Create discipline-specific intelligent schematics for wiring, cabling, piping/tubing and HVAC systems and enable traceability throughout the end-to-end process

Systems Schematic Engineer is a named user role that covers the electrical engineering definition at schematic level, allowing creating net and wiring definition and diagrams. It is part of the complete integrated Electrical process and has tight synchronization capabilities with Electrical 3D Systems Designer role. Systems Schematic Engineer also includes reporting and traceability applications to provide powerful consistency review capabilities.

Short Description 

Create discipline-specific intelligent schematics for wiring, cabling, piping/tubing and HVAC systems and enable traceability throughout the end-to-end process: 

• Define and connect electrical and fluid systems schematics for a complete detailed system definition

• Capture attributes and technology automatically within the schematic

• Benefits from dedicated assistant interfaces to guide the user in the selection of the appropriate part number for cutting connectors and junction modules from libraries, in order to optimize the electrical design

• Ensure full control of the design with dedicated assistant interfaces to guide and ease the allocation of conductors to cavities in connectors and junction modules based on 3D topology

• Generate automatically generic Net and Wiring Diagrams based on connectivity definition in the database

• Analyze connectivity and quality of schematic design and ensure synchronization with the 3D design using business intelligence rules

• Review end-to-end traceability graphs in web application to control design consistency at a glance

• Produce detailed reports based on predefined templates

Systems Schematic Engineer

Systems Schematics Engineer role allows a complete integrated workflow that links Systems Architecture definitions through to detailed 3D Electrical & Fluidic systems design. Systems schematic designers can capture functional & logical architecture and connectivity using discipline specific extensions of the logical model such as harness, net, wire, connector, pipes, and equipment. The Systems Schematic Engineer role contributes to optimize the electrical & fluid systems design process through an efficient user interface and automation of common tasks.

Dedicated automatic processes covering all use cases:

• Creation of libraries and catalogs of components and symbols

• Easy creation of electrical definition trough electrical drawings

• Full set of authoring features to design detailed diagrams with title blocks, off-page referencing…

Automation of the Net to Wiring design enrichment:

• Wiring data generation based on net definition and signal routing in 3D architecture

• Automatic creation of derivation and interfaces devices

• Generation of traceability links between the different levels of design

Rich authoring assistance tool tailored for electrical engineering

• Part Number selection assistant for connectors and terminal blocks based on wire routes, sizes and segregations

• Dedicated pin allocation interface to provide full control on the position of wires in connectors and terminal with visual representation of these devices

Reporting and traceability review applications included

• Capacity to generate reports based on predefined templates

Web application allowing to review the complete data set linked from requirement to the manufacturing in a single source of the truth

Benefits

Assisted design with close integration to upstream and downstream design process

• Capture attributes and technology automatically within the schematic

  • CATIA covers the engineering process with a comprehensive data model and a semantic adapted for systems schematic designers. They can now model their electrical and fluidic systems interfaces within the context of CATIA Systems.

• Define and connect electrical and fluid systems schematics for a complete detailed system definition

  • The Systems Schematic Engineer role provides a comprehensive view of the 2D logical specifications that 3D designers have to implement in the physical design

• Analyze connectivity and quality of schematic design and ensure synchronization with the 3D design using business intelligence rules.

  • Company specific rules and standards can be created to quickly validate objects, without having to develop specific code. This also enables the detection of errors early in the design process.

Facilitating Collaboration

• Efficient project management through a multi-disciplinary and collaborative platform

• Perfect integration into the whole CATIA Electrical Process

• Integration with external tools and platforms for data continuity and safety

Highlights

• Enable Requirement, Functional, Logical and Physical design in CATIA.

  • The unified 3DEXPERIENCE platform data model with Requirement Functional, Logical and Physical structures (RFLP) allows applying a Systems Engineering approach for the complex product definition.

• Capture electrical and fluidic systems Architecture & connectivity.

  • The Systems Schematics Designer role brings the electrical and fluidic semantic to the logical data model, in order to define equipment with their electrical and fluidic interfaces, logical connectivity and content. Systems architects can capture logical architecture and connectivity with discipline specific extensions of the logical model such as piping/tubing lines, pipes/tubes, equipment, connectors, pin, nets, harnesses, wires and cables… The logical model enables to perform the early design of Logical architectures prior to the physical structure definition with the flexibility to investigate easily different solutions.

• Import/export electrical definition in ixfElec format (xml file).

  • Provides commands to import/Export an iXF definition of a system into/from CATIA Systems Logical Electrical Design. This format can also be interpreted by the Electrical Physical applications. Also at the import, CATIA Systems Logical Electrical Design manages the delta (modifications of already imported systems). For example if the XML file is modified the command is able to identify object s or attributes modifications, and allows the updated of an existing design without duplication for each design change.

• Route in CATIA Systems Logical 3D architecture.

  • With the product CATIA Systems Logical 3D architecture, electrical and fluidic components can be routed in the 3D pathway network in order to anticipate the systems integration issues such as routing length or systems compatibility rules. The routing allows checking maximum routing length for electrical connection; it is also possible to define rules in order to avoid routing together systems that are incompatible or redundant.

• Design check and automation with knowledgeware.

  • All the electrical objects are exposed in the knowledge application to perform rules for design automation and checks for design validation. Knowledgeware checks can be used to insure the electrical connectivity is properly defined (check all wires are connected at both ends, check compatibility between the wire and the connected pin). Electrical ports as Connectors or Pin can be created with knowledge rule to automate the design.

• ELOG Import/export.

  • The Import and/or export electrical systems to the Electrical Logical Editor through xml files which contain data defined in the standard ELOG format, enables the easy integration with other ECAD applications. It allows also the exchange of electrical systems logical definition with legacy systems using XML.

• Generate reports based on templates defined by Report Template Designers

• Ensure end-to-end holistic traceability & collaboration on system models