Consistent Quality Terminations
Our applicators are designed to deliver the next evolution in crimping technology, supporting a wide range of terminals with unmatched consistency and precision. Built from high-grade materials and engineered with optimized dimensions, the CORE Applicator Platform reduces manufacturing complexity while ensuring high repeatability and fast throughput. Listening closely to customer input and market demands, TE has innovated beyond the popular OCEAN 2.0 design, making the CORE Applicator even simpler to set up, faster to adjust, and more efficient in operation. Backed by decades of expertise in applicator and tooling design, TE is once again raising the standard of terminal crimping with the introduction of the CORE Applicator Platform.
CORE Applicator
Features and Benefits
Our new CORE applicator platform delivers consistent crimp quality while cutting costs and setup time. Compatible with OCEAN 2.0 touch tooling, it supports diverse uses from wire harnesses to HVAC and vehicle wiring. With fewer components and a streamlined strip guide, it simplifies calibration, shortens lead times, and boosts efficiency.
Key Benefits:
- Reliable, High-Quality Crimp Performance
- Faster Setup & Easier Calibration
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership
- Fits into strip seal terminators
Discover how TE Connectivity’s CORE Applicator Platform is redefining crimping technology. In this video, you’ll see how its streamlined design, OCEAN 2.0 tooling compatibility, and user-friendly setup deliver consistent crimp quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and boost productivity. Built for efficiency and reliability, the CORE Applicator is the next step forward in precision tooling.
60%
Improved ram/housing alignement
50%
Faster set-up and adjustment times
30%
Customer reported tooling life increase
OCEAN 2.0 Applicator
Features and Benefits
- Wire crimp height adjustment—provides 360° of adjustment to help minimize errors; able to adjust crimp height at 1° increments
- Easy-to-access screws for faster applicator set-up and adjustments
- Pinned base-plate design to help prevent misalignment
- Protective black nitride coating on select components
- Relocated forward-facing screws for faster/easier access to make adjustments without removing applicator from some machines
End Feed Applicator
Legend
1. Adjustment Head
2. Wire Crimp Disc
3. Adjustment Bolt
4. Counter
5. Insulation Crimp Dial
6. Wire Crimper
7. Insulation Crimper
8. Shear Plates
9. Anvil
10. Detent Disc
11. O-Ring
12. Reversible Crimp Height Adjustment Pin
13. Ram
14. Housing
15. Stock Drag
16. Strip Guide Plates
17. Strip Guide Block
18. Base Plate
Side Feed Applicator
Legend
19. Adjustment Head
20. O-Ring
21. Adjustment Bolt
22. Counter
23. Housing
24. Strip Guide Plate
25. Strip Guide Adjustment Block
26. Stock Drag
27. Drag Release Level
28. Front Strip Guide Plate
29. Base Plate
30. Anvil
31. Front Shear Holder
32. Detent Disc
33. Wire Crimp Disc
34. Reversible Crimp Height Adjustment Pin
35. Ram
36. Insulation Crimp Dial
37. Wire Crimper
38. Insulation Crimper
39. Shear Depressor
40. Floating Shear
Introducing the new OCEAN 2.0 Applicator from TE Connectivity. Watch this informative video to learn how TE has redesigned their popular OCEAN applicator series to be more reliable, faster to install and easier to use.
Two Terminal Feed Options
Mechanical Feed
Pneumatic Feed
Mechanical Feed
The cam/follower design produces repeatable feed in the industry. Independent forward/backward adjustment.
Standard Features
- Significantly improved repeatability
- Same feed module for side feed and end feed
- Single tool adjustments
- Infinite micro feed adjustment increments 1 revolution = 0.7 mm
Advantages
- Precise and repeatable terminal position over the anvil
- Independent forward and back stroke adjustment
- 50% faster adjustments compared to HDI/HDM
Pneumatic Feed
Independent forward/backward adjustments, independent flow controls, repeatable feed.
Standard Features
- Single tool or tool-less adjustments
- Same feed module for side feed and end feed
- Independent forward & back adjustments
- Micro feed adjusted incrementally with steps 0.04mm forward terminal position
- Maximum feed length: 48.25 mm
Advantages
- Independent forward and back stroke adjustment
- Adjustable speed actuation
- Self actuating
- Single or tool-less adjustment
- Single piece piston and rod assembly
- Internal exhaust valves
Style of Ram Interface
This video gives you an instruction about how to use TE.COM to search the right tools for your terminals. Applicator searching is illustrated in this video as an example.
Chrome plating, specialized materials, precision tolerances and mirrored surface finishes yield up to a 30% customer-reported increase in tooling life.
60%
Did you know that most leadmakers are only producing leads 60% of the time due largely to the time it takes to switch applicators.
