EPLAN = Global engineering standard for automation
Using data from engineering to manufacturing and continuing to augment it as part of the product life cycle – this ensures a company’s success in the Industry 4.0 era. With its new version 2.7, EPLAN offers answers for the challenges of innovative automation technology. At the SPS IPC Drives, EPLAN Platform – the global engineering standard for automation – pools all system information along the value creation chain. Users benefit from fast results, high-quality data, and compatibility to other IT infrastructure systems.
Using data from engineering to manufacturing and continuing to augment it as part of the product life cycle – this ensures a company’s success in the Industry 4.0 era. With its new version 2.7, EPLAN offers answers for the challenges of innovative automation technology. At the SPS IPC Drives, EPLAN Platform – the global engineering standard for automation – pools all system information along the value creation chain. Users benefit from fast results, high-quality data, and compatibility to other IT infrastructure systems. Monheim, Germany, 11 October 2017 – At the SPS IPC Drives – the year’s most important fall trade show – solutions provider EPLAN is presenting its newest developments across around 400 square meters. At the core of these developments in the new EPLAN Platform, Version 2.7, available since September, and they further strenghten the global standard for automation technology. All information along the value creation chain can be augmented throughout the engineering process, ensuring efficient project development and a “single source of truth” across the entire product life cycle. Additional EPLAN Platform development highlights include the new piping module in EPLAN Preplanning and EPLAN Smart Wiring version 2.7, which is now also available as a web server application.
More than 200 manufacturers in EPLAN Data Portal
The Data Portal continues to grow. Back in summer, the number of integrated manufacturers climbed to an imposing 206. The next update to the portal, just in time for the SPS IPC Drives, increases this figure even further. Turck, for instance, has added 105 datasets for I/O modules and Ploskon expanded the portal with more than 400 datasets for inductive proximity switches and speed sensors. The global standard plays a role in this as well: EPLAN Data Portal is the linchpin for efficient engineering across national borders.
Automating direct exchange
With “TIA Portal Connection”, which premiered at the 2017 Hannover Messe, data can be imported and exported between automation engineering and electrical engineering. All relevant data can be bidirectionally exchanged between electrical designers and PLC programmers. Now at the SPS IPC Drives, this process is also available for Mitsubishi MELSOFT iQ Works. Using Automation ML, the global format of the future, electrical engineering and automation move even closer together.
Smart Wiring live
EPLAN is also present at the Rittal trade show stand in Hall 5, where visitors can experience EPLAN Smart Wiring put to practice. This new simplicity for wiring is now available in version 2.7 as a web server client solution. This ensures central provisioning and archiving of planning and ordering data. QR codes provide quick access to the appropriate project and an optional monitoring tool offers production directors real-time indicators for optimising manufacturing.
Solutions provider EPLAN and affiliated company CIDEON jointly present their newest developments on nearly 400 square meters at the SPS IPC Drives.
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