Process Industry
Your Engineering Standard for All Industry Sectors
One industry, many different sectors with various challenges and requirements. EPLAN offers you data continuity, planning security and optimised processes for the oil and gas industry, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and for water suppliers and the wastewater treatment sector amongst others. Here you can find an overview of the various areas and our solutions which you can use to optimise your processes in an integrated way.
Water and Wastewater Management
Our world’s limited resources make expert and sustainable water and wastewater management systems an absolute necessity. Aside from environmental aspects, this industry must master numerous technical and economic challenges. Efficient engineering plays an important role in secure water supplies and wastewater management: data continuity and a high degree of standardisation simplify the introduction of new technologies. Furthermore, it also makes it possible to achieve uninterrupted plant system operations and to coordinate teams throughout a company.
Trouble-Free Workflows Through to Maintenance and Repair
EPLAN offers tried and tested integrated solutions for water supply and wastewater management systems. EPLAN solutions combine the areas of process technology, process control technology, fluid power engineering and electrical engineering. Take advantage of smooth workflows – from preplanning and design through to maintenance and servicing of your plant systems. A variety of functions such as redlining workflows and remote viewing facilitate maintenance and repair work and minimise downtimes.
Trouble-Free Workflows Through to Maintenance and Repair
EPLAN offers tried and tested integrated solutions for water supply and wastewater management systems. EPLAN solutions combine the areas of process technology, process control technology, fluid power engineering and electrical engineering. Take advantage of smooth workflows – from preplanning and design through to maintenance and servicing of your plant systems. A variety of functions such as redlining workflows and remote viewing facilitate maintenance and repair work and minimise downtimes.
Oil and Gas
Three things are important to the planners and operators of process plant systems: plant system security, equipment loads and system availability. Operators of oil and gas plants can noticeably increase plant availability with efficient engineering because using EPLAN solutions can significantly optimise cooperation between engineering and operations. Based on integrated engineering software, your automation systems are compatible with operator objectives defined in the front-end engineering and development phase (FEED). Furthermore, thanks to EPLAN’s integrated approach, you have a digital “as is” description of the plant systems, which ensures planning security in the event of operational modifications or load changes.
Process Optimisation Through Planning
EPLAN offers you specific solutions for optimising processes and workflows in the oil and gas industry. Data continuity and an openness to standard interfaces and systems enable interdisciplinary and cross-company documentation, the benefits of which run far deeper than just the engineering processes. Does your project documentation need to be created in different languages and adapted to different standards and working environments? EPLAN offers you all of this from a single source and supports you with software, training and consulting services. Transparent and complete engineering documentation accelerates commissioning, and automatic updates of all evaluations ensure as-is documentation. These in turn provide planning security and also support you with modifications during plant system operations.
Process Optimisation Through Planning
EPLAN offers you specific solutions for optimising processes and workflows in the oil and gas industry. Data continuity and an openness to standard interfaces and systems enable interdisciplinary and cross-company documentation, the benefits of which run far deeper than just the engineering processes. Does your project documentation need to be created in different languages and adapted to different standards and working environments? EPLAN offers you all of this from a single source and supports you with software, training and consulting services. Transparent and complete engineering documentation accelerates commissioning, and automatic updates of all evaluations ensure as-is documentation. These in turn provide planning security and also support you with modifications during plant system operations.
Pharmaceutical Industry
Digitisation is presenting new challenges for all industries. Megatrends such as globalisation, an ageing society and personalised medicine also define the strategic fields of action for pharmaceutical companies. Research and production processes in the pharmaceutical industry are complex. Every facility comprises numerous systems and components that must run smoothly to ensure trouble-free production, reduce costs and shorten the time to market. In order to keep up with current developments, flexible structures and integrated processes are needed to allow pharmaceutical companies to quickly react to changing requirements along their entire product life cycles. This is exactly where you can rely on EPLAN as a strong partner.
Current Documentation for Your Plant System’s Entire Life Cycle
When laboratory benchmarks and simulations move into the specific system planning phase, EPLAN is there for you. With us, you go through all the engineering steps according to relevant codes and standards, without any media disruptions, and implement these steps across engineering disciplines. This also applies to adjustments and expansion plans during running operations. What’s crucial here is integrated plant system designs, a high degree of standardisation in engineering and complete and exacting documentation for entire plant systems. The prerequisites for code-compliant documentation are firmly anchored in EPLAN solutions: criteria including the colour coding of process media, a uniform representation of symbols, measuring points and DTs are all automatically handled with EPLAN. EPLAN also updates all evaluations automatically, meaning that all your plant system documentation is always up to date for the entire life cycle of the system – for security during audits and certifications.
