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OPTIMIZE YOUR ELECTRICAL WIRE HARNESS DESIGN
WITH CATIA ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS |
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| CATIA IS DASSAULT SYSTÈMES PIONEER BRAND AND THE WORLD’S LEADING SOLUTION FOR PRODUCT DESIGN AND INNOVATION |
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Several thousands of companies in multiple industries worldwide have already
chosen the Virtual Design capabilities of CATIA to ensure their products Real
Success. CATIA delivers solutions for the enterprise from large OEMs through
their supply chains to Small and Medium Businesses.
CATIA V6 leverages the capacity of innovation for companies of all sizes in all
industries by delivering breakthrough productivity design solutions powered
by a highly collaborative platform. CATIA V6 enables the full spectrum of next
generation collaborative virtual design including systems engineering, shape
design, mechanical, equipment engineering and company knowledge reuse.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, CATIA offers a full spectrum of design
capabilities and enables efficient collaboration through the design community
to encourage innovation across the extended enterprise. Integrating all
disciplines (mechanical, shape, equipment and systems) is crucial to design
and produce products. Aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, high tech
and shipbuilding manufacturers are requested to transform their development
processes to concurrent design and systems engineering methods that support
collaboration among diverse disciplines. Collaboration between electrical,
mechanical and systems designers is essential to delivering innovative, highquality
products on time and reducing costs. |
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FROM AIRCRAFTS TO
CARS, BOATS AND
WHITE GOODS, THE
NUMBER AND THE
LENGTH OF WIRES
AND CABLES ARE
CONTINUOUSLY
INCREASING.
THE TOTAL LENGTH OF WIRES
CAN BE AS MUCH AS 3 TO 4 KM IN
A CAR, 600 KM IN AN AIRCRAFT,
WHILE THE TOTAL CABLE LENGTH
IN A CRUISE SHIP CAN REACH UP
TO 2500 KM. |
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Growing complexity
The number of Electrical systems in a car (i.e.: electric
opening door, satellite navigation, intelligent routing
systems, lane departure systems and safety systems) and
their complexity are growing. In addition, the weight of
the components and harnesses needs to be tracked and
optimized in order to keep the cost of harnesses under
control.
Globalization
Multiple markets, new business models and global
collaborative innovation are key factors that manufacturers
should consider in the development of their products. 3D
helps these evolutions by delivering a common language to
share rapidly products information.
Compliancy
Taking into account standards and regulations such as
RoHS, WEEE and EUP are essential when designing and
manufacturing electrical components. Full traceability of
used materials and compliancy with these standards are
critical for successful product development.
Sustainable environment
CATIA Electrical solutions offer tremendous opportunities to
meet today’s increasingly cost-driven market requirements
and environmental challenges. |
- Increasing number of hybrid and full electric cars
require the appropriate design tools
- Reducing mass by optimizing design layout/routing
and efficient use of new materials (ie: thin PVC wires,
aluminum wires …)
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| CATIA ELECTRICAL
PROVIDES AN
INTEGRATED
ENVIRONMENT THAT
ENABLES THE
COLLABORATIVE
DETAILED DESIGN OF
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
IN CONTEXT OF A
VIRTUAL PRODUCT. |
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While design is driven by the system logical definition to ensure conformity
with product specifications, full traceability and configuration management,
knowledge rules are integrated to enable the automatic compliance to standards
throughout the design process, all the way to the production of associative
documentation for manufacturing. Such an integrated environment improves
design quality, drastically reduces time needed for modifications and minimizes
errors, leading to optimizing the costs.
A unified multidisciplinary V6 PLM infrastructure improves the whole process
from the requirements management with ENOVIA, functional analysis, 2D and
3D Systems architecture to the 3D physical design. CATIA Electrical also delivers
manufacturing documentation, drawings and formboard layout to produce
harnesses.
