Capital Integrator

Rules-driven vehicle wiring synthesis

Capital Integrator Screenshot

Also available, for electrical architects, a desktop version of Capital Integrator. Learn More

Capital Integrator is the key application for companies that need Generative Design - a breakthrough in the automation of systems integration. Capital Integrator automatically merges generic sub-system signal connectivity with physical topology to generate fully-detailed vehicle wiring designs. This removes a huge part of the system integration task, saving time, improving quality, and leaving engineers free to innovate and investigate a wide range of physical architectures to determine the optimum layout.

Using a correct-by-construction rules paradigm, Capital Integrator automatically merges signal connectivity defined with Capital Logic, with configuration logic and physical topology to place devices and synthesize fully composite whole platform wiring designs. Configurable rules control the automated placement of device, the automated routing of signals/wires, splice locations, and other detailed wiring design decisions.

Capital Integrator’s ability to synthesize wiring directly from logical connectivity provides key competitive advantages to users – generic connectivity can be defined once then used in other platforms, providing better standardization, improved reliability from consistent use of best-practice designs, and shorter design cycles.

Features and Benefits

  • Automatic synthesis of wiring objects (wires, splices, etc) using configurable rules, simplifying the task of subsystem integration, allowing real-time wiring architecture studies, and ensuring consistent application of intellectual property / engineering best practices.
  • Seamless integration within Capital Harness Systems, providing a data- centric environment, easy access to and from other Capital tools, and a common look & feel across the toolset.
  • Automatic and manual placement features, providing powerful device packaging capability.
  • User-accessed design refinement functions, such as the ability to insert in-line connectors and move splice locations.
  • 2_D representation of vehicle topology, enabling simple design visualization

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Supporting Tools

Capital Integrator can be extended with the following tools:

Highlights

Physical Design

Capital Integrator provides a choice of approaches to defining physical topology – designers can create early concept layouts using Capital Integrator’s 2D layout facility and then synchronize with a 3D CAD model as the design matures; alternatively designers can start directly from a 3D master definition.

A close-coupled interface between Capital Integrator’s 2D layout facility and 3D CAD supports concurrent design activities with 3D CAD at all stages in the design process – from architectural concept through detailed physical 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.

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.

Capital Desktop Architect

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Capital Desktop Architect

Desktop version of Capital Integrator is an easy-to-use optimization tool for electrical architects

For electrical architects who need to optimize the initial configuration and layout of electrical functionality and wiring, Capital Desktop Architect provides a complete environment for the creation and merging of logical-schematic system designs, physical layout, and design rules and constraints. A variety of analysis methods are provided to support comparison of different configurations for cost, weight, and other attributes.

Benefits and Features

  • Easy to use, yet more detailed and accurate than spreadsheet architecture tools
  • Rule-driven placement and routing algorithms generate detailed real-world ready-to-build component and wiring layouts – costs, weight and other parameter values are correctly calculated allowing detection of small but significant improvements, not just the major improvements.
  • Multiple scenarion analysis enables architectural trade-off studies to be performed quickly and accurately
  • Rule-driven constraints support capture and implementation of best-practice processes

Extend Capital Integrator

Capital Integrator Composite

Optimizes across all options and variants

Capital Capture ScreenshotCapital Integrator Composite shares the same functionality as Capital Integrator, but extends the scope by providing optimization for platforms with complex options and variants, typically found on a vehicle platform. Wiring is synthesized in a fully composite way, with all option & variant configurations (there may be thousands) managed as a single set. This capability is valuable for designs with significant configuration complexity, especially when managing design changes that impact multiple configurations.

Capital Capture

Powerful Logical System Design Authoring and Editing Tool

Capital Capture ScreenshotA powerful, easy to use, lower cost logical schematic design tool designed for large scale deployment to all system designers both within the organization and the supplier organizations. Device data definition and built-in analysis facilities support rapid creation and validation of system designs. Seamless integration with Capital Logic ensures that supplier designs can be used immediately without the need to redraw.

Benefits and Features

  • Schematic editing tool architected specifically to meet the needs of logical system designers
  • Easy-to-use – helping to avoid the common problem of designers using sketching tools because they find the electrical tool too hard to use.
  • Allows companies to standardize their schematic tools across the logical-system and wiring groups
  • Provides a gateway to the CHS design suite – logical designs created in Capital Capture can be used by other CHS tools
  • Provides a gateway to deeper integration between OEMs and their suppliers – logical designs and device-data definitions can be easily exchanged between companies.

Capital Architect

Easy-to-use optimization tool for electrical architects

Capital Architect ScreenshotFor electrical architects who need to optimize the initial configuration and layout of electrical functionality and wiring, Capital Architect is an extension to Capital Integrator that allows electrical architects to investigate a wide range of design scenarios and generate metrics to identify the optimum configurations. A variety of analysis methods are provided to support comparison of different configurations for cost, weight, and other attributes. Investigate architectural layout options such as – where to locate this ECU? 2 power distribution boxes or 1? What is the optimum routing for the engine harnesses? What is the impact on cost of adding this new function? How can I minimize the number of harness variants?

Benefits and Features

  • Easy to use, yet more detailed and accurate than spreadsheet architecture tools
  • Rule-driven placement and routing algorithms generate detailed real-world ready-to-build component and wiring layouts – costs, weight and other parameter values are correctly calculated allowing detection of small but significant improvements, not just the major improvements.
  • Multiple scenarion analysis enables architectural trade-off studies to be performed quickly and accurately
  • Rule-driven constraints support capture and implementation of best-practice processes
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