The CAD model is perfect. The mechanical components are torqued to spec. But a familiar feeling sinks in when you look at the electrical cabinet—a sea of spools, a box of connectors, and a spreadsheet of wire labels.
Your most skilled people are about to spend days, or even weeks, on the tedious, error-prone task of wiring. It’s a bottleneck that kills momentum, burns out your team, and pushes back your delivery dates. But what if you could bypass it completely?
The “Wiring Trap”: A Drain on Your Best Talent
In modern machine building, we optimize every part of the design process, yet we often accept manual wiring as a necessary evil. This “old way” is riddled with hidden costs:
- Engineering Hours Wasted: Highly paid engineers end up doing repetitive tasks like cutting, stripping, crimping, and testing—work that doesn’t leverage their core design skills.
- Purchasing Complexity: Juggling hundreds of SKUs for cables, connectors, glands, and terminals creates a massive administrative load and increases the chance of stockouts or incorrect parts.
- The High Cost of a Single Mistake: A single mis-crimped pin or incorrect label can take hours to troubleshoot on the assembly floor or, even worse, cause a failure in the field after the machine has shipped.
This isn’t just inefficient; it’s a strategic drag on your business. Your real competitor is the timeline, and the wiring trap is slowing you down.
The Shift: From Parts Supplier to Co-Engineering Partner
The solution isn’t just buying better parts; it’s adopting a better process. Imagine shifting the entire burden of system connectivity to a specialist partner.
Instead of your team building the nervous system of your machine from scratch on the factory floor, they receive a pre-engineered, fully tested, plug-and-play solution.
This is the “co-engineering” model. It’s a collaborative workflow that turns a complex bill of materials into a single, reliable assembly.
How It Works in Practice: A Four-Step Blueprint
So, how do you get from a chaotic box of parts to a clean, simple installation? It’s a straightforward, collaborative process.
- Discovery on Your Turf It starts with a conversation at your facility. We work alongside your team to understand the complete picture: motion profiles for robotics, environmental challenges like oil or heat, and crucial safety requirements. This isn’t a sales call; it’s an engineering deep-dive.
- Smart System Design Using your drawings, we design a complete connectivity package. The goal is to minimize complexity. This might involve specifying the right ÖLFLEX® power and control cables or designing a fully integrated cable chain system that combines power, data, and control into one manageable unit.
- Precision Harnessing in Our Workshop This is where the real work happens off your plate. In our ÖLFLEX® CONNECT facility, we build your assemblies. Every cable is cut to length, terminated, labeled, and bundled into a managed harness according to your exact prints. We handle everything from simple servo sets to complex box-builds.
- One Delivery, Zero Chaos You receive a single box containing a fully assembled and 100% electrically tested harness. Your team simply mounts and connects it. The hours or days of on-machine wiring are reduced to minutes.
The Payoff: What This Means for Your Business
Moving to a co-engineering model delivers tangible results beyond just a tidy-looking cabinet.
- Faster Machine Builds: By taking wiring off the critical path, you free up your assembly team to focus on mechanical and software integration, dramatically shortening the build cycle.
- Lower Hidden Costs: You reduce in-house labor, eliminate the need for specialized crimping tools, and simplify your purchasing and inventory management.
- Bulletproof Reliability: With factory-built, machine-crimped, and fully tested assemblies, you virtually eliminate the risk of wiring errors, leading to fewer startup issues and field failures.
FAQs
What’s the typical lead time? This is based on the project scope and component availability. We align everything to your build schedule after a brief scoping call.
Is there a minimum order quantity (MOQ)? We support everything from one-off prototypes to full series production. The MOQ is set on a per-project basis.
What regions do you cover? We have local engineering and support teams across ASEAN, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
Ready to Unblock Your Assembly Process?
If you’re tired of watching your timelines slip because of complex wiring, let’s talk. We can start with a simple 15-minute design consultation to see if this approach is right for your next build.
- Book a design-in consult
- Share your BOM/drawings for a manufacturability check
- Get a build plan with pricing and lead times
Local Stock. German Quality. Reliably Connecting ASEAN.