Maritime
Your Engineering Standard for Shipbuilding and Port Facilities
From designing cruise ships, constructing yachts and even transport and special engineering: EPLAN offers shipyards and shipping companies worldwide support in integrating their engineering design processes into existing PDM system landscapes.
Digitalization, standardization and automation are all trends that no industry sector can currently escape. This also applies to the maritime industry and to the planning of equipment and systems. Integrated electrical CAD software and engineering design solutions can significantly advance automation in your company. EPLAN offers integrated computer aided design software and engineering services that provide you with effective ways to increase efficiency in all your processes, from preliminary planning to service and maintenance - in port safety as well as on the high seas.
Wire Design and Integrated System Landscapes
With EPLAN you can rely on an integrated database that goes far beyond the engineering processes and covers your entire value-added chain. From the design of cruise liners and the construction of yachts to transport and special-purpose machine engineering: EPLAN offers shipyards and shipping companies worldwide support in integrating their processes into existing PDM system landscapes. Companies that supply shipping companies can use EPLAN with 3D computer aided engineering to create consistent product documentation for the design of ship wiring and piping for devices and systems - from the initial design with P&ID plans and single-line wiring planning to the integration and visualization of the production status and wire routing.
Maritime 4.0: Standards for Shipbuilding
Standardization is the key to flexible automation concepts. Whether it is the Module Type Package (MTP) open data standard or our activities in the Marine Equipment and Systems working group - our goal is the fully automatic integration of plant systems and components into higher-level systems.
Marine Equipment and Systems
As a member of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), EPLAN participates in the working group on marine equipment and systems. Together with numerous companies from the automation industry, we work for you on the standardization of machine platform communication. Our goal is the fully automatic integration of plant systems and components into higher-level systems.
FAQs for continuous ship automation with MTP
As a member of the VDMA, EPLAN is committed to the establishment and dissemination of the MTP process engineering data standard in the maritime industry and shipbuilding. Read on where you can find background information and interesting facts.
EPLAN – Your Partner for Integrated Solutions
Our goal is maximum efficiency and interconnectivity across all engineering disciplines, and all systemic and geographic boundaries. Companies that want to help shape the digital transformation need allies. Working with Rittal, we automate and industrialise control and switchgear system engineering and manufacturing. Working with a variety of industrial partners, we design interfaces and standards for integrated, cross-project and cross-company processes. As a member of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), we are also active participants in working groups across various industries.
EPLAN – Your Partner for Integrated Solutions
Our goal is maximum efficiency and interconnectivity across all engineering disciplines, and all systemic and geographic boundaries. Companies that want to help shape the digital transformation need allies. Working with Rittal, we automate and industrialise control and switchgear system engineering and manufacturing. Working with a variety of industrial partners, we design interfaces and standards for integrated, cross-project and cross-company processes. As a member of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), we are also active participants in working groups across various industries.
Schematic Documentation for Port Facilities
Port and shipyard facilities often extend over huge areas - a challenge for both planning and maintenance and repair. This makes clear and detailed electrical schematic drawings and documentation all the more important. The availability of current revision levels and as-built documentation also plays an important role. Cloud-based systems can offer unique advantages here: Software-independent documentation is available to all participants in the cloud - simply accessed via a web browser. Access rights can of course be securely defined across projects. For example, service technicians can note changes in the circuit diagrams on a tablet computer on the port site. A few seconds later the circuit diagrams can be checked again in the
Control and Switchgear System Production
Start now with your end-to-end processes - with software solutions for the virtual design of your control cabinets in 3D and for fully automated cable processing and efficient wiring in production. Cloud-based maintenance scenarios open new horizons in service and maintenance. You too can benefit from the unique added value that EPLAN and Rittal can offer you together - with bundled know-how and optimally coordinated solutions.
Our Solutions for the Maritime Industry
The key to integrated process documentation lies in the all-encompassing database. EPLAN therefore offers you software solutions from a single source. Discover our EPLAN platform, perfectly tailored cloud services and seamless integration into cross-company and cross-process system landscapes.
Integrated Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering for designing plant systems, from a ship’s engine to entire offshore platforms: EPLAN Electric P8 is the ECAD tool of choice.
Integration into Your System Landscapes
We offer shipyards, shipping companies and port operators comprehensive PLM integrations – also into existing system landscapes.
For Your Fluid Power Designs
EPLAN offers a stand-alone solution for fluid-power and hydraulic engineering that meets all the established codes and common standards.
Virtual Panel Building in 3D
Control and switchgear system engineering for all application areas in maritime industries and beyond – EPLAN offers you all of this and more in 3D.
Share and comment your Schematic Projects
Keep an eye on your projects – no matter where you are. You can use the redlining function to keep all EPLAN Project documentation up to date in the cloud.
Integrated Digital Preplanning
EPLAN Preplanning enables you to save engineering data early in the preplanning process. This data can include actuators and sensors for a plant system, machine or building.
EPLAN in Practice
Find out how companies from the maritime sector use our solutions to meet the current technical and economic challenges and improve their company’s competitiveness.
Electrical engineering – digital is faster
Jeddah, Mecca, Benin City. These are some of the locations where employees of Hanseatic Power Solutions GmbH (HPS) have recently installed switchgear. Many plants are also on the high seas, i.e. on ships. Hanseatic Power Solutions (HPS) expects only 6-8 weeks for the design and construction of highly complex switchgear - and they are often faster. This is only possible if the electrical design is as consistent as possible and highly automated. In addition to EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Pro Panel, HPS also uses the "Copper" module and, more recently, the new EPLAN Cogineer.
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