What is the cost savings of using Solid Edge Wire Harness

[ngardner]

Does anyone have supporting information about time and cost savings (comparison) for using the Wire Harness capabilities of Solid Edge vs 2d wire harness work?

[Johnson_BigMatt]

Your VAR or Siemens Rep should be able to provide such data.

[RyanM]

Matt is correct. But fist things first. Are you using an ECAD system already or are you just looking to run individual tube paths as wires?

[ngardner]

Right now, we are using nothing. our skematics and harness diagrams are created in 2d with alot of manual layout out the harnesses on a finished unit.

[Johnson_BigMatt]

@ngardner   aside from cost...  the wireharness does provide functionality and associtivity....  auto BOMS,  Connector tables, etc...    so, where accuracy and revisons come in,,,  time = Money right...

I would ask your VAR for a very specfic demo and a trial liscense and give it a whirl for 30 days

[DavidChadwick]

Nathan,

I had a quick look through our published case studies and did not see any specific savings metrics for using the wire harness design capabilities - I think this is mostly because a lot of manufacturers forget to do a before and after performance analysis when they invest in a software solution - even when this would help them a lot the next time they go to the boss to ask for an investment!

You can do a search on the Solid Edge case studies web page for case studies that inlude references to "electrical" or "routing" for example: 

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/success/plm-case-studies/solid-edge.shtml?q=ro...

- then you can see the type of benfits these users are claiming - but they tend to be statements like "faster" and "we only needed to create one prototype"

Hope this helps...

Dave