Semi-Automatic Test Bench for a Harness Line
Replacing a manual continuity check with a fixture that verifies termination, routing and polarity in one pass.
- Challenge
- Operators were checking harnesses by hand against a paper chart. Intermittent faults escaped to the customer line, and the check took long enough to be the bottleneck of the cell.
- Approach
- A purpose-built connector interface with a guided probe sequence, an editable test program per harness variant, and automatic logging of results against the barcode on the work order.
- Outcome
- The check moved from a manual chart to a recorded pass/fail result per harness, and the cell's inspection step stopped being the constraint on output.