Standardization for smart electrical engineering

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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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 looks 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 client’s suppliers’ guidelines during acceptance testing?

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

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Four tricks to quickly standardise your electrical engineering designs

Our top list presents you with a few tips for simple standardization projects that will quickly and positively affect your electrical engineering designs. Download it now for free!

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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 standardized according to applicable industry standards, including IEC, NFPA and more.

Likewise, we've developed quality standards for you to apply in everyday work.

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