HIGH-END – HARNESS DESIGN

Built for electrical and wire harness design

Capital™ is an advanced software suite for the electrical system and wire harness domain. Used by leading automotive, aerospace and harness makers, Capital is built to support the complex demands of integrated processes from initial vehicle definition through design, manufacture and service.

Developed for transportation platforms such as aircraft, automobiles and off-road vehicles, Capital™ is scalable from small, localized projects through to complete enterprise wide deployments. The suite spans an extended flow from vehicle concept and electrical architecture definition to wire harness manufacture and vehicle maintenance. The core Capital tools can be implemented individually or deployed together in a unified flow that seamlessly matures data within a consistent environment. Robust integration with adjacent domains (such as MCAD and PLM) is fully supported, as is cross-organizational collaboration.

Functional capture & multi domain implementation optimization

Capital™ Systems tools help engineers capture function characteristics and connectivity, and develop optimized implementations within platforms. Software, hardware, network, and electrical functions can be managed together in a lightweight environment that allows these disciplines to collaborate easily.

Rules-driven vehicle wiring synthesis

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.

Optimize and validate product plans to minimize give-away cost

Capital™ Level Manager supplements Capital™ Desktop Architect, or Capital™ Integrator, to capture the vehicle product marketing plan (options offered, take rates etc.). Precise configuration complexity data is then calculated to quantify how marketing and engineering decisions interact. This allows decisions to be examined and optimized, and helps quantify the impact of give-away choices. Final target configurations can be validated against the product plan eliminating the risk of mis-builds on the production line.

Device definition capture, managed through the Capital™ flow

Capital™ Devices is for engineers to capture device characteristics and program usage, creating a “device transmittal” or “interface control document”. Data is securely managed and available through the Capital™ flow, allowing further automation to reduce costs and increase quality.

Powerful graphical wiring design authoring and editing

Capital™ Logic is a powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring both logical connectivity designs (signals), and physical wiring designs (wires, splices, multicores, etc).

Capital™ Logic may be used to design both sub-systems and to accomplish interactive system integration, i.e. the merging of multiple sub-systems into the physical structure.

Capital™ Logic is more than a schematic design tool, it provides a foundation for a complete Capital™ electrical design flow: from logical concept design through to harness design (using Capital™ HarnessXC).

Rules-driven vehicle wiring synthesis

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.

Rapidly create detailed, manufacturing-ready harness designs

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 the way designs are created and validated.

Rapid, accurate process planning and harness cost estimation

Capital™ Harness TVM enables costing & process planning engineers to rapidly and accurately synthesize harness build processes and tasks, costs, manufacturing times, and more, from a harness design created by Capital™ HarnessXC, Capital™ ModularXC, or VeSys® 2.0 Harness.

Unlike traditional approaches that rely on approximation, labour intensive and detailed expert analysis, proprietary hard-coded applications, and slow error-prone processes, Capital™ Harness TVM provides a formal framework and process for the rapid generation of accurate time and labour costing.

Capital™ Harness TVM is designed to support both OEMs and Harness Suppliers.

Automatic creation of operator instructions/visual aids for every design and production facility

Capital™ Workbooks uses rules to automatically generate work instructions and visual aids for harness assembly operators. It removes work instructions creation from the critical path for introducing new or changed harness designs, thus eliminating errors and reducing costs.

Create service documentation direct from existing wiring diagrams and other data sources

Capital™ Publisher creates service documentation direct from existing wiring diagrams and other data sources.

Capital™ Publisher is a graphical and design management tool for authoring service documentation. Capital™ Publisher uses wiring data from the electrical designers which can be re-rendered into new diagrams with full diagram to diagram navigation. A full range of auto formatting tools are provided, including multiple language translation outputs. A variety of facilities support hyperlinking with other data sources such as specification sheets and component and assembly installation artwork. Capital™ Publisher designs can be distributed to service technicians providing vehicle option specific views of the wiring and components, supported by click-and-sprout signal tracing.