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Accelerating Wire Harness Development for Off-Highway Vehicles

Posted in: Views and Documentation
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, many of these companies create their electrical and wire harness designs using basic drawing packages. This paper describes how off-highway vehicle manufacturers can gain significant productivity and quality improvements in their electrical design process by using dedicated electrical design software tools.
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A Fully Automated Approach for Analog Circuit Reuse

Posted in: Simulation & Analysis

Demonstrated in this paper is a technique for automatic circuit resizing between different technologies. It is not based on any optimization techniques, but rather relies on a new algorithm based on knowledge extraction, which makes it a very fast technique. This technique studies the original design and extracts its major features (basic devices & blocks features, device matching, parasitics, symmetry) and then produces a re-sized design in the target technology with the same performance as the original design. The migration of a low voltage Delta Sigma modulator is presented in this paper to validate the migration engine.

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Electrical and Mechanical Integration in Automotive and Aerospace Design

Posted in: Enterprise Integration
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.  MCAD, ECAD, PLM, PDM, Workflow and ERP systems are no longer selected purely through their individual functionalities, they must also integrate - and the integration must include all data in the process.
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Automating Systems Integration and Electrical Distribution in Modern Car Platforms

Posted in: Enterprise Integration
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. In addition, design and manufacturing costs can be reduced by implementing processes and tools that facilitate the optimum design of the electrical system. The challenges associated with the deployment of systems and their electrical distributions are significant, and require a unique solution. The solution must automate device packaging in the car, and synthesize wiring within the available routing channels. This paper outlines an approach that results in the synthesis of an electrical interconnect system valid for all vehicle variants and options, available for simulation, high level analysis and downstream manufacturing operations.
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Using Standards to build a stable framework for Product and Market development

Posted in: Enterprise Integration
This paper discusses the role of data exchange Standards in building a framework for the seamless flow of data between suppliers and manufacturers with particular reference to the use of AP212 and KBL in the automotive industry. The importance of Standards, for supporting both the development of a robust technical architecture, and a robust interface format for manufacturing integration are explained. The issues involved, and the potential problems, of introducing Standards into the marketplace are also discussed.
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A Strategy for Transformation

Posted in: Enterprise Integration

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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Two Simple Performance Improvements

Posted in: Enterprise Integration
This Technical Bulletin discusses the way in which applications such as CHS(tm) connect to Progress databases,and describes two easy-to-implement techniques for a performance improvement in a client-server environment.
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Viewing Data Via ODBC

Posted in: Enterprise Integration
This technical bulletin discusses ODBC and demonstrates how the ODBC driver that is supplied free with Progress allows Microsoft Excel to display data from the CHS™ databases. The techniques discussed here should work with any currently supported version of CHS™ or CAPITAL H™ at the time of writing.
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