‘Plug and play’ toolkit to ease workflow for electrical planners
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has announced a new partnership with the aim of developing solutions for switchgear manufacturers and electrical planners.
Siemens’ Electrical Products business unit is coming together with Eplan, which provides software and service solutions in the fields of electrical, automation and mechatronic engineering, in what they are calling a “plug and play” strategic partnership.
The partnership will see the two strengthen collaboration in the area of software solutions for the industry and infrastructure market segments.
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“The overall goal of our collaboration is to create a plug-and-play structure for electrical planners. We want to open our tools bidirectionally for both sides and thus simplify and accelerate workflows,” said Andreas Matthé, CEO of Electrical Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
Sebastian Seitz, CEO of Eplan, has also emphasised the benefits for joint customers: “In switchgear construction, we can use Eplan Pro Panel to optimise processes and automate them to a greater extent. In addition, we will more specifically address the growing area of power distribution and work with Siemens to create end-to-end solutions for integrative, more efficient workflows.”
Segment details
The industry segment comprises offerings and products for control panel building, while the infrastructure segment includes switchgear construction for power distribution.
In the industry market segment, Siemens and Eplan will intensify their cooperation that has existed for many years, for example, to provide Eplan data across all configured Siemens products.
For the infrastructure market, Eplan and Siemens have decided to jointly optimise and automate customer processes, for instance in the Sivacon and Alpha environment (power distribution systems) by integrating Simaris (planning tools) and the Eplan platform.
Both parties will contribute their expertise to the benefit of their joint customers to enable more efficient workflows in switchgear construction and power distribution.
