EPLAN partners with Dassault Systèmes
October 2023
IT in Manufacturing
EPLAN and Dassaults Systèmes have entered into a technology partnership as part of the EPLAN Partner Network, whereby both parties will be working on expanding the interface between EPLAN and the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The goal is seamless integration of electrical engineering and fluid power technology in the context of product development. The agreement was signed in Hanover, Germany by Dominic Kurtaz, managing director of Eurocentral, Dassault Systèmes, and Sebastian Seitz, CEO of EPLAN & Cideon. The partners will be contributing their expertise in the interests of their shared clients, thereby enabling companies to set up end-to-end digital development processes.
Seitz explains: “With the bidirectional interface between the EPLAN Platform and the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we are increasing the process efficiencies of our common clients. When all systems are bidirectionally connected – ECAD, ERP and PDM for instance – users are working in a truly interdisciplinary manner, and thus much more efficiently.” Kurtaz adds: “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.”
From left: CEO of EPLAN & Cideon, Sebastian Seitz, and managing director of Eurocentral, Dassault Systèmes, Dominic Kurtaz.
The partnership will be expanded in the coming months. Both companies are working in tandem to further optimise 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 at www.ecn-online.com, with videos and sample data in the PLM cloud environment and joint interaction on customer projects.
The interaction of EPLAN and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows the data management processes for electrical engineering and fluid power engineering to 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 synchronised with just one click. For users of both platforms, automating routine processes makes everyday work even easier. Common operations such as searching for, finding and creating projects, checking in or out of them, or exporting EPLAN project pages into neutral formats are all carried out much more efficiently with the interface. Fast and easy document generation in particular will save users both time and effort. All that is needed to output in neutral formats is a checkmark when checking in. The neutral formats are then automatically linked to the associated EPLAN project.
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, can be added companywide in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and are automatically available during the next checkout of the EPLAN project. Furthermore, the software supports traditional PDM functionality such as the approval or transfer of documentation to manufacturing.
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