The CATIA Electrical 3D and Manufacturing Engineer Role will save costly development time by optimizing the physical design of wire harnesses & cable systems in context of the complete product and by generating high quality manufacturing documents.
Electrical 3D and Manufacturing Engineer (ELM) covers the physical design of wire harness and cabling systems within the Digital Mock Up of a product. It is part of the complete integrated Electrical process and has tight synchronization capabilities with the Systems Schematic Engineer role (TIC).
It also covers the harness manufacturing for formboard preparation and harness manufacturing drawings generation.
Save costly development time by optimizing the physical design of wire harnesses & cable systems in context of the complete product and by generating high quality manufacturing documents:
- Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design and optimize the harness routing in context of the complete product
- Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths
- Generate of annotated scaled drawings and high quality manufacturing documents with automatic processes
- Strategic & optimized harness layout arrangement for formboard preparation
- 3D Change impact analysis & generation of Bill of Material
- 3D Design change reflection to all existing manufacturing documents
- Facilitate harness installation by limiting torsion earlier in the process and anticipating manufacturing constraints
- Create Tolerance Annotations directly in the 3D for a complete model description
Electrical 3D Physical Design
The Electrical 3D Physical Design capabilities deliver a process-specific solution for designing physical wire harnesses. This solution is driven by logical specifications (schematics) and is integrated with harness manufacturing preparation. By delivering a realistic simulation for 3D wire harness packaging in an integrated environment, this powerful solution reduces design time and increases the overall quality of large-scale electrical systems. It also enriches the design through realistic deformation of flexible harnesses by taking into account environmental conditions like gravity.
Electrical Manufacturing Engineering
Once the 3D Design of Wire Harnesses in the context of their complete product is finalized, the next step is the Wire Harness Manufacturing. 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides an application enabling the automatic generation of manufacturing documents, including annotated drawings, all needed reports and on scale formboards.
Dedicated automatic processes covering all use cases:
- Documentation for subcontractors
- Documentation process addresses companies who work with subcontractors for the harness manufacturing step and who need to provide them all manufacturing information.
- Automatic generation of annotated and scaled manufacturing drawing to be transmitted to subcontractors, including reports according to company standards
- Automatic generation of harness dimensions in the drawing documents but manual modification is still available
- Formboard for harness manufacturers (harness manufacturing on jig board)
Formboard process addresses customers who manufacture their own harnesses.
- Automatic formboard generation: harness flattening and alignment on jig boards
- Automatic on scale formboard drawing generation which can be sticked on the board
- Harness flattening taking into account harness backbone definition, potential loops to open and formboard tables potentially already installed
- Automatic harness backbone path computation and display in pink in 3D
- Possibility to add special flatten behavior for some branches to comply with manufacturing constraints and to respect curvature/twist on very rigid segments
- 3D Manufacturing for rigid harness manufacturers
The final process is the 3D Manufacturing, addressing customers manufacturing very rigid harnesses. The process generates a torsion-free layout in which the tangency at branch junctions is kept.
- Automatic generation of harness with limited torsion
- Partial flattening for complex rigid harnesses
- Creation of 3D manufacturing information taking into account the curvature and allowed torsion of the bundle segments
- Critical functionality for aero engine harnesses
Electrical Manufacturing automatic processes all offer:
- A robust validation of the data to process & new checks performed in the behind scene
- Information about the processed data : dashboarding with advanced reports for each step and cross-highlight capability
- A high-level of user interface targeting to minimize user interactions but manual modification is still available
- Better integration in data setup and preferences minimizing preparation steps for users and allowing centralized administration of company rules
- Sheet template and GVS file for documentation process
- Backbone identification criteria, board dimensions and offset from plane for formboard process
Electrical 3D and Manufacturing Engineer Benefits
- Saving Preparation/Installation Time & Reducing Costs
- Generating high quality manufacturing documents faster with automatic processes
- First Time Right Harness Production and flexibility in harness manufacturing thanks to a real time 3D design change reflection to all existing manufacturing documents
- Complexity Management in harnesses through comparison tools easing harness element identification
- Facility in Harness Installation with Torsion management
- Rapid return on investment with elimination of physical harness mock ups
- Harness Quality Standardization
- Manufacturing Documents Delivery with detailed and relevant information through customization according to company standards
- Engineering Validation through length tolerances and business rules to respect manufacturing constraints directly in the flattening
- Related to the Drafting application enabling multiple view placement on manufacturing documents, for instance 3D view
- Facilitating Collaboration
- Efficient project management through a multi-disciplinary and collaborative platform
- Perfect integration into the whole CATIA Electrical Process
- Integration with external tools and platforms for data continuity and safety
Electrical 3D and Manufacturing Engineer Highlights
Leverage Model Based Design through fast 3D Tolerancing adoption for product engineering
- Allow a full Tolerancing of the product
- The Semantic Tolerancing advisor guides the designer to be compliant with standards such as ISO, ANSI / ASME and JIS
- Eases the 3D definition understanding with a cross-highlight of the 3D geometry and related annotations
- Protects the company know-how and Intellectual Property (IP) thanks to 3D data filtering capabilities
- Exports 3D master definition to STEP format
- Improves the productivity for part’s family by an easy duplication of 3D tolerances and annotation
- Re-uses any 2D definition to support conceptual design in 3D
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