Mentor Graphics Announces Further Capital Tool Expansion with New Product That Cuts Wire Harness Manufacturing Costs
14 11월 2011 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced
availability of Capital Harness MPM™, a software application that
helps wire harness manufacturers cut production costs. Addressing
manufacturing process management, Capital Harness MPM
systematically models harness designs against production
capabilities to create structured bill-of-materials data. This data
is typically used to drive enterprise resource management (ERP)
systems. Capital Harness MPM is part of the Capital® tool suite, a
powerful electrical system and wire harness design environment for
the automotive, aerospace and defense industries. The new tool
delivers important additional production engineering capability to
Capital’s Define-Design-Build-Service flow.
Wire harness manufacturing is a logistically challenging,
multi-stage process that is difficult to optimize, especially
because designs change frequently and configuration complexity is
high. By analysing harness designs against factory capabilities,
Capital Harness MPM helps identify what, where and how harnesses
and their constituent sub-assemblies should be built. Manufacturing
costs can be reduced by accurately reflecting optimized
manufacturing patterns. In addition, Capital Harness MPM helps
minimize inventory and obsolescence costs and achieve economies of
scale by identifying sub-assemblies that are common across
different harness designs. The automation delivered also helps
minimize manufacturing engineering errors and cycle times, and
reduces staff training costs.
Lyle Fahning, chairman of the Wire Harness Manufacturers
Association (WHMA), said, “Good cost-effective designs are critical
to meeting the customer needs in our industry and assuring
profitability to our member manufacturing companies. Too often this
is a manual, ad hoc process that fails to utilize appropriate tools
for optimization of the design and manufacturing costs. Mentor is
one of the very few software vendors worldwide with the expertise
to develop application products to support this important product
development process. Technology that helps our members understand
design, manufacturability, and cost issues more effectively will
make a major contribution to our industry.”
Technically, Capital Harness MPM employs a reasoning engine
specially developed for the wire harness domain. This reasoning
engine intelligently decomposes harness designs into hierarchical
assembly steps that match production capabilities. Manufacturing
intellectual property can be flexibly and securely captured using
an extensible rules-based approach so that (for example)
custom-built production equipment can be modeled. Design data
created in the Mentor® Capital HarnessXC™, Capital ModularXC™ or
VeSys® Harness tools can be analyzed.
Martin O’Brien, general manager of Mentor’s Integrated
Electrical Systems Division, commented, “The Capital suite already
comprises products spanning electrical definition, design, build
and service. Capital Harness MPM was a natural tool to develop
because it addresses a subject with high commercial impact, and
further extends the digital continuity delivered by the Capital
flow and addresses a major pain point for many of our
customers.”
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing
products, consulting services and award-winning support for the
world’s most successful electronic, semiconductor, transportation
and systems companies. Established in 1981, the company reported
revenues over the last 12 months of about $915 million. Corporate
headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor, VeSys and Capital are registered trademarks, and
Capital HarnessXC, Capital ModularXC, and Capital Harness MPM are
trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or
product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective owners.)
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