A mid-range car today has between 50 and 100 individual electronic systems that need to be linked by a wire harness, with around 2500 interconnects to be made. This design complexity results from the increased use of electronics in engine management, safety systems, in-car entertainment, and other peripheral systems in vehicles. Zuken's Wire Harness Design tool suite spans hierarchical schematic capture and definition of connector pin attributes, harness design and topology, 3D routing, and tight integration into the automotive industry's leading design and simulation solutions: CATIA V5 from Dassault Systemes and I-DEAS. The tools also provide design rule checking (DRC), variant management, and simulation and verification of the design.
Cabling Designer, the core tool within the solution, is used to design local wire harness connections between functional blocks and extends the capabilities of Zuken's advanced CR-5000 schematic and PCB design technology so that electrical and mechanical data are combined in a single 3D environment. Cabling Designer is complemented by a Variant Module to help define and manage variations in harness design between vehicle models, a Topology Designer to examine placement of functional units and routing in 2.5D, and a Harness Designer to generate manufacturing data. A CATIA V5 Interface Module facilitates high-level integration with 3D mechanical tools from Dassault Systemes. It realizes collaboration design between CATIA V5 Wire-harness routing design features and Cabling Designer. In addition, a Simulation and Verification Module can analyze the electronic characteristics of the schematic and harness design across the complete system. Finally, Wire Harness Desktop is the command center where a user-friendly interface allows switching between several views including specifications, variants, logical schematics and assembly.
Zuken's Wire Harness Design solution is intuitive and easy-to-use; it is proven and built upon established core technology, and offers a hierarchical data structure for effective design management. Furthermore, the solution is based on a constraints-based design methodology and design rule checking (DRC) that ensures right-first-time design and manufacturable-first-time outcomes.
Zuken's Wire Harness Design solution is available now and is priced from $20,000. CATIA® is a registered trademark of Dassault Systèmes. +++ends
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Established in 1976, Zuken has evolved into a provider of solutions that maximize the efficiency of the design and manufacturing processes of electronics companies around the world. Zuken holds a leading global share of the PCB/MCM/HIC software market in the field of electronic design automation (EDA). In addition to its longstanding experience as a provider of innovative solutions for PCB design, Zuken's expanded portfolio encompasses proven solutions for the development of information technology (IT) infrastructures. Listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the company is headquartered in Japan and has development, sales and support centers in 10 countries including the US, Germany, UK and France. Zuken's customers include the world's top 30 electronics manufacturers from automotive to aerospace, communications to consumer electronics, and medical to military. For further information please see our website:
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