EPLAN Experience: Your Gateway to Efficiency

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

Are your workflows efficient, knowledge-driven and optimized for today’s competitive engineering challenges like increasing product complexity, Big Data and new technologies? Chances are good that a lot of your workflows and their constituent tasks are really digitized versions of your fumbling first steps toward an end that used to work back then and turned into habits. And like many habits, they are unhealthy for your organization’s productivity and profitability.

Today’s Check it Out link takes you to an on-demand webinar that explains a strategy that could break your dependence on old methodologies and lead to more efficient engineering workflows, accelerated product development and faster time to market using fewer resources. This, paradoxically, means that you’ll have more resources to explore other opportunities.

EPLAN Software and Services develops a suite of electrical and controls engineering design, analysis, collaboration and data management software. Among its software solutions are EPLAN Electric P8 for electrical planning and engineering, EPLAN Fluid for fluid power engineering and EPLAN Engineering Configuration One for automated circuit diagram generation for electrical and fluid engineering. The company also offers a range of tailored integrations for CAD, product data management (PDM), product lifecycle management (PLM) and other enterprise systems.

The on-demand “EPLAN Experience: Your Gateway to Efficiency” webinar reflects this concentration on electrical and controls engineering, but do not turn away if your career resides elsewhere. This webinar broadly outlines a strategy for more efficient workflows that’s applicable and adaptable far beyond the EPLAN user base.

The EPLAN Experience itself begins with a modular implementation approach made up of eight fields of action. The goal is to help you increase your controls engineering design process efficiency through the optimization of each component in the process from basic engineering to detail engineering and from IT to production. The strategy’s modularity is intended to enable organizations to home in and revitalize facets of their process that most concern them. The eight fields of action are IT Infrastructure, Platform Setup, Codes and Standards, Product Structure, Design Methods, Workflow, Process Integration and Project Management.

This 60-minute webinar has two distinct parts to it. The first half provides a broad overview of each EPLAN Experience component. The intent and benefits of each action plan are covered. This discussion serves well for those seeking an introduction to the EPLAN Experience as well as those looking for the business case to explore this initiative further.

The second half of the presentation begins at a hair past the 27-minute mark. It’s the more engineering intensive component. The current focus of the EPLAN Experience initiative centers on the two most pressing concerns of EPLAN’s users — Codes and Standards and Design Methods — so they get a good amount of explanation.

In a nutshell, the intent of the Codes and Standards strategy is to help companies set guidelines for settings as well as for the use of device and master data. It emphasizes compliance with global standards, such as the new IEC 81346 standard, as well as tools for documentation and production. The Design Methods strategy is intended to help users analyze, evaluate, define and implement their design methods.

Optimizing your engineering efficiency, whether through better use of your IT infrastructure, improved designed methods or an in-depth understanding of how to achieve compliance with new standards, is key to your competitiveness and your ability to innovate. The EPLAN Experience seems to offer a well-designed and user-centric approach to maximizing your engineering resources. Hit today’s Check it Out link to learn more about EPLAN Experience.

One final note: My contact at EPLAN tells me that the company has plans for holding some new “Efficiency Days” hands-on workshops on all this soon. At press time, the schedule is still being ironed out. So keep this note around and click here later in the week to check out the schedule.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Go here to access the “EPLAN Experience: Your Gateway to Efficiency” on-demand webinar.