LAPP Australia launches Harnessing Solutions division

LAPP Australia has announced that it is introducing a dedicated Harnessing Solutions Division in Australia, which it says will help industries achieve automation and digitalisation faster, more efficiently and with OEM standards of quality control, safety and traceability.

LAPP Australia Managing Director Simon Pullinger said the new LAPP Harnessing Solutions business — with its own dedicated technology team — is the next logical step in the expansion of LAPP Australia.

“We are advancing our service from being an outstandingly successful supplier of tens of thousands of world-class cables and components, to becoming an integrated system supplier structured to assist a broad and growing range of industries in assembling the best integrated solutions tailored to their specific needs,” he said.

Demand for the service is arising from increasing automated and digital businesses, such as automotive, heavy transport, logistics systems, food and beverage processing, energy (including green energy production), machine building, manufacturing, mining, mineral processing, ports, cranes, loading, agribusiness processes, paper, primary product processing, industrial motor and transmission applications, pumps, HVAC, water, wastewater, and construction systems.

Pullinger said the new facility is equipped to deliver harness solutions engineered for local conditions, while drawing on the strength of its LAPP Group parent, which operates in more than 100 countries. Capabilities of the new facility include:

• custom cable assemblies and wiring harnesses;
• prototyping and design support;
• production and manufacturing;
• testing and quality assurance;
• support and repair services; and
• component selection and sourcing.
   

Pullinger said demand for integrated harnessing solutions is coming particularly from high-demand, time-poor and market-responsive companies for which delay and downtime cost money.

“Such companies have found their digitalisation processes can quickly come under time pressure if they rely on manual and piecemeal cabling processes. Under pressure, mistakes can happen, downtime is a risk, plus the added value is zero,” he said. “So more and more companies are removing such issues by placing the assembly of cables, cable harnesses and drag chains in the hands of a specialist solutions provider working to top OEM standards.”