engineering of production plants

Harness Engineering purchased
With the acquisition of 3D tools for the construction of harness Linius Technologies opens Eplan software growth potential: the appliance industry and specialty vehicles. Along with the expansion of sales offices to the long-term growth will be secured.


So far, focused on the engineering of production plants, integrated Eplan now the electrical design of equipment in the wiring and installation situation of particular importance.
With 60 percent market share in the electrical design and engineering software EPLAN is the market leader in Deutschalnd. Worldwide software provider, 30 percent is in second place. "By the end of the year, we want the first time the world number one," says Haluk Menderes, Sales and Marketing at a press conference in Cologne as a short-term goal. Unofficially Eplan sees the world as a market leader. The reason: the official No. 1 delivers with his M-CAD system always an E-CAD with free. "The count in the statistics with though, they are not used to the M-CAD work," explains a staff Eplan behind closed doors. "Our long term goal is also to increase global market share to 60 percent," Menderes. A cornerstone of this is to take over all marketing and development rights to the 3D wire harness Harness Expert software from Linius Technologies. "With the software, we address new business such as equipment manufacturing, railroad and specialty vehicle technology," shows Maximilian with ribbon, Chairman of the Board on the importance Eplan. So far, Eplan had in store for these users do not engineering of production plants. Even for the traditional sectors in the machinery and plant construction, the subject is important, especially if intended for space reasons, the electrical engineering in niches and corners disappear in the machine bed. The subject of gains from
decentralized, cabinet-free automation structures of meaning, as in the planning and control wiring. "So far we have focused on the engineering of production plants. With Harness Expert, we are now embarking into the devices, "said Dieter Pesch, director of product management and development.

Constructed with Expert Harness wire harnesses can be used to verify the installation situation in MCAD systems or virtual 3D planning tools will be exported.
The concept of 3-D harness designs Harness Expert is based on the combination of data from 3D MCAD and ECAD systems. The top priority was and is the platform-independence: Therefore, the electrical wiring lists from various CAD systems are applied. The Integration of Electric P8 and Harness provides expert for example, provides all the relevant technical information such as wiring wire specifications, and Quelle-/Zielinformationen bundle and plug assignments. Construction side, you can import the 3D data from M-CAD systems such as NX, CATIA, ProE, Inventor, Solid Edge or Solid Works. Using a point-and-click method the cable channels are added. The software then moved all the wires automatically into the virtual channels. In parallel, show routines for possible errors.
Created for the production of wire harnesses essential 2D nails on the tool at your fingertips - 1:1 or in any other scale. Besides the issue of technical data for the production of customizable reports are also commercial data such as shopping bills, time and cost analysis. The software can complement each other fasteners such as clips, staples or wire ties. The result is a detailed 3D virtual wiring harness - the basis for all subsequent development steps. This software is a 3D harness model for import into the MCAD and the detailed lists of cable and wire lengths for the import into the generated electrical CAD. Likewise, it based the nail board drawings and parts lists for all production and all other options and options on the wiring harness.
"This acquisition allows us to cover all engineering of production plants requirements in the world market and increase our competitive advantage especially in international comparison," says Maximilian Brandl.
After launching a subsidiary in Italy through the acquisition of the distributor is on the further expansion of our presence in the U.S. and China. By the end of the year to go then, the Japanese subsidiary in the productive operation. By then also to the Japanese language version of the software engineering - the 17th Language is not available.