As cable technology continues to evolve, industrial operations demand more from every connection point: greater durability, improved flexibility, reduced cable diameter, and better performance in increasingly crowded and demanding environments. Advances in materials and insulation design have transformed what modern cable solutions can achieve across automation, reeling, and power applications. Of course, it takes a team of experts to take those materials and transform them into groundbreaking new solutions.
Check out our video for insight from Amphenol TPC's team of experts to hear how our intentional engineering sets up our wires and cables for success. It's amazing to hear, too, how the ever-evolving nature of industry has fueled innovation right in our own backyards. Explore our full product line to see how the items our experts discuss here are helping facilities maximize space, improve performance, and adapt to the growing demands of industrial automation.
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[On-screen text: How has the market responded to our cable designs?]
I think as time has gone on, a lot of other materials have improved dramatically, you know? That's why we moved into the Trex-Onics® line with polyurethane materials, fluoropolymers, things like that. Materials have come a long way in terms of technology.
I think the rubbers, for the products that we have them involved with (which is the portable cords, power cables, welding cables), I think in those areas, they still excel because of the nature of the materials. But there's a lot of great materials that have evolved over time. Whether it's the TPRs, the TPEs, the fluoropolymers, even the PVCs have have come a long way in terms of improving their overall performance. But I think we still have a very good product line in terms of the way it's perceived in the marketplace and also the way it performs in the marketplace.
To add on to that, when we talk about a comparison between a rubber product and a thermoplastic product, depending upon the application and the industry you're working with, if you're using a thermoplastic product, sometimes you can put smaller wall thicknesses in. It helps reduce the diameter of the cable, makes it a better offering for reeling applications and cables under tension if you can obtain the appropriate strength number inside the cable. We didn't have those when I first came on board, we developed those, and I think they've taken off and been a really good part of our product line.
That's a great point. It just made me think with all the industrial automation, you know, when I started, you had very few cables, and now you have 10, 15, 20 times that many because of automation.
So space is at a premium in a lot of these plants. So by going to the thinner insulations, the thinner jacket walls, you can put a lot more cables in the same spaces where they used to put just a very few cables because of the size. So yeah, technology has really helped that quite a bit.
