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Research: Assembly alternatives for wiring harnesses in vehicle dashboards.

The automotive industry has set the course for change. In the battle against global warming politicians and consumers are now demanding cars which use less fuel and emit significantly less CO2. In addition to research into a dependable alternative drive to the conventional Internal Combustion Engine, cost-saving potential is also in focus. One approach is the reduction of vehicle weight.

Today the most popular accessories in a new car are the electronic devices. However it is these vehicle instruments which drive up the cost and weight of a vehicle. Weight, because the conventional wiring harnesses have increased so much in volume and costs because automatic alignment and assembly of wiring harnesses based on existing assembly and connecting technologies is almost impossible.

Installing flexible flat conductor cable instead of standard wiring harnesses could reduce the cost and weight of the vehicle. Scientists at the Institute for Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg have based their research on this idea and also the automated handling and assembly of flexible flat cables. Their research has resulted in the development of a system prototype.

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