Considerations When Evaluating Copper Electrical Contact Suppliers

by Hoyt Corporation Hoyt Corporation

To consider a copper electrical contact supplier for your industrial applications, a significant degree of capability is required. If you are embarking on such an assessment, start with a world class production company, one that works with industries such as rail and mass transit, mining, power transmission and distribution, motor control, and electrical vehicle of all types. With that as a jumping off point, here are some additional things to consider if you are in the market for low and medium voltage copper electrical contacts.

Vertical Integration

Providing capabilities and support, from product development and design, through engineering and prototyping, to manufacturing, are critical elements for taking an idea to reality. Perhaps you are not creating a new product, but looking for a way to improve an existing one. Understanding all the steps that go in to making an electrical contact means you open the entire spectrum of the product's creation and execution to the opportunity for improvement. With design, engineering, and manufacturing basically "under one roof" less time is spent on speculation and more time is directed to results.

Experience and Capability

It helps to have decades of experience in the industrial electrical contact industry, including assemblies, shunts, heat sinks and contact tips. Being able to bring a significant depth of knowledge and a variety of solutions to existing or new problems is key. At the same time with new or developing participants in the electrical industry rapidly expanding, such as electrical vehicles, or the collection and distribution of electricity as it continues to decentralize, it is exciting to be keeping pace with and regularly assess the impact of these new developments on electrical contact technology.

Coupling this brain power with several manufacturing process capabilities is key to bringing the entire product delivery process to fruition along with having the ability to manufacture small or large quantities using a variety of different processes. Consider too a company with certain value added manufacturing processes like brazing, copper extrusion, machining, and stamping to round out the capabilities required.

Reliable Performance

In the final analysis, performance is what counts. Be sure your supplier can stand behind every product they offer. Get recommendations, talk to their customers, and get the facts on their product performance.

In short, if you are looking for just a few contact assemblies or a thousand copper extrusions you have to use the same due diligence in assessing your copper electrical contact supplier.