Small changes, big impacts:
Standardization for fast electrical engineering designs
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 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
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.
Standardize 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.
High-quality device data: EPLAN Data Portal 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.
Complementary solutions for current data and easy coordination
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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