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Automotive
Get a Flying Start with Engineering & Electrical Design Solutions for Manufacturing

Automotive

Get a Flying Start with Engineering & Electrical Design Solutions for Manufacturing

Few industries are facing such monumental upheavals as the automobile industry. The energy transformation, new mobility concepts and the technological demands for vehicles of the future mean that automobile manufacturing is facing new challenges. Each new technical development in automation technology increases the demands on manufacturing. At the same time, cost pressures are increasing along the entire value chain. With our electrical engineering design software solutions, you can optimize the entire value chain in vehicle manufacturing. Many car companies and automotive suppliers have been relying on EPLAN’s powerful solutions for years.

Processes

EPLAN: Your Partner from Engineering to Maintenance

Automobile production is characterized by a close partnership between vehicle manufacturers, as plant operators, and suppliers of plant systems, machine engineering companies and panel builders. EPLAN offers both sides decisive added value for more efficiency: from concept planning, standardization and electrical schematic drawings, plus detail planning, to manufacturing integration for plant system manufacturers and supplier companies as well as for plant system documentation. All stages of the vehicle manufacturing processes are supported: we make it possible for you to efficiently plan and design production systems, whether it be in the press shop, the paint shop, the body shop or in assembly. The resulting documentation is the decisive prerequisite for smooth plant operations, maintenance and servicing.

Advantages

Integrated Standards for the Entire Supplier Chain

EPLAN solutions help ensure that all of your engineering data comes from a single source – from preplanning to manufacturing. This enables integrated connections to standard interfaces and integration into existing processes and system landscapes. That is why a number of automotive companies rely on EPLAN as the standard software for their entire supplier chain.

EPLAN Training Academy

Trainings for Automotive Suppliers

The EPLAN Training Academy offers suppliers standard and methodology training courses on all aspects of the EPLAN software being used. Interested? Then please contact us!

EPLAN Consulting

Enormous Potential for Your Company Processes

Our experienced EPLAN consultants will help you to utilize EPLAN solutions efficiently and introduce new engineering methods.

Rittal and EPLAN

Integrated Value Chain

Working hand in hand with our affiliate Rittal, we offer you integrated solutions for industrializing your value chain.

Solutions

Our Solutions for Automotive

High-quality, real-time plant documentation is crucial for every plant operator. In turn, plant system manufacturers and panel builders require efficient tools for planning plant systems and supporting their own manufacturing processes. We offer all of this from a single source.

EPLAN Electric P8

Integrated Electrical Engineering

Aside from delivering options for creating electrical schematics, EPLAN Electric P8 also offers integrated data and engineering concepts based on EPLAN Platform. Direct interfaces to related disciplines such as fluid power engineering and control technology facilitate project planning and maintaining as-built documentation.

EPLAN Fluid

For Your Fluid Power Designs

Electrical engineering and fluid power engineering are directly interdependent – planning them in a common software solution is thus an important aspect for comprehensive documentation. With EPLAN Fluid, we offer you an integrated fluid-technical solution from EPLAN Platform with a common database for electrical engineering.

EPLAN Pro Panel

Virtual Panel Building in 3D

Plant system concepts and maintenance concepts of the future require a new perspectives. EPLAN Pro Panel delivers the digital twin of control cabinets and other enclosures, enabling plant personnel to quickly orient themselves within the system and identify components. For plant system manufacturers, EPLAN Pro Panel offers a platform for project planning with in-depth product integration based on detailed documentation and direct integrations to production machines.

User Reports & Customer Testimonials

EPLAN in Practice

Find out how companies in the automobile industry use our solutions to meet current technical challenges and business developments to improve their competitiveness.

VDS Getriebe GmbH

Intelligent gears, intelligently wired up

With continuously variable automatic transmissions, VDS Getriebe GmbH helps manufacturers of agricultural and municipal utility vehicles to increase their efficiency and life span. By using patented, modular elements that are developed specific to the model, the transmissions are mechatronic units with drive management which ranges from the motor to the wheel hub.

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