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energy chains (also called energy supply systems, drag chains and cable carriers) are mechanical machine elements used to guide and protect energy, data, signals and fluids together in one system, whilst withstanding the most diverse environmental conditions.
Energy supply systems work best when all elements - cables, hoses, interior separation elements, strain relief devices and guide troughs – are designed to work together. At igus® we optimise the design and materials of all these elements to offer the longest possible service life – guaranteed.
Download the 2021 energy chain catalogue here
Would you like more information about e-chains® or an individual consultation? Our experts will be happy to get in touch with you.
Inner heights: 5 – 32mm
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Inner heights: 21 – 48mm
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Inner heights: 21 – 350mm
Inner diameter: 12 – 46.8mm
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Inner heights: 21 – 75mm
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Inner heights: 10 – 80mm
Corrugated tube: 28–40mm
Cable drums without slip rings
Troughs, strain relief elements, PMA hoses
Overview of how to specify your complete energy supply system using igus® tools.
Find the right energy chain and chainflex® cables for your application.
Configure complete energy chain supply systems for short or long travel as well as for hanging applications.
Quickly design your energy chain system to build into your CAD model. Supports a variety of formats and systems.
Our energy chains are modular and therefore can be used for a large number of different applications.
"For economic and technical reasons we have chosen to use exclusively standard products from igus. In this way, the necessary changes can be simply made when systems are expanded, for example."
A finished engine every 14 seconds. This only works with a great degree of automation. Our smart plastics help to make it possible to monitor the plant in Austria.
Here, two robots were equipped with a wide range of guided cables and hoses involving a complex geometric design. The dust generated here can be extracted directly.
As long as six football pitches: here, the world's longest chain from igus has already been in use for ten years. With a PPDS early warning system for any faults that may occur.
Here you will find an overview of further successful customer applications.
They enforce a minimum bend radius for the cables and hoses they protect and offer physical protection around them. The biggest benefit is that different services can be run side by side together in the same system e.g hydraulics, power cables, data cables, fibre optic cables, fluids etc. This makes them flexible and versatile, even allowing easy and cheap cable upgrades during the system life. By being passive (i.e. being pulled and pushed by the machine), they need no extra power or drive system and being made from low friction plastics they are therefore corrosion resistant and virtually maintenance-free.
The number of cables that can be fitted into an energy chain is virtually limitless. Since we offer a full range of internal separation solutions, this can be done safely and to meet almost any layout required. The huge benefit of energy chains is that almost any combination of cables and hoses can be run in the same system, something that cannot be said of alternative technologies like busbars and festoons.
Anywhere and everywhere! From electronics pick-and-place machines, to car washes, from theatre lighting cable management to nuclear decommissioning cranes, from underwater turbines to offshore oil platform skidding. Anywhere where cables and hoses are moved.
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