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Eplan: Easily create schematics

The most powerful electrical engineering software

Do you use a conventional CAD system to create schematics? We’d be happy to support you in taking the next step that goes beyond the use of ECAD: the use of Eplan software. This would save lots of valuable working time in electrical engineering design and can even bolster your company’s ability to deliver in panel building.

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Stressed out by last-minute changes in panel building?

This might sound familiar: your customer has requested control cabinets from you and the delivery date is set. Your co-workers are using CAD software to create the schematics. A bill of material has been given to procurement, and the production team has received a list of components, connections and terminals.

Then your customer submits some last-minute changes. Now you have to make all the adjustments, ensure there are no mistakes and not lose the project! The delivery date is still the same – and your reputation as an excellent supplier is on the line.

From CAD to Eplan: smart schematic generation made easy

With the right type of ECAD software, this is a no-stress situation. It is true that your average CAD software can be used for a wide variety of technical designs. However, ECAD software is better for electrical engineering.

Eplan takes you a step even further, with many practical functions you can use to simplify your everyday work for creating schematics and beyond.

Traditional CAD software vs Eplan software

Challenges: electrical engineering designs with general CAD software

  • Create page by page: draw the schematics with CAD
  • Manually enter changes on each and every page of the schematics
  • Manually create and maintain lists: for components, device data, terminals, connection data and so on…
  • Forward schematics and lists to various specialist departments
  • Stay on top of the current status of all the files

⇒ Regular day-to-day tasks reduce time available for more complex design projects

Your benefits: electrical engineering designs with Eplan

  • All-in-one project: create the schematics, store the project data
  • Easily integrate component data from hundreds of manufacturers into the project
  • Enter changes just once and apply those changes to the entire project
  • Use automated formatting for lists and forms
  • Derive important documentation from the schematics with just a few clicks: for production, sales and project approvals
  • Latest version of a project is always available

⇒ Less effort for your day-to-day work means more time for more important things

Six compelling reasons to switch from CAD to Eplan software right now

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That's how our customers in panel building benefit from working with Eplan

“It was an easy transition for me as an engineer to see a platform like this that was so well thought out. Eplan is a no-brainer.”

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By using Eplan software, the total project time, including design and control cabinet construction, was reduced by 59%.

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"Since we switched to digital engineering, we have been able to provide the right data for each work step. This has led to enormous time savings and error reduction and is already a preparation for automated production."

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70 % increase in productivity with Eplan solutions.

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"The Eplan Platform enables us to design for specific requirements, propose solutions and manufacture highly efficiently."

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“You could even say that Eplan has made a significant contribution to our high market position in plant project planning!“

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Panel Building 4.0: Eplan and Rittal

You can increase your productivity along the entire value chain by taking advantage of a high degree of digitization and centralizing your data management.

With the system solutions from Eplan and Rittal, you realize interdisciplinary cooperation, you reduce delivery times, you parallelize your production steps and also sustainably lowers costs. Taken together, this increases your competitiveness over the long term.

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"Smart Engineering and Production"

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Standards set for industrialising panel building

The starting gun was sounded five years ago: Eplan, Rittal and Phoenix Contact founded a technology cooperation for panel building and switchgear manufacturing – “Smart Engineering and Production 4.0”. Its goal was the integrated digitisation of engineering and production processes.
 

Today, this vision has become tried and tested solutions that open a path to industrialisation for companies. These solutions are used day after day and ensure an efficient value creation process, underscoring one thing that runs through engineering to manufacturing to sales and service: absolute, end-to-end data continuity based on a single source of truth.

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Why Eplan? High quality software, expert consulting, flexible subscription service

ECAD software is an important tool when creating schematics. Eplan software also offers you several advantages beyond this. Here’s what you will be able to rely on:

Do you have challenges in engineering and manufacturing of machines?

Discover your possibilities with Eplan in mechanical engineering as well. Learn more about automated engineering and machine wiring.

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Quickly create single line electrical diagrams

Eplan also offers comprehensive functions for switchgear manufacturing. Here, electrical schematics are often created as “single line diagrams” – which you can design quickly and with high quality using our software. Device data from the Eplan Data Portal supplements the schematics, making it a meaningful part of the overall documentation.

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Would you like to find out more about Eplan’s software and services? We’re happy to help!