Wire harness costing is spread across two process groups: Assembly and User Guided. Most costing factors are found in the Assembly Process Group. Only the purchase cost of the wire harness components, and the cost of cutting and stripping wires and dressing components are found in the User Guided Process Group. Many of the following processes allow for user overrides. See User Inputs on page 1438 for more information.

aPriori values and calculations have been compiled from various industrial sources and from time studies in industrial applications, to provide reasonable defaults.