Date: 08/07/2012
Zuken enhance support for automotive design in its CAD software
Zuken has announced major enhancements for the automotive and special purpose vehicle industry in Eł.series 2012, its electrical and fluid CAD software.
Zuken says with its Eł.series 2012, users across the vehicle industries – from trucks and tanks to buses, cars and motorcycles – will benefit from fewer iterations between manufacturing engineers and design engineers, leading to reduced design time and improved quality.
"Since we started using Eł.series almost two years ago we have reduced our design cycle by almost 40%, compared with our previous practice of wire harness design using non-automated tools," says M Amardeepkumar, R&D Manager, TVS Motors.
The new features as explained by Zuken:
Eł.series 2012 includes fully automated connector pin terminal handling. Any modification to the wire gauge will result in automatic selection of the correct connector pin terminal; regardless of where changes are made in the design flow.
This means connector pin terminal selection, cavity seal selection and environmental terminal selection are now fully automatic, leading to fewer errors and more streamlined design flow. Designers will spend far less time considering how to configure connectors.
Eł.series 2012 has improved option handling with configurations and packages (a collection of functional additions to a vehicle). This benefits those working with options and variants as engineers can quickly access the specifications for different vehicle configurations and analyze the effects of alternative design scenarios. In keeping with Eł.series’ object-oriented functionality, selecting the configuration automatically creates the relevant data for all departments involved in the production process.
Eł.series 2012 enables you to configure the wire numbers in the project based on circuit functionality and signal classification. The utility is also configurable for a number of additional industries, including machinery, rail and power.
For more information and movies on new features in Eł.series 2012, visit www.zuken.com/e3series-2012.