SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOA-BASED WIRE HARNESS DEVELOPMENT

• US 20100235157A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Limited (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Chandra, Basavaraju, Dharmale, Ankush, Vedula, Phanindranath, Mariappan, Gayathri, Nadimetla, Krishna Mohan Rao
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,189 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2113/16 Cables, cable trees or wire harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30

Abstract

A method for operating a service oriented architecture (SOA) based wire harness system, a corresponding system, and a machine readable medium. The method includes storing wire harness data in a wire harness data model in a wire harness data processing system, interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electronic computer aided design (ECAD) system and a mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) system through the SOA interface, and storing the wire harness data in the wire harness data model.

Claims

1. A method for operating a service oriented architecture (SOA) based wire harness system, comprising:

storing wire harness data in a wire harness data model in a wire harness data processing system, the wire harness data including a plurality of variants and options;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electronic computer aided design (ECAD) system, through an SOA interface of the wire harness data processing system;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with a mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) system through the SOA interface; and

storing the wire harness data in the wire harness data model.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactively communicating steps are repeated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactively communicating steps include transmitting and receiving portions of the wire harness data as needed by the ECAD system or the MCAD system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing step is performed at the same time as the interactively communicating steps.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the ECAD system, the MCAD system, and the wire harness data processing system are separate data processing systems communicating over a network.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.

8. A service oriented architecture (SOA) based wire harness data processing system comprising a processor and accessible memory, the wire harness data processing system particularly configured to perform the steps of:

storing wire harness data in a wire harness data model, the wire harness data including a plurality of variants and options;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electronic computer aided design (ECAD) system through an SOA interface;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with a mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) system through the SOA interface; and

storing the wire harness data in the wire harness data model.

9. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, further configured to perform the step of interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.

10. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, wherein the interactively communicating steps are repeated.

11. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, wherein the interactively communicating steps include transmitting and receiving portions of the wire harness data as needed by the ECAD system or the MCAD system.

12. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, wherein the storing step is performed at the same time as the interactively communicating steps.

13. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, wherein the ECAD system, and the MCAD system, and the wire harness data processing system are separate data processing systems communicating over a network.

14. The SOA based wire harness data processing system of claim 8, further configured to perform the step of interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.

15. A tangible machine-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a service oriented architecture (SOA) based wire harness data processing system to perform the steps of:

storing wire harness data in a wire harness data model, the wire harness data including a plurality of variants and options;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electronic computer aided design (ECAD) system, through an SOA interface;

interactively communicating the wire harness data with a mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) system through the SOA interface; and

storing the wire harness data in the wire harness data model.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the wire harness data processing system to perform the step of interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the interactively communicating steps are repeated.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the interactively communicating steps include transmitting and receiving portions of the wire harness data as needed by the ECAD system or the MCAD system.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the storing step is performed at the same time as the interactively communicating steps.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the ECAD system, the MCAD system, and the wire harness data processing system are separate data processing systems communicating over a network.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the wire harness data processing system to perform the step interactively communicating the wire harness data with an electrical simulation system through the SOA interface.