Fiber Optic Center will be atIWCS- Schedule your meeting with a member of the FOC team now

Follow the Telcordia GR-326 Standard to Validate Your Curing Schedule

Setting up a new bonding process and need to establish the curing scheduleoryour production process is set but experiencing fiber movement and need to adjust curing temperature or time….

Here is a FOC TIP to validate your curing schedule:

Follow the Telcordia GR-326 standard– To validate your curing schedule, we strongly recommend incorporating adhesive testing into your bonding process, as described in Telcordia GR-326 (section 4.4.4.2).

Adhesive testing is a simple, effective, and industry-accepted test to ensure you have a properly prepared and cured cable assembly.Simply put, in this test, a terminated ferrule is heated, and pressure is applied to the fiber to try to push it within the ferrule.If the fiber is not properly bonded to the ferrule, the fiber will move with this pressure.The amount of movement indicates how well the epoxy is bonding the glass fiber to the ceramic ferrule and, thus, whether the epoxy is properly cured.

We highly recommend following this industry standard – even if your customer's specs don't require it – due to the risk involved of shipping product that is not properly cured.Telcordia makes a clear effort to emphasize the importance of epoxy-related processes in GR-326.In addition to section 4.4.4.2 (adhesive testing), other valuable requirements are section 8.2.1.2.3 (qualification of epoxies) and R8-11 (this requires that samples of finished products are routinely subjected to simple tests, which give an indication of the effectiveness of the epoxy process).

READ THE BLOG:Bonding Optical Fiber to the Ceramic Ferrule Part 3: Best practices to validate your epoxy curing schedule

Additional resources from the FOC team include:

Have questions about this FOC Tip?

Contact FOC with questions at: (800) 473-4237 / 508-992-6464 or email:FiberOpticCenter@www.spnnc.comand we will respond ASAP.

About the Author
FOC Tips Fiber Optic Center has a team of technical experts and marketing strategists with decades of years in the field.This team contributes to the fiber, cable and specialty industries coverage through news, alerts, reports and general media information.
About Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), is an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment and supplies and has been helping customers make the best cable assemblies in the world for over two decades.Several areas of specialization and expertise, in which they are the industry leader, make them the preferred choice for many of the world's fiber professionals.In these key technology areas, FOC is "at least as technical as the manufacturer" about the products they sell.Striving to "make the business part easy," they offer outstanding and personal customer service, low or no minimum purchase order values, and from-stock delivery on industry-leading products and technology.FOC is the industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts who integrate their manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into customers' worldwide operations. @FiberOpticCntr

For further information contact:
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., 23 Centre Street, New Bedford, MA 02740-6322
Toll Free in US: 800-IS-FIBER or 800-473-4237 .Direct 508-992-6464.Email: sales@www.spnnc.comor fiberopticcenter@www.spnnc.com

For media contact:
Kathleen Skelton, Director of Strategic Marketing, C: 617-803-3014 .E: kskelton@www.spnnc.com
Baidu
map