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
Tags:
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
Tags:
Wiring Harness,
Capital,
Capital Harness XC,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Electrical Interconnect Design,
Training,
CHS,
Customer Support
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
Tags:
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 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
Tags:
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 Dec 23, 2009, by Paul Johnston
It is rumoured that I took a break in October and the greater part of November from writing blog posts because of a time squeeze exerted by a spike in workload. It might be true. Now I do have fifteen minutes I could think about it, but two of them have already gone and in the remaining thirteen, no twelve and a half now, I would much rather … oh never mind.
I announce a new playlist you can use … Read More
Tags:
CHS,
Preston Guild,
Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design,
Twisted Circuits,
Wiring Harness
Jim Martens
John Day
J VanDomelen
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Zhen Mu
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton