Leuze electronic presents a concrete innovation towards powering Industry 4.0 applications with its new Smart Core cable. With the smart factory revolution on the horizon, the Smart Core cable enables an innovative predictive maintenance measure specifically for applications with moving cables (i.e handling robots, welding robots, moving cables).
The cable contains an additional, special sacrificial wire that fails at approximately 80% of the cable’s lifecycle. The sacrificial wire is bridged with the supply voltage, and when the core breaks it gives an early warning of the impending end of the cable’s service life. Not only does this help to prevent unplanned downtime, but it increases system availability by predicting downtime and allowing for scheduled maintenance. With the future of smart automation already here, Leuze electronic presents a smart solution to a critical but often overlooked component of an application.
Leuze electronic
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Filed Under: Cables + cable management
William K. says
The predictive strand seems like a reasonable approach but it is not clear how the claim of having 80% of the cable life was determined. I have replaced cables in a flexing application where one conductor failed but the adjacent one had many conductors OK. So an explanation as to how the shorter life is figured would be very educational, and possibly bring more credibility to that claim.