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With a platform-driven design approach and the constant need to shave production costs, existing tools struggle to offer a truly integrated solution. Zuken’s E3.series is used for documenting and detailing electrical and fluid automotive projects. Its flexibility supports the entire design process, from definition and design, through manufacturing and maintenance. Its unique object-oriented architecture ensures that all stages are fully synchronized.
With an intelligent parts library and online design rule checks, E3.series also assists the designer by preventing errors and speeding up the overall design process.
E3.series has been chosen and successfully adopted by many large automotive manufacturers
worldwide who appreciate its design process flexibility and ability to integrate with the supply chain.
Common challenges:
• Integrating global workforces
• Managing complex options
• Supply chain integration
• Multiple design iterations
• Managing legacy systems
• Creating full digital mockups
• Producing service documentation
Common challenges:
• Global markets
• Supply chain integration
• Digital mockups
• Managing multiple engineers
• Large projects
• Logical to physical design
• Modular design
• Multiple design iterations
With increasing passenger numbers and growing freight business, rail transportation is a more popular choice than ever.
As rail systems develop and increase in complexity, for example by including WiFi, CCTV and in-carriage entertainment systems, better tools are needed to assist in the electrical design
process.
E3.series is used by many companies in the rail industry for documenting and detailing their
electrical projects. Its core functionality supports the whole design process from definition to
design, and manufacturing to maintenance. Its unique object-oriented design philosophy
ensures all stages of the design are fully synchronized.
The flexibility of E3.series has seen it adopted by a broad range of companies supplying the
rail industry including engine and locomotive design, trackside signaling, harnessing and power distribution.
Common challenges :
• Highly regulated industry
• Multiple design reviews
• Smarter, faster, lighter, economical designs
• Introducing COTS for custom design
• Large project designs
• Supply chain integration
• Full digital mockups
• Design communication
Electrical design projects in the aerospace industry are often large and highly complex, involving numerous design iterations. They also require strict access control.
There is now a swing towards COTS (commercial off the shelf ) part and equipment sourcing which has been driven by the global squeezing of budgets and the improvement and availability of quality, off-the-shelf equipment. Additionally, the continual rise of fuel prices is driving manufacturers to find ways of designing aircraft that are smaller, lighter, faster and cheaper. Small commercial jets, spacecraft, custom aircraft and helicopters form a buoyant segment within this innovation-led industry.
Recent trends show a high degree of collaboration with external suppliers, contracts requiring faster time-to-production and upfront cost reduction. These projects require electrical design data to be tightly managed and integrated smoothly into the overall program.
E3.series is used in numerous aerospace companies for documenting and detailing electrical systems, wire harnesses and fluid designs. Its flexibility supports the whole design process, from definition and design through manufacturing and maintenance and its unique architecture ensures that all stages are fully synchronized.
Common challenges :
• Process optimization
• Efficient engineering
• Integrating global workforces
• Workflow flexibility
• Cost management
• Standardization of designs
• Managing variants and options
• Multiple design iterations
• Error-free manufacturing
• Responding quickly to customers’ needs
• Creating full digital mockups
In contrast to the general trend towards large corporate players, companies in the global plant and machinery market are often privately owned. So in this highly competitive sector, finding smarter ways of working is a continual goal. Machinery companies often look to their engineering departments to find improvements and cost savings in design and manufacturing.
Phrases such as “process optimization” and “efficient engineering” are commonplace, especially as the industry and its standards evolve.
Zuken’s E3.series is used for designing and documenting electrical and fluid projects. Its flexibility supports the entire design process, from definition and design, through manufacturing and maintenance. A unique object-oriented architecture ensures that all stages in the process are fully synchronized. With an intelligent parts library and real-time design rule checks, E3.series assists the designer by preventing errors and speeding up the overall design process.
E3.series is used by thousands in the plant and machinery sector who rely on its broad functionality and flexibility to help them deliver complex and innovative products.
Common challenges:
• Quality documentation
• Creating full digital mockups
• Producing field service documentation
• Supply chain integration
• Mixed electrical and fluid design
Off-highway or special vehicles are the modernda work horses often involved in safety or time-critical operations. The industry is diverse and consists of multiple market sectors; agricultural with tractors and combine harvesters, construction with trucks and backhoes and public service vehicles with fire trucks and buses.
The challenges faced by electrical and fluid engineers in this sector are similar to the mainstream automotive sector; the vehicles consist of a chassis with all the usual electrical requirements but they also contain control systems for the specific features such as hydraulics for backhoes and fire trucks or drives and sensors found in combine harvesters.
The industry often works closely with its supply chain for the development and delivery of its harnesses. This presents challenges in the transfer of data and the communication of production requirements.
Zuken’s E3.series is used for documenting and detailing electrical and fluid projects. Its flexibility supports the entire design process, from definition and design, through manufacturing and maintenance. Its unique architecture ensures that all stages are fully synchronized.
E3.series has been chosen and successfully adopted by hundreds of special vehicles OEMs worldwide who appreciate its design process flexibility and ability to integrate with existing
processes.
We looked for a tool to give an end-to-end design path from schematic capture to physical design. One of the reasons E3.series stood out is its inbuilt electrical intelligence. This will help us reduce rework and add digital prototyping into our engineering design process to satisfy challenging time-to-market and quality demands
—— Luigi Baracchino, Electrical Engineering Manager