Wire and Wire Management Products for Panel Builders

A good panel depends on more than the headline components. AP Technology supplies wire and wire management products alongside its cable and connector ranges, giving panel builders a simpler way to bring common interconnect items under one account. They are useful for control panel manufacturers, machine builders and system integrators. Buying related items from one source saves administration, particularly with call-off orders in place, and also reduces the number of separate deliveries turning up at goods in. Getting cable right starts with how it will actually be used. Fixed installation, drag chain travel, continuous bending and torsion all ask different things of a conductor, screen and sheath. Sheath material then comes down to the surroundings, whether that means oil, UV, direct burial or a space where low smoke zero halogen material is preferred. The AP Technology team starts with the application and works back to the construction. Standard cable can often be adapted instead of starting from nothing.

AP Technology offers over sheathing in materials such as PUR, PE or LSOH, over armouring with galvanised steel wire braid or single wire armour for direct burial, and spiral striping to make individual cables easier to identify. It is a quicker way of getting an off the shelf product to do a special job. Interconnect problems rarely stop at one component. Because AP Technology supplies cable, connectors, glands and finished assemblies under one roof, it can look at the whole connection and not just one part of it. That is useful when a change to cable diameter affects the gland, or a different connector changes how the assembly should be built. If you are looking at wire and wire management products for panel builders, get in touch on 020 8848 3074 or at connect@aptechnology.biz. Drawings, samples or an old part number are all a good place to start.