We can significantly reduce your costs and improve your product time to market.
With over 125 years combined engineering experience in diverse market sectors including Automotive (SV), Aerospace, Industrial and Finance, Virtual Interconnect personnel are accomplished design engineers with a background in harness manufacturing who specialise in EMC and dynamic harnessing solutions.
We exploit the benefits of 3D modelling, enabling the concurrent design of wire harnesses with major mechanical design tasks, reducing time to product and overall project costs. Published results* demonstrate 74% improvement in ECN handling and 24% on new product introduction. In a full 3D process, the virtual harness prototype is designed to update automatically as the mechanical design evolves, allowing us to work remote from our customer's premises. Iterations can be removed from the design cycle as the virtual harness eliminates the need for a physical prototype secure in the knowledge that the harness will fit first time, further reducing costs.
With automated reporting and parameter extraction direct from the virtual harness, the Product Data Set (PDS), is generated. This typically consists of a manufacturing ready loom drawing with a full scale 2D view of the virtual harness which can be updated and regenerated almost instantaneously. The PDS can be tailored for harness vendor manufacturing requirements and customised to facilitate direct data download to wire processing machines or automatic porting to the OEM's PDM system.
| PROBLEMS | SOLUTIONS |
|---|---|
| Start late in product development cycle | Concurrent with mechanical design |
| Long time to market | Reduced time to market |
| Error prone process | Associative process |
| Manual cut and trim process | Highly accurate parametric modelling |
| Duplicate data entry | No data entry repetition. |
| No re-use of knowledge | High re-use of knowledge |
| Long time to change | Reduced by average of 74% |
| Long time to manufacture | Manufactured direct from PDS |
| Repeated learning curve (tools) | Reduced software & hardware costs |
| Dependant on harness supplier | Vendor independence, build consistency |
Contact us now to find out about our contract design solutions.

