EPLAN Partner Network

Rittal, headquartered in Herborn is a leading global provider of solutions for industrial enclosures, power distribution, climate control and IT infrastructure, as well as software and services. Its product range includes solutions for modular and energy-efficient data centres. Leading software providers EPLAN and Cideon complement the value chain, providing interdisciplinary engineering solutions, while Rittal Automation Systems offers automation systems for switchgear construction. Rittal is the largest company in the Friedhelm Loh Group. The Group operates worldwide with 12 production sites and 96 international subsidiaries. The entire group employs 12,100 people and generated revenues of €2.6 billion in 2019.

Phoenix Contact is the global market leader for components, systems and solutions in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and automation. Today, the family-owned company employs around 17,600 people worldwide and generated a revenue of 2.48 billion euros in 2019. The headquarter is in Blomberg, Westphalia/Germany. The Phoenix Contact Group includes eighteen German and four international companies as well as 55 sales organizations around the world. Phoenix Contact is present in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries.

Siemens’ Electrical Products business unit offers products for a safe and efficient electrical infrastructure at the low-voltage level in buildings and industrial environments. As part of the strategic partnership, the products of both companies will be coordinated in a more targeted manner in order to offer optimized solutions for switchgear manufacturers and electrical planners, e.g. by  providing Eplan data for configured Siemens products or by jointly optimizing and automating customer processes.

ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 110,000 talented employees in over 100 countries.

As a wholesaler of electrical equipment and provider of technology services, we supply more than ten thousand customers with 3.8 million electrical products and intelligent solutions for building technology and the automation of machines and production plants. Our specialists provide extensive services and technologies for planning, installing, optimizing and maintaining electrical systems. Thanks to our strong network of partners, we support our customers along the entire value chain.

Our slogan is our mission. The pursuit of Perfection in Automation has inspired and guided B&R for over 40 years. To us, perfection means more than developing the best solutions in industrial automation. Keen foresight and entrepreneurial courage helped us rise quickly into the ranks of top global players in industrial automation. Our role as the ABB Group's global center for machine and factory automation strengthens our position of leadership and adds new momentum to our impressive record of sustained growth.

Bechtle PLM Deutschland GmbH is your partner if you are interested in the best available solution for your product data & lifecycle management, CAD design, simulation, CAM, additive manufacturing (3D printing) or sales-orientated configurations. We flexibly define the digital transformation for companies of all sizes and in almost every industry - on-premise, for the cloud or in the hybrid variant. Our experts provide competent and goal-orientated advice, connect you with the best IIoT providers and assist you from the initial idea to the digital twin. This is how we define end-to-end processes as added value for your engineering & manufacturing.

ProCoS, the ERP industry solution for contract manufacturers in the systems, controls and special machines - for optimal organization of your company.

PDM technology is an independent software vendor and Microsoft partner. We specialize in the development, distribution and implementation of the Bluestar PLM solution - fully embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance, Commerce/Retail, Finance and Operations (F&O), Enterprise Edition, AXAPTA, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Dynamics AX ERP System (365/AX). Bluestar PLM is offered by PDM technology worldwide and seamlessly integrating product data (drawings, BOMs and 3D files) from EPLAN as well as other CAD systems into the Microsoft ERP environment.

ctrlX AUTOMATION surmounts the classic boundaries between machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things. With a Linux real-time operating system, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection, ctrlX AUTOMATION reduces components and engineering costs by 30 to 50%.

Brady makes products that make the world a safer and smarter place. We are a global leader in safety, identification and compliance solutions for a diverse range of workplaces. From the depths of the ocean to outer space, from the factory floor to the delivery room — we’re just about everywhere you look. 

Companies around the globe trust Brady because of our deep expertise and knowledge across a wide range of industries and applications, powered by our world-class manufacturing capabilities. 

As a system provider for control cabinet wiring, CADCABEL has been a successful company for over 25 years. With pre-assembled wiring assemblies, supported by software solutions developed in-house and clever engineering, we ensure efficient and error-free wiring of your control cabinets.

CADENAS is a leading tool provider offering services for component manufacturers and industrial companies. The digital solutions support businesses in product marketing and revenue growth, as well as in reducing internal efforts and costs in the design process. With 3Dfindit, CADENAS also provides engineers and designers with an innovative platform for fast and precise searches for CAD models. The technology partnership with EPLAN enables the integration of the CADENAS component database into the EPLAN Data Portal.

CADTALK is a market-leading intelligent integration and automation software. The automation allows for complex logic in a simple-to-learn expression language and supports events and automatic processing. It is completely off the shelf with a plugin-based architecture that provides updates to retain compatibility with the products it integrates with.

