Standalone Software – Work Smarter with the CableEye®

Standalone Software – Work Smarter with the CableEye®

CAMI Research, Testing

Standalone Software License – Work Smarter

When you invest in a CableEye® cable test system, you’re getting a powerful combination of hardware and software that makes cable testing efficient, fast, and accurate; however, under normal conditions, the CableEye software only runs when the tester is physically connected to the computer.

But what if your engineers, designers, production planners, or support team members, etc., need access to the software, without tying up the tester?

That’s where the CableEye Standalone License comes in.

What Is the Standalone License?

The Standalone License enables you to install and run the CableEye application software on additional computers without requiring the tester to be connected. This makes it ideal for tasks that don’t require physical testing, such as:

  • Managing your cable database

  • Printing reports and labels

  • Designing new cables and connectors

  • Editing test macros

  • Logging and documentation work

When you order this license, you’ll receive an installation drive that includes an activation key for standalone operation. Plug it in, install the software, and start using it.

Why Use the Standalone License?

Here’s how your team can benefit:

✅ Work Independently from the Test Bench

Your engineers and support staff can use the software from their desks, freeing up the tester for production use.

✅ Design Without Delays

Create and edit cable assemblies, connectors, macros, and more—without interrupting ongoing tests on the production floor.

✅ Improve Workflow Efficiency

Allow different departments (design, QA, documentation) to access CableEye tools at the same time, each from their own workstation.

✅ Quick and Simple Setup

The included installation drive contains everything needed to activate and install the software on additional machines, making deployment fast and straightforward.

✅ Built and supplied as a Site Licence tool

The StandAlone Software tool is part of a suite of software tools that may be used under CAMI Research’s Site Licence scheme.

What is a Site Licence?

A site licence for software is a type of software licence that allows an organisation to install and use the software on multiple computers within a specific location or organisation, rather than purchasing a separate licence for each individual user or machine.

Key Features of a Site Licence:

  • ✅ Covers Multiple Installations: A single site licence typically allows unlimited (or a fixed number of) installations across all computers within a defined site, such as an office, building, or campus.
  • ✅ Simplifies Licence Management: Instead of tracking individual licences for each user or device, you manage one central licence for the entire site.
  • ✅ Cost-Effective: Especially for larger teams or departments, site licences often reduce the per-user cost compared to buying individual licences.

Examples:

  1. If your technical department has 20 engineers using CableEye® software, a site licence could allow all 20 of them to use the software across multiple computers, without needing to purchase 20 separate standalone licences.
  2. You are in a meeting and need to access productivity reports to present to your colleagues, such as yield, etc.
cableeye reporting - example report
reporting - sample report 01
cableeye report and label design

Real-World Applications

The Standalone License is ideal for:

  • Design Teams building and modifying cable layouts

  • Documentation Teams generating reports and labels

  • Quality Assurance reviewing logs and preparing test macros

  • IT or Admin Staff managing databases or installing on a central server for wider access

  • Production Planners creating and accessing yield, fault, and throughput reporting (with the custom report generator)

Expand Your CableEye Capability

Whether you’re supporting a growing team or simply want to make better use of your tester hardware, the Standalone License helps you and your team get more done—without getting in the way of production.

Not all cable testers are the same.

As you can see, there’s more to cable testing than shorts and opens!

Related Content

CableEye Reporting – Cimbian UK

 

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.

Ensuring Cable Safety with Insulation Withstand Testing: Why Precision Matters

Ensuring Cable Safety with Insulation Withstand Testing: Why Precision Matters

CAMI Research, News, Testing

Ensuring Cable Safety with Insulation Withstand Testing: Why Precision Matters

When it comes to cable assemblies, safety and reliability are non-negotiable. One of the most critical tests performed to ensure these qualities is the Insulation Withstand Test, also known as Dielectric Breakdown Testing, high-voltage withstand testing, or Isolation Testing. This high-voltage test verifies that the insulation within a cable assembly can withstand a specified voltage without allowing excessive current to flow, confirming that the product is safe for use in the field… or is it?

What is an Insulation Withstand Voltage Test?

