On Nov. 29, 2016, 26-year-old Jonathan Gilmore was guiding electrical wiring cable into a re-spool machine. Gilmore, a Gulf Cable LLC employee, became caught in the equipment, crushing him to death.

Hardware hackers tend to have loads of hookup wire, and that led [firstgizmo] to design a 3D printable wire and cable spool storage system. As a bonus, it’s Gridfinity-compatible! The slot to capture ...

We’ve seen a fair number of automated wire cutting builds before, and with good reason: cutting lots of wires by hand is repetitive and carries the risk of injury. What’s common to all these automated ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a dozen citations and proposed $226,431 in fines following its investigation into the Nov. 29, 2016, ...

This post is brought to you by Avi, maker of Smart-Spools. “Cable organizers” is one of those useful product categories that no one can quite seem to get right. The engineering problem seems simple ...

Sixto Erik Moralez is a Regional Motion Engineer with the Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America. Motion-control technology helped automate spoolchanging operations on machines that coil tubing, ...