EPLAN provides software and service solutions in the fields of electrical engineering, automation and Mechatronics engineering. We develop one of the world's leading design software solutions for machine, plant and panel builders.
In the entire control and switchgear engineering field integrated process quality improvements is needed. EPLAN provides 3D computer aided engineering and customized solutions for your electrical design projects.
EPLAN electrical engineering design software & services provides partners with efficiencies from concept planning, standardization and detail planning, to manufacturing integration for plant system manufacturers and supplier companies and even for plant system documentation.
Integrated control and technical designs and a powerful electrical computer aided design platform form the professional foundation for step-by-step automation of processes in engineering and in manufacturing.
The new EPLAN Data Portal: a win-win for manufacturers and users. With EPLAN Data Portal, you make your device data and component data accessible to a continually growing community of EPLAN users. Place your product catalogue in the cloud together with many other manufacturers so that engineers and designers around the world can access and utilize your electronic product catalogue for their electrical schematic drawings.
Whether for conventional or alternative energy sources, or for high-voltage, medium-voltage or low-voltage network grids: use EPLAN electrical engineering software for designing complex switchgear devices and systems and for your network designs.
Planning electrical engineering is a complex field of topics, particularly as several people are often working in various disciplines on the same project. Electrical engineering data must also be usable for other departments. At the same time, electrical engineering is always under time pressures, must deliver on time and always keep an eye on incurred costs. EPLAN offers you an integrated software solution for efficient electrical engineering.
Digitalization, standardization and automation are all trends that no industrial sector can evade right now. This also holds true for the maritime industry. Integrated electrical engineering design and powerful ECAD software from EPLAN can significantly advance automation at your company.
The SOFIA research aircraft has now been operating for 8 years, enabling close observation of space by recording infrared radiation. The complex electrical engineering of this unique telescope has so far been available only on paper and in the form of PDF documents. The team of engineers and technicians at the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) at the University of Stuttgart are now using an EPLAN solution, precisely tailored to the special requirements of fundamental astronomical research.
I'm a 35 year veteran of AutoCAD (started on 2.52). Just got back from the Automation Fair and took a look at the ePlan booth. I'm an end user in a manufacturing plant and I make 3 or 4 sets of schematics a year (100 pages or less each). I'm currently the only electrical engineer on staff and still just using a basic version of ACAD. The cost of ePlan is not an issue for us. The question is whether it's reasonable to expect a large increase in productivity in making the switch. Thanks for any detailed feedback you can give.
ETAP's electrical engineering software is the industry's most advanced and complete package of power system integration features. It works wonderfully for electrical power system model-driven design, real-time operation, and intelligent automation. Essential modeling tools make it simple to build, design, personalize, and control simulations of electrical systems. One-line diagrams and GIS views of AC and DC networks can be created with an unlimited number of buses and constituents.
For your convenience, the tool provides a large collection of electrical symbols that you can use in your own projects. The Symbol Builder allows you to instantly transform symbols or build custom components if an existing symbol doesn't do the job. In addition to saving time, the increased automation provided by this tool will also enable the automatic numbering of wires and the production of component identifiers. To streamline your electrical design process, you can try using Circuit Builder.
It's a sophisticated software ecosystem for electrical and fluid planning. Electrical and fluid planning, cable planning, wire harness, and cabinet layout are all simplified with E3.series. This allows for a more streamlined and precise design and production process. The object-oriented architecture allows for a unified and consistent design methodology, which speeds up development while simultaneously lowering the likelihood of mistakes and increasing product quality.
When coupled with EnergyPlus, Hevacomp's dynamic simulation allows for precise building analysis. Reduce time-consuming tasks like data re-entry by using Hevacomp's streamlined computation and construction simulation capabilities. Users are able to design and analyze electrical systems in buildings with the help of Hevacomp's Electrical Design Software. Easy-to-use, high-performance electrical system design tools are included in the Electrical Designer module.
All electrical engineering values can now be calculated instantly thanks to the platform's in-built database of over 7 million equations. Through the use of PowerCalc, one-line diagrams can be generated automatically at any point in the circuit design process. The diagram updates in real-time with data pulled directly from PowerCalc's database. Accurate findings are achieved by aggregating load from the circuit to the building's service door.
Electrical design software like SolidWorks Electrical Schematics simplifies wiring for complex electrical systems. Teams who work on the design of embedded electrical systems use this technology for cross-departmental collaboration. It offers a user-friendly interface and can automate difficult processes like terminal drawings and contact cross-referencing. Product development time is cut down significantly, and repetitive jobs like drawing out electrical diagrams are simplified.
Electrical circuits can be easily moved across projects because of the tree-like representation of the electrical network. There are several report types that contain calculations. To get an idea of how much the simulated electrical installation will set you back, you can generate a bill of quantities report based on a material list and prices set by the user. The electrical designer has access to a wide variety of safety features, wiring options, and finished circuits.
