Electrical Systems, Networks & Harnesses

Captial Harness Designer Essentials

Rapid harness design completion.
Capital Harness Designer Essentials enables rapid harness design completion (addition of clips, tubes, seals, etc) and creation of 2D harness drawings.

Intuitive wiring harness design tool that makes it easy to develop detailed composite harness designs.

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Rapid graphical layout and engineering of harness and formboard designs
Automatic generation of harness manufacturing reports including BOMs and cutting lists
Imports / Exports industry-standard harness exchange formats such as Capital 3D Harness (*.XML) and DS

Why Capital Harness Designer Essentials?

Capital Harness Designer Essentials software provides a graphical environment for creating harness and formboard drawings. Its intuitive user-interface makes harness design authoring easy.

Speed harness design and eliminate delays found in traditional design processes

Deploy rapidly to meet your goals
Use individually or deploy it with Capital Wiring Designer Essentials, allowing wiring design data to flow seamlessly into the associated harness designs to reduce effort and minimize the risk of errors. Validate designs using integrated electrical behavior and design automation with part selection.

Design with confidence
Integrate wiring, harness and mechanical computer-aided designs to promote reuse, data coherency and cross-domain collaboration. Automate generation of connector, wire and splice tables. Calculate wire-lengths, include terminal and connector add-on/knockoff values. Integrate wiring and harness design to import wires, connectors and splices. Back-annotate wire lengths. Use built-in intelligent libraries for components and symbols.

Automate reports
Automatically generate harness manufacturing reports, including bills of materials (BOMs) and cutting lists.

Monitor metrics for early correction
Use analysis to catch issues early in the design process where they are least time consuming and expensive to correct.

Automate tasks
Automatically populate connector tables as wires are added, terminals selected and wire tables generated.

Speed up your harness design process
Implement a powerful automated parts selector that automatically configures and selects terminals, seals and wires for each connector, including allowances for add-ons and knockoffs. This eliminates a major source of problems found in the traditional design process.

Generate documentation quickly
Once a harness is complete, use the powerful reporting capabilities to generate the documentation required for manufacturing. The reports are automatically generated directly from the design drawing, ensuring fast and accurate information. This can significantly reduce production lead times and prevent manufacturing errors.

Use flexible formboard layout choices
Employ rapid graphical layout and engineering of harness and formboard designs. Draw harnesses non-scaled or full-sized using formboard layout capabilities.

Improve revenue
Easily deploy the tool into existing processes and environments. Typically, return on investment is achieved in less than 12 months.

Easily scale when needed
Leverage the Capital Essentials suite, which is designed for rapid deployment and easy installation, to achieve dramatic ROI using powerful functionality. Use design and harness tools individually or deploy them together. Allow wiring design data to flow seamlessly into the associated harness designs to reduce effort and minimize the risk of errors. If needed, users can employ seamless upgrades to the full Capital software suite.

Wiring and harness design with Capital Essentials

As a suite of wiring and harness design software tools, Capital Essentials satisfies the demanding requirements of companies where ease-of-use and value are as important as functionality. It is fully optimized for rapid deployment and a low IT footprint. Users have achieved dramatic ROI using powerful yet intuitive functionality.

The advantage of a rich, interactive design environment
The tools can be used individually or deployed together allowing wiring design data to flow seamlessly into the associated harness designs reducing effort and minimizing the risk of errors.

Benefits include:

Rapid, right-first-time, error-free electrical and harness design
Automated harness engineering for creation of production-ready drawings, BOMs, costings, NC files, and manufacturing reports
Easily deployed into existing process/environment
ntegration with 3D CAD systems
Intuitive interface designed by engineers, for engineers
Full data compatibility with companies using Capital

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Features and Benefits

Rapid graphical layout and engineering of harness and formboard designs
Automatic part selection of terminals, seals and connectors parts etc.
Automatic generation of harness manufacturing reports including BOMs and cutting lists
Harnesses can be drawn non-scaled or full size using formboard layout capabilities
Automated generation of connector, wire and splice tables
Built-in intelligent libraries for components and symbols
Wire lengths calculations include terminal and connector add-on/knock-off values
Integrates with VeSys Design to import wires, connectors and splices and then back-annotate wire lengths
Imports / Exports industry-standard harness exchange formats such as Capital 3D Harness (*.XML) and DSI
Test Drive tutorial included

Intuitive

Capital Harness Designer Essentials provides a graphical environment for creating harness and formboard drawings. Harness design authoring is made easy via an intuitive user interface. Built-in harness-engineering intelligence automates many design tasks. For example, connector table are automatically populated as wires are added, terminals are automatically selected and wire tables generated automatically . Furthermore, all entities have context sensitive menus giving the user the modification options appropriate for each different type of component. These and many other facilities make harness design a simple and quick task.

Powerful

Capital Harness Designer Essentials includes a powerful automated parts selector that automatically configures and selects terminals, seals, and wires for each connector, including allowances for add-ons and knock-offs, speeding design and eliminating a major source of problems found in the traditional design process.

Details including wire lengths and manufacturing reports are available instantly for viewing. New harness design data is validated prior to automatically generating the manufacturing documentation. The result is unsurpassed accuracy and productivity in harness design.
Diagram appearance–line weights, fonts, colors, symbols, borders, etc.–are fully customizable.
Libraries are provided for components and symbols and these can be shared and exchanged with other companies

Capital Harness Designer Essentials designs can be linked with Captial Essential Design diagrams, enabling wires, connectors and splices from the circuit to automatically populate the harness layout. Harness information such as wire lengths can be back annotated to the circuit diagram, further refining the electrical simulation accuracy.

Productive

Once a harness is complete, the powerful Capital Harness Designer Essentials reporting capabilities can be used to generate the documentation required for manufacturing. Because the reports are automatically generated directly from the design drawing, fast and accurate information is assured, significantly reducing production lead times and preventing manufacturing errors.

Capital Harness Designer Essentials interfaces with most major MCAD systems allowing accurate wire length information to be defined by the MCAD system.

Capital Harness Designer Essentials is simple to use, ships with a detailed video tutorial and requires minimal training allowing companies to become productive quickly. Experienced support staff and an active user community forum provide immediate support and answers to new and experienced users alike.

Future Proof

Capital Harness Designer Essentials is optimized for rapid deployment, with a small IT footprint, allowing companies to rapidly adopt an improved design process. Capital Essentials is also designed to support companies as they grow their business – Captial Essentials parts and symbols libraries are fully compatible with the powerful Capital electrical design system used by many large multi-site companies and Capital Harness Designer Essentials designs can be used directly by customers and suppliers using Capital or tools supporting DSI. Capital Harness Designer Essential users can implement a mixed Capital Essentials and Capital environment across multiple sites, all sharing the same library data, allowing companies to upgrade their Capital Essential installations to Capital as their business needs expand.