Capital Harness XC Launch

Introducing Capital® HarnessXC™
The Newest Member of the CHS Family
Embargoed Until October 16, 2006
Mentor Graphics
Integrated Electrical Systems Division
Agenda
Mentor Graphics automotive strategy update
CHS overview
Wire harness design process
New product: Capital HarnessXC
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Capital HarnessXC Launch, October 2006
Mentor is Uniquely Positioned
Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Interconnect Test, and
Design & Validation
Validation
System Design
and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration
& Physical
Architecture In-Vehicle
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Design & Validation
Validation
SystemVision &
Simulink Integration
System Design
and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration
& Physical
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Design & New Wins Validation
Validation
Including
SAIC in China
System Design
and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration
& Physical
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Design & Validation
Validation
First AUTOSAR
Compliant Network
Design Tool & COM Stack System Design
for CAN, LIN & Flexray and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration Protocol
& Physical
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Design &
Validation New Products 2006 Validation
Analysis & View

Generation Tools
System Design
and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration
& Physical
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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Functional
Modeling &
Harness Prototyping
Engineering &
Manufacture
Network Design,
Interconnect October 16, 2006 Test, and
Design & Validation
Validation Mentor Graphics Launches
Capital HarnessXC
System Design
and Mechatronics
Simulation
System Integration
& Physical
Software
Module Design
FPGA/PCB
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CHS Overview
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Capital Harness Systems (CHS)
■ What: integrated software suite for electrical system design
— Transportation platforms: automotive, aerospace, rail
■ Purpose: reduce design, manufacturing and warranty costs

associated with vehicle electrical systems
■ Covers extended flow
System Design System Integration Harness Engineering
Design Data Management
PLM
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CHS seeks to mend a largely broken flow
Very little automation support for the physical design process
• Integration of logical systems into the vehicle & the creation of the electrical design system
(EDS) is a largely manual task with little design automation, simulation or verification
• Work is drawing focused with significant waste of engineering talent
System tools are disparate Harness makers must accept

• Systems are created using data in many formats
many disconnected tools & • Harness design costs rise because
vendors: consolidation and of OEM mandates to respect multiple
efficient re-use is hard formats within design responses
System design System integration Harness engineering
Design data management
Electrical design data is not managed as a flow Service groups are underserved
• Various stages in the flow use disparate tools from multiple providers: • Today’s technology feeds service
severe disconnects appear at many key design interfaces groups poorly
• Data enrichment is captured and change managed in an ad-hoc way • New capabilities are need to integrate
views and diagnostics support
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CHS Products
Share Common Data Repository
Enterprise Access to
Designs and Design Data
Custom Reports and Diagram Synthesis
Enterprise Integration
Harness Manufacturing
Data Integration with Other Systems
Factory Utilization of Design Data
Logical Systems Design Harness Engineering

Connectivity of all Involved Design Completion,
Systems MBOM Creation and Costing
Physical Implementation Embedded Simulation and Analysis

Electrical Distribution System Decision Support, Design Validation
(Wiring) and Certification
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Capital HarnessXC ® ™
Wire Harness Design Process
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Wire Harness Engineering Process
■ Target: manufacturable
wire harness design
— Meets design requirements
— Fully specified (100% MBOM)
— Optimized and validated for
manufacture
— Documented
■ Wire harness = complex

assembly of components
— May be thousands of components
— May be hundreds of
configurations for each harness
(“derivatives”)
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Wire Harness Engineering Process
Inputs Engineering Outputs
c Wiring Data
c Engineering Drawings
d Mechanical Data
d Reports
• Design embellishment
• Automated engineering
e Configuration Data
Value-add
f Component Data e Feeds to Manufacturing, MRP …
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Productivity Issues
■ 20% of engineering time is spent originating designs

80% of engineering time is spent changing designs
■ 30% of engineering time is spent re-drawing diagrams

— Re-drawing in response to design change
— Re-drawing to different graphical format
“90% of our engineers’ time is spent doing

validation, not creative design work…”
Head of E / E design,
Automotive OEM
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Addressing Sources of
Harness Design Cost
Support for common tools & processes
Support for multi-source design change
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Capital HarnessXC ® ™
Introduction
Key Technologies Addressing Design Cost
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Capital HarnessXC
■ Capital HarnessXC: a new harness design tool that addresses
key industry issues
— Inefficient resource deployment & high IT costs caused by disparate
tools & processes
— Wasted time and design errors caused by poor management of design
change
■ Key new technologies

— Data-driven graphical styling
— Configurable design change rules
■ Rich design embellishment &

automated engineering
Style Management
■ Core CHS product Change Management
— Seamless integration with other
CHS design tools Harness Embellishment & Engineering
— Powerful data management &
CHS Infrastructure & Integration
integration infrastructure
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Capital HarnessXC
Look & feel is common
with other CHS applications
Project access Harness design

embellishment & engineering
environment
Intelligent objects
Graphical design window
+ tree browser (different
views of same data)
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Leveraging the Power of CHS
CHS Enterprise Deployment Applications

Component Library User Access Control Built in Reporting
Symbol Library Project Management
■ Capital HarnessXC ships with the applications

needed for enterprise deployment
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Leveraging the Power of CHS –
Multiple Inputs
■ Capital Logic / Capital Integrator: seamless integration
— Common object model and project management infrastructure
Capital Logic Capital Integrator Capital HarnessXC

Design data management
■ Neutral data input format examples:

