In order to develop today's smart, connected products, significant emphasis is being placed on electrical, electronics, and software content. Increasing product complexity means that data needs to be coherent across the engineering domains. To support this data models and industry standards are evolving rapidly. We provide a flexible, open ecosystem supporting large and smaller enterprises. In practice this means delivering seamlessly integrated, federated tools specialized to the various engineering domains. Capital contributes to the E/E system development aspects and integrates with requirements management, ALM, PLM, MCAD, and simulation tools to support true multi-domain product development. We have focused on seamless integration of multiple best-in-class tools, delivering functionality that not only addresses challenging subjects (example: multi-domain change management) but also promotes excellent user experience (example: multi-domain object visualization within projects).
E/E Tool & Data Integration
E/E Tool & Data Integration
In order to develop today's smart, connected products, significant emphasis is being placed on electrical, electronics, and software content. Increasing product complexity means that data needs to be coherent across the engineering domains. To support this data models and industry standards are evolving rapidly. We provide a flexible, open ecosystem supporting large and smaller enterprises. In practice this means delivering seamlessly integrated, federated tools specialized to the various engineering domains. Capital contributes to the E/E system development aspects and integrates with requirements management, ALM, PLM, MCAD, and simulation tools to support true multi-domain product development. We have focused on seamless integration of multiple best-in-class tools, delivering functionality that not only addresses challenging subjects (example: multi-domain change management) but also promotes excellent user experience (example: multi-domain object visualization within projects).
API Facility & Web Services Integration
The Capital API facility includes control over the user interface design, provision of custom actions, custom design rule checks, custom reporting, and many other parts of the process. SOA web service technology provides interfaces at many key gateways into the Capital electrical design tools allowing Capital to interoperate as master or slave with other systems such as PLM, MCAD, component libraries, purchasing and costing systems.
Integration Tools for MCAD Systems
Capital provides integration tools for all leading MCAD systems, with support for a variety of end-users. More than a simple file exchange process, Capital provides designers with precise control of each attribute of the data as it flows between systems. Capital allows companies to specify ownership of each aspect of the data, for example, wire length is defined by MCAD, wire color is defined by harness designer; and, once specified, the Capital/MCAD interface controls all data flows, allowing designers to work concurrently and without risk of introducing errors caused by accidental modification of data in one system or the other.
For harness designers, Capital provides powerful harness flattening capabilities that intelligently flatten and unfold complex 3D harness networks into 2D branch layouts ready for detailing. Grommets, clips and other mechanical parts are transferred as well as connector-clocking and orientation. All MCAD interfaces support the incremental change process using a Change Manager that provides precise control of data exchange, including diagnosis, selection, and application of incoming changes—simplifying and automating the task of change management.
Integration Tools with PLM Systems
Capital has a rich set of data management capabilities for a standalone electrical design environment. Integrations can be achieved with any PLM system using the available Web Services and API customizations. However, when paired with Teamcenter many of these native data management capabilities are done in that environment to ensure a consistent overall product structure and development lifecycle. Capital embeds the Teamcenter Active Workspace inside the electrical tool environment to provide electrical designers direct access to the product structure, feature definitions, and other multi-domain data. Capital designs can be submitted to a Teamcenter workflow to control the lifecycle and approval process using native tracking and notification mechanisms. This tight integration allows Capital to focus on the efficient model-driven design of electrical models while at the same time integrating into the overall product development process.
Intelligent Automated Styling
Intelligent styling can be used to create a library of different drawing styles to suit particular end-users. Styles can be changed at the touch of the button. Styles can also process design data to intelligently adapt or reconfigure to suit the design data – for example, recolor any wires that are integral with a device; or generate and display a signal table beside every device if it is an ECU.
Synchronize Designs & Component Libraries Across Multiple Sites
Provides automated synchronization of designs and component library data for companies with geographically dispersed Capital installations. Process management facilities provide full support for scheduling and change tracking at the individual attribute level, including the time, site, and librarian identity.
Web Access to Designs & Data
Provides companies with web access to Capital design data including diagrams, data, and reports - allowing wide-scale access to electrical design data without needing specialized knowledge of the Capital tools. Standard facilities include project and design browsing, intelligent diagrams with hyperlinked cross-references and access to all attribute data, diagram generation to create custom diagrams, generation of reports such as component lists, BOMs, and design comparison reports. The web browser, and all Capital data functions and reports are customizable using the API allowing companies to integrate the facility into their enterprise web tools.
