Electrical System Design and Harness Engineering

Mentor Graphics provides powerful support for electrical system design, electrical analysis, system integration/wiring design, harness engineering and service documentation. These solutions are currently deployed throughout the world within the automotive, aerospace, rail, and specialty vehicle segments by both OEMs and their suppliers.

The core tools can be implemented individually or deployed together in a unified flow that seamlessly matures design data within a consistent environment. Robust integration with adjacent domains (such as 3D MCAD) is fully supported, as is cross-organizational collaboration. These tools are highly scalable and suitable for complex projects undertaken by large, distributed organizations and for smaller, simpler projects.

Hansen

The April 2009 Hansen Report is now available, featuring an extensive profile on Mentor Graphics and new automotive tool developments. View Report

Accelerating Wire Harness Development for Off-Highway Vehicles

TECHPUB: Manufacturers of off-highway vehicles are faced with the same challenges as companies in other sectors; reducing design and manufacturing costs, reducing lead times, and improving product quality. Get Techpub

Automating Systems Integration and Electrical Distribution in Modern Car Platforms

TECHPUB: Intelligent allocation of systems and devices into the platform, and their subsequent interconnection via physical wiring, is a critical process that affects the quality and reliability of end products. Get Techpub

A Strategy for Transformation

TECHPUB: Design of modern electrical systems and their associated harnesses has become a complex task. Competitive pressures drive prices down and demands for improved quality rise while reacting to increasing complexity and change requests. Get Techpub

A Fully Automated Approach for Analog Circuit Reuse

Techpub: Demonstrated in this paper is a technique for automatic circuit resizing between different technologies. Get Techpub

Design Tools

Electrical Design

Tools for system-level and full vehicle electrical wiring design. more

Simulation & Analysis

Comprehensive multi-level simulation and high-level analysis. more

Design Data Management

CHS integrates and manages all parts of the electrical design cycle into a coherent data model. more

Engineering & Manufacturing

Specific OEM modules further compliment the product, offering a number of graphical formats and data import and exports. More

Enterprise Integration

Enterprise Integration Bridges provide out-of-the-box integration between CHS and a wide range of leading design tools and systems. More

Logical Systems Capture

Logical Systems Capture provides products to support the functional and logical design phases. More

Views & Documentation

Product family focused on dramatically decreasing the effort in creating or recreating diagrams to different standards. more

Design Flows

CHS Design Flow

Fully integrated application suite for electrical system design, electrical analysis, system integration / wiring design and harness engineering. More

VeSys 2.0

VeSys 2.0 is a suite of software tools specifically developed by wiring professionals to satisfy the demanding requirements of the industry. More

TransDesign Flow

A fully integrated harness design solution that enables manufacturers to design electrical harness systems and packaging details concurrently, using a mechanical design (3D) environment. more

Logical Cable Flow

Logical Cable allows the user to engineer their electrical wire harness design very quickly and easily while, simultaneously, electrical models are defined for performance analysis. more

Techpubs and Resources

Electrical/Harness Techpubs

Accelerating Wire Harness Development for Off-Highway Vehicles

techpub: Manufacturers of off-highway vehicles are faced with the same challenges as companies in other sectors reducing design and manufacturing costs, reducing lead times, and improving product quality. Today,... View Techpub

Electrical and Mechanical Integration in Automotive and Aerospace Design

techpub: This paper addresses the issue of increasing complexity of today's automotive and aerospace electrical systems. Manufacturers now seek a high degree of integration between their business and design tools. ... View Techpub

Automating Systems Integration and Electrical Distribution in Modern Car Platforms

techpub: Intelligent allocation of systems and devices into the platform, and their subsequent interconnection via physical wiring, is a critical process that affects the quality and reliability of end products.... View Techpub

Evaluate VeSys 2.0

Request a FREE VeSys 2.0 Product Evaluation.  VeSys 2.0 is a suite of software tools specifically developed by wiring professionals to satisfy the demanding requirements of the industry. VeSys 2.0 Trial Software

Electrical Systems and Harness and Automobile Solutions

Mentor's Electrical Systems and Harness products are engineered specifically for design, analysis, and manufacture of automotive electrical systems. We deliver integrated applications, and powerful design data management delivers seamless flows that maximize solution longevity and facilitate deployment within the enterprise. Automotive Solutions

From the Blogs

Paul Johnston's Blog

CHS: What has it to do with community and abiotic environments?

Hereby a fondness is expressed for the CHS Community http://communities.mentor.com/mgcx/community/harness - though I wish it was called something else instead of community. “Community” is an overworked…View Blog Post

Paul Johnston's Blog

Choose wisely and once: Part 5 - Interoperability.

Selecting a new suite of software tools is more than an exercise in having some means of delivering the correct computer aided design outputs for your electrical systems integration (part 4) - although…View Blog Post

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