E3.formboard
Wire Harness Manufacturing Design and Documentation Software
E3.formboard is fully integrated with E3.cable. (*E3.cable is required.)
E3.formboard is a complete solution for creating cable harness drawings for manufacturing.
- On any sheet size, one or more manufacturing drawings can be created.
- Automatic functionality makes the placement, arrangement, and dimensioning of the harness and its segments easier.
The logical interconnection data defined in E3.cable is used directly in E3.formboard, and any changes made in either module are automatically reflected.
E3.Formboard - Keay features.
- Optimize your formboard creation
"E3.formboard calculates the wire lengths and the outer diameter of the harness segments. Automatically creates optimized cable routing for you."
- Edit in one place, updated everywhere
"Due to E3.formboard's integration with E3.cable, any changes in either module are automatically reflected everywhere else."
- Complete documentation, fully automated
"Automatically creates tables of connectors that can be used for the manufacturing process, and graphically shows the size and position of conductors and connectors."
Companion software tool
Harness Builder for E3.series is an integrated module that is purpose-built for harness manufacturers.
It enables wire harness manufacturers Harness Builder for E3.series enables wire harness manufacturers to create accurate quotations and comprehensive manufacturing documents, and to drive wire preparation, assembly, and testing machines.
HarnessBuilder 2020 for E3.series : Custom BOM generation
HarnessBuilder 2020 for E3.series : Cut/Marking machine
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E3.formboard - Demo drawing
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Capabilities
- Manufacturing documentation creation
- Automatic calculation of wire lenghts and bundle diameters
- Dynamic connector tables
- Control and adjustment of wire lenghts
- Integrated schematic and formboard design
- Digital manufacturing
Manufacturing documentation creation
E3.formboard drawings provide a view of the cables and harnesses as defined in the schematic diagram.They comprise both electrical and non-electrical components including connector placement, wire segments, protective coverings, clips, labels etc.
Automatic calculation of wire lenghts and bundle diameters
Wire lengths are automatically determined and a packing algorithm calculates the outside diameter of the harness segments. To fit to paper size, harness branches can be rotated about any point and special print functionality allows individual sections to be reprinted
Dynamic connector tables
Configurable connector tables can be placed in the drawing to display pin, wire, cable, signal, gauge, color, and target information. These tables are dynamic, meaning that a wire can be added to a pin displayed in the table and connected to a pin in another table and Formboard will automatically route the wire from pin to pin through the harness segments.
Control and adjustment of wire lenghts
Harness segments can be highlighted when the length displayed on the sheet does not correspond to the manufacturing length defined for each segment. These ‘out-of-scale’ segments can be automatically adjusted to display the correct manufacturing length assigned to the segments of the harness.
Integrated schematic and formboard design
E3.formboard is fully integrated with E3.cable. The logical interconnection data defined in E3.cable is used directly in E3.formboard and any changes made in either module are automatically reflected in the other.
Digital manufacturing
Manufacturing data can be extracted from the design in the form of wire lists, which include route and length information. Modules interface E3.panel to manufacturing equipment such as Komax wire preparation machinery and Perforex drilling, punching and cutting tools.
