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The standard for electrical CAD software has seen important changes during the last decade with migration to Industry 4.0.A departure from the regular drafting software you used for so many years, CAD, is a result of the introduction of EPLAN and being at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
Introducing EPLAN Platform 2023
The new generation of the EPLAN Platform offers software for a variety of engineering disciplines from a single source, and more than just tradition ECAD software. From preplanning to electrical engineering and fluid-power designs, to designing switchgear systems and wire harnesses: with EPLAN, you always have the right tool at hand.
The Direct3D engine enables high-speed 3D renderings, accelerating your everyday work with EPLAN Pro Panel and making it even easier for you to use the software.
The EPLAN Platform has an easy-to-use Insert Center. Take advantage of the clear displays, not to mention the easy navigation and intuitive operation.
The new cable editor for EPLAN Electric P8 offers you improved visualization of cable and wire data.
New graphics engine for fast and easy 3D planning of panels and control cabinets
The Direct3D engine enables high-speed 3D renderings, accelerating your everyday work with EPLAN Pro Panel and making it even easier for you to use the software.
Insert center offers clearly visualized icons, optimized displays and search functionality
The EPLAN Platform has an easy-to-use Insert Center. Take advantage of the clear displays, not to mention the easy navigation and intuitive operation.
New cable editor for cable and wire management for schematic creation
The new cable editor for EPLAN Electric P8 offers you improved visualization of cable and wire data.
If you’re working on an electrical project, we’re your one stop shop for reliable inventory and logistics. Our local inventory of products can help you complete jobs:
We build relationships at our counter sales locations and can give you the attention you need to navigate our large product portfolio (full line) – Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Data Comm offering.
End User Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO)
We have the right product, at the right time in the right place. We buy based on our reputation which can also be seen in our large provincial footprint and how we represent ourselves online. We are more than ready to service your day-to-day needs:
With our local presence and sales staff we’re able to visit customer facilities to service the needs of plant stores and purchasing teams. Our positive customer experience is demonstrated through our large number of legacy relationships.
Industrial Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
If you need help with component selection, we can help you choose the right product based on suitability for the application, price point and products that are readily available. Our product expertise can help you:
Keep us in mind if you need a product that is hard to find: we have best-in-class supplier partners and various product portfolios with a wide range of product offerings that competitors do not (for instance instrumentation).
The world of design and manufacturing of enclosures and switchgears is driven by tight deadlines and pricing while dealing with high fixed costs for facilities, equipment and wages. High level of customization, quick turnaround, high quality products and matching documentation are typical customer expectations – and all at a low cost! Small lot sizes and one-offs are more common than ever, and these type of applications pose a great challenge when efficiency is paramount. To achieve such high levels of efficiency for projects of various sizes, consistency and compatibility of data and systems are a must throughout the entire process: from engineering, material ordering and logistics, production and assembly, to setup and site commissioning.
Data consistency and centralized management, interdisciplinary alignment of development process, reduced time-to-market, and efficient cost control are the key benefits of EPLAN, the advanced engineering design tool.
From electrical design, mechanical mounting layout (2D and 3D) to production, assembly and commissioning, EPLAN provides data across all disciplines.
With manufacturers having production facilities throughout the world, it is critical to standardize production and plan uniformly worldwide while accounting for local standards. For smooth, trouble-free plant operation consistent, up-to-date documentation can be crucial.
EPLAN meets these requirements by ensuring optimal integration in existing system landscape through the ERP/PDM Integration Suite, hence, creating a uniform basis for the entire process chain.
EPLAN strikes the right balance between time, cost and quality by providing standard blocks, minimized manual engineering work, interfaces to ERP, PDM, PLM and CMMS for continuous and consistent data exchange, flexible standards, and reduction of multiple data entries through integration of mechanical and electrical engineering.
Large, complex installations and complicated processes requiring large amounts of data are typical to the oil & gas industry. These processes require an extensive number of instruments to control and monitor plant operation. Further, data quality and consistency are paramount for efficient plant operation hence the high demand for advanced engineering tools and distributed control systems.
EPLAN provides a seamless organization-wide workflow through ERP and PDM systems interfaces and process automation systems, multilingual documentation, interdisciplinary software (fluid and electrical engineering, PLC programming, 3D wire harnesses), thus offering customers a competitive advantage.
