Smart collaboration for the automotive wire harness industry

Leveraging the 3D-coordinates in the imported data (KBL, VEC or PLMXML), E3.Harness Analyzer can render haresses as a full 3D model. When a 2D drawing is included in the import data (HVC or DSI), the tool can also visualize the detailed 2D-drawing in high resolution and XXL-scale formats (e.g. 1m x 60m).

With today’s large designs and drawings, the search function has become a major day-to-day requirement. E3.HarnessAnalyzer supports this with a powerful search engine functionality across all technical objects of a design.

Design collaboration typically involves fast manual detection of changes made by other designers when a new harness drawing version is released. E3.HarnessAnalyzer quickly and automatically compares two versions of same document and cross-highlights the drawing to show differences. Results may be exported to Microsoft Excel.

With E3.HarnessAnalyzer users can mark-up documents with textual comments structured by classes such as “error” or “confirmation”, which are displayed as flags in the drawing. All annotations can be exported for downstream processing, such as design review in the original authoring system or archiving for change management.

Master harness drawings may contain module families along with their modules. E3.HarnessAnalyzer displays the related information on module families and modules according to STEP AP212 KBL data structure, including the module history. The module structure can be used to filter the information in views and lists for a single module or any combination of modules.