AXON’Innovative Interconnect Solutions

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THE AXON’ GROUPOur mission

Innovative interconnect solutions

« Design and manufacture of electrical assemblies (including cables, contacts, connectors and accessories), as well as the definition of the corresponding production process. »

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THE AXON’ GROUPWorldwide

SHUNDE2000/2004

BANGALORE 2008

TOKYO1990

DAUGAVPILS2000

STUTTGART1985 (1971)

KECSKEMET2000

EDINBURGH1988

MONTMIRAILIVRY SUR SEINE

QUIMPER

MADRID2003

MEXICO2005

CHICAGO 1989POWAY DALLASBOSTON

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON’ CABLE SAS

MONTMIRAIL - France

• Headquarters and factory

• Year of creation : 1965

• Activity area

RID & Design centre.

Manufacture of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications.

• Number of employees : 600

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' INTERCONNECT Ltd

SHUNDE - GUANGDONG - China

• Year of creation : 2000

• Activity area

Design Center.

Manufacture of telecoms harnesses,

flat cables, WiFi coax, bus components

and Micro-D harnesses.

• Number of employees : 200

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' KÁBELGYÁRTÓ KFT

KECSKEMÉT - Hungary

• Year of creation : 2000

• Activity area

Design Center.Manufacture of flat flexible cables and flat flexible cable harnesses in high volumes.

• Number of employees : 245

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE SIA

DAUGAVPILS - Latvia

• Year of creation : 2000

• Activity area

Design Center.

Manufacture of harnesses in high volumes.

• Number of employees : 378

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON’ INTERCONEX

QUERÉTARO - Mexico

• Year of creation : 2006

• Activity area

Manufacture of FFC, FDC and Micro-D harnesses.

• Number of employees : 8

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE Ltd

DUNFERMLINE FIFE – United kingdom

• Year of creation : 1988

• Activity area

Design Center.Sales of cables and harnesses forhigh-tech electronic applications.Manufacture of harnesses in small quantities.

• Number of employees : 31

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' KABEL GmbH

LEONBERG – Germany

• Year of creation : 1985

• Activity area

Design Center.Sales of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications.

• Number of employees : 27

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE INC.

SCHAUMBURG, IL - USA

• Year of creation : 1989

• Activity area

Design Center.Manufacture of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications. FFC and Micro-D harnesses.

• Sales offices : POWAY (Californie).

RANSOMVILLE (New York State). VAIL (Arizona) - PLANO (Texas).

• Number of employees : 20

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE JAPAN OFFICE

TOKYO - Japan

• Year of creation : 1990

• Activity areaSales of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications coordination.

• Number of employees : 2

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE SPANISH OFFICE

MADRID - Spain

• Year of creation : 2003

• Activity areaSales of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications.

• Number of employees : 3

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THE AXON’ GROUPAXON' CABLE INDIAN OFFICE

BANGALORE - India

• Year of creation : 2008

• Activity area Sales of cables and harnesses for high-tech electronic applications.

• Number of employees : 2

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THE AXON’ GROUPADDIX

IVRY SUR SEINE - France

• Joins the the group in : 1996

• Activity area

Design Center.Design and manufacture of elastomeric components.Moulding – extrusion.

• Number of employees : 53

• Certification : ISO 9001

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THE AXON’ GROUPLOUPOT

QUIMPER - France

• Joins the group in : 1996

• Activity area

Design Center.Manufacture of interconnect components and insertion or preforming machines.Stamping – moulding / overmoulding.Mechatronics.

• Number of employees : 85

• Certification : ISO 9001

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THE AXON’ GROUPSOFIM

MONTMIRAIL - France

• Joins the group in : 1997

• Activity area

Design Center.Voice-Data-Images network cabling solutions

• For companies (copper or optical cabling), • For home.

Coaxial connectors and assemblies for high data rate links, (telecommunications, video).

• Number of employees : 10

• Certification : ISO 9001

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Our technological expertise in materials

• ELECTROLYSIS– Silver plating, silver plated aluminium

– Alloys,…

• DRAWING - ANNEALING– Fine and ultra fine conductors, alloys,…

• INSULATING - JACKETING– Technical plastics, elastomers, PTFE, bi-components, meltable

resins,

– Charged polymers

– Silicone rubber and glass fibre braids,…

– Special polyolefine,…

– Semi-conductive and/or anti-static insulating materials,…

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Our technological expertise in materials

• «CELLOFLON ®» (EXPANDED PTFE )

– Manufacture of CELLOFLON® tapes with low dielectric constant

– Conductor lamination

– Extrusion of CELLOFLON® core coaxial cables,

– GIGAPAIR® High data rate cables

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Our technological expertise in materials

• MOULDING AND OVERMOULDING

– High pressure, low pressure, hot melt, overmoulding,

– Moulded parts,

– Design of customised moulds,

– Rheological studies,

– Loose or continuous overmoulding processes.

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Our technological expertise in materials

• MOULDING AND OVERMOULDING

– Protection of the cable / connector interface

– Miniature overmoulding

– Y-shape overmoulding (protection of the harness branches).

