Wire Harness Design

A harness design is the best way to plan your electronics or electromechanical systems. These harnesses bundle a ton of wires together and map out their route to make sure your components are correctly connected together.

In this guide, we’ll explain why it’s so hard to design a harness, the complexities involved, what Creo Schematic is, and why CAD/CAM Services is the best choice for your next harness design.

We expedite every harness design by using Creo Schematic, but what is it? Creo Schematic is a built-in tool within the CAD program PTC Creo. Creo Schematic is really good at two things: 2D designs, and laying out a system.

In this case, we use Creo Schematic to lay out the full system of wiring needed for your project, and subsequently put together your harness design. It offers automatic wire routing which takes into account wire gauge, how many wires are running, and minimum bend radii across the board.

In addition, we can use a pre-made library of parts to make sure the right wire dimensions are used.

In our experience, using Creo Schematic for harness designs is the quickest and most accurate way to put together wiring runs for your entire mechanism.

If you’ve tried to design a harness in the past, you already know how complicated it can be. It seems so simple: just run some wires from this board over to those sensors, but it never is. Routing cabling manually in CAD is a nightmare, and validating that the design actually works is difficult to do — sometimes you won’t know if your design is okay until everything is built and you go to integrate components. At that point, it’s too late.

Another major issue is knowing how to physically locate each component. Putting a sensor too close to a thermal source or liquids will ruin your design. It takes a trained eye to know where each part should be, which directly impacts how the harness is laid out.

It’s also worth noting that designing a harness isn’t something you can pick up quickly and execute correctly on your first attempt. It takes a lot of trial and error, and a lot of time to know how to correctly design a harness.

The good news? Our team at CAD/CAM Services not only has the experience, but we also have the software to help us create multiple harnesses and validate the designs before anything is built. Through Creo Schematic, we can expedite the project and build in a lot of extra confidence.

We’ve been helping companies like yours for over 35 years, and we have skilled harness designers on-staff to make every project look easy.

At CAD/CAM Services, we offer comprehensive harness design services. If you simply provide us a layout for your components, we’ll handle every other aspect of the harness design. This is great news for design teams who aren’t comfortable designing a harness, engineers who are buried under other work, or a manager who wants to save money on their harness design.

The solution is CAD/CAM Services. With us, you’ll unlock:

• Faster Results. We have nearly 100 engineers and drafters working around the clock. That means much faster results than your in-house engineers or other outsourced engineers can match.
• Better Accuracy and Fewer Errors. We use Creo Schematic and our rich background in harness design to offer better accuracy and fewer errors for you to deal with. This means less time and money wasted during the design and integration of your harnesses.
• Cost Savings on Each Design. We pride ourselves on being the less expensive option, especially when it comes to harness design. We can create designs at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time.
• Full-Service Harness Design Services. We offer full-scale harness design services, which take all the stress off of your plate. You don’t have to worry about anything as long as our engineers are on your team, helping with your harness designs.

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The entire process is streamlined, thanks to our 35+ years of working on complicated projects. We learned exactly how to create accurate, high-quality harness designs without wasting any of your time.

We can join your weekly update meetings or just call you whenever we have updates. We’re here to be out of the way and fit perfectly into your existing workflows.

When you choose us, we’ll start with a quick consultation. During this time, you can explain your electromechanical system and tell us what you’re looking for. We’ll spend time explaining specifically how we can help.

When you choose CAD/CAM Services, you are leveraging a team of industry experts. As mentioned, we’ve created countless harness designs for a number of companies, from small electronics shops to massive government defense projects.

With us, you don’t have to worry about the major learning curve associated with harness design. Instead, lean on our engineers who have the expertise to exceed your expectations and deliver harness designs that work perfectly.

In addition, you won’t have to spend the time or money training your team how to use Creo Schematic. This program is counter-intuitive in a lot of ways, and it’s not comparable to a typical CAD program. It can easily take months to get a strong grasp of all the nuances within Creo Schematic, and most of our clients don’t have that kind of time to waste.

Instead of trying to DIY your harness design, you can allow our team at CAD/CAM Services to save you time, reduce overall errors, and ultimately save you money. We are here to help so your engineers can focus on other aspects of the overall design — let our guys handle the harness design.

It’s really easy to get started with CAD/CAM Services. Get a free, personalized quote, or reach out for a quick consultation to better understand our harness design services.

So many companies have chosen CAD/CAM Services for our professional harness design services. We utilize Creo Schematic to deliver the best possible results without wasting your time, and without sacrificing on quality. Choosing us will free up your engineers, avoid costly learning curves, and take a major part of the design off your plate.

Reach out to us today to get started, and learn how CAD/CAM Services can transform all of your design and CAD tasks.