Cabling and Wire Harness Design in 3D
EPLAN Harness proD
Cabling in 3D

EPLAN Harness proD 

Cabling in 3D   

Use EPLAN Harness proD to efficiently design and document your cabling on 3D mechanical models – the software allows you to combine your mechanical and electrotechnical designs. Optimise and digitalise typical cabling workflows, including documentation for preconfigured cable assembly. 

Disciplines and industries

EPLAN Harness proD for Your Areas of Application

Discover EPLAN Harness proD’s many varied application fields – including for your industry and engineering disciplines.

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Wire Harness

Constructing and documenting wire harnesses can be viewed as a critical juncture at the interface of design and production. Working with a digital twin in wire harness development is worth the effort – for your company as well.

Automation Technology

Automation technology is used in all areas of technology for engineering machines and plant systems. With the solutions from EPLAN, you have an enormous range of functions at your fingertips for this discipline.

Electrical Engineering

Planning electrical engineering is a complex field of topics, particularly as several people are often working in various disciplines on the same project. Electrical engineering data must also be usable for other departments. At the same time, electrical engineering is always under time pressures, must deliver on time and always keep an eye on incurred costs. EPLAN offers you an integrated software solution for efficient electrical engineering.

Machinery and Plant Construction

The daily ordering business is getting much faster and time pressures are rising, no least due to international competitors. At the same time, customers are demanding increasingly more individualised projects through to mass customisation. EPLAN is here supporting you with integrated engineering solutions along your value chain.

Panel Building

You can optimise and industrialise your processes in control and switchgear system engineering using EPLAN’s engineering solutions in conjunction with Rittal’s system and automation expertise. Consistent data is the key to success here. We support you in saving both time and costs, in avoiding errors and in increasing your productivity over the long term.

Added Value & Features for Cabling

EPLAN Harness proD for Cabling in Machine Building

EPLAN Harness proD is the right tool for cable designs and field cabling, for instance in machine and plant system manufacturing. The software closes the gap between MCAD and ECAD and makes possible electrotechnical cable designs in 3D.

Designing components and cables on a 3D mechanical model

Transfer electrotechnical components planned in EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Pro Panel into a 3D mechanical model and create a digital representation of the cabling.

Documentation for purchasing, work preparation and manufacturing

Using the digital cable designs, you can derive bills of materials and further information for commercial ordering processes. Important data such as cable lengths are provided to all downstream processes, including manufacturing as well as wire harness and cable production plans. You can easily share your 3D data with co-workers and business partners via HTML export.

Planning of attachment points for the correct placement of drilling holes

There are many reasons to fasten cables to components. With EPLAN Harness proD, these attachment points are considered as part of the electrotechnical designs. This important information can later be used for the correct mechanical planning of drilling holes.

Easy routing in cable ducts and for energy chains*

EPLAN Harness proD lets you create both round and angled cable routes. This eliminates the need to manually fill round bundles – the software automatically takes care of it for you.

*Available starting in Version 2023, Service Pack 1

Added Value & Features for Wire Harness

EPLAN Harness proD for Designing Wire Harness using the Digital Twin

With EPLAN Harness proD, you can enhance the digital twin with the relevant electrical engineering information early in the engineering process. This means the cabling and wire harness designs don’t depend on the availability of a mechanical prototype. The software is open to MCAD systems and can be seamlessly integrated into existing system landscapes.

Wire Harness Designing in 3D

The intuitive 3D environment makes it easy for you to design cabling and wire harnesses.

Automated Planning

You define the routing paths and the automated routing of wires and cables.

High-Quality Documentation Including the Nail Board Layout

The required manufacturing documentation can be created automatically, saving you time and increasing the quality of your documentation.

EPLAN Application Programming Interface (API)

With the EPLAN Harness proD API development environment the doors to your individual further development are wide open. The development environment offers you an efficient possibility to implement your own required functionalities or automatic functions. With this individual customization in the core of EPLAN Harness proD you can optimize your engineering workflow specifically.

Faster task-based processes

Use of the overall solution is thus facilitated for all participants. Processing times, planning errors and training times can be reduced. Results are thus available faster and more economically.

EPLAN Harness proD: Intelligent Wiring in 3D

EPLAN Harness proD: Intelligent Wiring in 3D

Valuable tips for your wiring and wire harness designs

With EPLAN Harness proD you can automate typical workflows in wiring and wire harness designs. From design through to documentation, you can now use it to plan your wiring and wire harness designs completely in 3D. How do you get started? Take a look at our recorded webcasts and user reports.

Recorded Webcast

Cabling and wire harness design for extreme conditions: CadCabel automates their typical workflows for cabling the IceCube Observatory in the Antarctic using EPLAN Harness proD. Some of the topics discussed included:

  • How is cabling accomplished under extreme conditions?
  • What advantages does the digital twin have for deployments at up to -70°C?
  • Live: What does the cabling in the modules within the IceCube Observatory look like?

