On automation along the automotive wire harness value chain

An ambitious reduction of wire harness design time and cost by at least 50% each can only be achieved by automation. In the ITEA2-project IDEaliSM, it was demonstrated that the automation of 3D wire harness generation can be achieved using graph-based design languages and the VEC (vehicle electrical container) as an open data standard for wire harnesses. All the required data and process steps for generating the wire harness are described, as well as a wire harness assembly simulation.Parts of the research (i.e. wire harness automation) leading to these results were performed within the European ITEA2 research project IDEaliSM (13040) as part of the EUREKA cluster program. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the consortium members for their support and contributions (see https://itea3.org/project/idealism.html for details). Parts of this project (same as above) are sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany. The H2020 CS2 project PHAROS leading to this application has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 865044