When selecting the right wire grommet for your applications, it's crucial to consider three key attributes: performance, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency.
Device Technologies (DTi) Spring-Fast® wire grommets provide not only top performance, but also significant cost savings, and a productivity/efficiency gain of 9.5x compared to nylon grommets and adhesive.
Spring-Fast Grommet Edging: Unmatched Benefits
Spring-Fast offers many benefits that set them apart from glued-on nylon grommets.
- The polymer encapsulated spring steel core provides best-in-class performance even in hostile conditions.
- Spring-Fast installs with just finger pressure –no glue is involved. This snap-on installation lowers your costs by at least 49%.
- It yields a 9.5x productivity/efficiency increase, by significantly reducing the number of steps in the workflow vs. nylon grommets and adhesive.
With multiple Spring-Fast Series available, ranging from High Heat to Military Spec, DTi offers ready solutions for an extensive range of applications for any OEM that needs to protect wiring.
Solutions for Diverse Applications
Spring-Fast's performance and reliability makes it indispensable across many industry sectors. From HVAC and food service to aerospace and military applications. With no known failures over 40 years, it has unmatched reliability.
This reliability extends to high shock and high vibration environments found in general aviation, commercial and tactical aerospace, and land-based military applications which proves its durability, and performance.
Exploring Spring-Fast Series
Spring-Fast comes in 9 different Series, each tailored to meet specific needs and environmental conditions.
- “T” – Lowest profile, ideal for straight edges & sharp outside corners.
- “BT” – T with a flexible sacrificial polymer cushion.
- “AP” – Multiaxial conformity with greater gripping strength for severe shock & vibration.
- “BAP” – AP with flexible sacrificial polymer cushion.
- “FM” – Low profile plus a flush mount on one side for flat panel surfaces.
- “SL” – 100% encapsulated in a flexible UL94 V-0 flame retardant polymer.
- “SL-FST” – 100% encapsulated in a polymer with enhanced (FST) flame, smoke & toxicity qualifications.
- “Mil-Spec” – With 3 products for military use, FAR 25.853 compliant.
- “High Heat” – Uncoated metal versions of the AP & FM series.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Selecting the Proper Wire Grommet
Identify Your Application Needs
Consider the specific requirements of your application, including performance and environmental considerations, installation complexity, and cost effectiveness/budget constraints.
- Assess the performance criteria beyond abrasion protection such as flexibility, durability, and resistance to environmental factors like heat, cold, moisture, shock, vibration or flame retardancy. Are any specific industry or military specifications critical? Review use cases as needed.
- Consider the practical operational implications of installing the grommet. Is a faster, easier installation a more efficient use of your tech’s time? How easy is it for your techs to apply and refit the grommet as necessary? Do you want to reduce the time spent maintaining your database for adhesive shelf life monitoring and the other ancillary materials needed for installation?
- Analyze Cost-Effectiveness: Compare the cost savings and productivity gains offered by different wire grommet solutions, which factor in the long-term advantages and potential cost savings associated with increased efficiency and performance.
Spring-Fast Can Meet Your Criteria
Selecting wire grommets is a critical decision for any application, and Spring-Fast wire protection grommets are the best choice.
Unmatched performance, significant cost savings, increased efficiency plus a product range tailored to specific application needs, Spring-Fast is the best solution available.
Simply select the appropriate Spring-Fast wire grommet series based on the application requirements you analyzed above. Go here for a comparison table.
Spring-Fast provides best-in-class high performance while delivering at least 49% installation cost savings and a 9.5x productivity increase due to fewer installation steps without glue.
By following these step-by-step guidelines, you can choose the best wire grommet solution that aligns with your specific application needs, ensuring reliability, efficiency and maximum cost-effectiveness.
Beyond Grommets – Other DTi Protection Solutions
If you need other forms of protection, consider Seal-Fast and Trim-Fast Edge Mount sealing gaskets and trims for comprehensive edge protection and sealing solutions
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