WHAT IS EPLAN ELECTRIC P8 SOFTWARE ?
EPLAN Electric P8 is a consistent, integrated and fast engineering system for you to plan and design the electrical engineering for machines and plant systems. The software supports a wide variety of engineering methods: from manual creation through to standardised and template-based approaches. The project data, once entered into the schematic, become the foundation for the automated completion of machine and plant system documentation. In short, EPLAN Electric P8 offers you much more than “just” drawing schematics and circuit diagrams.
AREAS OF APPLICATION OF EPLAN ELECTRIC P8 (2023)
- Automation Technology :Thanks to macro technology, EPLAN Electric P8 provides a foundation for standardising and also for further automating your processes.
- Electrical Engineering : Planning electrical engineering is a complex field of topics, particularly as several people are often working in various disciplines on the same project. Electrical engineering data must also be usable for other departments. At the same time, electrical engineering is always under time pressures, must deliver on time and always keep an eye on incurred costs. EPLAN offers you an integrated software solution for efficient electrical engineering.
- Service and Maintenance : Success for industrial companies is strongly related to their work in maintenance and servicing, which prevents machine and system failures and enables the best possible utilisation and availability of plant systems over their entire service life. EPLAN offers you integrated solutions for digitising your processes.
- Building Automation : To ensure cost-effective engineering processes, architects, engineers, planning offices and construction companies need a transparent foundation of information and efficient digital tools. EPLAN solutions make it possible for you to work in an interdisciplinary way with integrated data for building automation.
- Configuration : The term automated engineering combines configuration with engineering. In practice, this means automating engineering processes, integrating these processes and connecting them with configuration processes in sales, order processing and directly to engineering. EPLAN offers you solutions for implementing automated engineering in your company.
- Machinery and Plant Construction : The daily ordering business is getting much faster and time pressures are rising, no least due to international competitors. At the same time, customers are demanding increasingly more individualised projects through to mass customisation. EPLAN is here supporting you with integrated engineering solutions along your value chain.
- Panel Building : You can optimise and industrialise your processes in control and switchgear system engineering using EPLAN's engineering solutions in conjunction with Rittal's system and automation expertise. Consistent data is the key to success here. We support you in saving both time and costs, in avoiding errors and in increasing your productivity over the long term.
- Automotive : Hardly any other industry is facing such enormous upheavals as the automobile industry. Many car companies and automotive suppliers have been relying on EPLAN's powerful solutions for years. With our solutions, you can optimise the entire value chain in vehicle manufacturing.
- Food and Beverage : EPLAN offers you solutions for engineering the control systems of machines and plant systems, supporting you in the creation, production, further processing and packaging of agricultural products into foods and beverages.
- Energy : Code compliance, ensuring supply, optimising load distribution: the energy sector has big challenges to face. EPLAN offers you optimal solutions for a broad field of applications from energy management to plant system engineering.
- Maritime : Digitalisation, standardisation and automation are all trends that no industrial sector can evade right now. This also holds true for the maritime industry. Integrated electrical engineering design and powerful ECAD software from EPLAN can significantly advance automation at your company.
- Building Technology : Planning monitoring, control, regulation and optimisation systems is an important part of technical facility management for all sorts of buildings. With EPLAN you can rely on a continuous and consistent database that goes far beyond just the engineering processes.
KEY FEATURES OF EPLAN ELECTRIC P8 (2023)
- Macro Technology : You can save up to 26 variants of a circuit or system for each representation type. With 12 different representation types, you have a total of 312 possible variants at your fingertips. You can easily manage your macro projects. Our drag-&-drop technology makes placing them simple - and the software remembers the original position. Thanks to macro technology, you can create a solid foundation for standardising your processes.
- Placeholder Technology : Manage an unlimited number of data sets for your macros and quickly select the desired data set during the engineering design process.
- Autoconnecting : Autoconnecting enables you to logically connect circuit symbols with one another in an instant, making schematics design faster and increasing the quality of the generated schematic.
- Various Design Approaches : Choose between a graphical, a logical or device-oriented design approach to support various work processes.
- Automatic Reports : Reports such as terminal and wire diagrams or bills of materials are automatically created for you to be used in downstream project phases.
- Editing of Mass Data : Functions for editing mass data such as "Search and replace" and "Edit in Excel" accelerate your engineering and at the same time increase the quality for drawing circuit diagrams and schematics.
- Internationale Codes, Consistently Localised : EPLAN Electric P8 supports global standards such as IEC, NFPA, the Russian GOST and the Chinese GB standards with corresponding master data and sample projects. Thanks to its end-to-end Unicode capability, the software generates circuit diagrams and schematics in a wide variety of languages based on your customised translation databases - from schematics in Chinese to bills of materials in Russian.
- EPLAN Application Programming Interface (API) : With the EPLAN API development environment the doors to your individual further development of EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Fluid, EPLAN Preplanning and EPLAN Pro Panel are wide open. The development environment offers you an efficient possibility to implement your own required functionalities or automatic functions. With this individual customization in the core of EPLAN you can optimize your engineering workflow specifically.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR EPLAN ELECTRIC P8 (2023)
Windows
Windows 7 SP1/ 8/ 8.1/ 10
RAM
16 GB
PROCESSOR
Multicore processor based on x64 architecture like Intel i5, i7, i9 or compatible with the instruction set AVX2
Display Resolution
1920x1080 (2560 x 1440 recommended) with True Color
HARD DRIVE
500 GB
GPU
AMD OR NIVIDIA WITH THE LATEST DIRECT 3D DRIVER
NET FRAMEWORK 4.5
Further information and the current version of this Microsoft component are available for download from the Microsoft website.
The following Microsoft .NET framework is required to operate the EPLAN platform:
EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Fluid, EPLAN Pro Panel, EPLAN Harness proD | ||||
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Version | Up to 2.8 | 2.9 up to 2023 | As of 2024 | |
.NET Framework | 4.8.1 | X | ||
4.7.2 | X | |||
4.5.2 | X | |
The usage of a CPU with the instruction set AVX2 is required to run the EPLAN Platform 2024.
- Hardware components such as the processor used are also checked for compatibility when EPLAN starts. An error message could indicate hardware at this point in which processors with instruction sets unsuitable for EPLAN are still installed. These are usually processors that are older than approx. 10 years.
- If EPLAN is also to be executable on virtual computers, the two processor options "CompatibilityForOlderOperatingSystemsEnabled" and "CompatibilityForMigrationEnabled" have to be deactivated when Hyper-V is used.
WebView2 Runtime
- WebView2 Runtime from Microsoft is required to run the EPLAN Platform 2024.A check is carried out when EPLAN is started. An error message could indicate the missing installation of WebView2 Runtime at this point.
- As a rule WebView2 Runtime is already installed as part of the operating system.