3M’s electronics materials story is less about any single component and more about making interconnect and protection behave predictably under real constraints: signal integrity, EMI/EMC, heat, vibration, and long service life. In this booth walk-through, Manuel Sen (business manager, electronics for 3M AMIA) connects the dots between cabling, shielding, insulation, and thermal paths—exactly the stuff that decides whether a system passes compliance, stays stable at bandwidth, and survives the factory. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/electronics-components-us/
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On the connectivity side, the focus starts with flat cable families built for different environments: high-temperature constructions, halogen-free options, PVC, and twisted-pair variants to reduce noise coupling. Board-to-board robustness and IDC-based sensor connectivity show up as practical answers to rising sensor counts, where discrete wires must reliably reach multiple sensing points without turning assembly into a failure hotspot. This segment is filmed on the SPS show floor in Nuremberg, with a clear emphasis on industrial automation-grade cabling that stays stable over time, not just at first power-up.
Then the conversation shifts to adhesive and tape engineering for electronics, framed in three electrical/thermal roles. Electrically conductive tapes create a controlled grounding path for shielding, helping dump interference to ground instead of letting it pollute sensitive lines. Electrically insulating tapes (including polyester and polyimide constructions) target high temperature plus dielectric performance, while thermally conductive tapes act as a thermal interface to move heat away from dense electronics where airflow and heatsink geometry hit their limit. Converting rolls into die-cut parts for mass production also matters here, as does surface prep—clean, dust-free application is what keeps adhesion stable under vibration and heat.
For high-speed links, 3M highlights thin, heavily shielded TwinAx-style cabling designed to fold and route through tight mechanical envelopes while keeping signal behavior consistent. That “bend it around corners without losing performance” theme is familiar in hyperscale data centers, but it maps cleanly to industrial systems that now carry higher bandwidth across smaller spaces. It also aligns with modern I/O needs where keeping losses low can reduce dependence on retimers and still target interfaces like PCIe Gen5-class performance over short internal runs.
Fiber and vision cabling round out the picture. Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) shifts the weak point of fiber—contamination at the interface—by using an expanded-beam, dust-tolerant approach suited to rugged or dirty environments, including defense-style deployments. For machine vision, the discussion points to standardized ecosystems like USB3 Vision and CoaXPress 2.0, where cable length, flex life, and torsion resistance decide uptime in moving-camera rigs; 3M’s industrial camera cable assemblies are positioned around repeated-bend durability and stable transmission over longer runs. The through-line stays consistent: material science choices that make cables and tapes behave reliably inside a machine, year after year, with EMI, heat, and motion all accounted for in one stack of tape.
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