EPLAN Electric P8

Amazing design tool

Vorteile:

The best part is to create a data base with all the parts you will need in your designs. You have to invest some time creating the data of each part, but once you have it done can be used for any other projects. You can create "macros" of these parts, using symbols, images, connection points and more, just to do it easy to understand. It is an amazing tool to pass the knowledge of the device to the technical personal. You can stablish mounting locations, you can clarify where have to be installed a device. If you invest time adding correctly parts to your data base, you'll be able to generated a BOM automatically, without mention you can generate a very different types of report that will help in your designs.

Nachteile:

Requires a lot of training, but it is completely a good invest of time and money.

"Empowering Electrical Design: Exploring the Key Features and Benefits of EPLAN Electric P8"

Kommentare: Businesses utilizing EPLAN Electric P8 can solve various electrical design challenges, such as improving design efficiency, ensuring compliance with industry standards, reducing errors, streamlining collaboration, and enhancing documentation accuracy. These benefits lead to optimized design processes and increased productivity.

Vorteile:

Automation and Macros,Data Management, easy to use ,EPLAN Electric P8 facilitates seamless integration with manufacturing processes. It allows for data exchange between the design software and manufacturing systems, such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems

Nachteile:

there are a few areas where some users may feel that certain features could be improved or added Improved integration with PLC programming, expanded symbol libraries, advanced design validation, enhanced user interface customization, and improved performance are potential areas for improvement in EPLAN Electric P8 based on user feedback and industry discussions.

Features I like

Kommentare: Not happy. Consider it a waste of money

Vorteile:

The one benefit I like is the parts database. Panel layout is a challenge.

Nachteile:

The software is extremely difficult to use and there is no clear documentation explaining the features and methods to setup the software to make it easier to use. Symbols are not correct for NFPA standards and I need to modify them constantly. Parts downloaded from Data Portal do not always have the correct macro or symbol associated with it. There does not seem to be a standard for the symbols regarding size and functions. All symbols seem to be based on IEC which does not work well for NFPA projects.

Using eplan electric p8 on a daily basis raise productivity

Kommentare: Eplan is very robust and neat electrical design software and also the eplan envirenment is so helpful as the digital twin it makes cost estimationt very easy and reduce site modification

Vorteile:

I really like how eplan has a massive library from electrcal component OEM and how it integrates with the software and also as automation project go eplan has cut the developing time to half when using TIA portal as it brigns your tags directly to eplan

Nachteile:

Eplan does not calculate the section of the cables and the harmonics to compaire with the predesign calculation which will be really handy to prepare quotations for clients on the fly

Vastly increased productivity

Kommentare: We've seen improvements in time-to-produce schematics.

Vorteile:

My first engineer who we got using ePLAN came from a company with exclusively used AutoCAD Electrical. Within a couple of months, the engineer feels they can work 2-3x faster in ePLAN, access to the parts portal is a massive saving for us, as new products are generally available from the parts portal and do not require us to create a new intelliegent block.

Nachteile:

It feels like there are a lot of "options" which come at a great cost. Full migration to use ePLAN is going to take us multiple years due to the software investment.