A peg apparatus is described that is suitable for use with an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of an assembled wire harness.

A wire harness assembly system for assembling a wire harness includes a table top supported above a floor along a Y axis, with the table top having a support surface having a perimeter and extending in an X axis and a Z axis. A plurality of guides is mounted relative to the table top in known locations across the support surface wherein each of the guides has a unique known location along the X and Z axes, and wherein the plurality of guides defines a plurality of wire paths for harness wires to form a variety of harnesses. The system further includes a robot supported adjacent the table top, with the robot having a robotic arm configured to engage a harness wire and to lay the harness wire in a selected wire path of the plurality of wire paths.

Virtually-integrated wire harness design and automated production systems and methods that achieve completely integrated data management by automatically producing scripts to dynamically propagate production commands and data to various subsystems for handling assembling necessary circuits and wire harness layout boards to produce corresponding batches of wire harnesses while script-based methods control configuring, testing, and using wire harness layout boards, and assembling, testing, reworking, and delivering wire harnesses. As derived from CAD-created specifications, the production system uses a programmable, automated wire C&C center prepares individual wire circuits. While automatic wire indexing, sorting, and delivery systems transfer circuits into, and retrieve circuits from, a transportable programmable, automated, indexed storage system equipped with an array of individual circuit tubes, and a script-controlled assembly system sends visual, aural, and other cues to help an assembler populate and configure a wire harness layout board with connector blocks and turn posts, and guides the assembler in building, testing, reworking, and delivering the corresponding batch of wire harnesses.

A device for producing a cable harness includes a presentation plate having a front side on which cables of the cable harness can be arranged, and handling elements for handling the cables of the cable harness. The handling elements are magnetically attached to the presentation plate. The device has a pneumatic system that creates an air cushion between the handling elements and the presentation plate formed as a perforated plate. The handling elements each have a front-side handling part and a rear-side moving part positioned on opposite sides of the presentation plate.

A combined fixture for automatic production of a micro coaxial cable harness is provided, including a fixing mold arranged on a workbench, a fixing assembly positioned and arranged on the fixing mold and a positioning and cutting assembly. The fixing assembly includes a first fixing piece and a second fixing piece arranged in up-and-down correspondence, and the first fixing piece is provided with multiple first cable harness grooves arranged side by side for fixing a coaxial cable harness. The positioning and cutting assembly includes two copper sheet welding pads symmetrically arranged on the fixing mold, the two copper sheet welding pads are respectively arranged on two sides of the fixing assembly, and each of the copper sheet welding pads is provided with second cable harness grooves corresponding to the first cable harness grooves.

The operations from a formation of a branch shape to a shape determination by a tape winding are automatically performed. An apparatus for manufacturing wire harness includes an under-pulling tape winding portion of a fixed tape winding mechanism and a moving tape winding mechanism (preceding tape winding portion) configured to, among a plurality of connectors and electric wires prepared for manufacturing a wire harness, perform tape winding of the electric wires that are connected to the same connector; and the moving tape winding mechanism (following tape winding portion) configured to perform the tape winding with respect to portions connected to the different connectors and to which the tape winding by the preceding tape winding portion have already been performed so as to form a branch shape.

There are provided an arrangement jig for a wire harness and a system for part manufacturing including: a plurality of blocks having a connector receiving unit that receives connectors of a wire harness; and a retaining unit that defines and retains a mutual positional relation between the plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks have placement forms that are selectively deformable therebetween, the placement forms including: a developed form in which the connector receiving unit corresponds to a position of the connectors in an actual arrangement shape of the wire harness; and a folded form in which the plurality of blocks are tightly assembled for a storage. The retaining unit is provided to retain the mutual positional relation between the plurality of blocks when the placement form of the plurality of blocks is in the developed form.

System for automated manufacturing of a predetermined cable harness from a plurality of individual components for cable harnesses has at least one handling device for laying the cable harness on a cable forming board, at least one control device for regulating and/or controlling the at least one handling device and at least one data storage,

The data storage contains individual component data of the plurality of individual components

The control device determines a cable harness trajectory based on the predetermined cable harness and the individual components required for said cable harness based on the individual component data

The handling device can be regulated and/or controlled by the control device for laying the predetermined cable harness in accordance with the determined cable harness trajectory and the required individual components.

A method of forming a wire trap on a surface of a product for holding a wire is provided. The method comprises forming a wire trap by deposition onto the surface of the product such that the wire trap defines a channel for holding the wire. The channel comprises a channel opening and channel walls defining a channel width that varies as a function of channel depth from the channel opening to a channel base of the channel, the channel opening having an opening width that is smaller than a maximum channel width such that, when received in the wire trap, a wire having a diameter larger than the opening width can be held in the channel by an interference fit. A product comprising a wire trap is also provided.

A support device configured to support at least one set of wire harness elements during the manufacture of a wire harness includes a frame-like structure having outer frame segments and at least one central open window formed therebetween. Some outer frame segments include fixtures for securing the support device to an underlying support pallet configured to support connectors into which wire segments can be plugged in a wire segment plugging area. The support device lies in a plane parallel to a plane of the pallet. At least one outer frame segment includes bearing elements for supporting the wire harness elements after processing in a splicing or welding area.