Effective wire management offers several benefits, including the following:
Improves Availability: An employee or an operator of a particular industrial control panel, power, communication, or IT rack may get confused seeing a mess of cables and wires. This may lead to human errors, which is one of the main reasons for the downtime of systems. Thus, effective management of wires and cables will help users and operators identify them easily, as well as minimize human errors.
Improves Performance of Systems: Many times, control and power wires in an industrial control panel and data cables in data centers give rise to issues such as interference and crosstalk, which will further lead to erratic data transfer and potentially severe losses. An efficient wire and cable management strategy helps in differentiating these data and power cables to avoid the risk of interference.
Improves Safety: Unorganized or tangled cables and wires may cause short circuits and sometimes fire, thereby endangering the lives of people nearby. Proper cable management is key to ensure the safety of both.
Improves Troubleshooting: Cabling that is unorganized and tangled may lead to stress in a workplace, in case of emergencies. As operators cannot easily identify and service the affected cables, leading to expensive downtime. An effective cable management solution helps operators to quickly identify and access cables and troubleshoot the network and hardware appropriately, before commencing the repair and maintenance.
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