Data serves as more than just the engine for project design and planning. Users can access premium product catalogs from an ever-expanding list of popular component manufacturers through the Eplan Data Portal. Over two million sets of static device data from about 500 manufacturers have already been added to the web! Users can access much more than four million data sets by using integrated configurators.
The data quality is naturally excellent, and there is an almost infinite and constantly growing variety of components that can be swiftly and simply included into applications.
The availability of almost four million device data sets offers a vast array of options for projects. However, the quality of the data is more important than its quantity. “For us, quantity and quality go hand in hand,” explains Rainer Ackermann, Head of Content Quality Management at Eplan. In order to provide our consumers with the maximum amount of added value, we have strict standards for the completeness and quality of the data sets. We are still working on the Eplan Data Standard, or EDS, for the same reason. Manufacturers are likewise working to provide data sets that are as complete as feasible in order to meet these expectations.
Siemens Energy Automation and Building Technology Integrated
Siemens has been represented in the Data Portal with energy automation and building automation products for many years. Now, protection and automation devices from the Siprotec 5 family have been added. Protection, automation, and monitoring of the power grid are essential for a resilient network. “We need a secure and reliable power supply to establish a sustainable infrastructure and achieve our net-zero goals,” explains Stefan Werben, Portfolio Manager of Siprotec Medium Voltage Products at Siemens, adding: “We are pleased that we can now additionally support those customers who have chosen Eplan as their engineering platform to efficiently realize their projects in the construction, operation, and expansion of plants.”
With headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and Freiburg, Germany, Sauter is a prominent technology producer in the fields of building automation, system integration, and building services.
Their ecos504/505 line of integrated room automation solutions was recently added to the Eplan Data Portal. According to Sauter Head of Marketing and Product Management Peter Schoenenberger, “the positive feedback from both our customers and within our own company has motivated us to provide even more device data in the Eplan Data Standard.”
Data depth ensured – even globally
A majority of the device data stored in the portal – 1.4 of more than 2 million components – are already available in the Eplan Data Standard. The EDS increases and guarantees the quality of the data sets so that they can be used efficiently – ideally from engineering through to production. Rittal has around 7,300 devices stored in the Eplan Data Portal – around 5,600 of them in the Eplan Data Standard.
These include control cabinets, control cabinet accessories, Blue e+ climate control devices and more. There are almost no limits globally speaking as well: If a device data set is created using ECLASS as a step file in an IEC format (the European standard), the Eplan software automatically also supports the NFPA device data set (the American standard).
With this multi-standard support in one single data set, macros can also be saved in accordance with various standards that the Eplan Electric P8 software then recognises automatically.
Furthermore, modifiable data from configurators and selectors of various manufacturers can also be used. These have linked their product catalogues directly with the Eplan Data Portal.
Image 3: Around five hundred manufacturers are represented in the Eplan Data Portal – and the numbers keep rising.
Development Continues
Less visible but at least as important is the continued development of the data quality in the Eplan Data Portal. This year the focus is on preassembled cables. To ensure that machine cabling works as efficiently as possible with the new Eplan Cable proD solution, 3D data for the connectors is also being successively introduced.
Technically speaking, functional improvements are also on the horizon: The Eplan Data Portal will be able to be directly integrated into local device management with the upcoming release of the new Eplan Platform 2026. This will again even further simplify selecting components and accelerate project planning and design work.
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