User reports

Wiring correctly from the very start: with EPLAN Harness proD you can plan your wiring early on so that the individual production process steps mesh perfectly.

Find out what possibilities open up when designing in 3D with a virtual prototype from some of our customers.

How-to

EPLAN Tutorials

Moving images explain things better! That’s why we’re providing free of charge tutorials that support you in the daily use of our solutions.

EPLAN Platform

System Requirements

What hardware and software requirements should your system meet for the use of the EPLAN Platform?

Features

Highlights around the current release

Get an overview of innovative functionalities that make your project planning more efficient.

Services

We’re Here for You!

EPLAN offers you comprehensive services and support beyond our software. We’re looking forward to supporting you!

EPLAN Consulting

Our experienced EPLAN consultants will help you to utilise EPLAN solutions efficiently and introduce new engineering methods. In addition, the consultants can work with you to unlock the enormous potential for implementing integrated working processes in your company.

EPLAN Solution Center

Are you stuck? No problem: EPLAN Support is available to you and offers professional support in your daily work. The EPLAN Solution Center is an online support system for EPLAN Software Service customers, where you can create tickets directly in the software.

EPLAN Experience

EPLAN Experience is a concept that highlights how you can achieve concrete process optimisation. It shows you how to work in a functionally structured way and follow uniform standards. You can also increase your engineering efficiency step by step with a solid data basis.

User Reports & Customer Testimonials

EPLAN Harness proD in Practice

Learn from first-hand experience about how our customers and partners benefit from EPLAN Harness proD when creating cabling and wire harnesses and assembling digital twins.

With EPLAN, Aggreko moves towards Industry 4.0

Originally founded in the Netherlands in 1962, Aggreko, who is now headquartered in Glasgow, has grown to become one of the worlds’ leading global suppliers of temporary power, heating and cooling solutions for businesses and communities. The company now serves more than 100 countries and is present in more than 204 locations around the world.

For its frequently complex multi-disciplinary engineering projects, Aggreko previously used a two-dimensional computer-aided design system together with a combination of Microsoft Word and Excel documents for electrical design. Aggreko wanted to reduce its product development time and the amount of time it took to design digital prototypes. The design team saw that a more efficient design process was a way of achieving this, so the company started looking for a seamless 3D solution that would increase the efficiency of its engineering design processes.

Voltabox AG

At Electromobility’s Sweet Spot

When it comes to e-mobility, expert knowledge and a smart approach are what’s in demand. Voltabox AG, a supplier of modern lithium-ion battery systems, is fully exploiting the automation potential for cable and wire harness engineering using EPLAN Harness proD. Go to the user report.

Nordex Group

Goal: Digitised representation of a wind turbine

Is it possible to use a computer to exactly determine the length of a wire harness being installed in the tower of a wind turbine, 120 metres in height, and connect it to the control cabinet in the nacelle? And can you increase efficiency while doing so? Yes, you can do both as the Nordex SE example shows.

Webcast with Voltabox AG

Efficiently and automatically creating and documenting cabling and wire harnesses is the topic of this joint webcast between EPLAN and Voltabox AG, a company specialised in developing and manufacturing modern lithium-ion battery systems. You can take a look at this exclusive video here.

More About This Topic

The Digital Twin and Designing Wire Harnesses

Gartner says it. Deloitte says it. EPLAN says it, too: the digital twin is becoming the driving force of industrial production in the twenty-first century. Embedded into the megatrends of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, the digital twin brings manufacturing companies significant advantages across the entire product life cycle.

Whitepaper

Background on the Digital Twin in Wire Engineering

This whitepaper, “Electrified – The Digital Twin”, shows what a digital twin consists of and which disciplines and fields can work with it, with a special focus on the engineering field of designing and documenting cabling and wire harnesses in 3D.

10 Reasons digital twin and wire harness
10 Reasons Why

Ten Good Reasons for Designing in 3D

The digital twin is gaining ground: according to a February 2019 study by Gartner, a global research and advisory firm, 75 per cent of companies surveyed are planning to use a digital twin within the next year. If the twin also includes electrical engineering information in 3D, your engineering will benefit greatly. EPLAN gives you ten good reasons.

Infographic

The Digital Twin – Today and Tomorrow

Our infographic “Wiring the Digital Twin?” outlines how you can use the digital twin to harmonise processes and to save time in every individual step of the production process – now and in the future. Request the graphic here.

Wire harness video
Video

Seven Steps to the Virtual Prototype of the Wire Harness

Find out in this tutorial video how you can plan and design wiring within a very short period of time using EPLAN Harness proD.

We’re Happy to Help!

Please contact us if you’d like to learn more about EPLAN Harness proD. We’re looking forward to helping you.