Triflex – cable carriers to cut down on wear and tear

There are many dif­fer­ent cables that con­nect a robot­ic arm to dif­fer­ent parts either on or near the arm itself. These cables con­nect the arm to the wrist and the end effec­tor, they con­nect the arm to the con­troller and pow­er sup­ply, and they even con­nect dif­fer­ent parts of the arm. That is why a cable car­ri­er, like those from Tri­flex, are so impor­tant for your robot. With­out cable pro­tec­tors like Tri­flex, robot cables would be out in the open where wear and tear would break them down much more easily.

Tri­flex makes dif­fer­ent mod­els of cable car­ri­ers that are flex­i­ble plas­tic cylin­ders that are able to move with every­day robot­ic motions. Accord­ing to igus, the man­u­fac­tur­er of Tri­flex, these car­ri­ers can move mul­ti-dimen­sion­al­ly to pro­tect cables from being pulled or torn by an out­side force dur­ing oper­a­tion. A Tri­flex car­ri­er is con­nect­ed by ball and sock­et joints, which makes piv­otal move­ments eas­i­er and less brac­ing for the cables.

These Tri­flex cable car­ries are used in sev­er­al dif­fer­ent robot­ic appli­ca­tions, includ­ing machin­ing, han­dling, pack­ag­ing, and sev­er­al oth­er areas where robots have to go through many dif­fer­ent move­ments and changes dur­ing one cycle. By using a cable car­ri­er sys­tem, like Tri­flex, to pro­tect cables and wires that are out­side of the robot­ic arm, man­u­fac­tur­ers are going to cut down sig­nif­i­cant­ly on the wear and tear of those cables, which also means cut­ting down on the slow­ing or full inter­rup­tion of pro­duc­tion when those cables have to be replaced. All in all, using pre­ven­ta­tive pro­tec­tants like Tri­flex cable car­ri­ers are a win-win solu­tion for any manufacturer.

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