Cloudis Enhances CMPIC Cable Autorouting
 MANCHESTER,
UK, Dec 17, 2009 – As part of its ongoing collaboration with customers to
identify ways in which their cabling processes can be improved, Cloudis has
announced a new development which significantly reduces the time needed for
a cable route to be found, or problems to be identified, on the most complex
networks of cableways.
Ian Darbyshire, Technical Director at Cloudis, explains: "When the
network of cable trays, ladders, penetrations etc is created in the CAD
system and then imported to CMPIC, the completeness and accuracy of that
network is unknown. Consequently, for example, there may be gaps in the
network or there may be inconsistencies in the segregations allocated to the
network. Therefore when cables are submitted for routing there may be no
possible route for certain cables. Because of the complexity of some of the
networks we work with – up to 40,000 individual pieces of nodal network –
the time taken to not find a route was minutes rather than the seconds that
we were looking for. The enhancement that we have introduced scans the
network of trays, penetrations etc, and finds disconnected areas of the
network, between which it will be impossible to route a cable fully.
Simultaneously, the analysis simplifies the network by identifying any
dead-end branches. Having done the network analysis, deciding whether or not
a cable can be routed is virtually instantaneous. Avoiding dead-end branches
reduces the number of options for the autorouter, which in turn allows a
route to be found faster. As a by-product, the routing speed overall has
also been increased, although since we were only looking at a couple of
minutes for the most complex of routes and a few seconds for most, this was
not really an issue"
Ian Barnes, Sales and Commercial Director at Cloudis adds: "We have added
this enhancement to our suite of integration tools which we continue to
develop to help customers improve their cabling processes. Using our API and
XML data transfer capabilities, as part of one process in CMPIC, we can
import the cableways from CAD, check for breaks and inconsistencies, report
on these, then run the new enhancement to simplify the network, route the
cables, and report on cables where no route has been found. As this process
is run in CMPIC we are also looking for changes to the cableways which
affect existing cable routes, for example cable trays removed, cable trays
with modified lengths etc. CMPIC identifies these modifications and
(dependent on the status of the cables) automatically shortens or lengthens
the cables accordingly and also looks for alternative routes for any cables
whose routes have been broken because trays have been deleted."‘
About Cloudis Ltd.,
Cloudis Ltd., is registered in the UK and develops cable management and
routing solutions for companies in the power, shipbuilding, process and oil
and gas sectors.
For more information, visit www.cloudis.com
or call +441614356080.
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