The Datamate Trio-Tek open barrel crimp contact automates the crimp process to reduce process costs as well significantly saving on assembly time. The new crimp design simplifies the insertion of contacts into the housing and features a latching mechanism. The Datamate Trio-Tek auto-crimp contact utilises a triangular form that is the key to providing a simplified crimping process while at the same time enabling the customer to fully automate crimping in medium and high volume applications. Trio-Tek is suitable in both medium and high volume processes and inexpensive hand crimping tools are available for lower volume product development and prototyping applications.