Posted Jan 16, 2012, by Paul Johnston
All-Stars
Occasionally in these blog postings I have highlighted contributions from team players who make Capital a pathway to business efficiency for their companies.
They were … (click blue for link)
Librarians: Without the underpinning of a complete, comprehensive and accurate electro-mechanical library your automation of engineering processes is diluted.
Product Managers at Mentor Graphics: Capital … Read More
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Mentor Consulting,
Integrated Electrical Systems,
Product Manager,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Capital,
Application Engineers,
Training,
Expertise,
Implementation Projects,
CHS,
Electrical Distribution System
Posted Jan 4, 2012, by Paul Johnston
Out with the old, in with the new.
In my last blog I made some serious points in a lighthearted way about the importance of communication. Quite often when you get to lay your hands on some new features of the Capital software, you do it without some lead-in steps. Especially if 1) you have been anticipating new functionality, and 2) you are by nature an enthusiastic early adopter it is hard for me … Read More
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Deployment,
CHS,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
Best Practice,
Capital,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Version upgrade,
Capital MPM,
Capital Version 2011.1,
Capital Insight,
Capital Level Manager
Posted Apr 22, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Developing global platform cars is not easy. The workload of engineers designing electrical interconnect and delivering a manufacturing BOM for suppliers is considerable. The reality of electrical and electronic feature proliferation in a vehicle platform is somewhere between harsh and vicious for electrical design and wiring engineers.
Not that I’ve personally tried to knock together a car … Read More
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Electrical Design Systems,
Electrical Design,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
automotive wiring harness,
Capital,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
CHS,
Wire Harness,
circuit design software,
Capital Harness,
Wiring Harness,
Capital Harness Systems
Posted Apr 2, 2011, by Paul Johnston
I highlighted the powerful influence of customer lbrarians in delivering automation in the design of electrical systems’ interconnects using the capital suite of programs. Librarians get proficient initially through the ministrations of a trainer to guide them through the concepts of the software and how these apply to their working lives. I’ve also singled out the product management staff … Read More
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Wiring Harness,
Capital,
Capital Harness XC,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
Training,
CHS,
Customer Support
Posted Mar 22, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Aren’t we just all happy people to be living in the information golden age? Maybe it just seems good now, and in a couple of centuries this will be seen as the iron age of information technology, one step on from the hunter-gatherers’ life of gleaning scraps of wisdom from the library shelves.
At our disposal is a mighty array of data sources, and still, it sometimes is very significant … Read More
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IESF,
Detroit,
Mentor Communities,
automotive wiring harness,
Capital,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
CHS,
Customer Support,
Capital Harness Systems,
Capital Library
Posted Jan 14, 2011, by Paul Johnston
The last entry ended by looking at typical motivations for writing custom code in-house instead of using a commercial package. It is characteristic of these motivations that they are responses to the deficiencies of the commercial offering. Or a tendency to develop in-house code is born from assuming commercial tools do not exist or could not cover all the particular needs you have. Due diligence before … Read More
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Outsourced Integrated Electrical Systems Software,
Capital Harness Systems,
CHS,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Integrated Electrical Systems,
Interoperability,
COTS,
home-grown software
Posted Nov 22, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Let’s look briefly at cause and effect. In previous notes on this subject, I remarked choices between in-sourced or outsourced information technology solutions in an electrical design processes yield consequences . What’s in it for you? Knowing more about these issues will inform your choices.
A common way of referring to a tangle of human-factor issues is to say decisions are “political.”
Radical … Read More
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Electrical Interconnect Design,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
Extensibility,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Capital Harness Systems,
API,
IESD,
Deployment,
Design Rules,
Wiring Harness,
CHS,
COTS
Posted Nov 13, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Coming from Great Britain to live and work in the USA it still strikes me as curious that people would describe how they had “built their house.” In the UK - where people would say “bought a house.” When you are getting a new house, in both locales home buyers would pay someone to build it. The contractor would offer choices of kitchen and bathroom fittings, floor plan, interior … Read More
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Extensibility,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
Wire Harness,
API,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Add new tag,
COTS,
Electrical Distribution Systems,
CHS,
Commercial off the Shelf Systems
Posted May 14, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Since I began working in the realm of software systems for electrical interconnect design I have seen increased user choice in on-and off-road vehicles. I have read the technical papers and marvelled at the memorable phrase “combinatorial explosion” used to refer to the options a buyer of a high-end new passenger car is able to order.
Choice is good right? If you are fortunate enough to be able to … Read More
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John Antilla,
IESF,
Virtual Architect,
Capital Desktop Architect,
Capital Integrator,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Wiring Harness,
Complexity Management,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
Chrysler,
CHS,
CHS Capital Costing
Posted Mar 8, 2010, by Paul Johnston
Ten days left to the event at the Dearborn Grand Hyatt. The number of registrations is running close to the high water mark which was reached the last event. Join the people flocking to participate in this free conference by visiting http://www.mentor.com/events/transconf/detroit/
This time around attendees are spared a presentation or a paper delivered by myself. Therefore my personal preparations … Read More
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Cabling,
Capital Harness Systems,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
CHS,
IESF
Jim Martens
Harry Foster
John Day
J VanDomelen
Robin Bornoff
Dennis Brophy
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Travis Mikjaniec
Per Viklund