Cost Driver Extraction
Your wire harness design tool must output some or all of the following tables in .csv format. aPriori extracts cost driver information about a wire harness from these tables, which serve as input to the aPriori Transformation Utility (see the next section).
Table Name
Comments
Contains
BOM
Required.
(Should not be confused with the BOM generated by the transformation utility for the aPriori BOM loader.)
An itemized list and quantity for each component that appears in the wire harness. Required columns are:
Part Number (internal)
Quantity
Wire Table (aka Circuit Data Table, Wire Cut List)
Optional
Information about all of the wires in the wire harness including:
Wire ID number (reference to schematic)
Length
Gauge
Color
BUNDLE
Optional
Provides cost granularity
Information about all of the bundles in the wire harness, such as:
Bundle ID number (reference to schematic)
Bundle diameter
Bundle length
Dressing material part number
SPLICE
Optional
Provides cost granularity
Information about all of the splices in the wire harness, such as:
Splice ID Number (reference to schematic)
Involved wire information
Insulation part number
Insulation length
TWIST
Optional
Provides cost granularity
Information about all of the twists in the wire harness, such as:
Twist ID number (reference to schematic)
Involved wire IDs
The information from the tables above contain almost all of the information that aPriori needs to develop a complete cost.