Machine building

Enormous time savings for machine building

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Automated electrical designs

Work with project templates, reuse standard circuits from libraries, derive documentation automatically or create schematics at the push of a button: electrical designs for machine building can be done within hours, or even minutes.

This is possible when you systematically standardize and automate typical project steps. But can this be realized within your company, too? Of course it can! Eplan is happy to assist you with all aspects of automated engineering.

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Automated electrical designs in machine building: is it worth the effort?

Whether you’re experiencing an upswing or in times of crisis: the skilled worker shortage remains a troublesome topic in machine building. Companies often have just enough employees to handle the day-to-day business. So why spend time and energy right now, of all times, for automating electrical designs? 

Honestly speaking, not every machine building company must fully automate its electrical engineering – the benefits should always outweigh the costs. However, if you‘ve already implemented some project templates to standardize electrical designs, you’re already well on your way towards automated engineering!

The benefits of automated engineering for machine building

  • Working with a centrally maintained library of circuit templates increases the design speed and quality of current projects. 
  • The work time spent on electrical engineering is considerably reduced – often by more than half. 
  • All required documentation can be derived automatically and complies with current standards and customer specifications. 
  • New hires as well as less-experienced employees can be trained quickly.

Tips for your getting started in automated electrical design

  • You identify circuits that are repeatedly used in your daily business and gradually create a library to manage these templates.
  • Keep at it! Continue expanding your library. Motivate your co-workers to also use and expand the library. 
  • Define universal project templates and design rules based on current standards for all of your electrical engineering designs. 
  • Automatically create schematics for your first sub-projects: combine circuit templates with project data, then generate and add them to your Eplan project.

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

"We are already saving around 50% on pure enclosure wiring thanks to the combination of Eplan Smart Wiring and the Rittal Wire Terminal. Once everything has settled down and the projects have been planned accordingly, we expect to save up to 75%."

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Use this Eplan software to automate your schematic creation

If you fully exploit the potential of your basic software, Eplan Electric P8 for instance, you already have a slew of options for standardising your electrical designs and automating parts of them.

Beyond this, the Eplan solution for automated engineering allows for the creation of configurators. This gives even non skilled workers the ability to generate sets of schematics, or even entire Eplan projects, just with a few clicks. We’re happy to assist you with this!

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