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Written by Scott Mullholland, Product Manager – Industrial Components<\/p>\n

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Most of us reach for the tried and tested zip tie to manage our cables. Why wouldn\u2019t we? They\u2019re cheap, easy to use and can generally be found lying around most work-shop benches. There is no special training required and quite a hefty bunch of conductors can be quickly brought into line.<\/p>\n

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The maxim \u2018if it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u2019 springs to mind.<\/p>\n

Here at Phoenix Contact, we recognise that re-inventing the wheel is not a particularly attractive or sustainable business approach.<\/p>\n

That being said, we also recognise that in a lot of instances, a fistful of zip ties or a hastily sourced piece of flexible conduit might not be the most effective approach to taking your conductors to the control cabinet door.<\/p>\n

If the cabinet door has a very busy frontage populated with various buttons, meters, LCD panels , sockets, HMI<\/a> etc. It may pay you to take a more structured approach to how you organise and manage your cables. We can forget the importance of cable management certainly in safety critical applications, environments and sectors where the process is paramount to maintaining continuous production, protecting the integrity of your connections. Realistically, by managing the cables\/conductors that service those connections, makes a great deal of sense.<\/p>\n

Our Cable Guidance System (CGS) <\/a>offers you the capability to do all of the above.<\/p>\n

The benefits of which are probably best illustrated in this short video clip.<\/p>\n

The CGS comes in two basic formats. The first uses a thread through approach to managing your cables i.e. you literally feed (or thread) through your conductors, once this is done, the cables are effectively managed from there on in, and will be protected from adverse strain on opening and closing the cabinet door. This is the CGS 50.<\/p>\n

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The other option is the grey\/orange version (CGSA 50). The general rule on Phoenix products is that if it is orange, it either moves or actuates something. In this case, the orange articulated joints can be moved to the \u2018open\u2019 position (please refer to video) to enable you to add or remove cables very quickly and very easily, thus \u2018future-proofing\u2019 your installation.<\/p>\n

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Finally, further protection (and to neaten up the process) can be added by choosing the clip on cover CGS-AH 50<\/p>\n

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Main features<\/p>\n