The industry of electrical cabinet wiring today
Today, companies involved in the production of industrial electrical cabinets wiring in series and non-series, contract electrical wiring and electrical assemblies, for the most part still perform all production phases manually, resulting in resources, timeframes and opportunities that are no longer adequate to the current market and technological advancement.
Especially the cable preparation and processing phases are the most time and resource consuming for electrical cabinet manufacturers.
During installation, in fact, the complex combination of manual processes required for mechanical assembly and wiring accounts for more than 70 per cent of the time spent. This results in high process costs rather than material costs.
A recent internal survey by Kablator among its customers also confirmed this situation.
The survey also revealed that many companies, in addition to not equipping themselves at all with automated solutions or equipment to try to limit manual activities by moving towards optimised and standardised production, are not even looking for a technological solution.
Main reason: the lack of high-performance technologies specific to their needs. To sum up, they have not found a solution that equals or improves manual processing.
At the same time, another important fact that emerged confirms another Italian trend, namely the difficulty in finding qualified personnel for cabling activities. There is a lack of specialists.
Problems encountered in cabling
If we then combine these situations with the increased pressure on costs, the small size of most companies, short delivery times and the increased need for documentation… it is easy to see considerable room for improvement in the preparatory activities prior to assembly and in the construction of the electrical cabinet.
Electrical cabinets production is therefore a sector that is still strongly tied to past experience and tradition and has not fully opened up to the technological innovations of automation.
This framework, to stay on the subject, has given the Kablator team the impetus to develop a series of solutions (automatic wiring machines, industrial vision systems and services) that, step by step, can help and support the wiring industry by solving the main problems it is currently experiencing.
“The goal is to revolutionise electrical cabinet production by introducing digitisation, automation and robotics technologies,” says Krystian Morcioni Ceo of Kablator.
Advantages of using automated systems for cabling
When we talk about digitalisation, automation and robotics technology solutions, we are talking about machines and systems that divide all the processes into stages leading to the construction of the electrical cabinet or panel, and can replace or support the cabler in the assigned tasks.
The objective and advantages of automation are manifold, as are the solutions available to achieve them. It depends on the company, its current degree of automation and what objectives, even in steps, it wants to achieve.
The main ones are:
- Time saved: more results with less effort;
- Improved operational efficiency: reduces bottlenecks, reduces checks and stoppages;
- Improved productivity: thanks to accelerated processes;
- Standardises operations: consistent results, transparency and accountability;
- Reduces costs: eliminates wasted resources, reducing operating costs and increasing profit margins;
- Minimises human error: machines do not stop and fatigue and therefore workflows are more correct;
- Improves human value added: elimination of heavy and repetitive work, substitution of higher value activities to increase presence and motivation;
- Simplification of documentation: everything digital leads to greater order and simplification of information retrieval.
Machines and equipment for automated wiring
Kablator has devised an ecosystem of automated machines, vision systems and services that respond to the problems of electrical cabinets and panel wiring industry with customised, tailor-made solutions.
The production of electrical panels and boards will be transformed by automating up to 80 per cent of production processes, without disrupting them, but optimising them.
The aim of the ecosystem is to support the value chains and processes of the cabling sector in the best possible way by taking them to a higher level in order to make the production of electric panels and electrical cabinets faster, more precise and reproducible, thanks to automated machining, assembly and cabling equipment.
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