Cutting costs with COTS

Streamlining design and manufacturing processes for accelerated wire harness development for off-highway equipment.

Manufacturers of off-highway equipment are faced with the same challenges as companies in other sectors-reducing design and manufacturing costs, reducing lead times, and improving product quality. Today, many of these companies create their electrical and wire harness designs using basic drawing packages. Off-highway vehicle manufacturers can gain significant productivity and quality improvements in their electrical design process by using dedicated electrical design software tools.

COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) electrical and wire harness design software, such as the VeSys range from Mentor Graphics, provides designers of specialty vehicles and their wire harness suppliers with a way to make the electrical design process more efficient. Common tasks such as circuit design, harness layout, and manufacturing data generation can all be improved.