Eplan simplifies collaboration with your suppliers

If the electrical engineering documentation is well structured, it simplifies things for everyone. As a system integrator, you can more easily check the schematics from your suppliers. In addition to this, wiring can be accomplished in no time at all.

Plant operators benefit because the electrical engineering documentation you supply is a dependable source of information for system maintenance and servicing. Eplan supports you with standardisation in engineering.

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Nobody wants chaos: Supplier guidelines bring structure to your electrical engineering documentation

When different suppliers are responsible for the necessary plant subsystems, the acceptance process can become chaotic. Each provides their documentation in a different data format or send a paper print out.

Supplier guidelines help standardise the electrical engineering documentation. This makes it easier for you as a system integrator to merge all the subprojects into an overall project and makes checking all the contents even easier.

Your customer hasn’t given you its own supplier guidelines? Then you can take care of it. We support you in this, from system and layout guidelines to design specifications.

Thanks to Eplan you can use templates, define data and standardise schematic creation to achieve great things

How can you increase the reliability of your electrical engineering documentation? If you and your suppliers use EPLAN as the software for schematic creation, then you have already laid the foundation for reliable electrical engineering documentation in plant system engineering. If you then standardise your schematic creation, the full potential of Eplan starts to unfold.

Practical tips: Easy standardisation steps for your schematic creation

  • Eplan Templates: Use templates for projects, data sheets and more
  • Uniform labelling: Use reference labels in accordance with common standards including IEC and NFPA
  • Create libraries: Clearly define recurring elements in schematics
  • Eplan Dictionary: Maintain keywords for translating texts for projects and devices

⇒ Standardise and accelerate schematic creation 
⇒ Increase reliability through standardisation

Development that quickly pays off: Standardise once and save time over the long term

  • Increase the depth of data: Augment schematics with important technical details
  • Improve the project foundation: Use current standards and norms
  • Expand libraries: Systematically create schematics templates, subcircuits and macros to reap the benefits across different project teams
  • Complete documentation: Derived in accordance with individual customer guidelines

⇒ Automatic evaluations: Derive bills of materials, terminal diagrams, wiring plans and more
⇒ Re-use subcircuits
⇒ Simple testing of all subprojects and trouble-free acceptance processes and customer agreements

Four simple tricks to standardize your electrical engineering documentation

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That's how system integrators benefit from working with Eplan

“We have standardised functions and can use them automatically, at least in part, on the Eplan Platform.”

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"In the planning process, assembling individual components became the linking of predefined functions."

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When evaluating ways to save costs and introduce more effective processes, Eplan came to the forefront as the key to unlock their potential.

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“We wanted to use not just the most convenient, but basically the best system for the job.”

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Use Eplan to standardize your electrical engineering documentation and comply with IEC standards

Eplan creates the foundation to easily standardise electrical designs. To achieve this, Eplan provides templates that have already been standardised to comply with applicable standards such as IEC and DIN.

Furthermore, Eplan develops standards for you that facilitate the use of applicable standards in system integration.

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