Delphi's Brookhaven, MS, plant uses shop-floor vision measurement with integrated statistical process control to measure complex electrical housings.
But all of these devices require power, and power requires wiring. And with each new function, more wiring is needed. In the past, the architecture required a spaghetti-plate of wiring. And the individual wires, secured in solder, tended to fray, exposing bare metal through the insulation layers, sometimes causing shorts.