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Electrical Wiring Component Applications Partnership

For more information on the Electrical Wiring Component Applications Partnership (EWCAP), please visit its official website at ewcap.uscarteams.org.

Mission

To permit and encourage cooperative research and development which includes the joint sharing of technologies and resources to develop common electrical connection systems.

Goals:

To develop common designs for electrical connectors to reduce costs and product complexity, while improving reliability, quality and serviceability.
To establish common families of best-in-class connection systems.
To establish a standard "footprint" for electrical components common to all partners.
To develop industry-wide, test specifications and design guidelines for electrical components.

R & D News Highlights

Press Release: USCAR HELPS SUPPLIERS MIGRATE TO METRIC ISO WIRE SPECIFICATIONS

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 14, 2011 – As the U.S. automakers begin to adopt the ISO primary wire specification for their new products, USCAR’s Electrical Wiring Component Applications Partnership (EWCAP) is helping the supplier base requalify its U.S. market components to meet the new wire specifications.

The U.S. automakers, Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company, adopted the new wire standard to further improve economies of scale and to better integrate components across increasingly global product offerings. The automakers have recently begun specifying ISO (International Organization for Standardization) metric wire, based on ISO-6722, on all new products under

Assembly Magazine -- Blog: U.S. Auto Industry Goes Metric

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