How Are Wiring Harnesses Built?
Posted by John Ashour on October 25, 2016
In the past year, InterConnect Wiring released a blog entitled “Why Do Aircraft Have Wiring Harnesses?“ and another blog entitled “What is a Wiring Harness?”. Based on these two blogs a reader should know what they are and why they exist but one aspect remains; how are they built? Although they can range in size • Read More >>
Topics: Blog, Harness Assembly, How Built, Wiring Harnesses
Why Do Aircraft Have Wiring Harnesses?
Posted by John Ashour on September 5, 2016
A few months ago when I was interviewing a candidate for a new position at InterConnect I asked the prospect if he had any questions for me. He had a few about the company but he also asked two about aircraft. His first question was “How many wiring harnesses are there in an aircraft?” I • Read More >>
Topics: Blog, Engineering Design, Purpose, Wiring Harnesses
What is a routing list?
Posted by John Ashour on May 30, 2016
A routing list (commonly called an ‘RL’) for an aircraft is a list of each wire in a wiring harness. Routing Lists are used on all aircraft including F-16, F-22, F-35, V-22, UH-60, CH-53K, etc. It is called ‘routing’ because it contains the endpoints of each wire. For example, wire NAV-121-22 may go from reference • Read More >>
Topics: Blog, Engineering Design, Routing List
What is Laser Wire Marking?
Posted by John Ashour on February 15, 2016
Every wire on an aircraft must have its own unique identification number. The most common method to put this identifier on a wire is by laser wire marking. Laser wire marking is a method to place a permanent mark on a wire using a laser. Companies such as Spectrum Technologies and Tri-Star Technologies have designed • Read More >>
Topics: Blog, Laser Wire Marking, Wire
What is a Wiring Harness?
Posted by John Ashour on February 8, 2016
InterConnect is starting a series of blogs to discuss different aspects of aircraft electrical wiring harnesses. For the next 38 weeks, InterConnect will provide definitions, descriptions, and photos of not only common parts used to manufacture wiring harnesses but also discussions of how to design wiring harnesses as well as lessons learned when designing wiring • Read More >>
Topics: Blog, Harness Assembly, Wiring Harnesses
Four Benefits of Aerospace OEM Licensee Agreements
Posted by John Ashour on October 15, 2015
Large aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) such as: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus, Sikorsky, Bell Helicopter, BAE, L3, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Pratt and Whitney, General Electric, Augusta Westland, Rolls Royce, Safran, Embraer, Finmeccanica, Bombardier, Thales, Spirit, Zodiac, Rockwell Collins, and Dassault establish license agreements for numerous reasons. For the remainder of this blog • Read More >>
Topics: Blog
Thirteen reasons why companies are reshoring manufacturing to the United States of America.
Posted by John Ashour on August 21, 2015
The purpose of this eBook is to provide background regarding why offshoring was so popular twenty years ago and reasons why companies are deciding to bring manufacturing work back to the United States of America (USA). Thirteen reasons why companies are reshoring manufacturing to the United States of America. By: John Ashour InterConnect • Read More >>
Topics: Blog
Three Reasons Why Aerospace Companies Do Not Use Social Media
Posted by John Ashour on May 11, 2015
InterConnect Wiring has been in business now for over 22 years. During that time, I remember when we got our first fax machine. That was a big day for us. I also remember when we started using email. We were so happy! When we launched our first website, we were all so proud. A few • Read More >>
Topics: Social Media
Five Advantages of Being a Lockheed Martin F-16 Licensee
Posted by John Ashour on February 25, 2015
InterConnect Wiring has been a Lockheed Martin licensee for F-16 electrical products for over 12 years. This designation is quite an honor for our company. As a licensee for F-16 electrical products InterConnect has supported all of Lockheed Martin’s customers which include over twenty-five nations that fly the F-16. Over the years many people • Read More >>
Topics: Blog
What Does It Take to Rewire an F-15 Fighter Aircraft?
Posted by John Ashour on November 3, 2014
Rewiring an aircraft is a very challenging task. Rewiring a fighter jet is even more challenging than other military aircraft because of the limited space and the fact that almost all of the equipment (i.e. Line Replaceable Units or LRUs) need to be removed to get to the wiring harness bundles. The purpose of this • Read More >>
Topics: Blog
