EPLAN Preplanning
Technical Preplanning Goes Digital for Electrical Design Projects
EPLAN Preplanning engineering design software 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. You can import data from external tabular sources and also enter plant system or machine overviews and graphical process and instrumentation diagrams. This allows you to quickly generate initial data sheets or specifications for materials procurement. You can also access the data collected in EPLAN Preplanning to use in downstream planning phases in engineering.
EPLAN Preplanning for Your Fields of Application
Discover EPLAN Preplanning’s many varied application fields for your industry and engineering disciplines.
Automation Technology
Automation technology is used in all areas of technology for engineering machines and plant systems. With the solutions from EPLAN, you have an enormous range of functions at your fingertips for this discipline.
Electrical Engineering
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.
Fluid Power Engineering
In fluid power engineering, it’s important to take an interdisciplinary approach in this field and to include electrotechnical designs in the documentation. EPLAN has the right solution for you for these various engineering fields – combined in an integrated software environment.
Process Engineering
Process engineering deals with the production and conversion of a wide array of materials. EPLAN supports your engineering with creating process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and optimizing and integrating your engineering processes.
Machinery and Plant Construction
The daily ordering business is getting much faster and time pressures are rising, no less due to international competitors. At the same time, customers are demanding increasingly more individualized projects through to mass customization. EPLAN is here supporting you with integrated engineering solutions along your value chain.
Panel Building
You can optimize and industrialize your processes in control and switchgear system engineering using EPLAN’s engineering solutions in conjunction with Rittal’s system and automation expertise. Consistent data is the key to success here. We support you in saving both time and costs, in avoiding errors and in increasing your productivity over the long term.
Automotive
Few industries are facing such enormous upheavals as the automobile industry. Many car companies and automotive suppliers have been relying on the EPLAN’s powerful solutions for years. With our solutions, you can optimize the entire value chain in vehicle manufacturing.
Building Technology
Planning monitoring, control, regulation and optimization systems is an important part of technical facility management for many buildings. With EPLAN you can rely on a continuous and consistent database that goes beyond just the engineering processes.
Energy
Code compliance, ensuring supply, optimizing load distribution: the energy sector is facing many challenges. EPLAN offers you optimal solutions for a broad field of applications from energy management to plant system engineering.
Maritime
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.
EI&C Engineering
Electrical, instrumentation and controls (EI&C) engineering combines various specialized areas in engineering. With EPLAN, you have the right engineering solution at your fingertips for every specialized field.
Integrated Digital Preplanning
With EPLAN Preplanning, you can carry out initial planning tasks for process automation or automation technology in the engineering process on EPLAN Platform. Collect important data such as the sensors and actuators for a plant system, machine or building.
Use EPLAN Preplanning to create plant system overviews (P&I diagrams) with PCT loop acquisition and management.
Information about machines or plant systems as well as process and instrumentation data can be collected and managed in a structured way. This helps ensures clarity and transparency, even for complex systems.
Import data from external tabular sources and seamlessly process it in EPLAN Preplanning. The data can then easily be transferred for use in detail planning.
Quickly create initial data sheets or specifications so that materials procurement can get off to a structured start in the preplanning phase.
Enter graphical representations of plant systems or machine overviews as well as process and instrumentation diagrams. The clear visualization of your first planning steps will be carried over into downstream project phases.
Plan the basic information early in the process such as signal data, piping data or wiring data for better orientation within the project.
You can also use EPLAN Preplanning software as a solution for building automation, including basic automation design for climate control systems.
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Highlights around the current release
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We’re Here For You!
EPLAN offers you comprehensive services and support beyond our software. We’re looking forward to supporting you!
EPLAN Consulting
Our experienced EPLAN consultants will help you to utilize EPLAN solutions efficiently and introduce new engineering methods. In addition, the consultants can work with you to unlock the enormous potential for implementing integrated working processes in your company.
EPLAN Training Academy
The EPLAN Training Academy is your contact for all training questions relating to engineering. For example, you can train to become an EPLAN Certified Engineer (ECE) and benefit from our wide range of training courses.
EPLAN Solution Center
Are you stuck? No problem! EPLAN Support is there for you and offers professional support in your daily work. The EPLAN Solution Center is an online support system for EPLAN Software Service customers, where you can create tickets directly in the software.
EPLAN Experience
EPLAN Experience is a concept that highlights how you can achieve concrete process optimization. It shows you how to work in a functionally structured way and follow uniform standards. You can also increase your engineering efficiency step by step with a solid data basis.
EPLAN Preplanning in Practice
Find out how companies are using our solutions to meet current technical and economic challenges and to improve their productivity.
"Smart" control cabinet design from the outset
Although the Weikl group of companies in Bodenmais was well prepared to take the step: Four years ago it virtually went from 0 to 100 in the new automation business line. The EPLAN Platform was used from the outset. Consistent design with the integration of production enable a high degree of flexibility and automation. Just four years after its establishment, the company has achieved good market positioning with expansion being planned.
Parametrization instead of drawing
The majority of the 4,600 employees at KWS Saat SE are involved in the development of new seed varieties. The complex machines and systems required for seed processing and breeding are also manufactured in-house using the EPLAN Platform – beginning with P&I diagrams which are designed using the Preplanning module. The underlying principle is consistent, cross-disciplinary design processes from mechanical and process engineering through to fluid power and electrical engineering.
Good (pre)-planning is half the job
Höckh Metall-Reinigungsanlagen GmbH is located in Neuenbürg in the German Black Forest and produces automated plants for industrial parts cleaning. The main mechanical and electrical engineering design procedures are also as automated as the cleaning of parts such as engine components. Design automation is based on an integrated CAE system using EPLAN Preplanning as the starting point in product development.
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