March 11, 2012 – PA, USA As part of it's continued growth as a leading provider of the E³.Series tool set, CAETEK Inc has opened a second office in Pennsylvania. The new office is located in Pittsburgh, a site specifically chosen to be able to provide some of it's largest customers with a regional center offering high quality sales, support and training.

CAETEK's solid growth has enabled the company to extend it's expertise to many SolidWorks vendors looking for support with the powerful E³.Wireworks suite of applications which CAETEK has been delivering for a number of years. With a customer base that extends across many different business types and sizes, CAETEK has proven itself a reliable specialist able to deliver integrated systems at all business levels. With years of experience providing the E³.Series suite of solutions the company has the expertise to plan, customize and deliver large implementations which include custom scripts and applications to facilitate bespoke business processes.

CAETEK E³.Series Technical Director Paul Harvell says “It seems a long time since we sold the first E³.Series Multi-User environment to Pierce Manufacturing in 2005. Since then we have seen the products grow and become more easy to use, delivering more outputs and checking features that we really couldn’t imagine back then. Our new office in Pittsburgh marks a new phase of our growth and a renewed commitment to our customers. We are able to draw on more resources to support our increasing customer base and offer new opportunities for on-site training on the Western side of Pennsylvania. Our expansion plans are aggressive and reflect our confidence in the E³.Series tool set." To reinforce this CAETEK has already announced plans to open another office in the US at the end of 2012.

February 7, 2012 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA Zuken today announced the release of a new version of its E³.WireWorks software – E³.WireWorks Unified – which is now a full part of Zuken’s complete E³.series solution.

E³.WireWorks Unified now uses native E³.series files and provides users with access to modules that were previously only available in E³.series. E³.WireWorks users join Zuken’s E³.series global license community of more than 25,000 users. E³.WireWorks is the E³.series edition of Zuken’s complete solution for schematic, cable, panel and fluid systems design, specially configured for seamless flow with SolidWorks®.

Expanded links to SolidWorks

Closer ties to SolidWorks include SolidWorks Enterprise PDM integration for bill of material management, completing the existing design workflow and lifecycle control capabilities. Additionally, fluid schematics created in E³.WireWorks can now be imported to SolidWorks via the P&ID import utility found in routing.

Navigation has been improved through more intuitive menus to achieve reduced click rates, plus a fresher user interface.

Building on pedigree

This new version of E³.WireWorks includes the significant time saving and efficiency developments incorporated into the E³.series 2011 release, such as:

• Advanced variant management in E³.panel to create different variant panel layouts within the same design.
• Improved connector handling with functions such as supporting bulkhead connectors, connectors with pins within pins, and connectors with several plug sides, and automatic connector pin terminal and wire seal selection.
• Simplified signal management by classifying signals into groups, allowing users to connect signals with different names to a common point in the design.

This new version of E³.WireWorks includes the significant time saving and efficiency developments incorporated into the E³.series 2011 release, such as:

Expanded module support improves productivity

As part of the full E³.series suite, E³.WireWorks users can now add any of the modules within the E³.series tool chest. These include:

• E³.topology – for topology and functional design creation; offering detailed early planning and design leading to a reduction in design time and iterations.
• E³.RevisionManagement – compare, report and track the design of wiring, harnesses, cable assemblies and control panels, verifying compliance with industry standards.
• Select Additional Parts utility – a free tool allowing designs that need additional parts (often non-drawn items such as screws and fixings) to be brought into the E³.WireWorks project through a selection dialog box.

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New CAD Software for Electrical and Fluid Design Flow

June 1, 2010 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken has introduced E³.Functional Design, a new product that extends the electrical and fluid E³.series design flow by enabling engineers to capture initial product design structure at a functional level. This reduces design effort in the very early stages of product development by allowing engineers to specify, at the functional level, a product’s electrical and fluid systems and then use these as the foundation for creating detailed schematic/wiring and fluid design diagrams.

E³.Functional Design captures the initial design information at the beginning of a project to describe the functions and communication channels between the individual modules. It allows the engineer to refine and add sub-functions to these modules as planning progresses - preparing the project for creation of individual schematic/wiring and fluid diagrams.

E³.Functional Design is more than just a design capture tool; it also has intelligent functionality to speed up the design process. It automatically connects all components with the same signal and displays this mapping in connection and device properties. Functional units can be moved between modules at anytime with the affected signals being updated on the connect points immediately. This enables the designer to optimize the module configuration and establish the best functional load through the communication channels. When the desired functional units are correctly assigned, the modules are replaced by standard components from the library. These standard components include the additional information needed to complete the project, such as connector, mating connector, and connector pin terminals. Additionally, they inherit the already defined connection information from the functional design. This enables the schematic/wiring and fluid diagrams to be created quickly and easily.

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New Features for E3 Series Fluid 2010

When Using Models inside E3 Series Fluid you now have the ability to see if a hose/tube is compatible with another component pin. The diameter can also be defined for the component pins of fluid models and for hoses/tubes in the Database. It is also possible, to simultaneously assign a fluid Device Designation. Another great feature is the option to view hose/tube documentation in both the Pneumatic Drawing and the Mechanical Layout as illustrated. This also allows the user to simply click on the actual drawing layout and perform calculations on hose/tube lengths.

Scope of Project

Testing machine with electrical and pneumatic components in the schematic AND in the panel layout

New Functionality

Assign Step Models to Models
– Display STEP Model in Project Window of DBE

New Functionality

Display Parameters for Panel Connections