Small changes, big impacts:
Standardisation for fast electrical engineering designs
Standardisation in engineering: Perhaps you’re thinking of optimised processes to save time and money? Or maybe about large projects with a lot of changes for which you don’t currently have time due to a shortage of skilled personnel? You needn’t worry: With EPLAN you can use templates, re-use existing data, and harmonise recurring work steps to standardise your electrical designs, saving time and reducing the dependence on the knowledge of individuals. 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?
Standardise 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. Standardisation is the magic word for exploiting EPLAN’s full potential.
Practical tips: small standardisation 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
⇒ Standardise and accelerate schematic creation
⇒ Save time through better collaboration
Further worthwhile steps: standardise 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
Speed up your schematic design with functional engineering
By switching to functional engineering, you can speed up your schematic design and increase the quality of your schematics. This ensures that they contain all information for all users - from the panel builder to the service technician.
Four tricks to quickly standardise your electrical engineering designs
Our top list presents you with a few tips for simple standardisation projects that will quickly and positively affect your electrical engineering designs. Download it now for free!
Standardisation enables schematics at the push of a button
Those who automate complete plants continuously rely on data sets, which are illustrated in macros. The question of the quality of a schematic macro has only one answer at Spangler - and that is standardisation. It is therefore strictly defined how macros should look like and who may generate them. This task is restricted to allocated employees and must be performed according to a certain specified scheme.
"We only work on the control cabinet with these standardised macros. This is one of the demands of the consistent platform - otherwise it would simply become ‘full of garbage’”, says Helmut Graspointner, Managing Director at Spangler. In his understanding, macros are the foundation for designing complex plants: "We incorporate experience here, which we previously collected at another point."
How EPLAN supports you in standardising your engineering while complying with IEC 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 standardised according to applicable industry standards, including IEC, NFPA and more. Likewise, EPLAN develops quality standards for you that facilitate using the applicable standards in everyday work.
Standardise 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.
High-quality device data: EPLAN Data Portal with Data Standard
EPLAN 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, re-usable sub-projects and finished projects can thereby easily be shared, simplifying collaboration coordination and approvals.
EPLAN Software supports standards such as IEC, NFPA, GB
Current EPLAN Software supports you in creating schematics, documentation and symbols according to globally valid standards. More local standards such as IEC for Europe, NFPA for the US, and GB for China are also included.
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