— Harness XML and Project XML: native CHS formats
— Entry points for component library data, configuration logic …
— DSI: widely used, from previous Mentor Graphics product *
— KBL: emerging German harness design data standard *
* Available May 2007
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MCAD Input
■ Uses CHS plug-and-socket integration
architecture
— Flexible: easy to add new MCAD integrations
■ Standard integrations with CATIA V5,

CATIA V4, UGS NX and I-deas
■ 3D → 2D and change reconciliation

technologies
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Data Reporting
Generate
Generate
Formatted
Formatted
■ CHS is data-centric
Report
Report — All design data is stored in a relational database
■ Capital HarnessXC includes CHS flexible

data mining application
Query
— Queries can be configured
QueryData
Data and stored
Content
Content — Output formats can be styled
■ CHS reporting is exposed to other enterprise

Design Data
applications as a web service
Within Database — Or published as HTML, XML …
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Capital HarnessXC
key industry issues
tools & processes
change

— Data driven graphical styling

Style Management
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Design Embellishment
■ Embellishment: addition of design
details not defined elsewhere
— Examples: shield termination design; spot
tape placement
— Capital HarnessXC is a dedicated tool,
managing all common harness objects
■ Target: all design requirements

defined
— End product requirements defined, not every
part number
— Can act as part of contract OEM ↔ harness
supplier
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Automated Engineering
■ Engineering: automated
Design Requirements
design completion &
validation Data
Richness
— Examples: terminal, plug &
seal selection; wire length
calculation; design rule
checks
■ Capital HarnessXC re-uses

industry-leading Data
engineering algorithms Fully Engineered
Richness
Composite Design
from previous product
— Calculations are fully
composite (all harness
configuration derivatives
automatically managed from
parent)
— Data accessible by other
value-add CHS applications
Derivative 1 Derivative 2 Derivative 3 Derivative n
(example: Capital Costing)
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Capital HarnessXC
key industry issues
tools & processes
change


Style Management
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Drawing (Diagram) Style Management
■ Drawings are key artefacts
— Convey information via coded symbols, Style 1 Style 2 Style n
linestyles …
— Many different drawing styles used
■ Drawings rendered via style engine that

intelligently configures graphics Style Management
— Static styles (examples: font, text position, title
block) Style Engine
■ Content reflects design data
— Dynamic styles that depend on design data
Style 1
■ IF x THEN y Style 2 Style n
— Styles may be stored and re-applied
■ Many graphical formats supported from

standard tool
■ Design data is re-usable across multiple Design Data

Within Database
projects
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Capital HarnessXC
key industry issues
tools & processes
change


Style Management
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Design Cost – Change Management
■ Design change is a daily

event
■ Changes originate from any

of the design inputs, or from
embellishment
■ How to detect & control

design change while
preserving previous
value-add ?
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Change Policy Management
Change Policy Manager
Design Change
Resultant
Modified
Harness
Original Harness
■ Defines how application responds to design changes
■ Multiple change policies can be defined to support different flows
■ Can be controlled at object (wire, connector, bundle …) or attribute

(connector name, wire color …)
— Changes classified as Create / Update / Delete
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Summary
key industry issues
tools & processes
change


Style Management
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More Ways for Mentor to Make a Difference
Requirements Requirements
Definition Verification
Functional AUTOSAR
Design
Functional Functional
Design Verification
Architectural
Optimization
Architecture Architecture
Design Validation & Test
Electrical Network
Vehicle System System
Distribution Verification
Networks Design Integration & Test
System
Component Component
System Mechatronics
Design Test
Design Analysis
PCB Harness Software
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Introducing Capital® HarnessXC™

The Newest Member of the CHS Family

Embargoed Until October 16, 2006

Analysis & View

■ Purpose: reduce design, manufacturing and warranty costs

■ Covers extended flow

System Design System Integration Harness Engineering

Design Data Management

System tools are disparate Harness makers must accept

System design System integration Harness engineering

Design data management

Logical Systems Design Harness Engineering

Physical Implementation Embedded Simulation and Analysis

■ Wire harness = complex

f Component Data e Feeds to Manufacturing, MRP …

Capital HarnessXC Launch, October 2006

e Feeds to Manufacturing, MRP …

■ 20% of engineering time is spent originating designs

■ 30% of engineering time is spent re-drawing diagrams

“90% of our engineers’ time is spent doing

Support for multi-source design change

■ Key new technologies

■ Rich design embellishment &

Project access Harness design

CHS Enterprise Deployment Applications

Symbol Library Project Management

■ Capital HarnessXC ships with the applications

Capital Logic Capital Integrator Capital HarnessXC

■ Neutral data input format examples:

* Available May 2007

■ Standard integrations with CATIA V5,

■ 3D → 2D and change reconciliation

■ Capital HarnessXC includes CHS flexible

■ CHS reporting is exposed to other enterprise

■ Key new technologies

■ Rich design embellishment &

■ Target: all design requirements

■ Capital HarnessXC re-uses

■ Key new technologies

■ Rich design embellishment &

■ Drawings rendered via style engine that

■ Many graphical formats supported from

■ Design data is re-usable across multiple Design Data

■ Key new technologies

■ Rich design embellishment &

■ Design change is a daily

■ Changes originate from any

■ How to detect & control

■ Defines how application responds to design changes

■ Multiple change policies can be defined to support different flows

■ Can be controlled at object (wire, connector, bundle …) or attribute

■ Key new technologies

■ Rich design embellishment &

PCB Harness Software

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