TE Wire & Cable Thermocouple Solutions Blog

TE Wire to showcase high accuracy thermocouple wire and cable solutions for metallurgy applications at Furnaces North America 2016... including the greatest thermocouple wire innovation in over 50 years!

Are you in the aviation/aerospace market? Do you manufacture aerospace composites?

Then no doubt you are aware that CAMX 2016 is right around the corner. The exhibition booth spaces have been sold out for months. It helps that a well-known Mickey Mouse operation is located next door. I may even visit Disney’s California Adventure Park myself.  

In heat treatment applications there are two important considerations concerning temperature: the furnace temperature and the load temperature. Both are measured with thermocouples. These thermocouples are often referred to as control and load thermocouples.  

I had the privilege of attending the latest NADCAP meetings in Montreal late in June. Because so many of our customers in both metallurgy and aerospace composites manufacturing require NADCAP certification, I want to be sure we’re on top of all the requirements. So, I regularly attend two or three meetings yearly and sit in on the Composites Task Group.

At the SAMPE Long Beach conference and exhibition this past May, our management and sales team had the chance to speak with various exhibitors and attendees on topics related to the importance and value of proper thermocouple application to aviation and aerospace autoclave manufacturing processes.

The molds or tools used for forming and mass producing composite parts can be made of many materials. However, for mass production of complex high performance aerospace composite parts, the material has to be hard enough to maintain its dimensional and surface finish characteristics. The most common material for commercial and military programs that I have seen during my plant tours is invar (64FeNi), a high performance metal with low coefficient of thermal expansion.

No doubt, many of you are familiar with a famous Tom Cruise scene in the movie Jerry McGuire. Well, this is my "HELP ME, HELP YOU!" moment.

Over the past year, we’ve put a lot of effort and brainpower into redesigning our website, making it easier for you to navigate and adding useful, informative content. We have had to familiarize ourselves with the meaning of buzzwords like SEO, Lead Gen, Customer Journey, Analytics, Marketing Automation, and Digital Marketing. All of this helps me (and our entire TEW team) to help you.

Whether you’re an end user, buyer, supplier or distributor of wire and cable in the industrial OEM space, when you’re looking for technical specifications and additional information, these top four products are a good place to start:

I don’t know about you, but I’m really looking forward to SAMPE Long Beach 2016. Granted, who wouldn’t want to be in Long Beach in May? These are exciting times for the aerospace autoclaves composites manufacturing industry. The aerospace market is expected to reach $301 billion in 2018 with a global growth rate of 5.1% for the next ten years. Recent successes like the SpaceX landings and ongoing projects at the International Space Station have us all looking to the heavens with a wanderlust for what’s out there.