Cembre is a leading company in the manufacturing of connection systems and identification & labelling systems.

The Center Data Intelligence in Operations supports manufacturing companies in taking their production to a new level. The data-driven approach ensures efficiency, quality, and innovation on the shop floor.

Cideon advises and supports companies in optimizing their product development processes - from conception through engineering to production and service.

With unique solutions, Cideon ensures a continuous flow of data along the process chains, making data available and economically usable throughout the company. In this way, Cideon customers can use the full potential of digitization for themselves and their customers.

Configit is the Hidden Champion for Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) with more than 2.1 million users of the open Virtual Tabulation ™ (VT) worldwide. A CLM consolidates data & rules from authoring systems, such as PLM & ERP and allows VT configurations wherever they are required. With CLM & VT engineering develops exactly the cybertronic product variants that are needed by sales; VT combines efficient automated engineering with the CPQ of the sales organisation.

CONTACT is the leading vendor of open standard software and open source pioneer for the product engineering process and the digital transformation. Our products help to organize projects, execute processes reliably and collaborate with others around the world on the basis of virtual product models and their digital twins. Our open technology and our Elements platform are ideal for integrating additional IT systems and the Internet of Things to create end-to-end business processes.

Since 1999, D&TS GmbH has been offering innovative IT solutions and services evolving around master data management and classification. D&TS ensures high-quality and sustainable (master) data quality for large and medium-sized companies. Our expertise and technical know-how are represented internationally by two additional locations in Lviv, Ukraine and the ECLASS Offices in Portugal and Spain.

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable.

Every day, all around the world, people depend on technology, transportation, energy and infrastructure to live and work. With rapid growth in electrification, an energy transition driven by climate change and explosive growth in connectivity, we’re well positioned to solve the world’s toughest electrical and mechanical power management challenges. Because that’s what really matters. And we’re here to make sure it works. ​

EHRT Maschinenbau GmbH constructs CNC bending and punching machines for the precise processing of flat materials made of copper, aluminum or steel.

Established in 1979, Elmo Solutions is a world class leader in CAD/PDM/PLM to ERP data integration, with users in over 50 countries.

encoway is the leading full-service provider for all areas of Configure Price Quote (CPQ) and market-oriented variant management for the manufacturing industry in the DACH region. encoway products and services accelerate sales processes, open up new sales channels and consistently increase process efficiency. encoway advances the digitisation of its customers and ensures the efficient marketing of multiple-variant products, systems and solutions.

Customers around the world trust us when it comes to process automation. Our shared goal is plant safety, availability and efficiency. We are with you every day, everywhere.

With currently around 1,100 employees, the F.EE company group is one of the German market leaders in manufacturing and automation technology. With its four business units Electrical Engineering, Automation Robotics, Software+Systems and Power Engineering, the company very successfully offers customized solutions as well as products and services individually adapted to the customers' requirements in the fields of automation technology, robotics, control cabinet construction, electrical engineering, informatics as well as industrial software.

As a family-owned company, Festo thinks and acts responsibly and with a long-term perspective. Festo stands for clear values, utmost quality and customer-oriented innovation. It has set standards in industrial automation technology and technical education ever since its establishment, thereby making a contribution to sustainable development of the environment, the economy and society.

GAIN Software GmbH is one of the largest independent software specialists for the development of product data management (PDM) systems. The core competence lies in the development, implementation and application support of integrated software solutions for the management of design and office documents of all kinds.

Branches in Bielefeld, Bamberg and Berlin, as well as a nationwide network of system and development partners, ensure competent support for customers worldwide.

As one of the world's leading suppliers of metrological systems, Gossen Metrawatt GmbH develops and sells a comprehensive range of high-quality measuring and testing technology for the electrical trade, industry and the medical sector under its GOSSEN METRAWATT brand.

The product portfolio includes measuring and test equipment for the standard-compliant testing of electrical systems and devices, multimeters, calibrators, power analyzers, power supplies as well as transducers and power meters.

Grollmus stands for 40 years of expertise in training and project planning of systems for automation and drive technology. We also develop innovative software solutions for programming and configuring automated systems. Our 120 employees are specialists in the fields of training, software and consulting. In 2 headquarters and 17 training centres, we live a value system that places the individual needs of our customers in the focus of our agile actions.

The HARTING Technology Group is a leading global supplier of industrial connection technology. Spread across the globe, around 6,000 employees work in 42 active sales locations, 14 active production locations and seven development locations. HARTING connectivity solutions are used for the transmission of "data and power" in numerous industrial sectors. These include the fields of transportation, electromobility, renewable energy generation, automation and mechanical engineering. The family-owned company generated a turnover of 940 million euros in 2023/24.

The Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) of the University of Stuttgart is one of the leading research centers in the field of control engineering – from planning to the tool. The ISW does interdisciplinary research in technologies for the future production and automation. For the industry we are for almost 50 years an innovative and reliably partner for ambitious challenges, from the first idea to the end product.

As a solution and consulting service provider for the digitization of the medium-sized manufacturing industry, we have been serving more than 1400 satisfied customers with our product and service portfolio for over 25 years.

Through the combination of individual consulting and customized software solutions, we have developed into the largest Siemens Digital Industries software partner in the field of mainstream engineering in Germany and also successfully established our own product line on the market, the EdgePLM Series.

The ISD Group is one of the leading providers of innovative and highly integrated CAD and PDM/PLM solutions. Our products provide powerful functions, innovative tools for automation and unique flexibility for the user. HiCAD is a 2D/3D CAD system with specialized industry solutions for structural engineering, engineering design and product construction. Our PDM system HELiOS enables a seamless data flow in the engineering field und secures company-wide processes.

ISG offers software solutions and technologies in the field of industrial control and automation technology.
ISG-virtuos is an open simulation platform with which complete production systems including all components are checked and optimized in deterministic real time. Consulting and implementation based on "best practice" solutions lead to efficient use by control, machine and plant manufacturers as well as by operators of automation systems.

Jetter AG is a leading provider of automation systems for the machinery and plant engineering business, as well as for the process technology industry. These systems have been applied both in industrial and mobile automation for decades. Jetter solutions are noted for their outstanding system integrity and diversity thus simplifying handling for the customer.

Jetter focuses on the packaging and filling, handling and assembly, window manufacturing, municipal vehicles, agricultural machinery and glass container production industries.

keytech is one of the leading providers of PLM and DMS solutions in D-A-CH. The seamless integration of PLM, DMS, project planning and BPMN process management provides the full perspective on all relevant company data & processes. Combined with the fully integrated BPMN Workflow Engine, keytech offers a technical document management that leaves nothing to be desired. Customers worldwide appreciate the high transparency and the noticeable relief of routine tasks that keytech PLM & DMS offers.

In the field of complete electrotechnical solutions, the LQ Group is a recognized system supplier for national and international machine and plant manufacturers. The control and installation technology specialist designs, assembles and supplies cable assemblies, cable harnesses, installation modules, energy chains and complete switchgear. The company employs around 390 people on three continents: Germany, USA and China.

Started in 2009 as a manufacturer of simulation software for virtual commissioning and digital twins, machineering GmbH & Co.KG has changed to a key problem solver company for the development of mechatronic systems. Not only engineers from the research and development department use the advantages of the simulation software iPhysics, but also from a business point of view, companies benefit from the efficiency potential of iPhysics. The improvement of productivity, quality, guarantee of delivery dates and employee satisfaction are the focus of a comprehensive and cross-divisional use of iPhysics.

Offering a vast range of automation and processing technologies, including controllers, drive products, power distribution and control products, electrical discharge machines, electron beam machines, laser processing machines, computerized numerical controllers, and industrial robots. Mitsubishi Electric helps bring higher productivity – and quality – to the factory floor. Its extensive service networks around the globe provide direct communication and comprehensive support to its customers.

OMRON Industrial Automation, powered by the Innovative-Automation! concept, generates value by solving manufacturing issues with innovation that addresses changes in what products are manufactured as well as where, how, and by whom they need to be manufactured.

The Pilz Group is a global supplier of products, systems and services for automation technology. Based in Ostfildern, near Stuttgart, the family-run company employs around 2,500 people. With 42 subsidiaries and branches around the world, Pilz supplies safe solutions for people, machinery and the environment. The technology leader offers complete automation solutions comprising sensors as well as control and drive technology. Consulting, engineering and training round off its international range of services.

We are involved in the development of solutions that improve productivity of engineers using different Electrical\CAD\PDM\PLM software like EPLAN, SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, NX etc. We have expertise in CAD translation, automation and ERP integration. We provide EPLAN, SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, SOLIDWORKS PDM, Autodesk Vault, NX and Teamcenter integration with Microsoft Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance.

PROCAD GmbH & Co. KG is an international platform provider serving the needs of mid-market and large companies in technical industries and specializes in digitally transforming engineering and information management processes for products and plants.

PROCAD’s mission is to deliver the impact of digitally transformed product lifecycle management (PLM) and technical document management (ECM/DMStec) with a purely configuration-based implementation approach.

