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Written by Andy Neat, Senior Product Manager- Marking & Identification and Toolfox<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning and welcome to another Monday morning blog from myself! I hope you and your families are all safe and well and let\u2019s hope for a return to normality very soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to jump straight in with this one\u2026being the Product Manager for our tool range I find that nine times out of ten, when I\u2019m being asked to go and show tools to engineers, it\u2019s to help with time saving and consequently cost saving (or just because the engineers want new toys). However, that one time out of ten is for a far more interesting point, it’s to reduce RSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

RSI, or repetitive strain injury, is an issue a particular customer contacted me about last year as his engineers were crimping hundreds of ring lugs everyday, among other ferrules and crimp styles. After some time, engineers were complaining of painful wrists, hands, fingers, and forearms resulting in some engineers being signed off to recover, consequently impacting business with a reduced workforce, but more importantly injured staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is caused by the constant squeezing of plyers all day every day which, of course, could also be made worse with bad quality tools. If you use crimping plyers on a daily basis, you know what I\u2019m talking about. Unless you\u2019ve got the arms of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson of course, then you may struggle to empathise! But for some engineers it\u2019s a real problem over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what did I do to help? I recommend several solutions. For ferrule crimping we have a high-quality hand tool called CRIMPFOX CENTRUS 10S<\/a> which has a 30% reduced force to make a crimp up to 10mm, but that\u2019s still a hand tool. In the case above, this customer wanted a solution for ring lugs so I recommended the CF 500<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CF 500 is a crimping machine which can do over 20 styles of crimp by changing the die. Although you still use two hands to put the crimp on the cable and place it in the machine, all the crimping force is done by a foot pedal\u2026a bit easier than squeezing a set of plyers. Not to mention you can get a die which will cut teeth out of bridges too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the success of the CF 500 as a solution for the customer they looked at other areas of reducing RSI such as strippin. So we went with the WF 1000<\/a> which automatically strips a cable of up to 6mm in under half a second with only the need to insert a cable into the front of the machine\u2026no stress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Needless to say, we got an order for several of these machines and all is well again with a significant reduction in RSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a whole portfolio of automatic and semi-automatic tools, but you don\u2019t need to have a sore wrist to invest in these pieces of kit. They are a huge time saver too, and they more than pay for themselves in the long game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions on these products or would like a MS teams meeting to discuss, my details are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading and happy crimping! 😊 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more info, contact Andy on 07786 252414 or email aneat@phoenixcontact.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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