PISD™ 2008
Product Overview
PISD™ is a Microsoft Windows based fibre optic harness simulation tool which will enable system design engineers to construct and test a fully functional harness assembly from specified components on installed data bases as well as support other company functions such as costing, purchasing and assembly.
PISD™ 2008 is the only dedicated fibre optic harness system design tool in the world. PISD™ will replace the existing manual design process, which is time consuming and complex, by providing cost savings in design time as well as real time to market. The product can provide a 60% saving in cost and time compared to existing manual techniques. The savings offered and the confidence the programme generates will enable engineers to explore and develop new fibre optic based solutions.
PISD™ works by raytracing the light (signal) through an optical fibre cable and specified components. Components and fibres are laid out at various points on the harness which is then modelled by the PISD™ software. This tells the design engineers whether signals are flowing through the harness and will identify any problem areas, it will then offer solutions to any problems and correct them allowing the signal flow to continue, resulting in a fully functional, acceptable design.
Driven by stringent aerospace design requirements the software has been designed around the need to model complex fibre optic systems and test the insertion losses associated with multimode Fibre Optic cable harnesses. The software can simulate sources with near end and far end field power distributions and straight, bent step-indexed and graded-index fibres. It can also model the shape of the light losses propagated by the fibre allowing optimisation of the fibre optic network on screen at the design phase.
The program will also generate all the required manufacturing details such as bills of materials for the purchasing department and assembly areas allowing the building, testing and installation of an optical fibre harness.
Our credentials
PISD™ has been developed and commercialised from well established processes and technology delivered by aerospace research projects such as LOADNet and the Fibre Optic Harness Study Group.
The LOADNet project included support from universities in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, as well as aerospace companies including Airbus, BAE Systems, EADS and Smiths Industries.
Now with the commercial backing and support of our experts, PISD™ makes it easier, quicker and cheaper than ever before for engineers to accurately design, install, test and build fibre optic cable harnesses for next generation aircraft.