I started my career in aviation in 1991 as an avionics technician. Like many of you, I spent many, many hours laying on my back under instrument panels trying to trace a circuit, only to find that it had been cut, taped up, and left in a bundle. Almost every aircraft we worked on, from the lowly Piper Tomahawk to the highly modified Twin Commander, had one thing in common; they lacked readable, accurate schematic diagrams of the wiring. A well-documented aircraft may have had factory schematics that had been red-lined by hand to show modifications made over the years. Sometimes we had a fresh drawing of a subsystem, but rarely did we have a complete set of electrical schematic that was current.

A lot has changed in the last 30 years. Today your shop has access to a plethora of software tools to make your job easier. Spreadsheets help you to create BOMs and estimate costs. Databases help you track inventory. And mechanical CAD tools like Panel Planner let you iterate your instrument panel designs and communicate them to the customer before pushing them to the CNC mill for fabrication. But in the electrical domain, most of the shops I’ve surveyed have had to make do with Visio or AutoCAD to design, update, and document electrical and avionics systems.

That’s why I’m excited to announce Wiring Planner, a new software tool that we’ve developed for avionics professionals like you. A computer-aided design tool built specifically to work in the electrical domain. A tool that we have designed to save your shop significant time, effort, and rework, and to make electrical design fun again.

Contact us to find out how Wiring Planner can help you work more efficiently!