The EPLAN Platform: a foundation for efficient engineering
The EPLAN Platform brings together software solutions for various engineering disciplines. Using piping and instrumentation diagrams, electrical schematics, detailed evaluations, control cabinet layouts in 3D and machine cabling in 3D, a complete digital twin of the automation systems for your machine or plant system is created in the process.
EPLAN is the standard for electrical engineering. The easy exchange of projects allows plant operators to work together with machine and plant system manufacturers as well as their control cabinet manufacturers using a standardised foundation of data.
Having a free choice between graphic and data-oriented working methods makes it easy for different user groups to integrate EPLAN into their everyday work. Electrical engineering designs can be easily standardised with flexible circuit templates and subcircuits. Recurring circuits can be stored in libraries and combined into new schematics specific to each current project.
EPLAN Platform: The Benchmark, Redefined
Valuable connections
Extensive device data
Access more than four million configurable device data sets directly in the engineering process – for faster and error-free design engineering. The EPLAN Data Portal supplies you with tested, standard-compliant device data from more than 500 manufacturers – which can be directly integrated into your schematics and 3D control cabinet layouts.
Engineering taken to the next level
EPLAN Collaboration Apps enable employees to work together regardless of location with easy and flexible access to EPLAN projects.
Integration into existing systems
The EPLAN Platform can easily be integrated into your existing IT landscape. For instance, it can be integrated into ERP and PDM systems using standardised interfaces. The digital data from electrical engineering can also be used directly for the manufacturing of control cabinets and the cabling of machines and plant systems. In the field of automation technology, standard PLC planning and programming systems can also be linked directly using standardised formats.
First glances into engineering with the EPLAN Platform
High-quality electrical schematics
Quickly and easily create high-quality and informative schematics with structure identifiers, automatic cross-references, device information, technical device data and connection numbering. Based on this data, EPLAN also automatically generates reports including bills of materials, terminal diagrams and wire lists to complete your project documentation. Changes in the schematics are synchronised throughout the project so that your documentation always remains up to date and consistent.
High-quality electrical schematics
3D control cabinet layout as the digital twin
Use EPLAN Pro Panel to create a complete 3D model of the control cabinet – also as a perfect 1:1 specification for manufacturing.
3D control cabinet layout as the digital twin
Bills of materials automatically generated from the schematics
Complete your electrotechnical documentation with reports, lists and overviews that EPLAN generates based on the data from the schematics – at the push of a button.
Bills of materials automatically generated from the schematics
Diagram creation
For creating diagrams for process engineering and technology (P&I diagrams, control diagrams), project data can be digitally recorded and consistently managed early in the process. The data entered by the process designers and engineers can be seamlessly forwarded to detail engineering, resulting in more efficient project implementation.
Diagram creation
Wire harness in a forklift
Wire harnesses and wiring systems are complex. Limited space, moving components and the requirements for longevity are challenges to be mastered. With EPLAN, you don’t need to build an actual prototype to make sure that everything will fit in the vehicle.
Wire harness in a forklift
Eplan Platform 2026: get more out of your engineering
The new EPLAN Platform 2026 focuses even more intensively on your benefits, simplifies our portfolio and makes it possible for you to design your processes to be even more efficient and consistent. This applies to all project phases, from concept development to detail engineering to manufacturing, and also even includes commissioning and operations.
For the EPLAN Platform 2026, we have fundamentally reworked the products and enormously expanded their functionality. Previously optional extensions are now standard features in the various expansion levels. The cloud-based EPLAN Collaboration Apps, the EPLAN Data Portal, Parts management – eSTOCK and Data management – eMANAGE are all included in the scope of services provided in EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Pro Panel and EPLAN Preplanning.
EPLAN Platform 2026 Highlights
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