Cable Design Enters a New Era: AI Takes center
Stage At Wire Expo 2026

At Wire Expo, Albert Groothedde, CEO innoVites

As cable manufacturers face increasing pressure to respond faster, manage complex product requirements, and maintain cable design accuracy across growing portfolios, the role of digital intelligence in cable design is becoming more important than ever.
At Wire Expo, Albert Groothedde, CEO innoVites, will present “Leveraging AI to Take Cable Design into the Modern Era,” a session exploring how AI can support cable manufacturers in moving from unstructured customer enquiries to validated cable designs with greater speed, consistency, and confidence.
The session will address a challenge familiar to many manufacturers: customer enquiries often arrive in different formats, with varying levels of technical detail, while cable design remains highly configuration-driven, standards-based, and dependent on engineering knowledge. This gap can slow down enquiry-to-quote cycles, create repetitive manual work, and make it harder to reuse existing design knowledge effectively.
Albert’s presentation will highlight how AI can help bridge this gap by structuring enquiry data, enabling natural-language search to find matching cable designs, supporting design creation from technical inputs such as datasheets, and assisting engineers with validation against relevant standards. The session will also touch on AI-assisted formula creation and optimization, an area that can significantly reduce effort in complex calculation setup.
Rather than positioning AI as a replacement for engineering expertise, the discussion will focus on how it can act as a practical support layer for cable design teams, sales teams, and cable manufacturers working with large product libraries and demanding customer requirements.
For cable manufacturers looking to modernize design processes, improve response readiness, and create stronger alignment between sales, engineering, and production, this session offers a timely look at where cable design is heading next.
InnoVites will be exhibiting at Wire Expo, Booth 129, on May 6–7, 2026 | Presentation session is on May 7th 10:20 am EST