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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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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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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circuit design software,
Capital Harness,
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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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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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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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Posted Feb 7, 2011, by Paul Johnston
Out and about on the last day of January I saw a house which still sported the snowflake outdoor lights and the colored lights on the fir tree. That’s a little late, the second month just starting. And the year seems to be moving quickly to me. Capital 2010.2 released and already installed on a few computers I can mention and people are exploring the Capital Modular XC harness design capabilities … Read More
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wire harness cad,
CHS,
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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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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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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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