Capital Configuration Optimizer - Harness Level Optimization > Harness Level Optimization Tool Concepts

Giveaway

Giveaway is a set of content (wires, connectors, bundles, etc.) that an engineer places on harness levels (harnesses) that only sometimes need it in order to reduce the number of levels. For example, if you have a harness that has fog lamps and one that does not, you can choose to give away fog lamps on all vehicles and eliminate the level without fog lamps.

The disadvantage is that the piece cost goes up (and the weight of the vehicles that do not actually order fog lamps), but the advantage is that you keep the number of levels down, which reduces the complexity management costs.

When defining the Optimized Complexity for a harness you can either:

Manually specify giveaway options and variants.
Have the system automatically calculate which options and variants to give away in order to have the optimal harness complexity.

In the automatic process, you define an upper limit of harness levels and can exclude specific options and variants from being given away as well as define conditions under which an option can be given away. The system calculates the optimized complexity (giveaway) within these restrictions.

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Harness Level Optimization Tool Concepts