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We design, develop and support all the HarnWare, HarnVis and HarnConnect software for Tyco Electronics (formerly Raychem). HarnWare is a comprehensive electrical wiring harness design system used by over 2,000 engineers in more than 500 companies in 42 countries around the world.

HarnWare can suggest a wiring harness design sequence and help with many aspects of the design process including:

  • Part selection to ensure compatibility with mating parts and service conditions
  • Calculation of wire routes and lengths
  • Parts listing
  • Assembly time estimates
  • Determination of wire gauge and optimum lay of mixed diameter cables
  • "Virtual prototyping" automatically generated 3D models can highlight potential problems before production begins
  • Lay-up board design

In the article entitled 'Wiring Harness Design - Can a Computer Help?' in the August 1998 edition of 'Computing & Control Engineering Journal' Ken Wallington (who was then Tyco's Harness Design Systems Manager) described HarnWare and stated users of the system had reported benefits in four key areas:

  1. Selection of preferred parts to ensure best delivery and price.
  2. More detailed and accurate designs and better quality documentation.
  3. Faster designs and quotations, in some cases up to 20 times faster.
  4. Increased confidence that each part is compatible with the intended service conditions and with the mating parts.

Ken believes we've proved, even to the most sceptical harness designer, that computers can help produce better designs more quickly. This wiring harness design article is reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format (282 Kbytes 5 pages) with the kind permission of the Institution of Engineering and Technology www.theiet.org.

See the Tyco Electronics' www.harnware.com web site, the Tyco Electronics' press release and an advert from 2006 for further details on HarnWare.

          

Click the above thumbnail images to view two sample 3D wiring harness models from HarnVis and install the free OpenHSF viewer. The viewer install file is 1.6Mbytes but the two sample OpenHSF files containing the 3D models are less than 50 Kbytes each. Therefore, while it may take sometime to view the first OpenHSF file, other files can then be downloaded and viewed in less time than many simple Web pages.