What Type of Cable Is Best for Automated Production Lines?

Automated production lines need cables that can survive motion, electrical noise, oil, abrasion, temperature changes, [...]

How to Choose Servo Cables for Moving Machinery?

Selecting the right cables for axes that bend, twist, and accelerate is critical to servo [...]

How to Choose Cables for Long-Travel Drag Chains?

Selecting a long travel drag chain cable is about more than matching voltage, conductor count, [...]

How to Prevent Signal Interference in Moving Cables?

Moving cables in drag chains, robotics, CNC equipment, and automation systems are especially vulnerable to [...]

How to Prevent Cable Jacket Wear in Drag Chains?

Preventing drag chain cable abrasion starts with matching the cable, chain, bend radius, fill ratio, [...]

What fill ratio for drag chain cable? Calculation guide

Selecting the correct fill ratio for a drag chain cable installation prevents premature jacket wear, [...]

Can bus cable

A CAN bus cable is the physical communication link that lets electronic control units, sensors, [...]

How to ground shielded ethernet cable?

Grounding shielded Ethernet isn’t complicated: you bond the cable’s foil/braid to properly grounded hardware so [...]

Why does drag chain cable corkscrew? Causes & Fixes

Corkscrewing in a drag chain cable is usually caused by torsional stress, incorrect cable construction, [...]

Is a patch cable the same as an ethernet cable?

Patch cables and Ethernet cables are closely related, but the terms are used differently in [...]