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Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC. (THC)

Optical cable consulting

International high technology consulting company for Cable, Connector, Facility and Training Services

Incorporated by Wayne Kachmar and built on his 40+ years of optical cable industry experience. Work includes consulting for wire companies adding fiber optics line in their manufacturing, cable companies developing and testing new cable designs and assembly houses determining cable specs or incoming cable quality tests programs.

Additional services include program guidance for certified test houses, optical cable spec requirements, independent outside expert review of cables or installations, optical patent attorney support, independent lab support of environmental chamber time, physical tests etc. and United States cable operation set up consulting (specifically for foreign companies) including but not limited to spec conversion, plant operation set-up, overall equipment and product line evaluation.

So You Want to Start a Cable Company or Add a Cable Making Division?

At the 65th IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium, Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC. (THC) presented a short talk on Starting a Cable Company and/or Adding a Cable Making Division. The talk included a handout outlining the basic questions that ...

Braiders, Optical Cables and the Common Ground of Restorations

As I was going over thoughts of what is appropriate for a summer blog I noticed that some of my hobbies and my vocation cross in very different ways. For example, I have spent the bulk of my professional career developing and building optical cables and the means to make them for many impossible tasks. From undersea micro umbilical’s to aerospace applications to lowest cost building entry cables ...

Wayne Kachmar’s Are We Ready for Change?

Reflecting on trade show booths and poster papers now versus the past few years, I believe that we are ready for disruptive change. Every year there are many new disruptive technologies being put forth as ready for implementation. The real question is, are...

Technical Article: Loose Tight Buffer, Time to Define What We Mean

As the optical fiber and cable industry unfolded, several terms were coined to describe specific properties that were new and different from conventional wire processing. The term “Loose Tight Buffer” has been used to define both a specific property as well as ...

Wayne Kachmar Answers, “Are All Cable Lines Alike?”

I’ve heard this many times before and typically it’s from operations type folks who have seen both copper and fiber cable operations recognize the similarity of the process but do not understand the subtle differences between processing a malleable material ...

Defining Type and Semi-tight Buffers as Opposed to Loose Tubes in Optical Cables

One of the questions that I’ve been asked about many times is; how tight is the buffer on the cable that I am providing? Is it a “true tight buffer” or is it “semi-tight” or “loose tight buffer” or one of the other various terms thrown around such as tight...