Case Study: Stone Aerospace achieves 12-week cable design reduction and $20,000 savings with Zuken's E³.series

Stone Aerospace saves 12 weeks in cabling design by implementing a digital design process

Stone Aerospace, a Texas-based developer of exploration AUVs, faced a tight schedule designing about 100 custom cables for its ARTEMIS AUV (used to test radar for NASA’s Europa mission). Their prior spreadsheet-and-drawing workflow created time-consuming consistency checks, errors and rework risk, so Stone Aerospace implemented Zuken’s E³.series to manage integrated logical and physical wiring and harness design.

With Zuken’s E³.series the team built a common parts library, enforced consistent nomenclature and ran automated connector/pin checks while viewing the craft’s electrical and physical design hierarchically. The result: design cycle time reduced by roughly 12 weeks, about $20,000 saved by eliminating cable rework and expedited costs, improved team collaboration and no cables required rework on ARTEMIS.

Stone Aerospace

John Harman

Electrical Engineer