Mentor Graphics Wire Harness Design Solution Allows Vansco to Lower Costs and Improve Design Quality.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2003 Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation today announced that the Wire Harness Technology (WHT WHT White WHT Web Hosting Talk (forum) WHT Whatever Happened To WHT Withholding Tax WHT Walsh-Hadamard Transform WHT William Howard Taft (27th US president) WHT Weapon Handling Test ) division of Vansco, a supplier of complex wire harnesses for the transportation industry, has adopted the Mentor Graphics(R) Capital Harness Systems(TM) (CHS (Cylinder Head Sector) An earlier method of addressing a hard disk by referencing all three physical elements of the drive. It was superseded by logical block addressing (see LBA). ) family of products for the design, engineering and manufacturing of electrical wire harnesses. By implementing the CHS flow, Vansco has been able to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its processes; drastically minimizing production errors, lowering training requirements, and reducing the time required throughout the entire process. Vansco supplies wire harnesses to manufacturers of large transportation and heavy construction equipment. Designs for its transportation customers include buses with more than 100 harnesses per vehicle and as many as 400 circuits per harness. After an extensive review of available 3D and 2D systems, Vansco selected CHS for the ease-of-use and fast implementation allowed by its standards-based structure. "We wanted a system that was easy to use and was specifically designed for the wire harness industry. That's why we chose Mentor Graphics," said Mike Adam Michael B. Adam, ONL, LL.D. (hon.) (born June 3, 1981) is a Canadian curler. He was born in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador), and currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. , Operations Manager See datacenter manager. , of Vansco's WHT division. "The clarity and comprehensiveness of the information produced by the Capital Formboard product enabled Vansco to significantly improve the quality and efficiency of the shop floor," said Bob Dann, WHT Manufacturing Services Manager. About Capital Harness Systems CHS is a complete, end-to-end tool set for complex wire harness creation, with tools to automate the design, analysis and manufacture. The Capital Manager(TM) relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. is at the heart of CHS, storing and managing all design data. CHS applications write to and access data directly from this common repository. The CHS family addresses the issues facing the automotive and aerospace industries today, providing a complete flow of tools to handle the complexity more efficiently. Built on a component-based data model and electrical database, CHS facilitates information sharing See data conferencing. throughout the enterprise and its entire supply chain. About Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $600 million and employs approximately 3,500 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon Wilsonville is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 13,991 at the 2000 census, and as of 2005 was estimated to be 16,510.[1] Geography Wilsonville is located at (45.306805, -122. 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. 95131-2314. World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com. Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark and Capital Harness Systems and Capital Manager are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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