Current Documentation for Your Plant System’s Entire Life Cycle
When laboratory benchmarks and simulations move into the specific system planning phase, EPLAN is there for you. With us, you go through all the engineering steps according to relevant codes and standards, without any media disruptions, and implement these steps across engineering disciplines. This also applies to adjustments and expansion plans during running operations. What’s crucial here is integrated plant system designs, a high degree of standardisation in engineering and complete and exacting documentation for entire plant systems. The prerequisites for code-compliant documentation are firmly anchored in EPLAN solutions: criteria including the colour coding of process media, a uniform representation of symbols, measuring points and DTs are all automatically handled with EPLAN. EPLAN also updates all evaluations automatically, meaning that all your plant system documentation is always up to date for the entire life cycle of the system – for security during audits and certifications.
Chemical Industry
The current trend to a circular economy is challenging chemical companies to develop products that are recyclable or that support recycling concepts. Understanding the needs of customers along the entire value chain, developing appropriate solutions and using the generated added value for profitable growth are all crucial for ensuring long-term success in the chemical industry. Digital innovations are extremely helpful in this, for instance depicting essential links of the value chain using a digital twin. EPLAN delivers integrated system solutions with its affiliates Rittal and CIDEON.
The Digital Twin as the Centrepiece of Your Process Optimisation
With EPLAN, you can optimise all the steps in engineering and thereby noticeably shorten the time to market for your products. The digital twin – the result of integrated and continuously enriched data – brings advantages that are much more far reaching than just engineering. It also offers additional value for commercial, administrative and advanced technical processes. EPLAN software is interdisciplinary and covers all fields without any media disruptions, including process technology, process control technology, fluid power engineering and electrical engineering. Take advantage of a smooth workflow through to PLC programming and find all of this reflected in the digital twin, finalised in Rittal control cabinet manufacturing. Interfaces to your ERP, PDM and special process automation systems enable EPLAN to create seamless, cross-company workflows that support the process design of your plant system management software.
The Digital Twin as the Centrepiece of Your Process Optimisation
With EPLAN, you can optimise all the steps in engineering and thereby noticeably shorten the time to market for your products. The digital twin – the result of integrated and continuously enriched data – brings advantages that are much more far reaching than just engineering. It also offers additional value for commercial, administrative and advanced technical processes. EPLAN software is interdisciplinary and covers all fields without any media disruptions, including process technology, process control technology, fluid power engineering and electrical engineering. Take advantage of a smooth workflow through to PLC programming and find all of this reflected in the digital twin, finalised in Rittal control cabinet manufacturing. Interfaces to your ERP, PDM and special process automation systems enable EPLAN to create seamless, cross-company workflows that support the process design of your plant system management software.
Your Engineering Tool for Planning Without Media Disruptions
EPLAN accelerates getting your ideas to market and shortens your time to market over the long term. Rely on standard-compliant engineering for a high degree of system availability and for load changes that are both planned and modifiable. Take advantage of EPLAN solutions as easy-to-use standard software to efficiently meet all the engineering requirements for water management.
Your Engineering Tool for Planning Without Media Disruptions
EPLAN accelerates getting your ideas to market and shortens your time to market over the long term. Rely on standard-compliant engineering for a high degree of system availability and for load changes that are both planned and modifiable. Take advantage of EPLAN solutions as easy-to-use standard software to efficiently meet all the engineering requirements for water management.
Our Solutions for the Process Industry
Discover our integrated solutions that match your specific areas of application.
Integrated Digital Preplanning
With the CAE software you can draw your plant system’s P&I diagrams. It supports graphical and database-driven working methods with data transfers to interdisciplinary detail planning. You can also use EPLAN Preplanning to efficiently design your process control technology.
Integrated Electrical Engineering
EPLAN Electric P8 offers you a wide range of options for designing, documenting and managing the electrical engineering for energy automation projects.
Virtual Panel Building in 3D
Construct a digital twin of your planned control cabinet based on your integrated engineering data, which you can then also integrate into further plant system planning.
Share and comment your Schematic Projects
Benefit from the EPLAN Project in the cloud: EPLAN eVIEW lets you use redlining workflows to optimise your plant system availability.
EPLAN in Practice
Find out how companies from a wide variety of industrial sectors are using our solutions to meet current technical development challenges and improve their competitiveness.
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