BOEING HAS SELECTED Concentra's ICAD knowledge-based software to automate the design of electrical wire-harnesses for its commercial aircraft. The system will be used to help reduce installation time for aircraft wiring harnesses.
Burlington, Massachusetts-based Concentra plans to complete development of the Boeing electric-configuration system by the end of 1996. The system will allow electrical/electronic designers to automate a large portion of the wire-harness configuration, design and installation work on all Boeing airliners, the company says.
"Since electrical configuration is essentially a well-defined exercise, Concentra's knowledge-based system offered not only the fundamental synergy we are seeking, but also the power to manage complexity and variability in a highly efficient manner," says Larry Flesher, Boeing's programme manager for electrical/electronic preferred-process implementation.
Source: Flight International
