Key Capabilities

CableBuilder is completely focused on the cable industry and has been designed to help you:

• Efficiently produce high quality quotations
• Improve existing designs and create new designs easily
• Minimize efforts that are required to keep the existing designs up to date and consistent
• Distribute product and process information inside and outside the company
• Reduce the total costs of ownership for the cable design tool

Find out here how the capabilities of Cable Builder help you achieve these goals.

Efficiently produce high quality quotations

With the powerful search capabilities in CableBuilder you can find a design based on the attributes of the cable, thus making sure that designs are reused whenever possible. Any change that is made is propagated throughout the design, to safeguard consistency in the designs and to secure the quality of the quotations. Combined with the on-line costing module, you are able to respond quickly to any customer demand.

CableBuilder offers wizard functionality that allows you to involve, for example, sales in the design process, which helps you to reduce errors and miscommunication. The project module in CableBuilder supports a structured follow up on outstanding quotations by capturing all communication with the customer.

As CableBuilder centralizes and formalises the design and quotation process, this will not only improve the quality of quotations, but also reduce the dependence on any single person.

Improve existing designs and create new designs easily

With CableBuilder you can create new designs quickly and easily, for example, by copying and changing an existing design, or by generating a design from a generic model (e.g. an IEC standard).

Full version control of the designs brings you traceability that is ISO9000 compliant.

The use of 'What-if' scenario's encourages design engineers to experiment with different options, thus finding the most cost-effective design.

Minimize efforts that are required to keep the existing designs up to date and consistent

The architecture of CableBuilder allows you to capture the production and design knowledge that resides in your company in a structured way. This ensures that the information is entered and maintained at the right level, reducing the costs of maintenance.

Furthermore CableBuilder detects obsolete designs automatically labels the designs with an 'out-of-date' indicator. The mass update facilities ensure that consistency in the designs is achieved at the lowest possible costs.

Distribute product and process information inside and outside the company

With CableBuilder you can store and maintain product and process information in a central repository. Depending on their roles, users have secured access to this information through a web browser.

CableBuilder is open to other systems to allow easy integration with, for example, your ERP backend. It can read the material and resource information from the ERP system to be used in the design and to feed the costing calculation. Once a design is approved it can be transferred to the ERP system to create items, routings, BOMs, etc.

The product information can be published to customers in different formats. For example you may wish to generate personalized catalogues for your customers to contain just the relevant cable types. Data sheets can be easily generated according to the customer’s requirements.

Reduce the total costs of ownership for the cable design tool

CableBuilder is a proven solution that is XML-based and adheres to public standards. This maximises the maintainability at the lowest cost. No in-house development and maintenance is required anymore.

Users interact with the system through their web browser; no client software needs to be installed. This further minimizes the costs of maintenance.

Trained users can maintain the data (formulae, matrices, rules) themselves in CableBuilder, eliminating involvement of IT staff or supplier.

CableBuilder will run on all operating systems that support JAVA and on all the mainstream databases (MS SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL).

Do you want to know what benefits CableBuilder can bring your company? Please contact us and we will discuss how CableBuilder fits in your organization.