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Capital ModularXC
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Capital ModularXC Automated Harness Design Electrical Systems Design and Wire Harness Engineering D A T A S H E E Major Product Features Capital ModularXC—Harness engineering with automated module breakdown. PRODUCT OVERVIEW Capital® Mentor Graphics ModularXC enables harness engineers to create fully detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs from 150% harness designs. Buildable harness variants (including diagrams and BOMs) are automatically generated, based on user-defined choices for decomposition—Composite-Derivative or Modular decomposition. Modular decomposition offers both functional module decomposition, for example “tail lamps,” and production module decomposition, for example “ECU connector sub-assembly.” www.mentor.com/electrical • Graphical harness design environment • Automated harness engineering, validation, and reporting • Support for mass customization and KSK customer-specific harness designs • Parallel management of functional modules, production modules, and derivatives • Management of module code, option, and variant relationships • Automated module breakdown, component selection, BOM, and drawing creation • Collaborative design merge raises efficiency of multiple-site, parallel design • Styling templates provide multiple, “single-click,” drawing formats • Data integration interfaces with major MCAD platforms, PLM, and other data exchange formats • Powerful reporting, data, and management facilities, and seamless integration with other Capital tools MODULAR DESIGN AUTOMATION AUTOMATED ENGINEERING AND VALIDATION Functional assignation algorithms identify modules based on codes assigned to the wires, then automatically identify and configure all related components—connectors, protections, clips, etc.—to complete the definition of each module. Production assignation algorithms identify and configure the optimum set of manufacturing subassembly modules, based on user-defined best-practice rules and constraints to increase manufacturing efficiencies and reduce costs. The Capital ModularXC selection routines automatically select terminals, seals, cavity plugs, tapes, tubes, heat-shrink sleeves, and all other harness components to create a full manufacturing BOM. Automated engineering functions calculate: manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, optimized splice positions, taping quantities, harness weight, and other quantities that describe the finished design. T

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Multiple, configurable, design-rulechecks are provided to ensure the final design meets the organization’s defined best-practices. Automated design comparison facilities identify graphical and specification changes between different revisions. MODULES, OPTIONS, AND VARIANTS MANAGEMENT Capital ModularXC provides parallel management of functional modules, production modules, derivatives and their code relationships, with automated creation of technical modules and assignation of module codes to harness objects. A wide variety of module assignment algorithms are provided, and these can be...

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