A defibrillator OEM offered its customers the option to interface with land-line and cell phones, enabling the transmission of real-time defibrillator data. When the OEM’s modem supplier changed its connector design, the OEM’s cable supplier said that developing an assembly to fit the new design “couldn’t be done.” Rather than eliminate this popular and invaluable option from the product, the OEM turned to C&M for help.

The modem’s PC board had a space for the assembly connection that was smaller than the cable that needed to be connected. The only connector that would fit in the space was designed to accept a flex circuit — which was not the type, size or shape of the cable. We developed a method of connecting our cable to a flexor, and then fitting the flexor into the space left by the PC board designers.

What one supplier deemed impossible, we found a way to do. And that’s just one example of how our obsession with cable solutions saved the day for a customer.