Designers typically skip cable guides in small installations — resembling in meals merchandising machines, laboratory tools or electrical doorways — risking cable harm and rising upkeep prices. This new, compact power chain is engineered to shut that hole.
igus® has designed a one-piece, injection-molded power chain in its E1 collection, providing a simplified and extra dependable cable administration answer for extremely compact areas.
Designers typically skip cable guides in small installations — resembling in meals merchandising machines, laboratory tools or electrical doorways — risking cable harm and rising upkeep prices. This new, compact power chain is engineered to shut that hole.
Constructed from a single piece of high-performance plastic, the E1 chain is more cost effective than conventional assembled chains. Its distinctive easy-chain precept permits customers to push particular person cables by way of versatile enamel with out instruments, securing them and defining a managed bend radius. This safety prevents cables from chafing, kinking and breaking, making certain an extended system service life.
“We acquired optimistic suggestions from designers world wide who’ve been looking in useless for an economical cable information answer for compact set up areas,” says Kira Weller, Product Supervisor for e-chains at igus.
To speed up its transition to high-volume manufacturing, igus is actively looking for design engineers for pilot tasks. The corporate goals to collaborate with customers to adapt the e-chain for numerous purposes, together with these with extraordinarily brief actions of solely 40 millimeters.
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