Stranding
Every new employee at igus® is given intensive training regarding our different company products. Cable training is one elementary component of this. In the process, we pay lots of attention to the structure of our cables, to the so-called “7 reasons”. For us, this special structure is very important. Therefore, we would like to explain […]
Stranding means wrapping the cores of multi-core cables around a centre element. During cable design, stranding plays a decisive role with respect to movement. There is a fundamental distinction between cores wound in bundles and cores wound in layers. We will examine both of them more closely below. What are cores wound in layers? When […]
If it were that easy, we at igus could save ourselves a whole lot of research and development. Unfortunately, it’s not. In an article about the class of a stranded wire, I explained how important the wire diameter is in a stranded wire, and that it is inaccurate to simply say that a finer-wired strand […]