EPLAN: The Gateway to Greater Efficiency

The world of design and manufacturing of enclosures and switchgears is driven by tight deadlines and pricing while dealing with high fixed costs for facilities, equipment and wages. High level of customization, quick turnaround, high quality products and matching documentation are typical customer expectations – and all at a low cost! Small lot sizes and one-offs are more common than ever, and these type of applications pose a great challenge when efficiency is paramount. To achieve such high levels of efficiency for projects of various sizes, consistency and compatibility of data and systems are a must throughout the entire process: from engineering, material ordering and logistics, production and assembly, to setup and site commissioning.

Data consistency and centralized management, interdisciplinary alignment of development process, reduced time-to-market, and efficient cost control are the key benefits of EPLAN, the advanced engineering design tool.

From electrical design, mechanical mounting layout (2D and 3D) to production, assembly and commissioning, EPLAN provides data across all disciplines.

With manufacturers having production facilities throughout the world, it is critical to standardize production and plan uniformly worldwide while accounting for local standards. For smooth, trouble-free plant operation consistent, up-to-date documentation can be crucial.

EPLAN meets these requirements by ensuring optimal integration in existing system landscape through the ERP/PDM Integration Suite, hence, creating a uniform basis for the entire process chain.

EPLAN strikes the right balance between time, cost and quality by providing standard blocks, minimized manual engineering work, interfaces to ERP, PDM, PLM and CMMS for continuous and consistent data exchange, flexible standards, and reduction of multiple data entries through integration of mechanical and electrical engineering.

Large, complex installations and complicated processes requiring large amounts of data are typical to the oil & gas industry. These processes require an extensive number of instruments to control and monitor plant operation. Further, data quality and consistency are paramount for efficient plant operation hence the high demand for advanced engineering tools and distributed control systems.

EPLAN provides a seamless organization-wide workflow through ERP and PDM systems interfaces and process automation systems, multilingual documentation, interdisciplinary software (fluid and electrical engineering, PLC programming, 3D wire harnesses), thus offering customers a competitive advantage.

EPLAN provides unmatched productivity gains through offering integrated plant management system (SCADA/SQL), real-time documentation, redlining, error-free and flexible designs at any stage of production.

For keeping up with the increased demand due to rapid population expansion and for guaranteeing continuous supply, water and wastewater industry is in need of new strategies and technical innovations. High-tech solutions are now integral part of the industry with system automation playing a pivotal role in modern infrastructure. For ease of introduction of new technologies, standardization, minimized downtimes, and effective coordination of the entire process are a must.

EPLAN Platform provides one integrated interface for interactive and error-free design of such critical systems by connecting fluid power, electrical design, process instrumentation, and control engineering.

It offers interdisciplinary solutions and automation for reducing development costs, standardization for minimized coordination efforts and increased quality, complete engineering documentation, automatic reports updates for as-built documentation and PDF redlining for clean and consistent tracking of changes during various stages.

Producers and suppliers in the Food & Beverage Industry are in a constant search for new solutions to efficiently meet market demands. Faced with complex manufacturing and production processes, players in this industry are engineering and managing a variety of highly integrated and automated machines, which are required to work together flawlessly to achieve the goal of reducing costs and time-to-market.

EPLAN provides the required level of information consistency, multidisciplinary and parallel work for efficient design and smooth integration and operation of all machines and systems while minimizing coordination time and cost. Data consistency across the manufacturer is achieved by connecting engineering to PDM and commercial systems.

Comprehensive integration into EPLAN Platform allows for increased productivity in process engineering, time savings, and minimizing errors through the use of central database, automatic reporting, and more efficient commissioning based on consistent and fluid engineering and production processes.

Energy sector is governed by a broad range of national and international laws and standards making it one of the most heavily regulated markets in the world. Players in this industry are facing many challenges such as meeting standards, load distribution optimization and climate protection targets, which is being the subject to a wide range of complex requirements.

To address all these stringent issues, laying out a solid foundation through consistent plant planning, control and process automation and error-free system documentation are key elements to long-term success. Effective cross-disciplinary work and interface to ERP and PDM systems allow for seamless work-flow across the manufacturer.

EPLAN offers reduction of development time thus, shorter time-to-market, standard-compliant representation of primary and secondary devices for increased manageability and transparency, intelligent documentation for minimized downtimes and simplified maintenance, up-to-date documentation throughout plant life-cycle, and high level of components re-usability through standardized device technology.