EPLAN Electric P8 supports your electrical controls design for machines and plants in a consistent, integrated and fast engineering system. The software supports a variety of engineering methods, from manual creation to standardised, template-based work. Once captured in the schematics, the project data forms the foundation for the automated creation of machine and plant documentation.
ePLAN - for over 20 years, the name has been synonymous with powerful CAE software which supports electrical engineering. Before the new CAE dimension - ePLAN Electric P8 - was introduced in 2006, which today represents the technology standard, users in electrical design worldwide worked with two different systems from ePLAN Software & Service.
AutoCAD Electrical is a familiar choice for most designers to utilize in the automation controls industry. However, EPLAN Electric is a computer-aided drafting program that has seen a steady increase in recent years as some US manufacturing leaders are mandating its use for electrical and controls.
We regularly have dozens of tier-two suppliers and systems integrators turn to us for help with EPLAN controls design. AMT has completed hundreds of electrical designs with this platform for our customers, each of these designs were unique to their project.
An EDZ file is a data archive used by EPLAN Electric P8, a program used to plan, document, and manage electrical control, fluid power, and control systems. It contains macros for part and part data such as control units, sensor modules and line modules.
This means that products such as sensors, motor protection switches, contactors and terminals are available to the electrical engineer for all electrical tasks. These can be imported very quickly into the Reuse Library. The products for creating circuit diagrams and control cabinet layouts are now available. In total, more than 300 manufacturers and thus more than 1,000,000 products are available to the electrical engineer.
You can find EPLAN Electric P8 compliant electrical CAD macro data for over 2,300 factory automation and power distribution products made by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on the EPLAN Data Portal. These include products within the product groups:
Farmington Hills, MI, September 13, 2007 EPLAN announced the latest release of its EPLAN Electric P8 software. Version 1.8 inproves the speed and flexibility for generating comprehensive wiring diagrams complete with all associated reports. EPLAN Electric P8 v1.8 will enable electrical designers to create and manage controls hardware schematics with greater speed, ease and accuracy than ever before. Commenting on the importance of this release, ARC Advisory Group Vice President Jim Caie says: "The additional features EPLAN has incorporated into their already leading edge EPLAN Electric P8 product will save users significant engineering time and help them generate even more robust designs."Users can now benefit from the following enhancements: Bi-directional in-place text editing between schematics and reportsEPLAN Electric P8 v1.8 includes a direct editing function allowing the users to edit properties such as device tags and function texts directly where they are displayed in the wiring diagrams without having to call up a device dialog box. Naturally, changes made using the in-place editing feature are automatically updated online wherever the same information is referenced in the project. And it gets even better: With EPLAN Electric P8 v1.8, modifications can also be executed in the overall project reports. For example, the user has the flexibility to modify the part number of a limit switch directly on the bill of materials or edit terminal numbers right on the terminal diagram. Once again, the software intuitively updates the new information in real time, thereby ensuring data accuracy and consistency throughout the entire project.PLC/bus topology managementEPLAN Electric P8 v1.8 features a completely revamped PLC/bus topology management capability for centrally processing the automation components of a project in a simple and organized fashion. It also allows for consistent electrical project data exchange with PLC programming software products.Project options technologyEspecially beneficial to machine builders who manufacture different versions of the same equipment, the Project Options module enables users to automatically generate complete project documentation for different product variants in a fraction of the time it would take to re-design or modify them. With this innovative technology, the user first defines the electrical schematics for different machine configurations (product variants). Then, to design a new machine or modify an existing one, he simply selects the option(s) for that product with a few mouse clicks in a central dialog box, and the system automatically displays (or removes) the associated schematic sections and corresponding data throughout the entire project. Project Options module is available as an add-on to the EPLAN Electric P8 Professional software. Other improvements contained in EPLAN Electric P8 v1.8 that simplify and accelerate the design and documentation of electrical wiring diagrams include the ability to redo or undo a series of actions with a single mouse click instead of one by one, freeze desired report pages to shield them from automatic updates, output projects to smart PDF in different languages, group connections for automatic numbering in a different format, effortlessly transfer the format and display settings of an object to other objects with the nifty copy-assign function and split dialog boxes horizontally or vertically for easier viewing and working. EPLAN Electric P8 v1.8 is available immediately from EPLAN Software & Services and its distributor partners. Current Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) customers will receive the new version 1.8 upgrade free of charge. About EPLAN Software & ServicesEPLAN Software & Services delivers a collection of fully integrated CAE products and services for efficient design of electrical, fluid power, instrumentation and process control systems and 2D/3D enclosures for a wide range of industries. Based in Monheim, Germany with its principle U.S. offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rittal, the world's largest manufacturer of electrical and electronic enclosures and packaging solutions for controls, automation and IT applications. Since its establishment in 1984, EPLANs global customer base has grown to 18,000 with more than 60,000 licenses installed in over 50 countries on six continents.
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