Electrical System Design and Harness Engineering

Design of modern electrical systems and their associated harnesses has become a complex task where competitive pressures continue to drive prices down as demands spiral for improved quality and reaction to increasing complexity and change requests. A critical question is "How can we provide ever more complex interconnect functionality at a competitive cost and quality?" To satisfy these needs OEM's and their suppliers are looking for new solutions that deliver dramatic productivity shifts.

ECAD specific solutions to specify, simulate and manufacture the wiring harness, all based on a solid backbone that handles the complex data flows across the ECAD environment and beyond. Key to this issue is to have a complete ECAD tool flow that addresses the complexities both within and across multiple domains. However, competing priorities, interests and skills make it extremely difficult to create a single solution that drives across the enterprise and yet responds to it's organizational complexities and variety of roles.

This paper describes the challenge and introduces some thinking into possible tool adoption strategies for migrating to a more integrated approach.

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