Case Study: SAB North America’s Inventory Keeps Robots working

Recently a large industrial plant with approximately 200 ABB robot cells was having trouble with the control cables breaking. This was as the cells were nearing a normal maintenance cycle and factory shutdown for MRO activities.

Cable requirements from customer were:

• Needed to be abrasive resistant (PUR jacket).
• Continuous Flexing to handle the continuous bending
• Required fairly tight bending radius (7.5 x O.D.)
• Cable needed to provide shielding protection.

Working closely with our Distributor and Manufacturers’ Rep in the area, they provided SAB’s Inside Staff with the requirements of the application.  After sending a sample for evaluation to the customer, SAB was able to furnish our #7841207 (19 awg/7 conductor) and # 7890434 (4 cond/22 awg) for application.

Having the right cable for the application was good, but with a very small window for shut down to rewire the 80 robots, having inventory was critical.  The distributor, rep and customer were estatic when we could deliver from our shelf all of the cable lengths for them to rewire the maximum number of robots.  

If the cables had not been in stock the factory shutdown would have had to be postponed with possible robot cell failures and costly delays in providing the services and products to our customer’s customer.  When requiring cable, don’t forget to contact SAB immediately for your needs. 

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