A typical Porsche sports car contains more than 2,000 individual wires. If laid end to end, the wiring would stretch 2 to 3 kilometers. Designing such a complex wiring system would be challenge enough, but at Porsche, almost no harness design in series production matches another one.
“Here, we talk about customer-specific wire harnesses, and that is a challenge,” relates Bernhard Metzenbauer, subject specialist for electrical systems, electronics and hardware integration at Porsche’s research and development center in Weissach, Germany.