Simply get starting
 Install and go - EPLAN Electric P8 can be used immediately. Data created under EPLAN 5 and EPLAN 21 are simply imported and used directly over the various platforms. The advantage: they are stored only once and they apply to every discipline and every trade, e.g. for translation or user rights information. First-time users and users changing from other systems can immediately get going with the look & feel user guidance. No matter whether it's material planning, design, manufacture, assembly, commissioning, or maintenance - users of over 42,000 electrical engineering EPLAN installations immediately find themselves in their familiar environment.
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Project Manager – the perfect wizard
Utilizing the full capabilities of the system and keeping an eye on everything at all times – even the most extensive tasks are performed as quick as a flash with the Project Manager. The Project Manager shows possibilities and decision paths for project management and flow. Each option is explained and the user guided safely to the goal. Preferred settings can be stored directly as project templates. |
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Interface configurator – faster to the goal
 Individualized interface layout, task and work phase configuration – no matter style. If project planning focuses on PLC processing, the views and editing dialogs can be adapted immediately to bus and PLC data. Even occasional users quickly find their bearings. The toolbars can be reduced to defined functions.
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Variant technology – unique, efficient, powerful, convincing
 The structures and interconnections of individual functional units are often rendered identically on drawings. The difference lies solely in the dimensioning and choice of items. For example, a powerful drive requires larger guards and greater conductor and terminal diameters. These desired combinations are often created as variants inside the partial circuits and are immediately available. Instead of modifying the data singly, you need only choose the suitable variant. Irrespectively of whether you want to standardize your processes or profit from the enormous work relief, this new variant technology saves up to 50% of the time needed by today's systems.
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Last minute changes for maximum flexibility
There is no more need for time-consuming and error-prone manual revision: EPLAN Electric P8 lets you make changes quickly and consistently, even on the verge of completion. It is of no account whether technical requisites were overlooked or the principal wishes a modification at short notice. The solution is parameterization, not (re-)design: simply choose the suitable variant afterwards. The internal plausibility check ensures the respective data consistency. |
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Collaborative and Workgroup engineering
 Workgroup engineering works over networks, between locations, and beyond national borders. When necessary, any number of users can work with EPLAN Electric P8 at the same time on a project – quickly, safely, and reliably.
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Totally global – the user concept for international success
 The consistent Unicode capability of EPLAN Electric P8 supplies schematics in all languages. From the Chinese schematic diagram to the Russian bill of materials everything is translated online or after work has finished. Users plan their projects comfortably in their own languages. The system then translates into the required client language. A click later, and project data are immediately dispatched by e-mail or PDF export – data exchange worldwide.
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Automatic standards transfer
EPLAN Electric P8 supports all international standards, e.g. IEC 61346, ANSI, JIC, NFPA, and the Russian GOST. In the face of growing internationalization this automatic conversion of standards ensures your competitive strength in the world. |
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Project navigators – the control center
Keep your eye on things from a variety of angles. The navigators let you manage project data at a central site from an angle independently of a distributed depiction in the schematic diagram. This new way of working offers convincing advantages. On the one hand the objects for editing, e.g. terminal strips, are filtered automatically and the object's properties depicted in a transparent format for editing. The user can therefore concentrate on what's important.
On the other hand, your work can be object-oriented at any time. There is no longer any need for time-consuming find and replace operations in each plan depiction. In just the one step all of the object's depictions are modified throughout the project. All data remain up to date and consistent at all times. |
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Unique Data Management
 Time is money – all logic information and device specifications are stored in the EPLAN Electric P8 database. At all times they are correct and available for fast implementation. The information describing the logic behavior of items need not be inserted at various places. There is no need for comparisons – the warranty for time savings and freedom from error.
When planning their project users access all logic and commercial data, either as a reference or belonging to the project. The latter makes sure that the projects remain consistent in themselves, irrespectively of the system settings at the end client's location. Here, too, EPLAN Electric P8 demonstrates its maximum flexibility: the master data embedded in the project can be compared at any time with the central priority master data. |
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Office integration for fascinating performance
 The integration of Office World is instrumental in enhancing productivity decisively. Excel is one of the standard tools for editing mass data. EPLAN Electric P8 lets all users edit data in Excel. Thanks to the Wizard it is possible without programming knowledge to transfer every EPLAN record into the Excel editor. At the same time you can, for instance, continue processing your data for your ordering, production, and maintenance divisions.
The warranty for time savings and freedom from errors – all logic data and all device options are stored in the EPLAN Electric P8 database. |
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The union of separate worlds
 EPLAN Electric P8 is the key to the new dimension in engineering. With the free choice between graphical and object orientation and a veritable fireworks of functional diversity the software gives your technology that cutting edge. The system aligns itself without restriction to the needs of the user, the warranty for results at maximum speed and reliable software handling. The added value obtained from the direct links to fluid, electrical, measuring, and control systems is an inestimable advantage for consistent processes.
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Process-oriented, integrated, and automated
The factors for maximum cost cutting are a system's performance and its integrability in the corporate processes including the automatability of design and development steps. With EPLAN Electric P8 these come as standard. For example, before items are retrieved from a preliminary or project bill of materials, the default quantities are subjected to an online examination. In addition, unified interfaces like ODBC, XML, and even Excel import and prepare data from upstream processes, transferring the results immediately to the downstream processes like production. Not only the pure advantage of speed for this unbroken communication, also the data integrity and therefore the quality of the results are a crucial competitive advantage. |
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So that routine does not degenerate to work
The next step is the automatability of the planning process. With EPLAN Electric P8 this step goes hand in hand with the integration. The system can be controlled from outside via scripts and command lines. |
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Individual configuration
Complete automation is implemented via an application programming interface (API). Functions used to generate results can be retrieved via this interface. This means that all connections to upstream and downstream processes can be fully automated. At the same time, activating the interfaces for data import and export can likewise be manipulated externally over the whole process. |
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Sustainable and expandable
Safeguarded data transfers from EPLAN 5 and EPLAN 21, variant technology, internationality, and extensive automation options deliver productivity from the outset. Thanks to its platform strategy EPLAN Electric P8 allows flexible expansions. A large number of integrated interfaces provide for the perfect integration. The system is ideal for both complex tasks and individual workstation requirements. |
