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Capital Harness MPM
Manufacturing Process Management
Electrical Systems Design and
Wire Harness Engineering
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Major Product Features
Harness Manufacturing Process
Management
Capital Harness MPM matches harness designs to production capabilities.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
MANAGEMENT
Capital® Harness MPM is a modern
software application specifically
developed to solve the challenge of
wire harness manufacturing processmanagement. The challenge is
to determine an efficient pattern of
sequenced process steps that results
in correct assembly of the target
harness, mindful of manufacturing
capabilities. Usually more than one
possible pattern will exist. The optimum choice depends on the specific capabilities of the factory(s)
in question, such as automated wire
processing equipment capabilities.
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Capital Harness MPM automatically creates an efficient manufacturing scheme for each harness to be
built, resulting in structured bill-ofmaterials (SBOM) data suitable to
drive Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) systems. It does this by decomposing harness designs against
previously captured descriptions of
manufacturing capabilities using
a reasoning engine that incorporates wire harness assembly logic.
Multiple harness variants may be
analyzed as a batch, for example in
the case of composite design data.
During the decompositional analysis Capital Harness MPM creates
intermediate sub-assemblies that
can be identified as work-in-process
(WIP) items and assigned internal
•t Analyzes wire harness designs
against manufacturing capabilities
•t Creates hierarchically structured
bills-of-material suitable to drive
ERP systems
•t Automatically identifies common
sub-assemblies across multiple
projects
•t Supports systematic capture of
production processes
•t Provides flexible and secure
application of intellectual property
via rules-based paradigm
•t Permits manual over-ride of calculated patterns to manage process
development and equipment downtime situations
•t Includes supporting functionality such as user management and
reporting
•t Can read design data from Capital
HarnessXC, Capital ModularXC, or
VeSys Harness
part numbers. Capital Harness
MPM is able to automatically
recognize any sub-assemblies that
are common to different harness
designs (rapidly scanning the entire database if appropriate), and
manage them without duplication.
FLEXIBILITY AND IP
PROTECTION
Harness manufacturing process
management requires flexibility
to cope with design advances
(such as optical components),
process advances (such as new
equipment), and contingency
(such as equipment breakdown).
For this reason, Capital Harness
MPM permits manual over-ride
of calculated manufacturing pat-
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