The Ideal ‘Route’ for your Wires and Cables

Wire and cable routing is a significant point of product design and specification and one that is often overlooked. Choosing the right route for your wires and cables not only improves the aesthetic appeal of the product but also improves system performance and product maintenance.

Good routing allows for a longer product shelf-life, ease of assembly solutions and provides an improved solution to repairing and maintaining routes for access around cables.

Most products connect a variety of components together to make the complete product. Connecting a PCB, switches, relays, motors, and other components together often includes a number of cables that must be positioned to allow for final assembly at a minimum for the product to work and be visually appealing.

Choosing Express Assemblies Ltd: The ‘Ideal Route’

At Express Assemblies Ltd, we are often asked to help customers with the routing of their wires and cables. With a number of ‘routing’ measures, the company ensures to meet all project demands and offers a number of solutions, to what for some can cause a real headache and lead to complete project redesigns.

Why not consider:

• Wire or Cable Loom/Harness: A wiring loom or cable harness is a very useful solution to help with the routing of wires and cables. Harnesses and looms can be created in a number of ways from using off the shelf components to strategic placement of cable ties or electrical tape. The advantage of a proper cable harness is that all of the wires and cables share a common path through the product that can be easier to secure and protect the wires from damage, vibrations, and the environment. Also using a single-routing path is often a better use of space, the risk of wires shorting is reduced, and installation becomes simpler.
• Cable Identification Methods: Using Express’ cable-identification methods such as single-character wire markers or heat-shrinkable labels offers an ideal way to trace and identify any wires and cables.
• Wire and Cable Cut and Strip Length: As a wire cut and strip business, Express is very knowledgeable of the fact that the less wire you use [i.e. the length of wire] in your wiring routes, it offers a significant cost saving but also reduces opportunity for RF and EMI noise to get in and disrupt electronic pulses and signals.
• Wire and Cable Types: With Express Assemblies stocking a wide variety of wire and cable types, we can also advise what types of wire and cable would be the best choice for your routing enquiries. The current a wire will carry as well as the voltage of the signal are two of the key wire selection factors that must be taken in to account.
• Routing Channels: Express Assemblies offers a number of ‘routing channels’ that offer a flexible and adaptable approach for any wire and cable routing problem. Using tubing and sleeving, as well as a large range of cable management techniques, we can approve and apply our designs to most applications.
• Fasteners and Fixings: With our extensive inventory of fasteners and fixings, we can provide an easy and quick installation approach to secure and fasten any wire or cable route.