Key benefits include
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- Extended capabilities, from requirements to electrical physical design
- Unique integrated solution to support mechatronics design
- Rapid propagation of design changes at any time to optimize the electrical
design process
- Powerful real-time analysis tools
- Intuitive environment enabling easy harness design and modifications
- Realistic shape of the harnesses by taking into account the material
characteristics
- Efficient concurrent design through tight collaboration between mechanical
and electrical engineers, between systems architects and electrical harness
designers
- Powerful design review environment to provide high-end quality products
- Configuration management of electrical harness
- Full electrical component management, BOM management
- Life like experience to optimize the layout of the flattened harness
- Concurrent engineering on a the same harness
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| THE COLLABORATIVE
V6 PLM ELECTRICAL
DATA MODEL PROVIDES
FULL TRACEABILITY
THROUGHOUT THE
PROCESS, FROM
REQUIREMENTS TO THE
FUNCTIONAL, LOGICAL,
AND PHYSICAL VIEWS. |
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Electrical process and RFLP
integration
CATIA Electrical ensures collaborative traceable requirement and test definition
across project phases. This solution also guarantees efficient functional architecture
definition and validation through simulation and business rules checking.
Requirements specification enables to:
• Capture customer needs and transform them into technical/system
requirements
• Import requirements directly from Excel
• Analyze requirements
• Produce traceability reports
• Generate requirement documents
Functional analysis allows to:
• Edit the functional structure, interfaces, and data control flows during the
system design phase
• Validate choices through behavioral model reuse, simulation, and knowledge
integration |
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| CATIA 3D WIRE
HARNESS DESIGN |
| Unique design of large scale electrical systems within the virtual product |
The complexity of large-scale electrical systems requires a process-specific
solution in order to design faster and ensure quality. In addition, the use of
physical prototypes creates certain drawbacks such as high costs, inflexible
modifications, and the late recognition of design errors.
CATIA 3D Wire Harness Design delivers a process-specific solution for designing
physical wire harnesses. This solution is driven by logical specifications and
is integrated with CATIA Wire Harness Documentation and Formboard. By
delivering a realistic simulation for 3D wire harness packaging in an integrated
environment, this powerful solution reduces design time and increases the overall
quality of large-scale electrical systems.
It also enriches the design through realistic deformation of flexible harnesses by
taking into account environmental conditions like gravity as well as the physical
non-linear behavior of the harness and its protections. |
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| CATIA SYSTEMS
LOGICAL |
Complete integrated workflow from Systems Architecture up
to 3D Wire Harness Design & Manufacturing.
Today, most of the 3D Wire harness Design and Electrical Systems Design tools
(ECAD) are not integrated. The inherent lack of continuity in the electrical process
causes various difficulties. Firstly, the use of many different interfaces between
tools requires time and energy, which puts pressure on the data transfers of
manual operations. Secondly, the management of the different IT infrastructures
involves costs for maintenance and administration. In the end, you compromise
efficient collaboration for product global design.
By providing electrical semantic to CATIA Systems, CATIA Systems Logical
Electrical Design allows a complete integrated workflow from Systems
Architecture up to 3D Wire Harness Design. Electrical system designers can
capture functional and logical architecture and connectivity with extensions of
the logical model such as harness, net, wire, connector, pin, etc. Thanks to the
V6 single IP reference, design change traceability is supported throughout the
full electrical process and a global efficient collaboration on the product electrical
definition can be implemented. In the end, CATIA Systems Logical Electrical
Design contributes to optimize the electrical design through an efficient user
interface and automation based on knowledgeware. |
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| CATIA WIRE HARNESS
DOCUMENTATION AND
FORMBOARD |
| Flattening of Electrical Harnesses for 3D manufacturing
Formboard design. |
Once a product is ready for manufacturing, its design must
be thoroughly accurate or the mistakes can be costly and
the delays can be long. Good collaboration will spare you
mistakes while ensuring quality documentation creation
and successful design between harness designers and
manufacturing.
CATIA Wire Harness Documentation & Formboard generates
a 3D flattened definition of wire harness designs to define
a 3D manufacturing harness formboard. In addition, it
provides a set of functions to manipulate the flattened
harness as easily as in a 2D view as well as to define its
layout in 3D.
Thanks to a total integration with the CATIA Harness design
data model, any harness design change can be automatically
transferred to the manufacturing 3D. |
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