Solving the biggest problems faced by Electrical Designers #1
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Wasting time on mundane tasks – designing an electrical system involves two types of thinking:
- Using your skills and knowledge to configure the system to fulfil the required functions
- Mindlessly processing many tedious repeated tasks essential to the design.
As an engineer your rewards and job satisfaction come from the type a) activities, devising and configuring the design to create a machine or control system which fulfils the functional brief.
If you are using an unsuitable design solution you will be fed up with having to wade through the type b) activities, typically including wire and device numbering, which can often take longer than the system configuration itself.
Every minute spent on the tedious tasks is time which could be spent configuring your next project. You did not spend years studying so that you could spend hours each day numbering wires and devices. Truly professional electrical CAD software will automate these repetitive and tedious tasks and release you, the engineer, to start working on your next project sooner. Time-saving for some tasks can be in excess of 20:1 and the overall design process is likely to be reduced in time by at least 50%. The time saving can be even greater when making small updates to existing projects, where minor amends can lead to wholesale renumbering.
If you are using a specialised electrical design solution then you may have already have solved this problem. If not, take a look at DesignSpark Electrical, the powerful yet free electrical CAD software brought to you by RS Components and Allied Electronics.
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