Cut costs, improve product quality and boost efficiency. Create comprehensive models that ensure realistic wiring harness costing and enable wiring harness product engineers to efficiently prepare product data.
Wire harness manufacturers face numerous challenges. Program risks from errors, delays and compliance mandates drive up costs and extend timelines. Frequent design changes, supply chain disruptions and competitive pressure hinder manufacturing efficiency and require re-validation.
The aging workforce and the loss of key experts increase program launch risks, while labor competition and high turnover in manufacturing 'hot spots' add further strain. Task splitting often results in incorrect product and process specifications. Additionally, cost-cutting pressures and productivity targets lead to delivery delays and unexpected freight costs, eroding margins and reducing competitiveness.
Wire harness software helps mitigate these challenges by reducing engineering errors and effort, accelerating product launches, cutting costs, boosting efficiency and minimizing the risk of budget overruns or missed deadlines.
As harness manufacturers often operate on margins of 6-8%, one slip-up can spell disaster for a harness manufacturer’s entire fiscal year. Minimizing costs related to harness production and delivery is crucial. (Siemens)
Labor accounts for up to 40% of the cost of wiring, providing cost advantages. However, production facilities located farther from the customer result in longer inventory pipelines and greater risk of incurring costs. (Siemens)
Wiring systems are complex assemblies of harnesses with vast amounts of components and numerous possible configurations. To make matters worse, the majority — 80-85% — of a wire harness is still handmade. (Siemens)
How can you meet demands to automate, capture expert knowledge and ensure the highest-quality products while meeting deadlines, staying within budget and digitizing your harness design and manufacturing processes?
Leverage an integrated wire harness manufacturing solution with connected and interoperable product and process engineering operations, including configurable rules and constraints, rules-based automation and data re-use.
With wire harness software, you can develop a digitalized manufacturing process model which includes production process balancing and optimization. Effectively create “what if” scenarios and validate best-practice techniques for manufacturing process planning and cost estimation tasks.
Leverage automated design validation to catch errors early and mitigate costly rework during production.
Streamline your manufacturing process to reduce manual tasks and speed up project timelines.
Optimize material usage and reduce production mistakes to cut down on overall manufacturing costs.
Run precise simulations to ensure that wire harnesses meet exact specifications, enhancing product quality and reliability.
Reuse company intellectual property (IP) with integrated rules and constraints. Automate product and process engineering to mitigate manual data entry errors, ensuring consistent data processing and quality checks while advancing the start of production (SOP). Enable accurate costing and analysis.
Cut costs and improve product quality. Create comprehensive models that ensure realistic wiring harness costing and efficiently prepare product data.
Create an optimized digital twin composed of a validated harness model and a digitalized wiring harness manufacturing process model. Transform engineering, costing and manufacturing performance.
Elevate your aircraft electrical wiring system with digital continuity. Reuse system data to create wiring schematic diagrams for downstream development efforts. Leverage automated verification with enforced standards to catch errors early in the design phase, mitigating rework and improving on-time delivery.
Get the design right the first time with optimized system architecture and investigate signal response with consistency checks. Leverage network software communication across multiple protocols, verify safety and security concepts and generate electronic control unit (ECU) extracts from optimized network architecture.
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Wire harness software can include multiple specialized tools specifically for the design, development, engineering and production of wire harnesses: complex assemblies of electrical wires, cables and connectors that transmit signals and electrical power in various devices and vehicles. This software automates and streamlines the processes of creating wire harnesses, which are vital in industries including automotive, aerospace and electronics.
OEMs must adopt electrical wire harness software to unlock their organization's full potential, outpace competitors and align with future digital demands. This software optimizes the design process, reduces errors and enhances efficiency. It enables accurate design and simulation, ensuring harnesses meet precise specifications before production. By implementing our electrical wire harness solution, OEMs can cut development time, lower costs and improve product quality — gaining a competitive edge. Our software offers seamless integration with existing systems and manages complex designs, making it essential for streamlining electrical harness production.
Our solution optimizes wire harness manufacturing by automating critical processes, reducing manual errors and ensuring accuracy in both design and production. It enables precise simulation and validation of harness designs prior to production, minimizing costly rework and delays. The software also enhances workflow efficiency by integrating smoothly with existing systems, facilitating better team collaboration. Additionally, it effectively manages complex configurations, variations and changes, resulting in faster production cycles, higher product quality and lower overall manufacturing costs.
Wire harness solutions reduce design and manufacturing costs by automating the design process, minimizing errors and optimizing material usage. They enable precise simulation and validation before production, which reduces the need for costly rework or changes later. Wire harness solutions also streamline communication between design and manufacturing teams, ensuring accurate specifications are followed and reducing delays. By improving efficiency and cutting down on mistakes, they significantly lower overall production costs and shorten development time.
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