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Delvin Masilamani
Top 5 Reasons to use an Intelligent Electrical Design Tool
By Delvin Masilamani on May 21, 2012
In the design and manufacturing industries the electrical team is usually the last to get essential design tools. It seems that the belief is the electrical team will get the job done (kudos to us) and we most certainly get it done. But at what…
Managing complex components with multiple symbols and representations can be a challenging task in any design environment. The complexity is magnified in the hydro industry with devices like IEDs especially with design tools not really built with any electrical intelligence. E3 is right at home when it comes to these complex device structures. The ability to track every symbol and eliminate unwanted duplication helps reduce the errors and time consumed in correcting them by helping you do it right the first time. Here’s an example of an IED in E3 showing the simplicity of component management.
Automating your Connection Wiring Diagrams
By Delvin Masilamani on April 16, 2012Even though Elementary wiring Diagrams and Connection Wiring Diagrams share the electrical information in a project and they are just different views of the same device we spend double engineering time than we should. You can create the EWD and get CWD done automatically, that right there saves you all the time you spend in creating CWDs!! Food for thought :How long does it take to create CWDs? See how we are automating the CWD creation without any extra effort.
We are all so used to using keyboard shortcuts while working and designing. They do tend to increase productivity and ease of use in a design environment. Most options in E3 are readily available on right mouse click or on the toolbars, but if you are like…
5 Ways to Improve Power Distribution Design
By Delvin Masilamani on January 19, 2012The power generation and distribution industry is evolving to meet the current needs and they are focusing on smarter systems and smarter designs. Working with the industry giants has been a great experience, providing us with some insight as to how we can go about improving our design process. Asking the right questions increases the chances of getting the right answer. So, what are the right questions? 1. How can I achieve greater design efficiency? Having a list of components that you use regularly can go a long way You can test the performance of the components and introduce some standardization. This in turn not only reduces the cost of design but also gives you more consistency in terms of quality. 2. How can I…
Top 5 benefits of up front planning in electrical design
By Delvin Masilamani on December 22, 2011Not so long ago Steve Chidester from Zuken hs written a pretty good blog about the Top 5 benefits of up front planning in Electrical Design. I probably should have followed that advice with my holiday shopping but that is a story for some other day. In this computer world — actually forget computer in this TABLET world people are still making their electrical designs on paper or the basic old archaic cad systems. More and more people are realising though that it is very difficult to make design decisions worth more than my house based on guess work and incomplete data. Is there a way out ?? Yes there is — E3 a complete design environment from project concept, to planning and design. In Fact…You can…
MIL Spec Cable and Harness Management
By Delvin Masilamani on December 22, 2011Harness and Cable management is significant aspect of electrical design in the Military and Aerospace industry.Cables and Harnesses designs don’t have to be a super human task; with E3 you can create high quality cable and harness designs and documentation in a fraction of the time. Watch the video to find out how !!!
Making Connections and dealing with signals has always been a time consuming and tedious task. You put MIL-Spec standards into the mix and well you know the rest…. not anymore!! In E3 MIL Spec standards are a part of the software and working in it is a breeze. Automatic connections, signal tracking, connection reports with details connections, project wide consistent data you name it and we have it. The entire project is always up to date with all the information no matter how big or small the project and that without having to do anything. It is just E3!! Curious … I thought so .. here is a video showing you how you can make your designs easier and faster.
In the Military and Aerospace industry – Maintaining MIL-Spec design Standards can be very challenging and time consuming. Helping overcome these challenges is E3 – an industry leading MIL-Spec electrical design tool. A question I get a lot is “How can you make those tough to keep track of connectors and pins easier to deal with?” I thought I’d make a video to answer those questions. The out of the box library comes with a massive collection of MIL-Spec connectors and components and of course you can very quickly add new one’s. MIL Spec design is tricky and time consuming but with E3 you can save a lot of time, rework and by association a ton of money. Check out the video
E3 has a very good collection of components from different manufacturers and all the symbols and panel models are part of the components. Having said that what if you don’t want to work with components in the initial design stage? You can just as easily work with symbols. There is an extensive symbol library and you can find all the standard symbols segregated by their device type for easy navigation. You can also use the customizable filters to narrow down to your preferred set of symbols. When you are ready to assign components or part numbers to these symbols you can just right click on the symbol and in the device properties choose a component from the smart drop down list or open the library…
A lot of people out there have brought up this point that they spend some-times entire days numbering wires. Thankfully most of those people now have E3 WireWorks and now spend just about a second doing the same thing. There are quite a few archaic tools that make you number 1 wire at a time , keeping track of the last one and if you ever have to make changes to the drawing then it is back to square 1 or in this case wire number 1. With E3 WireWorks you can change all that change all that. Want to number the wires in a Sheet or May be the entire project based – 1 Click and Done. Do you follow different wire numbering conventions…
Electrical Design / Schematic Packages and Tools
By Delvin Masilamani on June 26, 2011I don’t want to be the evangelist in the cause for better CAD, at the same time I feel like may be if the information was available for one more person there is a good chance that we can become more efficient, save more money, decrease the production time, have better documentation, reduce design errors, help reduce wiring errors and troubleshooting times ….. I can probably list a lot more but I hope the point is getting across. These and the tons of other improvements mean that the designer has more time to do tasks and designs that could be the next hit product rather than yesterdays product. The Return on Investment is a key factor in most decisions that a company makes and moving…
How To Automate Your Electrical Schematics Part III – Single Click Schematics
By Delvin Masilamani on June 23, 2011E3 WireWorks has helped a lot of customers achieve desired levels of automation. The Simple out of the Box Functionality lets you get started with automating a big chunk of you design. These first steps have been discussed in the Part I and Part II of this automation series. Let look at how we can further automate the design using some of the other out of box functionality and also some customized solutions.
How to Automate Your Electrical Schematics Part II
By Delvin Masilamani on June 19, 2011Now that you have been introduced to Options and Variants, there are a few common questions that customers ask me all the time – Where can you apply it? How can you apply it? What happens to the Bill of Materials?
How to Automate Your Electrical Schematics – Part I
By Delvin Masilamani on April 24, 2011As promised in my previous post – (How to modularize/standardize your Electrical Design) here is how E3 WireWorks can help you make your designs configurable. E3 WireWorks has the feature my personal favorite — Options and Variants. Using this feature you can use radio buttons and check boxes to turn various parts of your design on and off. It is simple to use but has the power of Boolean expressions. So you can have a simple ‘AND / OR’ scenario or you can have complex Boolean expressions; the sky is the limit. Options and Variants can be set up like you want – Different Check boxes or Radio buttons for different parts or just 2 options that can do everything. The only constraint is your…