EPLAN provides unmatched productivity gains through offering integrated plant management system (SCADA/SQL), real-time documentation, redlining, error-free and flexible designs at any stage of production.
For keeping up with the increased demand due to rapid population expansion and for guaranteeing continuous supply, water and wastewater industry is in need of new strategies and technical innovations. High-tech solutions are now integral part of the industry with system automation playing a pivotal role in modern infrastructure. For ease of introduction of new technologies, standardization, minimized downtimes, and effective coordination of the entire process are a must.
EPLAN Platform provides one integrated interface for interactive and error-free design of such critical systems by connecting fluid power, electrical design, process instrumentation, and control engineering.
It offers interdisciplinary solutions and automation for reducing development costs, standardization for minimized coordination efforts and increased quality, complete engineering documentation, automatic reports updates for as-built documentation and PDF redlining for clean and consistent tracking of changes during various stages.
Producers and suppliers in the Food & Beverage Industry are in a constant search for new solutions to efficiently meet market demands. Faced with complex manufacturing and production processes, players in this industry are engineering and managing a variety of highly integrated and automated machines, which are required to work together flawlessly to achieve the goal of reducing costs and time-to-market.
EPLAN provides the required level of information consistency, multidisciplinary and parallel work for efficient design and smooth integration and operation of all machines and systems while minimizing coordination time and cost. Data consistency across the manufacturer is achieved by connecting engineering to PDM and commercial systems.
Comprehensive integration into EPLAN Platform allows for increased productivity in process engineering, time savings, and minimizing errors through the use of central database, automatic reporting, and more efficient commissioning based on consistent and fluid engineering and production processes.
Energy sector is governed by a broad range of national and international laws and standards making it one of the most heavily regulated markets in the world. Players in this industry are facing many challenges such as meeting standards, load distribution optimization and climate protection targets, which is being the subject to a wide range of complex requirements.
To address all these stringent issues, laying out a solid foundation through consistent plant planning, control and process automation and error-free system documentation are key elements to long-term success. Effective cross-disciplinary work and interface to ERP and PDM systems allow for seamless work-flow across the manufacturer.
EPLAN offers reduction of development time thus, shorter time-to-market, standard-compliant representation of primary and secondary devices for increased manageability and transparency, intelligent documentation for minimized downtimes and simplified maintenance, up-to-date documentation throughout plant life-cycle, and high level of components re-usability through standardized device technology.
Next level of automated engineering – A two part system (Designer and Project Builder)
EPLAN Cogineer is a unique solution for automatically creating schematics and fluid power systems. The systems seamlessly integrates into EPLAN Platform with direct access to the existing macros and macro libraries, which are used as the basis for mapping product structures, developing rule sets, and storing variants of products and machines.
Project Builder (front end) is a declarative interface which makes data related to macros, configuration variables, and rule sets (which are defining a typical in EPLAN world) directly available without any additional programming.
Due to its modularity, EPLAN Cogineer is suited for virtually any type of application regardless of scope, industry, company size, sub-circuits (drive controls, PLC racks…etc), or even complete projects. It is all one click away!
Automatic schematic generation combined with traditional planning and design can be easily achieved while the reversed process (manually revising automatically generated projects) is just as easy thus, eliminating the need for extensive preliminary work for creating related data and rule sets.
Information is directly saved in the macro library which can be archived and sent via email to other users. This feature saves companies significant amounts of time and maintains consistency by allowing the recipient to generate schematics using the same set of rules.
EPLAN for Industry 4.0
Syngineer or Mechatronics engineering is geared towards Industry 4.0 and aims for shorter development times and error elimination. The core of this newly developed mechatronics system is the direct interface between mechanical engineering, electrical/controls engineering and IT/software engineering or else interdisciplinary teamwork.
Main benefits of Syngineer are:
The end result is the reduction in development costs while delivering a superior product in a timely fashion to increasingly demanding markets.
Focusing on Industry 4.0, EPLAN offers the most complete set of design tools and services for modern engineering, allowing customers to work more efficiently and reduce time-to-market regardless of industry type or project size. With the goal of becoming the leading provider of engineering solutions, EPLAN represents products of the highest quality on the global market.
The Process, Automation and Controls Group (PAC) at E.B. Horsman is EPLAN certified and can provide you with any technical support you need. Our PAC group can help you select the EPLAN software that best suits your needs and provide you with training sessions to increase your knowledge base. Contact us now to learn how can EPLAN transform your business:
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