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Creo 3D Cable Harnessing

Cabling

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History of Design Technologies

2D 3D Apps PDM PLM Cabling

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Benefits of 3D Cabling Modeling?

• Connection to E-CAD• Complete 3D Model• Detect problems at early design

stage• Advanced documentation for

handbooks and manuals• Analysis (e.g heat transfer, air

flow, magnetic influence)• Enhanced BOM• Parallel engineering – time to

market

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Connect two worlds

ECAD

MCAD

Enriched 3D

Model

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Space Requirements (mechanical)

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Space Requirements (electronical)

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Serial Engineering

Design• Mechanical Design

Manufacturing

• Manufacturing

Assembly

• Device Assembly

HarnessDesign

• Harness Prototype

Harness

Manufacturturi

ng

• Harness Manufacturing

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Concurrent Engineering

Design • Mechanical DesignDesig

n

• Harness Design

Manufactur

ing • Manufacturing

Assembly

• Device Assembly

Manufactur

ing• Harness Manufacturing

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Product Main Functionality

Electrical CAD

CablingDesign

Cabling Manufacturing

Electrical Library

E-CADInterface

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Main Features• Different cable types (round, flat)• Auto-snap connections• Interface to E-CAD systems• Library management • Cabling Manufacturing Drawings• Manual and Automatic routing

(channel routing)• Dynamic cabling• Automatic calculations like wire

lengths, channel thicknesses • PDM integration • Realistic visualization of Harnesses• Open System with customization

possibilities

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Structures

Cabling supports different structures • Wires• Cables• Units/Groups• Channels • Harnesses • Drawings• Fixtures

…..

Wires build cables, cables build groups , groups build harnesses …

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Analysis of a harness project

• 10 % Administration and preparation of components

• 80 % Routing of cables• 10 % Post processing and

verification

Routing: Biggest Potential for efficiency increase !

How to create routing paths efficiently ?

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Cabling Routing Types

• Manual Routing

• Auto Routing

• E-CAD Routing

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Manual Routing

• User creates the wires one by one • Mainly for visualisations , manuals , manufacturing information• For small amount of wires• User has fully control on the wire path

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Auto routing

• User defines the possible paths for wires as a 3d wire-frame object

• This ‘virtual channel’ also defines the topology of the harness

• User creates connections from device to device as ‘air-lines’

• Cabling automatically puts all ‘air-lines’ into the ‘virtual channel’ by finding the shortest path between two points

• Mainly for large amount of wires• Necessary for harness topology

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E-CAD routing

• User defines the possible paths for wires as a 3D wire-frame object

• This ‘virtuel channel’ also defines the topology of the harness

• Cabling creates connections from device to device as ‘air-lines’ automatically from the E-CAD interface file

• Cabling automatically puts all ‘air-lines’ into the ‘virtual channel’

• Necessary for harness topology • Eliminates user errors

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Electrical Library (CCF Format)

• Some components already available in “Cabling”, others can be easily added into the systems

• Powerful librarian for fixture and pin definitions

• LISP driven fixture elements like Clamps etc

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Auto-Snap Functionality

Users can interactively define components and their counterparts by defining mate faces on both components and counterparts.Once selected, components automatically “snap” to their counterparts without user interaction.

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Cabling Manufacturing

• Create an accurate 2D representation of the 3D harness.• Add standard or “embedded” dimensions to actual wire

and bundle lengths.• Annotate the drawing with pin, wire and connector

properties.• Add other data needed for manufacturing like wire run

lists, bill of materials, connector information etc.• Move and rearrange the complete harness, each cable

segment independently. • Create different reports about the manufacturing

process.• Various design rule checks eliminate errors and ensure

that pre-defined rules are obeyed.• One-to-one or scaled manufacturing drawing.• Possibility to customize the manufacturing drawing

depending on the company standards.• Export of length information back to the E-CAD system.

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Cable Manufacturing Drawings• incl fixtures, connector icons and accessories

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Harness Drawing Creation

• E-CAD Centric

• M-CAD centric

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What is found at M-CAD side ?

• Topology• Length• Fixtures• Space Calculation

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E-CAD / M-CAD Interface• Cable Harness Drawing + BOM + Connection List

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E-CAD / M-CAD Interface

• Many E-CAD software vendors have modules to create cable and wire harness drawings

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E-CAD / M-CAD Interface• E-CAD software has all necessary information to produce

cable harness drawings, connections lists and BOM

… except two important parameters …

Harness Drawing

Connectors and

devices

Signal Connections

Wires

Lengths

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1) Topology of the harness 2) Wire lenghts

Lengths

Topology

ECAD

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Topology of the harness

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Wire Lengths

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Data Transfer 1-Way

• Uni-directional Sytems

MCAD

ECAD

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Data Transfer 2-Ways

• Bi-directional Sytems

ECAD

Mcad

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Creo Cabling E-CAD Connection• Cabling can read and write data

from/to any E-CAD system, which is capable of preparing wire-lists in a special ASCII format.

• After cable and connector data is read, devices are checked for existence and an air-net cabling connection is built automatically from pin to pin. With Cabling functionality users can modify air-nets to 3D Harnesses.

Wire List of an E-CAD System

...is converted into the Cabling E-CAD Input format

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Creo Cabling E-CAD Connection

• Cabling checks Creo model space automatically and finds out which devices are already placed – and which ones user must still load to the model

• By simply selecting from the “Not Placed” list, users can load and position connectors within one menu.

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Creo Cabling E-CAD Connection

• Loaded pkg-parts get automatically new names assigned “Connector_Device name“

• After all devices are loaded into model space …

• A straight or tangential airnet connection can be made.

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Add On Applications

• Automotive

• Electronics

• General Machinery

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Liebherr Germany – Mobile Cranes Division

• Major German manufacturer of cranes and heavy machinery

•36.000 workers

• Project duration 1.Project : 3 months2.Project : 3 months

• ECAD (Zuken E3) centric engineering

• > 5.000 wires

• bi-directional ECAD interface with automatic Update of harness drawing in ECAD

Case Study 1

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Liebherr Germany – Mobile Cranes Division

Case Study 1

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CANON OCE – Printing Devices

• Major Dutch producer of office printing and copying systems; production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics

• Project duration 1 month

• Task ModelManager implementation for cabling

•Task Customization for Zuken E3 ECAD Interface

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CANON OCE – Printing Devices

Case Study 2

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Grimme Agricultural Machines

• Major German manufacturer of agricultural machines in the area of potato harvesting, sugar beet and vegetable technology

• 2200 employees

• 1.Task: Automatic BOM Creation incl. all device components like dummy plugs, seals, connectors, protections, fixtures etc

•.2.Task:Fully dimensioned Automatic Drawings Generation

•3.Task Device Library with more than 200 parts

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