Case Study: Mecalac halves cable-harness development time and achieves right-first-time designs with Zuken E3.series

Mecalac (formerly Terex GB) cuts the time taken to develop right-first-time cable harnesses for its heavy plant vehicles

Mecalac, a maker of heavy plant vehicles, needed to speed up and error‑proof the development of complex 3D cable harnesses across multiple vehicle variants. To improve right‑first‑time design, collaboration and manufacturability, Mecalac adopted Zuken’s E3.series tools — notably E3.schematic, E3.formboard, E3.3D Routing Bridge and E3.eCheck — to manage electrical connectivity, 3D routing integration, 2D harness drawings and automated design checks.

Zuken’s solution linked electrical and mechanical workflows so connectivity defined in E3.schematic is imported into CAD via E3.3D Routing Bridge, routed in 3D, brought into E3.formboard for full‑scale harness drawings and verified with E3.eCheck. The result: at least a 50% reduction in overall harness development time (with the 2D harness drawing step now taking less than a quarter of the previous time), fewer iterations and human errors, automated connector/terminal selection, improved engineer collaboration, and faster, more reliable delivery of complex harnesses for the TLB990.

Mecalac

Carl Worthington

Principal Electrical Engineer