without.
– Dale Twiggs, President and Founder
– Dustin Twiggs, Vice President
– Curtis Twiggs, Vice President of Operations
– Sean Stenhouse, Sales Supervisor
– Ian Rutherford, Account Manager
– Blake Twiggs, Account Manager
We would love to meet with you and talk through our vast experiences with aerospace and defense cable contracting, and our qualifications including being ITAR certified, ISO 9001:2015 certified and UL certified for cable assembly manufacturing. Founded in 2002, Technical Cable Applications is one of the leading custom and off-the-shelf cable manufacturers in the nation and we are proud of our legacy of excellent assemblies for thousands of unique applications, which have enhanced our customers’ products, endeavors, and facilities immensely.
Call us today or fill out our online contact form! We would love to meet with you in person if your company is based in the Seattle area like so many large aerospace companies are, but we also have a sales department in Phoenix, Arizona if you’re based in the Southwest so please contact us about that if you’re in that area of the country.