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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.
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.
With the complexity of today's harnesses, it is vital to be able to automatically create operator instructions and visual aids for every design and production facility. By supporting this automated approach, Capital removes the creation of work instructions from the critical path for introducing new or changed harness designs, as well as eliminating documentation errors and reducing creation costs. The quality of manufacturing documentation is vital to minimize errors in builds. This is made possible by creating manufacturing documentation directly from harness design data and the calculated assembly process sequences.
The success of harness manufacturing producers is impacted by their ability to accurately cost and optimize the manufacturing processes, labor, material, and resources required to produce harnesses. Capital enables costing and process planning engineers to rapidly and accurately synthesize harness build processes & tasks, costs, manufacturing times, and more, from a harness design. It is modelled to reflect one or more company-defined cost standards and can be based on real, detailed manufacturing processes and methods. Production engineers need to quickly and accurately distribute manufacturing tasks across workstations on a production line. Capital allows them to do exactly this, allowing time for multiple "what if" scenarios to be compared and analyzed for optimum efficiency.
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