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Small changes, huge effects

Standardization in electrical engineering

Clever designing with standards

Standardization in engineering: Maybe you’ve been thinking of ways to optimize your processes to save time and money. Or maybe you need a way to manage large projects with several changes, but you lack the time needed due to a shortage of skilled personnel.

Don’t worry. With Eplan you can utilize templates, reuse existing data and implement recurring work steps to standardize your electrical designs, thereby saving time and reducing your dependence on a singular individual’s knowledge. We’re there for you, for each step of the journey.

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Your challenge
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Honestly, you’re familiar with these everyday hurdles in electrical engineering

Why change something when it’s been working fine for years? Of course, in well-coordinated teams with experienced electrical engineers, schematic creation runs like clockwork. But let’s be honest, sometimes there are misunderstandings because schematics created by one co-worker sometimes look completely different than those created by another, even when they’re designing the same type of system.

Do errors sometimes creep in when elements from other schematics are copied into a different project, whereby the wrong parameters inadvertently get used? Does documentation have to be painstakingly reworked so that it complies with your customer's suppliers’ guidelines during acceptance testing?

Standardize schematic creation, use templates, re-use data: achieve great things in small steps with Eplan software

What time-wasting tasks would you and your team love to do without in your day-to-day work? If you use the current Eplan software, you already have the right tool at hand to tackle them. Standardization is the magic word for exploiting Eplan’s full potential.

Practical tips: small standardization projects for your electrical engineering design

Use Eplan templates, for instance for projects and data sheets
Use uniform reference designations, e.g. according to IEC or NFPA standards
Set up libraries with re-usable schematic elements
Maintain an Eplan library for label creation

⇒ Standardize and accelerate schematic creation
⇒ Save time through better collaboration

Further worthwhile steps: standardize once, save time on an ongoing basis

Increase data depth: enrich schematics with additional project information
Use current standards as the foundation for project planning
Systematically create libraries with schematics templates and use them across teams
Derive complete documentation according to client guidelines

⇒ Automatically generate bills of materials, terminal diagrams, terminal-connection diagrams, cabling diagrams, etc.
⇒ Re-use partial circuits
⇒ Trouble-free acceptance testing and customer agreements

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

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„The software solutions from Eplan enable us to work together with our customers in a qualified and efficient manner and thus to handle our projects economically.”

How Eplan supports you in standardizing your engineering while complying with international standards

Eplan software and services are designed to enable you to create meaningful standards for your electric engineering designs. We provide you with templates that are already standardised according to applicable industry standards, including IEC, NFPA and more. Likewise, Eplan develops quality standards for you that facilitate using the applicable standards in everyday work.

Eplan Engineering Standard

Standardise schematic creation with templates

The Eplan Engineering Standard supports you from the very start when creating your first projects. You can use project templates and circuit examples directly as a basis for your projects. Current Eplan software also adheres to globally valid standards, such as IEC for Europe, NFPA for the US and GB for China, which are included.

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Eplan Data Portal

High-quality device data with Data Standard

The Eplan Data Portal provides device data from hundreds of manufacturers for your designs. It contains millions of data sets that meet the Eplan Data Standard quality criteria and are being updated and expanded on an ongoing basis.

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Eplan Cloud

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Additional software solutions make the current state of your project centrally available for all participants and stakeholders. Work templates, reusable sub-projects and finished projects can easily be shared, simplifying collaboration coordination and approvals.

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Standardise schematic creation with templates
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Switchgear manufacturing also benefits

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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Use of templates with a big impact

Proven circuits and module combinations are often used in switchgear manufacturing in particular. Standardization has special potential here. If, for example, templates are used when creating electrical schematics, this is already a step in this direction. Eplan supports you in this.

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