EPLAN Enters Tech Partnership with Dassault Systèmes

EPLAN and Dassault Systèmes have entered into a technology partnership as part of the EPLAN Partner Network, where both parties will be working on expanding the interface between EPLAN and the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The goal is integration of electrical engineering and fluid-power technology in the context of product development.

Dassault Systèmes Managing Director Eurocentral Dominic Kurtaz and EPLAN and Cideon CEO Sebastian Seitz signed the agreement in Hanover, Germany. The partners will beneficially be contributing their expertise in the interests of their shared clients, enabling companies to set up end-to-end digital development processes.

“With the bidirectional interface between the EPLAN Platform and the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we’re increasing the process efficiencies of our common clients,” says Seitz. “When all systems are bidirectionally connected—ECAD, ERP and PDM, for instance—users are workly in a truly interdisciplinary manner and thus much more efficiently.”

“With this partnership, we support our joint customers in achieving new dimensions of efficiency and productivity when it comes to holistic product development based on the creation and capitalization of virtual twins,” adds Dominic Kurtaz, managing director EURCENTRAL, Dassault Systèmes. “The bidirectional interface simplifies numerous processes and creates new collaboration opportunities for our customers. We are therefore delighted to take this groundbreaking step together with EPLAN.”

The partnership will be expanded in the coming months. Both companies are working in tandem to optimize the interface—the PLM 3DEXPERIENCE Connector—and provide new solutions for digital product development in the cloud environment. A joint demonstration environment is also planned as part of the Engineering Collaboration Network with videos and sample data in the PLM cloud environment, as well as joint interaction on customer projects.

The interaction of EPLAN and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows that the data management processes for electrical engineering and fluid-power engineering can be automatically controlled. Access to the Dassault Systèmes cloud-based platform is available directly in EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Fluid. For instance, components lists and bills of materials can be synchronized with just one click. 

EPLAN and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform have bidirectional communication. Checking into projects from EPLAN on the platform is automated, as is opening projects from the PLM system. Important descriptive PDM attributes, including information for the drawing header (as an example), can be added companywide in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and are automatically available during the next checkout of the EPLAN project. The software supports traditional PDM functionality such as the approval or transfer of documentation to manufacturing.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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