Treotham Automation has released the igus readycable hybrid cables that aim to save installation space and weight with just one cable for power and data.

New to the range are ready-to-connect cables suitable for SEW-EURODRIVE with MOVILINK DDI and Siemens SINAMICS S210 with OCC. In addition to PUR, the latter is also available with an outer jacket made of cost-effective PVC. Macros for the EPLAN Electric P8 software speed up cable planning by around 50%.

While servo drive systems used to require several cables to transmit energy and data, hybrid cables simply combine the cores.

“Hybrid technology is a pioneering development that we, as a cable specialist, are 100% convinced is the way to go,” igus product manager readychain and readycable Markus Hüffel says.

“Treotham is continuously expanding the Igus portfolio of ready-to-connect hybrid cables from the readycable series to offer our customers a fast, reliable, cost-effective solution for continuous use in energy chains.”

Like all cables in the readycable series, the new hybrid cables have a strong outer jacket, a strain-relieved core, movement-optimised stranded wires, a stranded structure with a short pitch length and a gusset-filling extruded inner jacket.