EPLAN Electric P8
The ECAD Standard for Your Engineering – More Than Just Drawing Schematics
EPLAN Electric P8 is a consistent, integrated and fast engineering system for you to plan and design the electrical engineering for machines and plant systems. The software supports a wide variety of engineering methods: from manual creation through to standardised and template-based approaches. The project data, once entered into the schematic, become the foundation for the automated completion of machine and plant system documentation. In short, EPLAN Electric P8 offers you much more than “just” drawing schematics and circuit diagrams.
EPLAN Electric P8 for Your Areas of Application
Discover EPLAN Electric P8’s many varied application fields – including for your industry and engineering disciplines.
Creating Engineering Data, Circuit Diagrams and Schematics
EPLAN Electric P8 automatically generates detailed evaluations for you as an integral component of the project documentation – either on an ongoing basis or combined after project completion, as required. Downstream process steps then get all the necessary information from engineering: from integrated planning through to manufacturing, commissioning, maintenance and repair.
You can save up to 26 variants of a circuit or system for each representation type. With 12 different representation types, you have a total of 312 possible variants at your fingertips. You can easily manage your macro projects. Our drag-&-drop technology makes placing them simple – and the software remembers the original position. Thanks to macro technology, you can create a solid foundation for standardising your processes.
Manage an unlimited number of data sets for your macros and quickly select the desired data set during the engineering design process.
Autoconnecting enables you to logically connect circuit symbols with one another in an instant, making schematics design faster and increasing the quality of the generated schematic.
Choose between a graphical, a logical or device-oriented design approach to support various work processes.
Reports such as terminal and wire diagrams or bills of materials are automatically created for you to be used in downstream project phases.
Functions for editing mass data such as “Search and replace” and “Edit in Excel” accelerate your engineering and at the same time increase the quality for drawing circuit diagrams and schematics.
EPLAN Electric P8 supports global standards such as IEC, NFPA, the Russian GOST and the Chinese GB standards with corresponding master data and sample projects. Thanks to its end-to-end Unicode capability, the software generates circuit diagrams and schematics in a wide variety of languages based on your customised translation databases – from schematics in Chinese to bills of materials in Russian.
With the EPLAN API development environment the doors to your individual further development of EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Fluid, EPLAN Preplanning and EPLAN Pro Panel are wide open. The development environment offers you an efficient possibility to implement your own required functionalities or automatic functions. With this individual customization in the core of EPLAN you can optimize your engineering workflow specifically.
Faster task-based processes
In the productive phase the EPLAN products can be integrated fully into your individual workflow through the API Runtime licenses. Use of the overall solution is thus facilitated for all participants. Processing times, planning errors and training times can be reduced. Users of other programs can use EPLAN functions and data without having to leave their original work environment. Results are thus available faster and more economically.
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EPLAN Tutorials
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System Requirements
What hardware and software requirements should your system meet for the use of the EPLAN Platform?
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Highlights around the current release
Get an overview of innovative functionalities that make your project planning more efficient.
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EPLAN Electric P8 in Practice
Find out how companies use our solutions to address current technical and business developments and improve their productivity.
Efficient Engineering: Study Available to Download
Everyone is talking about Industry 4.0, intelligent networking, flexible production and smart logistics, and even robotics and big data applications. But what about the strategic digitisation of design processes and designing control technology for machines and plant systems? The “Engineering 4.0” study by the European 4.0 Transformation Center (E4TC) at RWTH Aachen University shines a light on these issues.
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