Fluid Power Engineering

Designing the various systems for a machine or plant system is one of the most important tasks in fluid power engineering, for instance designing the compressed air supply for pneumatic systems and the oil supply for hydraulic systems, not to mention the actuators for both variants. You also need to design the plant’s control systems and document both the fluid power and electrical systems. Creating the schematics maps the connections between the various components of the four fluid power engineering areas.

There are also a variety of challenges in fluid power engineering. For instance, hundreds to thousands of components need to be conceived, designed and numbered. These in turn need to be connected to one another via tubes or piping, while the diameter and lengths of these components need to be determined and each provided with an identification number. Schematics then need to be documented across hundreds of pages. Furthermore, the completed plant system need to meet the planned specifications and be transportable. In addition, a number of employees are often working on a project at the same time and the data from the fluid power engineering needs to be available for use in other departments.

EPLAN Fluid is your engineering tool especially for engineering and automatically documenting circuits in fluid-technical systems for pneumatics, hydraulics, cooling and lubrication. It allows you to master all of your engineering challenges, design code-compliant fluid power schematics, and make your data available for downstream departments with interdisciplinary involvement in the project.

High-quality device data are vital for efficiently planning your fluid power designs. Questions to be answered here include: Which devices need to be connected with each other via fluid technology? How many ports do the devices have? What are the technical parameters, dimensions and weights? How do I provide procurement with the necessary device data? Using the EPLAN Data Portal, you have access to large numbers of high-quality device and component data from a constantly growing pool of manufacturers. In other words, you have all the answers brought together in one solution.

For trouble-free implementation in production, the manufacturing documentation should be derived from the fluid power schematics and created automatically. This way the documentation can also be optimally utilised for downstream steps in the value chain. Using EPLAN Pro Panel you can create a digital twin as the foundation for your integrated control cabinet and switchgear system engineering. EPLAN and our affiliate Rittal work closely together to offer you their combined system and automation expertise.