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Robots in the factory of the future: opportunities and challenges for cable manufacturers11/24/2018
According to industry predictions, the number of industrial robots sold is expected to exceed the 250,000 mark this year. This is a huge worldwide market for robot manufacturers. To ensure that robots are supplied with data and energy without any interruption, it is worth looking carefully at the cables that have to survive the 3D movement of robots, which are continuously on the move. Robot cables for applications where the cables are subjected to torsional stress have to be constructed and manufactured in a completely different way to cables for linear motion. The latter must be as compact and closely braided as possible and have an outer jacket extruded at high pressure. The reason that this is important is because this special "hardness" enables the cable to follow the motion pattern of the energy chain. |