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Cable assemblies & harnesses

Custom Cable Assembly & Wire Harness Manufacturing

Harnesses, coaxial assemblies, ribbon jumpers, and power cabling — built in Taiwan to your wire list and drawing, supplied standalone or routed and terminated inside a complete box build.

What we build

Cable assembly types we quote most.

Built through dedicated harness and cable specialists in Taiwan's manufacturing belt, inspected against your drawing before production releases.

Wire harnesses

Multi-branch bundles built to the geometry of your chassis — breakouts, connectors, sleeving, and labelling to your drawing.

Coaxial & RF assemblies

Built to your specified connector series, impedance, and length tolerance, with the called-out part numbers held rather than substituted.

Ribbon & flat-flex

IDC ribbon and FFC/FPC jumpers for board-to-board and board-to-display connections inside the enclosure.

Power & battery cabling

Heavier-gauge assemblies with the crimp specification, terminal, and strain relief documented on the drawing.

Display & interface cabling

LVDS, eDP, and touch-controller cabling routed to mate with the display and interface stack we integrate.

Why it belongs in the build

The harness is where box builds usually go wrong.

A harness quoted in isolation gets built to the drawing. A harness quoted as part of the assembly gets built to the product — which is a different thing, because the drawing rarely accounts for the bend radius at the connector, the service loop you need to open the lid, or the fact that the display cable and the power cable end up sharing a channel.

When the same party builds the harness and does the final integration, those problems surface at DFM review instead of at your dock. Where a harness reveals a fit issue, the fix goes back into the drawing and the revision is locked before volume — not patched by hand on the line.

What we hold to

Connector and terminal part numbers are held as specified, not substituted for equivalents — the swap that looks harmless on a BOM is the one that changes crimp geometry or mating retention. Assemblies are built under ESD-safe procedures where the product requires it, continuity and, where specified, hipot testing is performed before shipment, and lot traceability follows the same inspection layer as the rest of the build.

Questions

Frequently asked

What is the difference between a cable assembly and a wire harness?

A cable assembly is a group of wires inside a single outer jacket, routed as one cable to one destination. A wire harness is a bundle of individually routed wires — often with several breakouts, connectors, and branches — organised and bound to fit a specific chassis. Harnesses are defined by the geometry of the product they go into; cable assemblies are defined by their connectors and length. Most box builds use both.

Do you make coaxial and RF cable assemblies?

Yes — coaxial assemblies are built to your specified connector series, impedance, and length tolerance. Because RF performance depends on termination quality rather than appearance, we hold the specified connector part numbers rather than substituting equivalents, and first articles are inspected against your drawing before production releases.

What do you need to quote a harness?

A wire list or schematic, connector part numbers, wire gauge and type, overall lengths with tolerances, any labelling or shielding requirements, and quantities. A drawing is ideal; a marked-up sketch plus a photo of the legacy harness is usually enough to start.

Send a wire list, a schematic, or a photo of the legacy harness.

Any of the three is enough to start. You'll get a plain-English reply within one business day, and a quote with DFM notes on the harness itself.