I work in New Zealand, and have been given the wonderful task of updating every electrical schematic in our machine building company. We are looking at buying a Premium licence so that we can use the routing electrical addin. My electrical experience is reasonably limited, however I am aware of the necessity to have a good label system for large looms. Could some please direct me toward a good robust system for cable identification as well as hints to look out for in SW. I am a competent Sw user (I think).
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Not sure exactly what you mean by the first part of the question, and why it would be different in NZ than in any other part of the world but:
I've seen some pretty good heated arguments about this, somewhat similar to the argument/debate on whether the numbers in a part numbering system should have significance or not. There are good arguments for both sides, if your company part numbering system has significance to the numbers it will be easy to make the argument your cabling should too. If the numbers don't have significance, it will be harder to justify the cable identification system giving significance to the connection scheme.
Not sure how it works in the rest of the world, but here in the US the first thing is to understand the difference between a plug and a jack.
The plug is the moveable end that is given a P designation and plugs into a jack, which is the unmovable end and given a J designation.
The J (jack) is usually the part of the connection on a bulkhead, panel, printed circuit board, or something similar.
The P (plug) is usually the connector on the end of a cable.
If you have two cable ends plugging into one another they are both plugs.
You can also have two identical parts and in one application it can be a jack, in the other a plug. An example of this is a video card plugging into a computer mother board. The connector on the video card that plugs into the mother board is a plug. That same type of connector may be used on the mother board to connect with something else. In that case the connector is a jack. You cannot have two jacks connecting to one another, a J connecting to another J.
Before I ramble further, I'll pause for someone else add their input on the topic, and see if this is even what you were looking for.