# From your drawing to ready harnesses and cable assemblies Three steps, and what actually happens inside each of them: what we can work from, what we do to it, and what comes back. ### Step one — Send what you have The intake takes whatever you have. A complete drawing package is ideal, and is rarely what anyone has on the day they need a price. **What we can work from** - A drawing package, if you have one — PDF, DXF, STEP - A wire schedule, a BOM, or an EPLAN or Zuken E3 export - A photograph of the assembly being replaced - A description in your own words, with nothing attached **What happens immediately** - An account is created from your first submission — no password, a sign-in link by email - Your files are covered by a mutual NDA before anyone sees them - The enquiry is reviewed against what a shop would need in order to build it Takes about two minutes ### Step two — We make it buildable A drawing a person can read is not yet a specification a shop can quote against without guessing. Closing that gap is the work. **What we normalise** - Connector part numbers checked against what is actually available - Wire gauge, insulation and jacket rating resolved to real part numbers - Strip lengths, crimp specification and contact selection - Tolerances — stated where your drawing states them, proposed where it does not - Test and documentation requirements, so they are priced into the quote and not discovered later - Obsolete parts flagged with a drop-in alternate rather than a question **What comes back to you** - A fixed price, with the lead time and what can ship with the order - A specific list of anything missing — not a delay with no explanation - The alternates we propose, so you can review them Within 24 hours of a complete spec ### Step three — Built, tested, delivered You approve a price; we place the order. Which partner builds it is our decision and our responsibility — you have one contract either way. Say which records you need at enquiry, so they are part of the build and not a request afterwards. We ship worldwide, including Europe, the UK, the USA, Australia and Southeast Asia. **What happens in production** - The order is matched to a manufacturer already qualified for the processes it needs - Continuity is tested against your net list - Pull-force sampling to the IPC/WHMA-A-620 class your order names - We stay with the order through production **Documentation you can ask for** - Certificate of conformity - Continuity test record against your net list - As-built bill of materials - First article or PPAP, insulation resistance, hipot and crimp records Production from 10 days ### What the number is made of. The price is calculated against the specification, and it is the price you pay. - **What drives it** — Wire and cable, terminals and connectors, the operations the build needs, the quantity, the test and documentation you asked for, and the region the work is placed in. - **What changes it** — Quantity more than anything else, then connector availability. A part on long lead time moves the price and the date together, and we tell you which at quote time rather than after. - **What does not change it** — Which partner ends up building it. Vernex works its margin into the quoted price, so the number you approve is the number on the invoice. Prototypes, pilot batches and production series go through the same intake, and there is no minimum on an order or on a quote. ### FAQ **What if my drawing is incomplete?** That is the normal case, and it is what step two is for. You get a specific list of what is missing — a connector part number, a strip length, a test requirement — not a delay you have to chase. Where the gaps are small we propose values and mark them as proposals, so you approve them before anything is built. **Do I have to upload a file to get a price?** No. A description of what you want built is enough to start. **What happens to my specification?** It is read and normalised before it is priced — connectors checked against availability, gauges and strip lengths resolved, tolerances confirmed or proposed. That is what step two is, and it is why the questions that come back are specific. **Can I change the spec after I have approved a price?** Tell us as early as you can. Before production starts, a change is requoted and you approve again. Once material has been bought against your order, what is still possible depends on what has been bought — so it is a conversation, and not something we can promise in advance. **What if the parts are wrong when they arrive?** It is our problem. Vernex is the counterparty on the contract, so a non-conforming order is handled by us with the manufacturer instead of becoming a supplier dispute you have to run. **Our suppliers take two to three weeks to quote. Why is it 24 hours here?** Because the work that usually takes the time is done once, up front, by us. Your drawing, BOM or EPLAN export is normalised into a manufacturable spec — connectors checked against availability, gauges and strip lengths resolved, tests and documentation named — and priced from that spec against a network whose capabilities are already declared. The 24 hours count from a complete spec; if something is missing, you get a specific list of what to send, not a delay. --- Canonical: https://www.vernex.com/how-it-works Index: https://www.vernex.com/llms.txt · https://www.vernex.com/llms-full.txt · https://www.vernex.com/capabilities.json