Electrical design for the Aerospace Industry

Schematic Design

Engineers working on new designs or updating current systems rely on correct, reusable data and information. An Intelligent component-based parts library that ensures only up-to-date parts are available helps drive the design with automatic part selections and simple ‘drag-and-drop’ functionality.

Objects such as power sources, fuses, switches, complex devices, and loads require simulation to facilitate functional testing. Switches and contacts within the design are controlled by the voltage and current passing through the circuit, simulating real-life operation.

As current passes through to the load, the voltage of objects such as lamps or motors can be checked and success or failure information is fed back to the user.

Topology Design

Topology optimization is used for achieving predetermined performance goals and obtaining the best layout of the vehicle wiring harnesses. In the early phases of design, the level of detail is low while the design freedom is high. By introducing a tool to support the early vehicle harness design, the potential of finding a more efficient layout increases.

A topology-specific tool will improve the design process by exploring different approaches in the early design stage to determine the best solution. Tools can be used to predefine routing criteria for signals and power sources to assist in correct wire routings.

Wire Harness Design

Wire harness designers require 1:1 wire harness layout drawings that include connection tables, clips, heat shrink, and convoluted tubes. The ability to automatically determine wire lengths and calculate the outside diameter of the harness segments and branches helps speed up design processes.

Automatic connector view selection, and correct terminal selection, including associated items like seals, backshells, and blanking plugs, are necessary to reduce time and costs and allow a right-first-time approach. The automatic generation of reports, such as bills of materials, helps reduce administrative tasks, automates the process, and empowers designers to get on with designing.

Bills Of Materials and Wire Lists

An automatic generation of estimates, quotes, bills of materials, wire lists, and many more reports within E3.series helps drive upstream and downstream processes and enables best practice methods.

Reports can be used for costing purposes or by manufacturing bills of materials. Intelligent report-generation tools help users create customizable reporting templates. Reports can be exported directly to leading PLM and PDM solutions to create a seamless data transfer between departments.