Typically conducted during end-of-line testing, this process involves applying a known high voltage and monitoring the resulting current. If the current remains below a preset threshold, the assembly passes the test; however, not all test systems are created equal—and that’s where the CableEye® HVX Series stands out.

picture of hipot hvx tester
cableeye hvx hipot tester

Going Beyond the Basics with CableEye®

While many HiPot testers can perform a basic insulation withstand test, the CableEye HVX Series offers advanced features that ensure a more accurate, repeatable, and reliable result. For instance, when high voltage is applied to a cable, the inherent capacitance can cause the power supply to trip prematurely. To counter this, CableEye allows users to precisely program both the voltage ramp-up and ramp-down rates in 1V increments. This fine control enables the system to accommodate the charging characteristics of the cable under test, ensuring the full test voltage is applied without triggering a fault.

cableeye hvx hipot rise-time screenshot

Intelligent Current Monitoring

Another key advantage of the CableEye system is its programmable current range, from 0.05mA to 1.5mA. This ensures that the assembly is protected throughout the test, including during ramp-up and ramp-down phases. The system continuously monitors current levels, preventing damage while maintaining test integrity.

Additionally, CableEye allows for a programmable trip current—a brief allowance for over-current conditions caused by voltage ringing when the maximum test voltage is reached. This feature ensures that minor, short-lived current spikes don’t result in a failed test or reduced voltage application.

Confidence in Every Test

Once the maximum voltage is applied and stabilised, the system enters a programmable dwell time, during which the high voltage is maintained before ramping down. This ensures the insulation is tested under sustained stress, providing a more thorough validation.

All of these programmable parameters—ramp rates, current limits, trip thresholds, and dwell times—combine to deliver a test that is not only precise but also repeatable and trustworthy. With CableEye, manufacturers can ship their cable assemblies with full confidence that the test specifications were met—not compromised.

screenshot of hipot test settings from cableeye hvx
hi-pot testing - control panel
motorsport harnesses - hvx printed test report with insulation withstand testing

More than just HiPot

The CableEye® HVX series of testers are based upon the well-established low voltage M3Z and M4 CableEye® testers from CAMI Research. What this means is that all products are tested for the low-voltage parameters including Continuity, Resistance, Diodes. Only after the assembly under test passes these tests will the CableEye® HVX system enter HiPot test mode.

A single test station for a one-stop test solution.

A well-considered investment

By investing in precision tools for insulation withstand testing, companies signal a clear commitment to excellence. It’s not merely about passing a test; it’s about protecting your brand, your clients, and ultimately, the end-users who depend on your products every day. In this context, precision isn’t just important—it’s indispensable.

Not All Cable Testers Are the Same

In a world where product safety and compliance are paramount, having the right tools makes all the difference. The CableEye® HVX Series doesn’t just perform insulation withstand testing—it elevates it, ensuring your assemblies meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and reliability.

Related Content

https://cimbian.co.uk/know-what-you-are-testing/

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.

How to make easy CableEye backups

How to make easy CableEye backups

Wire & Cable Equipment, CAMI Research, News, Testing

Easy CableEye backups

Working with any programmable equipment really needs a way of keeping data secure. This page will show you how to make easy CableEye backups for your CableEye M2/M3/HVX tester from CAMI Research.

CableEye includes a built-in Backup and Restore function that has a number of uses:

  1. to make secure regular backups to avoid data loss
  2. to make a secure backup prior to upgrading any software
  3. to copy the correct folder structure between computers
  4. to send essential data to us for support

In the following video we are creating a data file for backups, but the process is the same for support requests or transferring data to another machine.

Of course, as CableEye is a PC based system, it is just as easy for you to send your backups to a network drive that is also included in your Company’s IT backup process, thereby creating another layer of security for your investment.

How frequently you make backups depends on how often you make changes in your software; however, as the process is so simple you should look to do this at least once per week. Perhaps at the close of business on Friday; however, our recommendation is daily.

Making life easy for our customers is a cornerstone of what we do at Cimbian UK.

For more information on CableEye or on how we can provide you with support just drop us a line by returning the form below:

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.

PinMap puts meaning into your cable test results

PinMap puts meaning into your cable test results

Testing, CAMI Research

Using CableEye PinMap makes test results relevant.

A cable tester typically has a bank of interface pins that may be labelled 1 to xxxx or A:1 – D:64 etc which is great if you are only testing those cables that have the same reference. But, if your cables have any other form of pin reference your operator is left with no alternative but to use a lookup table; a slow and error-prone method, even on a good day. Enter PinMap!

With CableEye things are very different.

Through our Connector Editor, you can easily create complex, custom connectors from photographs, scans, PDFs, or even draw something yourself. Once done you then switch to PinMap.

PinMap is a fast and simple way of creating an internal lookup table that ‘Maps’ the logical pin names of your connector (ie J1:A, J1:B etc.) to the physical pins of the tester (1,2,3, etc.). This lookup reference table, or ‘PinMap’, is then used in all reporting, be it on-screen or printed.

Finally, your test results actually relate directly to your connectors on your cable or harness assembly.

