CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 March 2009
Product News
E³.cable 2009 Climbs the Hierarchy
The 2009 version of the cabling and harness design module from the E³.series, E³.cable, has made one of the biggest steps in terms of development in recent years. In response to the ever growing requirement to manage complexity through design reuse, introduce environments conducive to collaborative working and the pressure to increase throughput at the same time as improve quality; Zuken has introduced the concept of hierarchical design into the heart of E³.cable. Pooling knowledge from Zuken’s other cabling design solutions, the development teams have got together to share expertise and have introduced tried and tested technology for electrical verification that allows the user to verify and check if the designed system really does work without having to export to third party verification environments.
Not being able to see and easily access design files to visualize the bigger picture can be very frustrating for electrical designers. The user can now view the complete hierarchy of the design from top to bottom, making navigation and interpretation of the final product much easier. More critically this clear design structuring makes design reuse a reality and also allows designs to be partitioned, enabling work to be performed in parallel. This top down or bottom up approach, combined with the logical structuring saves time, delivers more flexibility and goes a long way to facilitate collaboration and open working practices for transparent design processes.
The electrical verification functionality incorporated into the 2009 version of E³.cable allows users to check the system before progressing along the design process, to prevent errors and eliminate costly design re-work. Functional intelligence can also be implemented within a drawing that allows the users to set fundamental rules such as the calculation of the load terminal voltage and current, the fuse size check or the wire operation temperature check, that will prevent users making errors as they work through the design. This eliminates the requirement for manually checking, saving time and increasing reliability.
E³.cable 2009 is now available, for more information visit http://www.zuken.com/e3.cable.
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