EPLAN Fluid
Engineering Software Especially for Fluid Power Designs

EPLAN Fluid

Engineering Software Especially for Fluid Power Designs

EPLAN Fluid is your engineering tool especially for designing and automatically documenting schematics for fluid power systems including hydraulics, pneumatics, cooling and lubrication. The software supports a broad range of engineering methods, from manual creation to standardised and template-based work. Once entered into the schematics, the project data form the foundation for automatically completing machine and plant system documentation. In short, EPLAN Fluid offers you much more than “just” drawing schematics.

Disciplines and Industries

EPLAN Fluid for Your Fields of Application

Discover EPLAN Fluid’s many varied application fields – including for your industry and engineering disciplines.

Fluid Power Engineering

In fluid power engineering, 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.

Automation Technology

Automation technology is used in all areas of technology for engineering machines and plant systems. With the solutions from EPLAN, you have an enormous range of functions at your fingertips for this discipline.

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.

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.

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.

Component Manufacturer

Efficient engineering requires a standardised and error-free database. With the EPLAN Data Portal, you have access to a vast number of high-quality device and component data from an ever-growing pool of manufacturers. The simple transfer of the available component data into EPLAN documentation is via drag and drop, which increases the quality of your machine and plant documentation.

Added Value & Features

Fluid Power Schematics on EPLAN Platform

Take advantage of the collective power of EPLAN solutions and realise parallel engineering tasks for various disciplines, including your fluid power system designs. You get all your planning and manufacturing documentation from a single source. EPLAN Fluid gives you an intuitive tool for fluid power designs – a tool that offers much more than just drawing up fluid power schematics.

Flexibly Drawing and Designing Fluid Power Schematics

Using EPLAN Fluid means you have software especially designed for fluid power engineering that is also integrated into the entire engineering workflow.

Fluid Power Designs According to Current Codes and Standards

EPLAN Fluid helps you create fluid power designs using a mechatronic approach. The designs also meet the newest ISO 1219 standard and IEC 81346.

Macros: Re-Using Expertise

Thanks to macro technology, you can store standards and expertise in the system and re-use them.

How-to

EPLAN Tutorials

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EPLAN Platform

System Requirements

What hardware and software requirements should your system meet for the use of the EPLAN Platform?

Features

Highlights around the current release

Get an overview of innovative functionalities that make your project planning more efficient.

Services

We’re Here for You!

EPLAN offers you comprehensive services and support beyond our software. We’re looking forward to supporting you!

EPLAN Consulting

Our experienced EPLAN consultants will help you to utilise EPLAN solutions efficiently and introduce new engineering methods. In addition, the consultants can work with you to unlock the enormous potential for implementing integrated working processes in your company.

EPLAN Training Academy

The EPLAN Training Academy is your contact for all training questions relating to engineering. For example, you can train to become an EPLAN Certified Engineer (ECE) and benefit from our wide range of training courses.

EPLAN Solution Center

Are you stuck? No problem: EPLAN Support is there for you and offers professional support in your daily work. The EPLAN Solution Center is an online support system for EPLAN Software Service customers, where you can create tickets directly in the software.

EPLAN Experience

EPLAN Experience is a concept that provides you with specific recommendations for action for process optimisation. It shows you how you can work in a functionally structured way and follow common standards. You can use this solid foundation to increase your engineering efficiency step by step.

User Reports & Customer Testimonials

EPLAN Fluid in Practice

Find out how companies are using our solutions to meet current technical development challenges and improve their bottom line.

Alexander Bürkle GmbH & Co. KG

Electrical design with digital twins

In the more than 100 years since its foundation, Alexander Bürkle GmbH & Co. KG has always been reinventing itself, but always based on its established core competencies. The company, which employs around 800 people at 22 locations in southern Germany, is currently moving from being an electrical wholesaler to a service provider that offers customers in building technology and industry smart engineering support, thereby supporting them on their way to a digitalised future.

KWS Saat SE

Parametrisation instead of drawing

The majority of the 4,600 employees at KWS Saat SE are involved in the development of new seed varieties. The complex machines and systems required for seed processing and breeding are also manufactured in-house using the EPLAN Platform – beginning with P&I diagrams which are designed using the Preplanning module. The underlying principle is consistent, cross-disciplinary design processes from mechanical and process engineering through to fluid power and electrical engineering.

More About This Topic

Valve Terminal Configurator with Festo

With Schematic Solution, Festo offers a web service that generates automatic circuit diagrams in seconds from the order code of an individually configured solution. This product was developed jointly with EPLAN. After configuring complex valve terminals online, Festo customers can then create electrical and pneumatic schematics in just a few minutes. The engineering foundation for this is delivered by EPLAN Engineering Configuration (EEC), EPLAN Fluid and EPLAN Electric P8.

Clever Configuration With EPLAN and Schematic Solution from Festo

How the valve terminal configurator works: Schematics are created based on EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Fluid, whereby EEC works as the generator in the background. As Festo customers enter the data into the configurator interface, EEC combines the stored data and generates the required information on the fly – including complete bills of materials, a 2D structural overview, PLC representation, a fluid power overview and a pneumatic representation. There is no need to manually create an EPLAN Project with all the necessary documents with Schematic Solution. This saves time and increases both project quality and productivity over the long term.

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Please contact us if you’d like to learn more about EPLAN Fluid. We’re looking forward to helping you.