Game Changer for Wire Harness Manufacturers: Panduit Quick-Build Harness Board System
Up to 65% Cost Savings over Conventional Plywood, Nail Layout, and Board Builds
TINLEY PARK, Ill.--Panduit Corp., a leading global provider of wire management solutions for wire harness builders, launched today the patent-pending Quick-Build Harness Board System. The Quick-Buildâ„¢ System is a revolutionary modular, expandable solution comprised of 1 X 1 (305mm x 305mm) reusable grid tiles with specially shaped holes that accept repositionable accessories to improve the productivity of wire harness build time by up to 18% compared to plywood board and nail method.
The specially designed Quick-Buildâ„¢ mounting pegs lock into the grid tiles with just a twist. Used along with the Quick-Buildâ„¢ mounting platforms and nail holders, which accept Panduit conventional wire harness layout accessories and industry-standard testing fixtures, these components create a modular harness board system.
"Low-Volume-High-Mix (LVHM) manufacturers achieve the greatest savings due to reduced material costs -- up to 65% of layout and board builds," according to Bob Krisel, Vice President of Panduit OEM Solutions. "By reducing the number of bulky plywood boards, the Quick-Buildâ„¢ Harness Board System delivers more than 50% in storage space savings."
The Quick-Buildâ„¢ System elevates harness routing above the grid tiles, allowing wire harness manufacturers to use the Panduit Automatic Cable Tie Installation Tool (PAT). The PAT System is six times faster than conventional cable tie installation systems, which can further improve productivity.
Whether the need is to build a variety of wire and cable assemblies to meet different customer specifications or for prototyping new harness designs, the more harnesses built with the Quick-Buildâ„¢ System, the more wire harness manufacturers profitability increases by:
Improving storage efficiency and reducing costly square footage from storing plywood harness boards not in use
Reducing labor needed to retrieve and store plywood harness boards
Decreasing setup time as compared to the plywood board and nail method
Reducing repetitive work and improving safety from use of hammer and nails
Reusing existing Panduit harness board accessories to create a modular system
Decreasing capital expense by reducing the number of harness board accessories and test fixtures stored with plywood boards
Panduit OEM Solutions
When you harness the ingenuity of Panduit, you tap into a 60-year legacy of leadership in wire management that helps OEMs and contract manufacturers organize, connect, and protect electrical wire and cable systems for optimum performance and lowest total cost of ownership. www.panduit.com/OEM
Featured Product
3D Vision: Ensenso B now also available as a mono version!
This compact 3D camera series combines a very short working distance, a large field of view and a high depth of field - perfect for bin picking applications. With its ability to capture multiple objects over a large area, it can help robots empty containers more efficiently. Now available from IDS Imaging Development Systems. In the color version of the Ensenso B, the stereo system is equipped with two RGB image sensors. This saves additional sensors and reduces installation space and hardware costs. Now, you can also choose your model to be equipped with two 5 MP mono sensors, achieving impressively high spatial precision. With enhanced sharpness and accuracy, you can tackle applications where absolute precision is essential. The great strength of the Ensenso B lies in the very precise detection of objects at close range. It offers a wide field of view and an impressively high depth of field. This means that the area in which an object is in focus is unusually large. At a distance of 30 centimetres between the camera and the object, the Z-accuracy is approx. 0.1 millimetres. The maximum working distance is 2 meters. This 3D camera series complies with protection class IP65/67 and is ideal for use in industrial environments.
