MEDEA™ – Your Partner in Expert Electrical Design


The MEDUSA ELECTRICAL APPLICATION, MEDEA, complements MEDUSA’s powerful mechanical design capabilities by offering a series of specialist electrical applications ideal for the design of machinery with high electrical content. MEDEA addresses the quality and consistency issues associated with the development of complex electrical systems, efficiently tackling design projects of any scale.

Product Overview
MEDEA draws together all phases of the electrical engineering design process as an integrated whole. From initial data input to final documentation for manufacture, MEDEA works hard to automate time-consuming and costly repetitive tasks through its complete data management service, freeing the designers' creativity. Increased productivity, quality and design consistency mean shorter lead times, significantly increasing competitiveness.

Features and Benefits
Comprehensive set of tools for selecting, connecting and editing cables – automatically or interactively establish wire assignments and add connectivity components
Automatic design integrity checking – ensure correlation between wiring assignments and schematics, reduce errors and save time, especially when updating and modifying existing drawings
Automatic alteration reporting to all project members – ensure design consistency
Simple symbol and micro circuit diagrams selection, loading, production and library customisation – save time, and ensure corporate and international standards compliance
Multiple catalogue definitions and single-source multi-language support – simplify design localisation
Automatic interactive cable and signal routing with auto update – optimise routings, increasing design and production efficiency
Easy material selection and compatability checking – rapidly select cost-effective materials according to electromechanical requirements
Automatic annotation of wiring connections – easily create and revise wiring diagrams
Clear wiring documentation – issue precise and reliable information for component fabricators; ensure error-free wiring in the field
Terminal Strip Editor – Create, name, select and sort terminal blocks, moving a range of blocks within a large terminal strip in a few seconds; update all references automatically (customisable)
Customisable materials database – Interactive entry of component data; or from ASCII files with full validation
Simple backup and archiving options for notebook and home users – gain flexibility for today's work-life balance
Multi-sheet plotting – plot sets of drawings in order and able to produce PDF and DXF format on demand for plotting
Easy company or project-specific customisations – MEDEA INTERFACE Procedures (MIP) allow users to write advanced customisations without specialist knowledge of the MEDEA database structure

MEDEA Modules
MEDEA CIRCUIT DESIGN
Build circuits using logical symbols of components
MEDEA Catalog
Work with actual physical items defined in the catalog. Choose appropriate functional items and MEDEA will match all characteristics, updating diagrams with pin names and performance data
MEDEA Layout
Design cabinets with 2 1/2D representation of components
MEDEA CABLING
Create, connect, and optionally detail cables on cabling diagrams
MEDEA System Administration
MEDEA PDF&DWG

Platforms Supported
Windows® 2000 (Service Pack 4) and XP Professional (Service Pack 2)

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