Capital HarnessXC

Rapidly create detailed, manufacturing-ready harness designs

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Capital HarnessXC enables harness engineers to create fully detailed, validated and manufacturing-ready harness designs rapidly and easily.

Conceived from the ground up to be highly configurable, companies can tailor the tool to meet their precise needs, both in terms of graphical outputs and they way designs are created and validated.

In addition, rules-based Collaborative Design Merge functions provide automated integration of multi-source design inputs at a detailed level, simplifying the task, and raising the efficiency of collaborative design.

Features and Benefits

  • Powerful graphical harness design environment
  • Automated harness engineering, validation and reporting
  • Collaborative Design Merge raises efficiency of multi-site, parallel design
  • Seamless integration with other CHS tools

  • Powerful data integration interfaces with major MCAD platforms
  • Fully option and variant enabled
  • Graphical Styling Templates provide multiple, ‘single-click’, drawing formats

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Supporting Tools

Capital HarnessXC can be extended with the following tools:

Highlights

Automated Engineering and Validation

Part selection routines automatically add wires, multicores, terminals, seals, cavity plugs, tapes, tubes, heat-shrink sleeves and all other harness components to create a full manufacturing bill-of-materials.

Multiple, configurable, design-rule-checks are provided to ensure the final design meets the organization’s defined best-practices.

Automated engineering functions calculate: manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, optimized splice positions, taping quantities, harness weight and other quantities describing the finished design.

Option and Variants (OV) Management

Multiple harness variants can be managed from a single150% design. The tool automatically identifies which components are assigned to which variant and compiles the manufacturing bills-of-material for each.

Collaborative Design Merge

Design changes from MCAD and other tools can be merged into existing harness designs continuously - without overwriting locally mastered design details and attributes. “Change policies” are used to control how Capital HarnessXC should respond to design changes originating from multiple sources; the system automatically assesses the design change impact and applies the changes to the harness design.

Data-Centric Architecture

Capital Integrator is built on a data-centric backbone that integrates each and every part of the design process, streamlining the flow of information as the design matures, and eliminating the requirement to manipulate files. Capital Integrator’s data-centric backbone simplifies the data management task and eliminates many of the time-consuming and error-prone data-entry tasks required with traditional design tools.

Project management, design management, change management and transparent integration with other enterprise applications are key capabilities of the system.

Graphical Styling Templates

Capital HarnessXC offers a unique capability to render multiple graphical representations from the same design via configurable Graphical Styling Templates. Using this, companies can create reference designs conforming to consistent in-house standards and styles, and automatically re-render the design – on demand - into the required styles of their customer/supplier organizations.

Design Change Management

The data-centric architecture of CHS is designed to facilitate change processes. Multiple change management capabilities are provided such as tabular & graphical difference reports; version management; and compatibility control (“build lists”).

Project and Process Management

Project norms such as naming conventions, design rule checks, customer options & variants can be defined and automatically applied. Process constraints such as release management sequence, design locking, user permissions and component naming can be mandated.

Extend Capital Harness XC

Capital Formboard XC

Wire Harness Automation

Capital Formboard automates the Creation of wire harness formboard drawings. Inheriting the data stored within Capital Manager, outputs are an exact full-scale representation of the harness definition in Capital Manufacture enriched with color detail of the harness and its associated assembly fixtures.

The customizable graphical output allows companies to configure the formboard representation precisely to their requirements at all levels. The formboard drawings produced display a rich array of information including detailed connector end views showing which wires are place in which cavities.

This graphical connector representation is automatically generated using the data for the harness stored in Capital Manager and is therefore always 100% accurate. Other information displayed includes mating assembly fixtures, block positions, taping, tubes, grommets, splices, clip positions and internal and external branch dimensions.

Benefits and Features

  • Powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring formboard designs
  • Multiple-view facility allows editing in one diagram (e.g. XC harness drawing ) and automated update in related diagrams (e.g. formboard)
  • Multiple-view facility allows creation of different views of formboard and harness drawings – for example, shopfloor view, engineering view, customer view
  • Data-management facilities simplify revision management and eliminate transcription errors common to traditional file-based processes
  • Data-centric backbone simplifies project & process management, design change, cross-organization communication, and integration with upstream & downstream processes
  • Multiple view facility simplifies creation of drawings, automatically updates all related drawings when a change is made
  • Automated design rule checks identify problems and enforce best-practice
  • Graphical compare facility

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Capital Costing

Automated Harness Costing

Capital Costing takes the completed harness design and automatically calculates assembly times and material costs accurately and quickly. Capital Costing enables users to create a "virtual factory" to provide detailed harness assembly times and components costs. Its hierarchical cost models enables complex harness manufacturing processes to be modeled easily.

Benefits and Features

  • Extensive material and labor cost models support: the following:
    • multiple currencies and exchange rates
    • complex labor costing formulae
    • component purchase costs from a variety of suppliers
    • selling prices to a range of customers
    • copper buying, selling and market rates
  • Project calculations enable multiple harnesses with independent production volumes to be costed as a group providing a business-wide commercial picture.
  • Quotes are produced quickly without user intervention saving costly personnel involvement in creating routine analyses; in addition, the time to quote is reduced improving overall customer service levels.
  • Eliminates user intervention in the costing process resulting in consistent error-free cost model interpretation and therefore quoting accuracy.
  • Greater accuracy and powerful reporting enables companies to understand the nature of their costs ensure profit margins are maintained.

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