Cross-discipline 3D model-based tool chain facilitates agile cable harness development
Summary
With the aid of a digital twin that grows along with your needs and that can be accessed by all of the subsectors, the tool chain offers an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses and links all of the developmental steps. Few or no automated process steps and the classical silo mentality common to the various disciplines are no longer able to meet the need for the further development of high-voltage harnesses, for performance of thermal and electrical or electromagnetic simulations, and for essential redundancies and modified standards such as ISO 26262." It is essential to efficient and targeted development that changes are quickly calculated and communicated between the individual disciplines, that simulations and validations are seamlessly incorporated into the process, and that comprehensive application and product life cycle management systems (ALM/PLM) are integrated. Prüfer confirms: "Cable harness development has to distance itself from the document-based approach, which requires quite a few manual steps as well as complicated data exchange between different systems and formats. Individual rule catalogues that can be expanded as needed are integrated and serve as the basis for the algorithm to check the conformity of the various development steps with standards and quality requirements, e.g. those specified by the OEM or by law.