I Thought a Gland Was a Gland
When I first started reviewing enclosure specifications, I figured the hardware was the boring part. Cable glands, filters, little sensors—who cares, right? Pick the cheapest option that fits the hole, move on to the real engineering.
Wrong.
It took one rejected batch of enclosures—a £22,000 redo, delayed our whole Q3 launch—to teach me that the 'accessories' are often where a quality spec lives or dies. That experience changed how I look at every single line item on a BOM, especially when the spec says Rittal.
Let me walk you through what I learned.
