Process Engineering
Engineering Solutions for Creating PF and P&I Diagrams
Process engineering deals with the production and conversion of a wide array of materials, including solids, liquids and even gases. The application fields can vary widely, for example they include grain processing, paper production, metal extraction from ores and much more. EPLAN engineering design software creates process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and optimizes and integrates your engineering processes regardless of the materials you manufacture or process.
Process Engineering Tasks and Challenges
An important engineering task, especially in process engineering, is the preparation of PFDs, which serve to design and document various process steps. They often have to include hundreds of components such as vessels, actuators including pumps, fans and heating elements and valves for a machine. Their connection via pipelines must be documented in the flow diagram. The creation of the P&IDs is important for downstream processes such as the design and mapping of the sensor and control technology for machines and plants. The process engineering data is the central source of information for mechanical and plant engineering and must be seamlessly transferred to fluid and electrical engineering - the more crucial it is to automate these processes on the basis of integrated engineering data.
Process Engineering Tasks and Challenges
An important engineering task, especially in process engineering, is the preparation of PFDs, which serve to design and document various process steps. They often have to include hundreds of components such as vessels, actuators including pumps, fans and heating elements and valves for a machine. Their connection via pipelines must be documented in the flow diagram. The creation of the P&IDs is important for downstream processes such as the design and mapping of the sensor and control technology for machines and plants. The process engineering data is the central source of information for mechanical and plant engineering and must be seamlessly transferred to fluid and electrical engineering - the more crucial it is to automate these processes on the basis of integrated engineering data.
CAE Software -Necessary Foundation for Efficient Engineering Processes
What applies to all engineering disciplines also applies to process engineering: By creating a basis for your engineering through compliance with regulations and standards and high-quality device data, you create the necessary foundation for efficient processes and workflows.
High-Quality Device Data for Your Projects
Using the EPLAN Data Portal provides you access to high-quality device and component data from a continually growing pool of manufacturers. This way you get all the necessary device data for process engineering from one source and can easily integrate it into your projects via drag-and-drop.
Focus on Interdisciplinary Design
Process engineering data is the central source of information for mechanical and plant engineering and its seamless transfer to fluid and electrical engineering is essential. This makes it important to optimize your processes on the basis of integrated engineering data. EPLAN solutions support you in this.
Creating PFDs and P&IDs
For optimal P&ID creation, symbols, circuits and piping must be easily customizable and usable, and cross-references must be easy to manage. The numbering of components and pipelines should be automatic, and automatic P&ID creation should also be possible. With EPLAN Preplanning you have the ideal solution for process engineering design at hand - both for the creation of PFDs in the first step and for detailed P&ID designs at a later date. In addition, the EPLAN platform creates a consistent foundation for your engineering, with which you can seamlessly transfer data to downstream disciplines such as electrical and fluid engineering.
Preplanning Connections
EPLAN Preplanning provides you with connection design objects for pipes and cables which you can use to define which segments are to be connected to each other in the pre-planning phase. In addition, you can design connections between device connections as well as device sources and destinations and define the side placement within the documentation.
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