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The Design and Manufacturing Services Centre, located in Wokingham, provides specialist technical support and a range of in house design and assembly resources for product development and systems integration. ACAL Technology’s sales and marketing director Steve Carr explained: “We believe the Centre provides customers with distribution’s most comprehensive in house range of design and assembly services. By providing immediate access to every service required to take products from development to complete system integration, ACAL strips away unnecessary delays between multiple suppliers to achieve the most concentrated design cycle.” The range of in house equipment and services includes a 3m EMC chamber for precompliance testing, cad and specialist test equipment, and a device programming centre, along with connector and fibre optic cable assembly. With a capacity of more than 250,000 units per annum, the connector assembly centre supports ACAL Technology’s position as Europe’s leading assembly distributor for Amphenol military circular connectors. The centre assembles nine different ranges of military circular connectors, as well as connectors for industrial and other harsh environments, and offers fast turn round with no minimum order quantity. The Centre can also assemble physical contact and expanded beam (lens) fibre optic cables and copper cabling, while other services include pcb layout, power supply construction, rack and enclosure fabrication, software installation, documentation and functional or soak testing.