Mentor Graphics Announces Capital Harness MPM

By DE Editors

Mentor Graphics has announced availability of Capital Harness MPM, a software application in the Capital tool suite that helps wire harness manufacturers cut production costs. Addressing manufacturing process management, Capital Harness MPM systematically models harness designs against production capabilities to create structured bill-of-materials data. This data is typically used to drive enterprise resource management (ERP) systems.

Wire harness manufacturing is a logistically challenging, multi-stage process that is difficult to optimize, especially because designs change frequently and configuration complexity is high. By analyzing harness designs against factory capabilities, Capital Harness MPM helps identify what, where and how harnesses and their constituent sub-assemblies should be built. Manufacturing costs can be reduced by accurately reflecting optimized manufacturing patterns. In addition, Capital Harness MPM helps minimize inventory and obsolescence costs and achieve economies of scale by identifying sub-assemblies that are common across different harness designs. According to the company, the automation delivered also helps minimize manufacturing engineering errors and cycle times, and reduces staff training costs.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.