Harness assembly line balancing

A wire harness and processing device technology, applied in the field of electronic design automation, can solve problems such as manufacturing bottlenecks

Pending Publication Date: 2022-01-21
SIEMENS IND SOFTWARE GMBH
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As manufacturers receive changes to the harness design or add new harness variants to the production line, the wire balancing process is iterative and often becomes a manufacturing bottleneck

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[0015] Illustrative Operating Environment

[0016] Execution of various electronic design automation processes according to various embodiments may be implemented using computer-executable software instructions executed by one or more programmable computing devices. Since these embodiments may be implemented using software instructions, the components and operations of a general-purpose programmable computer system that may utilize various embodiments will first be described. Furthermore, due to the complexity of some electronic design automation processes and the sheer scale of many circuit designs, various electronic design automation tools are configured to operate on computer systems capable of running multiple processing threads simultaneously.

[0017] A computing device, such as a programmable computer, can implement the various examples by executing software instructions. Correspondingly, figure 1 An illustrative example of computing device 101 is shown. As can be s...

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This application discloses a computing system implementing a line balancing tool to generate a structured bill of materials for a wire harness based on a harness design and available fabrication processes. The computing system can decompose the structured bill of materials into tasks and assign the tasks to workstations in a production line configured to manufacture the wire harness. The computing system can determine dependencies between a plurality of the tasks and verify the tasks assigned to the workstation conform to the dependencies between the plurality of the tasks. The dependencies can indicate an order for performance of the operations associated with the tasks. The computing system can identify unassigned tasks capable of assignment to one or more of the workstations and determine which of the workstations the unassigned assembly tasks, if assigned, would conform with the dependencies between the plurality of the assembly tasks.

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[0001] Related applications [0002] This patent application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 821,942, filed March 21, 2019, which is incorporated herein by reference. technical field [0003] The present application relates generally to electronic design automation, and more particularly to wire harness assembly line balancing. Background technique [0004] Modern manufacturing of wire harnesses is often performed in a series of steps rather than as a single operation from a set of basic components. For example, the manufacture of wire harnesses may include components such as connectors, wires, tape, tubes, etc., which may be manufactured in a variety of different ways into one or more subassemblies. These subassemblies can then be combined together, sometimes with additional components, to form additional subassemblies. This process of constructing subassemblies from other subassemblies and / or components may continue until the harness is constr...

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IPC IPC(8): G05B19/418G06Q10/06
CPCG05B19/41865G06Q10/06311G05B2219/31053G05B2219/31056G05B2219/31063G05B2219/32056G05B2219/39167G05B2219/31052G06Q10/06316G06Q10/0875G06Q50/04
Inventor V·马杜库里J-M·伊冯A·T·库珀
Owner SIEMENS IND SOFTWARE GMBH
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