Assembled Switchgear Designed by Computer I-Design to Application Specification

Abstract

Assembled switchgear customer-order development begins when the application is expressed in fundamental electrical units and the arrangement is defined. The basic description is then interpreted in manufacturing part numbers, and displayed on traditional requisition and drawing format. A computer program has been applied to this conversion for metalclad switchgear. In effect, designers are provided with a mechanized catalog-searching facility, and are relieved of some of the drafting, a handicraft wasteful in its consumption of creative hours.