CableEye’s PinMap, from CAMI Research, enables you to enter data directly into the connector pin-table or by very simply ‘scanning’ the pins into place, as this video demonstrates.

It is really this simple and this quick!

We have customers with hundreds of custom connectors, all mapped and made relevant to their operators, and customers, in this way.

For more information or the loan of a demo system, get in contact with us.

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.

Generate test reports quickly and easily with CableEye

Generate test reports quickly and easily with CableEye

Wire & Cable Equipment, CAMI Research, Harness Testing, News, Testing

[boomdevs_toc]

In these days of traceability the ability to generate test reports is essential, but how easy can it be?

With a manual test using a buzzer, bulb or semaphore, generating test reports is also manual, generally involving a clipboard and a pen. Manual tests are normally restricted to ‘GO NOGO’ testing only unless a fault is suspected. What this means is that a positive connection from end-to-end marks a pass; however, it does not test for stray connections on other pins/cores in the cable. So an open circuit is a NOGO, and a short circuit is a GO. The potential, here, for allowing ‘False Accepts’ is huge.

Wiring mistakes, tin whiskers, faulty materials can all lead to shorts within the cable and are unlikely to be found. Overall, Manual testing is far from desirable, particularly if having to test AND generate test reports at the same time.

So, we come to ‘system’ testing of cables. Again, there are some products that will test GO NOGO on individual cores, albeit simultaneously. Aside from speed this kind of tester is no better than manual testing and is best avoided. The report may be generated by a simple ticket printer or the ubiquitous clipboard and pen.

Let’s now get a computer involved.

A computer will switch test points much faster and much more reliably than manual testing and can, therefore, test for connections that should NOT be present. Really good computer-based cable testers will also learn the connections (and resistances) from a known-good cable so there is no real programming involved.

Obviously, once we involve a computer we can generate test reports… or can we?

With an embedded computer this can often be a time-consuming task, particularly if it uses an operating system where printer drivers are not readily available.

Enter CableEye, from CAMI Research!

CableEye is Windows PC based where the ever-increasing power and speed of PCs can, and does, positively affect the overall performance of a test station. CableEye will generate test reports and print to just about any printer that has a Windows driver and will print to label printers for labels or A4 printers for generating test reports.

This video will demonstrate the ease and speed of loading a cable, testing a cable, getting the result and generating test reports:

animated gif showing how to generate test reports

Now THAT is cable testing…

For more information or the loan of a demo system, get in contact with us.

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.

Generate test reports quickly and easily with CableEye

I need a cable harness tester, CableEye does both.

Harness Testing, CAMI Research, Testing

I need a cable harness tester,  not a cable tester!

During a recent discussion with a customer, he declared that he started out looking for a cable harness tester but was put-off by the price and complexity so he decided to opt for a cable tester to handle the ‘simple’ cables.

As the discussion moved ahead we went through some of the hundreds of applications currently running on CAMI Research CableEye systems around the world when the penny dropped for him… CableEye IS a cable harness tester!

CableEye also self-learns, tests, logs the test result data, and generates a test result record.

customer specific interface harness tester

He laid one of his cable harnesses on the table. the cable harness, which had seven connectors sections, was from a “mission-critical” project, where ‘near-enough’ was not ‘good enough’. Three connectors could clearly be seen as ‘one end’ of the harness whilst the other four were along the rest of the cable harness. This was, simply, no problem for CableEye.

As soon as the connectors had been selected/created in the PC’s library and added to a CableEye ‘fixture‘ it was a simple case of learning the cable harness, checking the learn against the design drawing, and saving. CableEye was now ready to test these harnesses. Development time around 10 minutes… test time, less than three seconds, including generating a PDF report!

cable harnes tester report

It is the power of the PC-based architecture that enables CableEye to be so versatile. Capturing continuity is one thing, using the captured results in a meaningful and useful way takes a PC and very special software.

FAQ

What is cable harness tester?

A cable harness tester is a precision electronic instrument that will verify that a cable or wiring harness is connected correctly between the different connectors fitted. For example, CableEye is an automated tester that will also learn the correct connections from a known-good cable or wiring harness.

What is the difference between a cable and a harness?

A cable is typically made ‘end-to-end’. It may have multiple connectors on either end but don’t, generally split-out to additional connectors. a wire harness, on the other hand, may have one or multiple connectors at one end and may split out across several connectors along its length

How is testing a cable harness different from testing a cable?

The principle difference is in the software. Testing a harness requires advanced algorithms, such as in CableEye, to make sense of the interconnections between the terminal connectors. Most cheap cable testers struggle with this.

If you found this page interesting please share it with your friends and colleagues.