Cost and Weight Analysis Method for Cable Harness
2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
At present cable harness designers at SCANIA CV AB do not have a method to estimate cost and weight of a cable harness in design stages.
The same challenge occurs in cable harness designing industry.
Aim of this thesis is to develop a tool to estimate cost and weight of the cable harness during design stages.
A user-friendly tool which reads data from design output files, retrieves data from the company databases, performs required calculations and produces cost and weight of the cable harness.
The results were compared with physically measured cable harness and validated.
Most of the existing automobile cable harnesses today have copper as insulator.
To achieve continuous improvement in a trucks weight and cost, other alternatives of copper are to be investigated.
A possibility of using aluminium cables instead of copper cables has been investigated in this thesis project.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019.
Keywords [en]
Bill of material, Cable harness, Cost estimation, Excel tool, Weight estimation.
National Category
Mechanical Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-18544ISRN: BTH-AMT-EX--2019/D-07--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-18544DiVA, id: diva2:1343643
Subject / course
MT2525 Masters Thesis (120 credits) in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Structural Engineering
Educational program
MTAMT Master of Science Programme in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Structural Mechanics
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-08-192019-08-192019-08-19Bibliographically approved