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Our product expertise CONDUCTORS

• ROUND CONDUCTORS • FLAT CONDUCTORS

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Our product expertise WIRES AND CABLES

• EQUIPMENT WIRES • COMPOSITE CABLES

Our product expertise COAXIAL CABLES

• STANDARD & MINIATURE COAXIAL CABLES

– Simple or double screen

– Triaxial cables

– Low noise cables

– Picocoax® miniature coaxial cables

– a-coax® cables for wireless transmission

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Our product expertise COAXIAL CABLES

• MICROWAVE– Up to 40 GHz

– 40 GHz flexible coaxial cables assemblies and specials

– Microwave assemblies

– Microwave measurements (phase, shielding efficiency, intermodulation, …)

– Electrical characterization of transmission lines

– Development of calculation softwares (attenuation, capacitance, ZT,…)

– QUASIFLEX ® Hand-formable cables

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Our product expertise DATABUS

• DATABUS

– Design and development of databus harnesses,

– Modelling and design of bus topology,

– Development of different types of coupling and automatic test benches,

– Study of high data rate networks,

– Manufacture of BUS networks in accordance with MIL-STD-1553.

– Design and development of databus harnesses,

– Modelling and design of bus topology,

– Development of different types of coupling and automatic test benches,

– Study of high data rate networks,

– Manufacture of BUS networks in accordance with MIL-STD-1553.

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Our product expertise POWER DISTRIBUTION BUS

• POWER DISTRIBUTION BUS

– Optimisation of the on-board

power distribution.

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Our product expertise FLAT CABLES

• EXTRUDED CABLES • LAMINATED CABLES

Our product expertise FLAT CABLES

• FLAT CONDUCTOR

– Lamination of the conductor

– Study of the behaviour of the laminated conductor

– Flat conductor extrusion

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Our product expertise ASSEMBLIES

• Combination of electrical and mechanical functions in one system.

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Our product expertise MINI SYSTEMS

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Our product expertise CABLING ACCESSORIES

• Connectors

• Seals

• Shield termination systems

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Our product expertise CUSTOM DESIGNED CONNECTORS

• Design of connectors and contacts according

to customer specifications

• Micro-D, flat, round, hybrid connectors.

• ACB1 : MIL-STD-1553

connectors.

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Our technological expertiseINTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS

• PREPARATION

– CUTTING (Manual or automated)

– STRIPPING (Manual or automated)

– CRIMPING (Manual or automated)

– WELDING (Manual or automated)

• soldering

• thermal welding

• Reflow soldering

• Ultrasound welding

• Electric welding

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Our technological expertise INTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS

• TERMINATION

– MOULDING / OVERMOULDING (MANUAL AND AUTOMATED)

• low pressure (bi-component resins / hot melt resins)

• high pressure (thermoplastics)

 

– SHIELDING

• Mechanical protection

• Electrical protection

• EMC / EMI protection

Our technological expertise ELECTROMAGNETIC PROTECTION

• EMI / EMC

– Computer modeling of wave/cable coupling

– Modelling of ZT

– Shielding with specified immunity

– Test bench for ZT measurements on cables, connectors and terminated assemblies

– Application of EMC European standards

– Shielding efficiency measurements from 500 MHz to 18 GHz

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Quality Our verification capability

• CONTROL

– MAIN TESTS CARRIED OUT BY OUR LABORATORY

• Dimensions

• Mechanical (bending / torsion / folding / vibration…)

• Electrical (continuity / insulation / dielectric…)

• Ageing (temperature / thermal shock /

salt spray / …)

• Solderability (meniscograph…)

• Microwave, S-parameters

• High voltage (A.C. / D.C.)

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Quality Our verification capability

• VALIDATION

– SPECIAL TESTS

• 2D and 3D X-ray.

• Electronic Scanning Microscope.

• EMC / EMI.

• Vibration test bench.

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Quality Our approval history

1981 RAQ 2.

1985 QPL.

1986 ESA.

1993 ISO 9002

1996 ISO 9001

2001 QS 9000

2002 ISO 9001 – 2000

2005 TS 16949 and ISO 14001

2006 EN 9100

2008 OHSAS 18001

And many customer certifications : VALEO, CNES,….

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The result of innovation :patented products

• FDC 100®

– LVDS : Low Voltage Differential Signal

Flat harness (100Ω controlled impedance)

for HD TV screens.

• A-COAX®

– Ultra miniature coaxial cables made with

alveolar PTFE for WiFi antennas.

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The result of innovation :patented products

• FLEXTRACK®

– Self supporting flat cables for the automation

and robotics industry.

• AXALU®

– Light silver plated aluminium conductors and shielding for aerospace market.

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Markets

• AEROMIL (LAND)

– Axotwist® twist capsule

– Micro-D Harnesses

• AEROMIL (AERO)

– BUS A 400 M Coupler

– BUS 1553

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Markets

• SPACE

– Satellite Bus Bar

– Axalu®

– 120 way Micro-D

connectors

• AUTOMOTIVE

– Flat cables for airbags® systems

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Markets

• GENERAL ELECTRONICS

– Industrial electronics

– Robotics

• CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

– LVDS for HD displays

– FFC for car radios

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Markets

• MEDICAL

– Miniature cords for cochlear implants systems

– PTFE tubes for micro-catheters

– Oxymetry device cords

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Axon’ s long term strategy

• FINANCIAL

– To grow continually faster than the average growth of the electronics market

– To always remain profitable

– To keep debt to a minimum

• STRATEGIC FOCUS

– Continual innovation

– Continual acceleration

– Long term and strong customer relationships