Harness Studio Advanced provides integrated Expert System for checking complex cable harnesses on compliance with arbitrary electrical, mechanical, and economical rules.

The underlying Expert System language CLIPS is both very flexible and fast. Powerful calculations can be done directly on arbitrary data objects using the large amount of provided operations of the Expert System module. Usage of Expert System functionality is very comfortable due to the sophisticated pre and post processing functions. Similar to the natural language IF-THEN rules can be formulated to be applied to cable harnesses.

The Expert System mod ule brings cable harness CAD into a completely new area. Rule definition language is extremely flexible and gives access to all cable harness objects and most properties. Applying hundreds of rules on very large harness data sets is only an issue of some seconds.