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Mentor Consulting
CHS Migration Services
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Major Benefits & Features
Today, more and more people are asking “How can we provide ever more complex
interconnect functionality at a competitive cost and quality?" In response, OEMs and
their suppliers are looking for new solutions that deliver dramatic productivity shifts.
New tools, such as Mentor Graphics CHS, introduce needed new functionality, but
maintenance of existing documentation after moving to new tools can be problematic.
Mentor Consulting has developed a systematic process which efficiently migrates
existing documentation to a new CHS flow.
Is it Time to Take Electrical System Design to
the Next Level?
As competitive pressures continue to drive prices down
and demands spiral for improved quality and increasing
complexity, designing electrical systems and their
associated harnesses has become an incredibly complex
task. A faster interface or simpler tool is not enough.
Required is an enterprise-wide solution which can specify,
simulate and detail for manufacturing the wiring harness,
all based on a solid backbone that handles the complex data
flows across the environment and beyond.
To meet this requirement, you need a complete tool flow
that addresses the complexities both within and across
multiple domains; responding to operational challenges that
extend out to the extended supply chain. Mentor Graphics
CHS tools, when deployed together, can create a unified
flow that seamlessly matures design data within an
enterprise-wide environment. These unique automation,
verification and electrical design data management
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Mentor Consulting has developed a
reliable process to reduce effort and
risk when migrating from existing
design environments to the CHS flow
• Proven interface reduces data
integrity and scheduling risks
• Preserves legacy data
investment
• Eliminates manual data re-entry
errors
• Simplifies legacy data
preparation/cleanup
• Accelerates start-to-finish of
migration effort
• Reduces labor cost and duration
of consulting engagement
• Migration can be an opportunity to
introduce improved processes and
new best practices
• Knowledge transfer allows
continued work to be internally
managed
• Consultants bring real world
expertise and insight to the project
functions can improve design process efficiency, enhance
design quality and reduce end product costs significantly.
The Challenge of Transition
Maintaining legacy documentation from past projects
may be business-critical, but moving to a new flow can put
them at risk. Either the existing documentation must remain
in the old system (of limited use), or the information must
be painstakingly transferred to the new tools. This transfer
process introduces new problems as skilled personnel are
pulled off of production work to do tasks they have never
done before and will only do once.
Because the CHS flow can be used for completely
specifying buildable harnesses, projects require more data
than a stand-alone schematic. Your internal resources may
have no expertise in changing systems, or in adding the
required information to existing work.
Mentor Consulting has addressed this challenge with a
combination of consultants with rare skills, and proprietary