EPLAN Smart Wiring
Clever Software for Wiring for Panel Building

EPLAN Smart Wiring

Clever Software for Wiring for Panel Building

EPLAN Smart Wiring is your virtual assistant for manual wiring in panel building. From the connection point to the exact wire routing, the software provides the wiring technician all the necessary information in digital form – also in 3D when required.

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EPLAN Smart Wiring for Control Cabinet Construction

EPLAN Smart Wiring enables you to visualise every step in wiring a panel. By providing digital engineering data and always up-to-date project comparison, smart wiring becomes reality.

Added Value & Features

Step-By-Step Wiring of Control Cabinets

As a wiring technician, you receive detailed, step-by-step instructions for easy implementation. You decide whether you want to wire the displayed routing connections individually or in a fixed sequence. The wiring status can be noted via a red/yellow/green traffic light principle.

Wiring Without Schematics

Wiring is possible even without the schematics, which are stored in the assistant. For checking and reference purposes, you can access the schematics – starting from each individual connection.

Clearly Visualised Wiring

Easy-to-read visualisation of mounting layout, devices, connections, connection types and wire routing.

Automatic Project Comparison

If there are last-minute changes, you can perform an automatic project comparison to avoid errors. You can forward any anomalies directly to the engineering department via e-mail.

Clear Monitoring – Even for Wiring Control Cabinets in Parallel

Project data are provided from a central server to enable identical control cabinets to be manufactured in parallel and for several wiring technicians to work simultaneously. Status information makes it easier to handover projects between different employees and to monitor a project’s progress.

Monitoring and reporting tool for production managers

Production managers can now gain comprehensive insights into all production orders and performance indicators at a glance: The monitoring dashboards provide detailed analytics, allowing you to track the progress of your orders, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize processes effectively. The central overview sums up important information about all of your orders and comments. Furthermore, a detailed view provides you with data e.g. about processing times and material consumption. In addition, you can export a production report for each order.

Advanced Solutions

EPLAN Software for Planning and Assembling Control Cabinets

With EPLAN you always have the appropriate software at hand to efficiently master the current challenges, from manufacturing to operations.

EPLAN Smart Mounting supports the manual assembly of control cabinets

EPLAN Smart Mounting supports the manual assembly of control cabinets

EPLAN also provides step-by-step support for assembling control cabinets and equipping them with electrotechnical components using EPLAN Smart Mounting. Combined with EPLAN Smart Wiring, control cabinet assembly is made quick and easy and always remains high quality, even with a shortage of skilled workers.

EPLAN Pro Panel for planning control cabinets and switchgear systems in 3D

EPLAN Pro Panel for planning control cabinets and switchgear systems in 3D

The digital twin from EPLAN Pro Panel is available as a solid foundation of data for production and thus also makes it ready for using EPLAN Smart Wiring. This means that cabling technicians don’t have to invest any additional effort in compiling documentation and can fully focus on their work assembling the control cabin

How-to

EPLAN Tutorials

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EPLAN Platform

System Requirements

What hardware and software requirements should your system meet for the use of the EPLAN Platform?

Features

Highlights around the current release

Get an overview of innovative functionalities that make your project planning more efficient.

Services

We’re Here for You!

EPLAN offers you comprehensive services and support beyond our software. We’re looking forward to supporting you!

EPLAN Consulting

Our experienced EPLAN consultants will help you to utilise EPLAN solutions efficiently and introduce new engineering methods. In addition, the consultants can work with you to unlock the enormous potential for implementing integrated working processes in your company.

EPLAN Solution Center

Are you stuck? No problem: EPLAN Support is there for you and offers professional support in your daily work. The EPLAN Solution Center is an online support system for EPLAN Software Service customers, where you can create tickets directly in the software.

User Reports & Customer Testimonials

EPLAN Smart Wiring in Practice

Find out how companies use our solutions to address current technical and business developments and improve their productivity.

Unitechnik Systems GmbH

Future opportunities for digitalisation in control cabinet construction

Conventional control cabinet construction, both for series and one-off production, involves many manual work steps making the process both time-consuming and costly. End-to-end digitalisation along the entire value chain is however a solution that promises to increase productivity along with flexibility and transparency. Fully digitalised process flows increase efficiency in production and planning by almost 40 percent.

Weikl Automatisierungstechnik

"Smart" control cabinet design from the outset

Although the Weikl group of companies in Bodenmais was well prepared to take the step: Four years ago it virtually went from 0 to 100 in the new automation business line. The EPLAN Platform was used from the outset. Consistent design with the integration of production enable a high degree of flexibility and automation. Just four years after its establishment, the company has achieved a good market positioning with expansion already being planned.

More About This Topic

Control Cabinet Engineering 4.0 Study

Is it worth introducing automation for manufacturing and engineering processes in panel building? You’d better believe it – and for both large corporations and smaller companies. The “Control Cabinet Manufacturing 4.0” study by the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) of the University of Stuttgart delivers the figures, data and facts about it. Is your curiosity piqued? Then download the study, which is free of charge and available exclusively from EPLAN.

50 % Time Savings

This is achievable by using pre-assembled wires and wire sets in conjunction with list-based wiring. Use a software solution like EPLAN Smart Wiring.

90 % Less Time Expenditures

Less time expenditures can be achieved for electrical assembly when a digital control cabinet model is used to pre-assemble the terminals.

44 % Time and Cost Savings

Functional engineering in panel building can create this much time and cost savings. More information is available from the “Control Cabinet Manufacturing 4.0” study.

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