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The manufacture of wiring harnesses is a hugely competitive industry facing shorter program launch cycles and increasing price pressure, coupled with increasing product and configuration complexity. To overcome these challenges companies are looking to increase efficiency through model based engineering and manufacturing, applying automation and simulation to optimize designs and manufacturing processes.
The manufacture of wiring harnesses is a hugely competitive industry facing shorter program launch cycles and increasing price pressure, coupled with increasing product and configuration complexity. To overcome these challenges companies are looking to increase efficiency through model based engineering and manufacturing, applying automation and simulation to optimize designs and manufacturing processes.
It is paramount for harness makers to ensure that harnesses can be manufactured at a competitive and well-understood cost. This is a difficult challenge because project time scales and margins are continually squeezed, while variables such as design content and copper prices can change rapidly. And it is a task whose dynamics exceed the grasp of primitive cost calculation methods. Capital offers an optimal, purpose-built solution that truly automates the costing regime, providing a formal framework and process for the rapid generation of accurate material and labor costing.
Harness engineers need to create fully detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs rapidly and easily. In order to do this they have to specify and complete the product definition, prepare product data for manufacturing, create manufacturing formboard layouts, and define sub-assemblies to enable manufacture in a production facility. Capital has been conceived from the ground up to support all of these necessary stages and enable digital continuity throughout. In addition to being highly configurable, it enables companies to tailor the tool and process flow to meet their precise needs, both in terms of graphical outputs and the way designs are created and validated.
The created harness design needs to be enhanced with relevant details like harness component information and material quantities required for downstream consumption by costing and manufacturing engineering. It is therefore the ultimate goal of harness product engineers to fully embellish the design data to achieve a 100% complete, accurate harness definition and extract, and deliver related documentation. Automated harness engineering, validation and reporting capabilities offered by Capital enable harness engineers to efficiently prepare product data ready for costing and manufacturing engineering tasks.
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