Every cable has its story.
The world of cables is full of stories. In our spotlights, we bring them together – from various application areas and from our daily work.
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Tough on the outside – precise on the inside.
Bus-compatible data lines (ISOBUS) and hybrid lines are being used more and more frequently. This allows us to address the latest trends in agricultural technology, such as precision farming and increasingly complex control technology – and contributes to the automation of individual functions of agricultural machinery.
The outfit has to be right.
We love our blue HKS44. Would you also like to see your company color everywhere?
We can easily do this for your cable. Any shade of color is conceivable as the outer jacket colour.
On request, we can also supply the cables with barcode labeling, imprint (also with company logo) and length marking.
This can be extremely useful. Or just beautiful.
Thoroughly checked
A significant proportion of cables used in automation and sensor technology are employed in energy chains. In these cable carriers, the cables are fixed with defined radii and moved at high accelerations and speeds.
Installation in cable carriers allows for reproducible testing of the cables' service life (cycles of movement) through accelerated thermal and mechanical aging tests. The experience gained here is incorporated into our design of new cables.
These diverse applications often have additional requirements regarding specific environmental conditions. These can include temperature requirements that deviate from the standard, or requirements relating to specific environmental media such as oils and greases, diesel, brake or de-icing fluids, de-icing salts, seawater, and many more.
We currently use materials in this area that have already been used in more than 20 different media tests.
Constantly fresh
We are experts in cables for continuous motion applications. The cables with the highest demands regarding three-dimensional movement are found in the field of robotics – and this is where it gets interesting:
Especially in the automotive industry, unplanned downtime due to robot maintenance must be avoided at all costs, as other production areas can very quickly be affected as a consequence.
The cable performance must therefore reliably reach the next scheduled maintenance/replacement cycle so that a cable replacement can be carried out as planned. An accurate estimate of the service life for these cables is therefore particularly important.
Thanks to decades of design experience, we now supply cables that meet these highest requirements. To enable quick replacement during maintenance, it has proven effective to replace pre-assembled cable sets in modules.
Step by step
Cables in the elevator shaft are subjected to strong tensile forces, which arise from the free slope height in the elevator shaft.
It is important that the weight is not borne by the electrically conductive copper strands, but by specially designed, mechanically particularly stable elements: For this purpose, we construct round cables with a central support element and flat cables with two external support elements.
Depending on the requirements and available installation space, steel cables, aramid cores, hemp or sisal cords are used. To prevent warping and looping of the cables during use, a reinforcing braid is integrated into the outer sheath. This braiding prevents torsion of the cables during operation and can also absorb forces.
The supporting elements are applied either by mechanical clamping systems or via pull stockings and ensure that the electrical conductors can perform the constant movements without strain.
This significantly extends the operating life of these power lines. And all passengers want reliability, don't they?
