Drag Chain Cables for Automated Warehouses: Bending Cycles, Travel Distance and Speed
In an automated warehouse, moving cable connections can undergo repeated bending as shuttles, stacker cranes and gantries operate. Where an energy chain (also called a drag chain or cable chain)...
LAPP Solutions Navigator: Find the Right Cables and Connectors for Your Solar or Warehouse Project
The LAPP Solutions Navigator is a free online tool that shows which LAPP cables and connectors suit each point of a solar or warehouse automation system. You pick an industry,...
Smart Building Cabling Guide: Fieldbus and Ethernet for BMS
Modern building automation uses fieldbus and Ethernet networks to connect devices, controllers and BMS platforms. A building can also use fibre, wireless and dedicated safety cabling, but fieldbus and Ethernet...
How to Read Cable Certification Marks for Regulated Environments: A Selection Guide
The marks on a cable datasheet answer different questions, not the same one. Fire marks split into circuit integrity under fire conditions and flame propagation along the run. Halogen-free and...
Industrial Ethernet Cabling for Cleanrooms and Hygienic Zones: What Changes When the Room Is the Spec
Cleanroom and hygienic-zone Ethernet cabling is a materials decision before it is a data-rate decision. The room's ISO 14644-1 class describes the cleanliness of its air, not the cable, so...
LAPP Harnessing Solutions: Pre-Assembled Connectivity for Hygienic Machine Builds
A hygienic machine build benefits when its cable, connector and gland are assembled and tested together against the machine builder's specified requirements, rather than sourced separately and built up on...
Washdown-Rated Connectors: Specifying EPIC® for Hygienic Food and Beverage Lines
For a food-production line, washdown suitability is a question about the whole connection: housing, seals, cable entry and cleaning duty. IP69 addresses defined ingress conditions, while chemical compatibility and hygienic...
Specifying and Coding EPIC® Rectangular Connectors for a Machine Interface
Specify a rectangular EPIC® connector by matching the housing, insert configuration and contacts to the machine interface. Then select compatible mechanical coding for connections that must not be interchanged and...
