The female contact is available in reeled format on its carrier strip. The crimp style is an industry-standard open-crimp (also known as flag or f-type). This design can be used in standard crimp machines for fully- or semi-automated crimping production, keeping process costs down. The only manual step will be to insert the crimps into the housings, which requires no additional tooling. A hand crimp tool and loose contacts are also available for low volume, prototyping, or pre-production builds.