Engineered
to Terminate.
Precision copper connectors for offshore rigs, surgical robots, and satellite arrays. MIL-spec. Production-proven. Delivered on time.
Signal integrity at the edge of the abyss.
A North Sea ROV operator was losing signal on umbilical connectors below 1,800 m. Salt ingress through inadequate sealing caused intermittent continuity failures in thruster control circuits — $240K per abort event.
Crimp engineered gold-plated copper contacts (0.000050" minimum thickness), triple-redundant elastomeric seals rated to 450 bar, and a polyurethane overmold formulated for 4°C seawater. 100% hipot-tested at 1,500 VDC before shipment.
18 months of continuous deployment. Zero signal failures. Reorder placed at 4× original volume for fleet-wide retrofit.
| Contact Material | Oxygen-free copper, gold plate |
| Seal Rating | 450 bar · -40°C to +85°C |
| Test Standard | MIL-DTL-24308, IEC 60068-2 |
| Volume Shipped | 12,400 assemblies |
Crimp was the only vendor who came back with a seal stack analysis before we'd even finished the RFQ. That level of engineering engagement is rare.
134°C autoclave. 10,000 sterilization cycles. Still making contact.
A robotic surgery OEM needed instrument-end connectors that survive repeated steam sterilization without impedance drift. Standard PVC jackets degraded after 200 cycles, causing resistance creep in force-feedback circuits.
Crimp developed a PEEK-jacketed micro-coax assembly with platinum-rhodium contacts and a silicone overmold rated to 200°C continuous. Prototype to 50K-unit production run in 14 weeks.
Certified to IEC 60601-1. Deployed across 340 surgical systems in North America and the EU. Zero field returns in 26 months of clinical operation.
| Parameter | Standard | Crimp Medical |
| Temp Rating | 85°C | 200°C |
| Sterilization Cycles | 500 | 10,000+ |
| Contact Resistance | < 50 mΩ | < 8 mΩ |
| IP Rating | IP54 | IP68 |
The PEEK jacket was our design team's call. Crimp reverse-engineered the sterilization protocol and came back with material data we hadn't even asked for. That's the kind of partnership you can't put a price on.
When reentry isn't an option, the connector has to be right the first time.
A constellation operator needed RF connectors for inter-panel harnesses that survive 5,500 thermal cycles per year between -120°C and +150°C. Off-the-shelf MIL-spec connectors showed contact resistance creep at cycle 800.
Crimp developed a beryllium-copper spring contact geometry with a hard-gold plating system (per MIL-G-45204 Type III) and a polyimide overmold. Every connector screened at -55°C and +125°C per MIL-STD-202. Delivered 2.4M terminations over six production lots with Cpk ≥ 1.67.
36 months on-orbit. Zero anomalies attributed to interconnects. Crimp qualified as sole-source supplier for the full 648-satellite constellation build-out.
| Contact Material | Beryllium copper, hard gold |
| Temp Cycle Range | -120°C to +150°C |
| Thermal Cycles | 5,500 / year rated |
| Contact Resistance | < 5 mΩ after 5,000 cycles |
| Process Cpk | ≥ 1.67 all CTQs |
Crimp's process control documentation was the most thorough I've reviewed in 20 years of aerospace procurement. The Cpk data alone made our qualification review a formality.
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Connector Selection Guide
48 pages covering contact materials, plating specifications, seal ratings, and application selection criteria for industrial, medical, aerospace, and defense environments.
- ▸Material selection by environment
- ▸IP / MIL-spec seal comparison
- ▸Plating thickness reference tables
- ▸Temperature derating curves