Automated Engineering for Building Automation Systems
EPLAN at the Light + Building from 02–06 October 2022 l Halle12, Stand B55
How can planning and implementing building automation systems happen more quickly at lower cost? The new EPLAN Platform 2023 – in concert with the Preplanning, P8, Pro Panel softwares and supplemental cloud services such as EPLAN eBUILD – lays the foundation for integrated, end-to-end automated engineering. All trades connected with building automation benefit from redundancy-free data records, helping optimise collaboration amongst the builder, architect, system integrator and control cabinet manufacturer for testing and approval processes.
“With integrated, end-to-end documentation, uniform data is available from a central location from the start for planning building automation systems, electrical power distribution systems and control cabinets. This prevents data loss due to media disruptions,” says Global Vertical Market Manager Building Technologies Rolf Schulte at EPLAN.
Monheim, Germany, 29 August 2022 – Energy efficiency, reducing carbon footprints, time pressures and the skilled worker shortage are some of the major issues the construction industry is facing at the moment. If the planning process is collaborative and based on uniform data formats in a project’s early phases, many additional planning and design steps can be optimised. Global Vertical Market Manager Building Technologies Rolf Schulte at EPLAN says, “With integrated, end-to-end documentation, uniform data is available from a central location from the start for planning building automation systems, electrical power distribution systems and control cabinets. This prevents data loss due to media disruptions.”
Specialists at the trade show stand will be discussing collaboration, automated engineering, BIM and much more across all five days of the trade show. They will further be talking with attendees about the potential savings that is still lie dormant in these processes and the goal that everyone can agree on: Creating lean, end-to-end processes to help alleviate the time pressures the construction industry is facing and finding inspiration for more efficient planning processes.
Automation of schematics and diagrams
Stand visitors can also enjoy a tour explaining how to automatically generate schematics and diagrams using EPLAN Cogineer and EPLAN eBUILD. Schulte says, “Planning processes can be significantly streamlined, thereby reducing time pressures in downstream planning phases such as implementation planning and manufacturing. Cloud-based tools such as EPLAN eMANAGE and eVIEW provide an easy rights-based approval process and help give everyone a better overview of the project. Planning and design of the building automation needs to be integrated into the overall project as early as possible.” The EPLAN Platform supports such integrated planning so that complex requirements from the builder can be quickly implemented. Device data for this based on the EPLAN Data Standard – including for sensors, actuators, DDCs, enclosures and other devices – is stored on the EPLAN Data Portal and can be quickly integrated into the overall planning and designs via drag and drop.
Room automation can be clearly displayed using the EPLAN Platform 2023, including a functions list according to VDI 3814.
The system topology for building automation systems can easily be depicted in EPLAN Preplanning.
Collaboration in action on the EPLAN Partner Network
At a workstation at the EPLAN trade show stand, the company Alexander Bürkle – a member of the EPLAN Partner Network – will be demonstrating the digital planning process for energy distribution systems. Its motto: configuring instead of copying. Based on standardised device and enclosure data from the ABB Striebel + John portfolio, power distribution systems can be digitally planned in 3D using automated engineering in EPLAN Cogineer. At the neighbouring ABB stand – also a member of the EPLAN Partner Network – those interested can get even deeper insights into integrated control cabinet engineering using EPLAN Pro Panel, where a guided selection of devices and enclosures will be explained, along with the interfaces between EPLAN and ABB’s e-Configure system.
