Posted Jan 25, 2012, by Paul Johnston
Here’s something new in this blog – a post I’ve mostly not written. Below is a response from Russell Forsyth on the subject of the how to get that “time to value” in an implementation which I addressed last time. He’s a Senior Consultant with Mentor Consulting Division Americas. We’ll try and keep this under 20,000 words by not going through Russ’ successes and accolades.
Russ has the view competent … Read More
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Mentor Consulting,
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Deployment,
Implementation Projects
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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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,
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Version upgrade,
Capital MPM,
Capital Version 2011.1,
Capital Insight,
Capital Level Manager
Posted Nov 29, 2011, by J VanDomelen
“[Skydrol] is very unpleasant to work with. It stings. It forms a very fine mist and gets everywhere,” reveals an anonymous aircraft maintenance engineer of the widely used hydraulic fluid. “When you have a pinhole leak somewhere, and are trying to find it, you will get it all over you and itch for ages afterwards. It really should be banned as a health hazard to mechanics.” Sounds like lovely stuff, … Read More
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Electronic,
electrical,
Embedded Systems,
Software
Posted Nov 1, 2011, by Paul Johnston
My excuse for no blog posting has recently been a very good one. Thanks the generosity of my employers and the miracle of new life I have been on extended paternity leave. Now I’m back and raring to go again.
Global Village
My experience brought to mind the African proverb with a few variations which is in English summarized “it takes a village to raise a child“ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village. … Read More
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Customers,
Deployment,
Capital,
Mentor Consulting
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,
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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,
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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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CHS,
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Capital Harness Systems,
Capital Library
Posted Mar 2, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Capital 2010.2 had a public release in the middle of January. So approximately six weeks have passed where customer have been able to get their hands on this fresh juicy ripe piece of software and install it and admire it. People like myself could get advance builds of the release and prod and poke around, er, sorry diligently work through serious customer use cases. There’s always something … Read More
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Electrical Distribution System,
Release 2010.2,
Capital,
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vehicle wiring products,
circuit design software,
Design Assistant,
car electrical system,
CHS
Jim Martens
John Day
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Dennis Brophy
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Max Clark
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Travis Mikjaniec
Chris Hallinan
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton