DETROIT, April 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SAE World
Congress— Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that
LEONI is expanding its use of Capital® software throughout the
world. LEONI now has significant Capital software deployments in
Europe, America and Pacific Rim. This growth is driven in part by
increasing adoption of the modular approach to wire harness
configuration management, also known as customer-specific or zero
give-away harnessing. This approach is strongly supported by
the Mentor® Capital ModularXC™ tool, which in turn is tightly
linked with other products in the Capital suite and with adjacent
applications such as mechanical CAD applications.
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"Capital is by far the most capable commercial off-the-shelf
software addressing wire harness design, engineering and
manufacturing. So it is the natural choice as LEONI's standard
environment" said Carsten Wilhelm,
Director of Engineering Systems for Manufacturing. "Mentor also has
technical depth across multiple relevant domains, excellent
geographic coverage, and strong presence at the world's leading
automotive and off-road vehicle OEMs. In addition, Capital
ModularXC is a really key tool. We are now seeing the modular
approach being taken up in America and Pacific Rim, whereas previously this method
was more common in in Europe.
Capital ModularXC helps position LEONI as a world-leading supplier
of modular harnesses."
The modular approach addresses challenges caused by extreme
configuration complexity within vehicle electrical systems, which
in turn is caused by the rapid growth of electrical/electronic
options and mechanical variants offered to vehicle buyers.
Involving the management of harness "fragments" that correspond to
vehicle functions, the modular approach can deliver substantial
cost savings over the more traditional part number -oriented
approach to harness configuration management. The Capital ModularXC
tool fully supports both approaches, and also allows harness
designs to be re-analyzed in terms of sub-assemblies selected for
optimized manufacturing. Coupled with advanced functionality such
as configurable diagram styling, the Capital ModularXC tool is
therefore very versatile and hence is well suited to harness
suppliers adopting common tools across their multiple OEM-facing
business units.
Nick Smith, product marketing
director of the Integrated Electrical Systems Division at Mentor
Graphics, noted "Modular harnessing is not the only dynamic driving
LEONI's expanded use of Capital. LEONI also makes good use of other
tools within the suite, for example to design formboards and
perform detailed manufacturing cost analyses. Some of these
processes are particularly sophisticated, so the value LEONI
derives from the software is very strong."
The Capital suite spans an extended electrical systems "Define –
Design – Build – Service" flow and is particularly targeted at
transportation applications. The Capital tools are used by many of
the world's leading wire harness suppliers, many of whom undertake
design work for their OEM customers using the Capital suite in
addition to engineering and manufacturing the harnesses
themselves.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation 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 and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year in excess of $1.15
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor and Capital are registered trademarks
of Mentor Graphics Corporation and ModularXC is a trademark of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are
the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
James Price
Mentor Graphics
+1 503.685.1778
james_price@mentor.com
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