QBuild is the industry leader in integrating Engineering software to ERP. For decades, we have provided customer-centric service to over 2,000 manufacturers connecting CAD, PDM, PLM, and Nesting software to ERP.

Quanos acts as a software partner in industrial aftersales & service and technical documentation. The group, formed by merger in 2020, brings together market-leading digital experts with more than 25 years’ experience in developing innovative, successful, and sustainable technologies for manufacturers and operators of machines and systems.

As a leading software company in digitization, CPQ and configuration, at SAE we serve our customers with solutions regarding international processes in sales, production, variant management and customer service. The patented, interactive SAE 3D configuration module is an optional add-on. It allows configuring a digital twin in a very easy and comfortable way. With SAE applications, customers benefit from a seamless and consistent system landscape – covering the entire organization from sales to production.

Selmo Technology GmbH is a technology scale-up with headquarters near Graz, Austria, that developed an operating system for machines making industrial machinery error-free and reliable. The foundation for Selmo was laid in 1998 with the innovation of sequence logic modeling. Founded in 2019 by Markus Gruber, today already working with international clients in various industries. Selmo’s patented solution is the only alternative to manual programming, which not only controls but also monitors the machine in real-team and in „bit-by-bit“ accuracy.

SEW-EURODRIVE - Innovation in motion. As a leading family-owned company in drive technology and automation, we offer comprehensive solutions, products and services from a single source. Present worldwide, at your side locally.

As a solutions provider, SIGMATEK designs and produces complete automation systems for industrial machine and equipment building. Control, safety and drive technology, visualization and the integrated software tool LASAL are all made in Austria and in use around the world. The deep applications know-how and strong service concept guarantee that SIGMATEK customers are provided with flexible and future-proof solutions that make their machines even more successful–an added value over the entire product life cycle. We MaxUp your Automation.

For over 30 years, Trace Software International has been developing software solutions for the design and calculation of electrical networks and photovoltaic systems, from design to operation and network dimensioning. Trace Software is based in Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc in France and distributes its solutions in Europe, Africa and Asia via its distributors and subsidiaries located all over the world.

Our goal is to develop an intelligent smart factory virtual platform which could collaborate among equipment suppliers, line builders, manufacturers in the areas of designing, prototyping, commissioning, re-production, maintenance, remote trouble shooting, and remote A/S.

The University of Amsterdam is ambitious, creative and committed: a leader in international science and a partner in innovation, the UvA has been inspiring generations since 1632.

The WAGO Group is an international, standard-setting supplier of electrical interconnection, automation and electronic interface products and solutions. This family-run company is the world market leader in spring pressure connection technology. Whether in industrial, railway, or energy technologies, in the marine and offshore sectors, or in building and lighting management, WAGO products and solutions provide safety and efficiency.

The Weidmüller Group has production facilities, marketing companies and representative offices in more than 80 countries. Together with our customers, we shape the digital transformation – with products, solutions and services for Smart Industrial Connectivity and the Industrial Internet of Things. In the fiscal year of 2021, Weidmüller reached sales of 960 million euros with around 5,300 employees.

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Die Firma Zahnen Technik, ist ein 1958 gegründetes und mittlerweile weltweit tätiges Unternehmen. Wir haben es uns zum Ziel gemacht, die Qualität des Wassers zu erhalten und ständig zu verbessern. Dieser verantwortungsvollen Aufgabe stellen wir uns in jeder Hinsicht, denn jeder hat das Recht auf sauberes Wasser.

The EPLAN integration into Autodesk Vault Professional lets you manage mechanical engineering data in conjunction with your EPLAN project data. This allows you to organise files more efficiently, to avoid costly mistakes and complete test and approval cycles more quickly.

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proALPHA ® has established itself as an attractive solution for small businesses. The software meets the requirements of medium-sized manufacturing industry and industry related wholesale trade, both in production and accounting as well as in logistics.

The appropriate EPLAN integration allows you to also access electrical engineering data in the Windchill PLM system. The EPLAN PTC Windchill Integration includes various workflows such as document management, replacement part management and bill of materials management.

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The SAP® Engineering Control Center interface to EPLAN (SAP ECTR) is the ideal enabler for both concurrent and system engineering as well as for mechatronics by offering a holistic view of all product information. Smooth transition between processes is always ensured by up-to-date and consistent product data being available throughout the company. The SAP ECTR interface to EPLAN is developed by our partner company CIDEON, a SAP Platinum Partner and distributed by SAP SE.

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As a Siemens PLM Solution Partner, EPLAN offers you a standard integration of the electrical engineering data into the Teamcenter PLM system. This integration allows you to collaborate across teams and projects throughout the entire product life cycle.

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