EQUIPMENT PRODUCT ENGINEER

• CATIA PLM Express enables engineers to easily define equipment such as piping, tubing or the electrical control and power systems of the product.
• It provides a process-oriented solution for designing physical wire harnesses driven by logical specification and is integrated with harness manufacturing.
• By delivering a realistic simulation for 3D wire harness packaging in an integrated environment, this powerful solution reduces design time and increases the overall quality of large-scale electrical systems.

CATIA - Electrical 3D Design & Documentation

Benefits 

• Integrated process coverage to reduce cycle time from design to manufacturing
• Automatic wire length calculation and definition
• Quick electrical space reservation within the product, avoiding physical prototypes
• Reduce errors by validating the wire harness & cable assemblies installation within the virtual product

Capabilities

• Connectors & supports catalog creation
• Easy 3D design and placement of electrical components in the digital mock-up
• Automatic harness flattening and 2D documentation generation for manufacturing
• Automatic propagation of modification from design to documentation
• XML-based integration between existing schematic systems and CATIA 3D electrical design

CATIA Piping Schematic to Design Product

Benefits 

• Improves product performance and quality thanks to standards and material specifications taking into account the design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
• Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D piping design
• Improve time to design with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
• Single geometric modeler for all the equipment and system products such as Tubing, HVAC, etc.,
• Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products
• Capitalizes company know-how to design right the first time
• Organizes catalog customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes (pressure, temperature, etc.)

Capabilities

• Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
• Defines and manages piping lines for different engineering systems
• Creates intelligent piping and instrumentation diagrams with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
• Designs the 3D preliminary piping layout routes with design rules checking (minimun length and turn)
• Adds spec-driven 3D piping components to detail the design
• Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematics
• Provides BOM reports, query and analysis

CATIA HVAC Schematic to Design Product

Benefits 

• Improves product performance and quality thanks to standards and material specifications taking into account the design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
• Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D HVAC design
• Improve design time with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
• Single geometric modeler for all the equipment and system products (piping, tubing, etc.)
• Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products
• Capitalize on company know-how to design right the first time
• Organizes catalogs customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes such as pressure, temperature, etc.

Capabilities

• Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
• Defines and manages HVAC lines for different engineering systems
• Creates intelligent schematics with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
• Designs the 3D preliminary HVAC layout routes with design rules checking (minimun length and turn)
• Adds spec-driven 3D HVAC components to detail the design
• Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematic diagrams
• Provides BOM reports, query and analysis

CATIA Tubing Schematic to Design

Benefits

• Improve product performance and quality thanks to standard and materials specification taking account design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
• Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D Tubing design
• Improves design time with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
• Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products such as associativity between supports and tubes
• Enables complex 3D design of tubing placement taking into account room constraint
• Capitalize on company know-how to design right the first time
• Catalogs customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes such as pressure, temperature, etc. 

Capabilities

• Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
• Defines and manages tubing lines for different engineering systems
• Creates intelligent schematics with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
• Designs the 3D preliminary tubing layout routes while checking/verifying design rules with respect to the material's bending capabilities
• Adds spec-driven 3D tubing components to detail the design
• Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematic
• Creates flexible tubes with bend, slack or length rules alongside local bundle if needed
• Provides BOM reports, query and analysis
• Provides input report for Numerical Control bending production

CATIA Flexible PCB Design

Benefits
 

• Easy and intuitive creation : creating a PCB shape in 3D in a fully digital environment
• Robust Electro-Mechanical engineering collaboration through a standard intermediate data format

Capabilities

• Multi-body sheet metal part makes it possible to start design from several connectors concurrently
• Dedicated tools for thin parts modeling
• Easy creation of mechanical shapes of printed circuit boards in the context of the mechanical assembly
• Bi-directional interface with electrical CAD Systems based on industry standard interface (IDF) format
• Creation and management of electronic component catalogs
• Intelligent placement of components like connectors coming from a catalog, constrained in its mechanical environment

CATIA Electrical Wire Harness Design

Benefits
 

• Reduce design time with a process oriented solution
• Increase overall quality of complex electrical wire harness assemblies with powerful & dedicated applications for large scale electrical system implementations and knowledge based design verification
• Seamless collaboration for anticipated manufacturing preparation: capture design intent and detailed wire harness model directly in the DMU
• Anticipate engineering changes by validating the wire harness installation within the virtual product: make sure integration problems are found in the DMU and not in the physical prototype

Capabilities

• Detailed definition of wire harness within the DMU according to the functional or wiring specifications : 3D wire harness takes into account logical specifications and manufacturing constraints
• Easy to use & powerful routing of harness in complex 3D mockup, with relational design between mechanical assembly and the harness
• Capture and reuse corporate know-how step by step to ensure validation at each phase of the process
• Dedicated objects such as electrical devices (equipment, connectors, back shells, contact), protection (taping, corrugated tubes), support and mounting objects (rack, panel), wires and cables

CATIA Electrical Wire Harness Flattening

Benefits

• Seamless collaboration between harness designers and manufacturing to ensure accuracy of 3D information transferred to manufacturing
• Best environment for harness detailed manufacturing documentation and form-board design
• Reduce effort for generation & maintenance of 2D harness drawings
• Integrated design to manufacturing process with the support of design changes
• Reduce cycle time with the ability to reuse existing documentation

Capabilities

• Exchange detailed and accurate 3D harness definition including complex mechanical parts with manufacturing suppliers
• Customizable generative 2D Drawings for documentation and generative 2D dress up
• Natural integration with CATIA Drafting allowing definition and management of a relevant set of annotations and dimensions to create full reports for documentation
• Automatic synchronization of design changes between harness design and manufacturing
• Dedicated command for editing of harness flattened layout