EPLAN Preplanning enables you to save engineering data early in the preplanning process. This data can include actuators and sensors for a plant system, machine or building. You can import data from external tabular sources and also enter plant system or machine overviews and graphical process and instrumentation diagrams. This allows you to quickly generate initial data sheets or specifications for materials procurement. You can also access the data collected in EPLAN Preplanning to use in downstream planning phases in engineering.

Fluid Power Engineering Professional Engineering From Pneumatics to Lubrication
It’s important to take an interdisciplinary approach in this field and to include electrotechnical designs in the documentation. EPLAN has the right solution for you for these various engineering fields – combined in an integrated software environment.

Pneumatics
Pneumatics is the use of compressed air to perform work in the sense of preparing energy to act on a body. Compressed air systems are usually made up of four subsystems: compressed air generation, compressed air preparation, compressed air distribution, and then, finally, the actual application.

Hydraulics
In hydraulics, oil is used to transmit power, energy or momentum in working machines

Cooling
Cooling can be understood as the process of removing thermal energy. If heat is extracted from solids or liquids, it occurs according to the physical principle of heat transfer.

Lubrication
Lubrication can prevent friction and wear, for instance, between two parts within a machine. A suitable lubricant or lubrication method needs to be used for this.

Integrate Your Engineering for Code-Compliant Fluid-Technical Designs
There are various codes and standards that need to be complied with in fluid power engineering. A positive side effect is that you then also create the foundation for a uniform and standardised database for your documentation. A few important standards for creating fluid power schematics include ISO 1219, IEC 81346 and IEC 61355. Device identification is regulated by IEC 81346, which supports you in product structuring and in interdisciplinary engineering. IEC 61355 regulates the type of documentation, which is a helpful guideline for organising multiple pages of documentation in an integrated way. Code-compliant designs quickly pay off through the increased efficiency of your engineering. EPLAN solutions support you in this.

System Requirements
OS
-Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (64 bit) Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
-Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64 bit) Pro, Enterprise
-Microsoft Windows 10 (64 bit) Pro, Enterprise Version 1709,1803,1809,1903
-Server:Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) / Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
-Office:Microsoft Office 2013 (64 bit) / Microsoft Office 2016 (64 bit)*
SQL server (64-bit): Microsoft SQL Server 2016 / Microsoft SQL Server 2017