Maritime

Maritime

Your Engineering Standard for Shipbuilding and Port Facilities

Digitalisation, standardisation and automation are all trends that no industrial sector can evade right now. This also holds true for the maritime industry and for planning equipment and systems. Integrated electrical engineering design and powerful ECAD software can significantly advance automation at your company. EPLAN offers integrated engineering solutions that give you effective opportunities for increasing efficiencies across all your processes, from preplanning to service and maintenance – in the safety of harbours as well as on the high seas.

Processes

Wire Design and Integrated System Landscapes

With EPLAN, you can rely on an integrated database that goes far beyond just the engineering processes – to encompass your entire value chain. From designing cruise ships, constructing yachts and even transport and special engineering: EPLAN offers shipyards and shipping companies worldwide support in integrating their processes into existing PDM system landscapes. Using EPLAN, businesses supplying shipowners can create integrated product documentation for designing ship wiring and piping for equipment and systems – from the initial design with P&I diagrams and single-line wiring design, to integrating and visualising production status and wire routing.

Digitised Processes – from Engineering to Manufacturing and Maintenance

EPLAN offers you the possibility to design, display and document your ship‘s entire operation technology, including P&ID, HVAC and the electrical engineering within your system landscape. This integrated data basis lets you depict a fully functional digital twin – from single components to the whole ship. Furthermore, we support you in seamlessly integrating new systems into existing structures, making overall processes more consistent and more efficient.

 

Would you like to find out more about our solutions or are you interested in our services? Then contact us – we’re here for you!

Digitised Processes – from Engineering to Manufacturing and Maintenance

EPLAN offers you the possibility to design, display and document your ship‘s entire operation technology, including P&ID, HVAC and the electrical engineering within your system landscape. This integrated data basis lets you depict a fully functional digital twin – from single components to the whole ship. Furthermore, we support you in seamlessly integrating new systems into existing structures, making overall processes more consistent and more efficient.

 

Would you like to find out more about our solutions or are you interested in our services? Then contact us – we’re here for you!

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Maritime industry 4.0: Standards for Shipbuilding

Standardisation is the key for flexible automation concepts. Whether it’s the Module Type Package (MTP) open data standard or our activities in the Marine Equipment and Systems working group – our goal is the fully automatic integration of plant systems and components into higher-level systems. 

Fully Automatic Integration

Marine Equipment and Systems

As a member of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), EPLAN participates in the Marine Equipment and Systems working group. Together with numerous companies from the automation industry, we work for you on standardising machine-platform communication. Our goal is the fully automatic integration of plant systems and components into higher-level systems.

Module Type Package

EPLAN is MTP-ready: How shipping and shipbuilding benefit

The open data standard Module Type Package (MTP) offers decisive added value for the maritime industry. With EPLAN software, data from engineering can now be exported in MTP format and further processed in automation technology. This data consistency has concrete advantages for various maritime companies, their suppliers and business partners. For example, shipbuilding is supported in digitising planning processes across systems and making them more compact. 

Advantages

EPLAN – Your Partner for Integrated Solutions

Our goal is maximum efficiency and interconnectivity across all engineering disciplines, and all systemic and geographic boundaries. Companies that want to help shape the digital transformation need allies. Working with Rittal, we automate and industrialise control and switchgear system engineering and manufacturing. Working with a variety of industrial partners, we design interfaces and standards for integrated, cross-project and cross-company processes. As a member of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), we are also active participants in working groups across various industries.

Advantages

EPLAN – Your Partner for Integrated Solutions

Our goal is maximum efficiency and interconnectivity across all engineering disciplines, and all systemic and geographic boundaries. Companies that want to help shape the digital transformation need allies. Working with Rittal, we automate and industrialise control and switchgear system engineering and manufacturing. Working with a variety of industrial partners, we design interfaces and standards for integrated, cross-project and cross-company processes. As a member of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), we are also active participants in working groups across various industries.

Disciplines

Schematic Documentation for Port Facilities

Port and shipyard facilities often cover enormous areas – which is a challenge for both planning and in terms of servicing and maintenance. This makes unambiguous and detailed schematics documentation all the more important. The availability of current revision statuses and as-built documentation also plays an important role. Cloud-based systems can offer unique advantages in this arena: software-independent documentation is available in the cloud for all stakeholders – easily called up on a web browser. Access rights can of course be securely defined across projects. Service technicians, for instance, can make a note of changes in the schematics on a tablet computer out on the port site. Just a few seconds later, the schematics can be double-checked in the engineering office and then updated.

New Horizons

Control and Switchgear System Production

Get started with your end-to-end processes now – with software solutions for virtually designing your control cabinets in 3D and for fully automatic wire processing and efficient wiring in manufacturing. Cloud-based maintenance scenarios open up new horizons in service and maintenance. You can also benefit from the unique added value that EPLAN and Rittal can offer you together – with pooled expertise and optimally coordinated solutions.

Solutions

Our Solutions for the Maritime Industry

The key for integrated process documentation lies in the all-encompassing database. EPLAN therefore offers you software solutions from a single source. Discover our EPLAN Platform, perfectly tailored cloud services and seamless integrations to cross-company and cross-process system landscapes.

EPLAN Electric P8

Integrated Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering for designing plant systems, from a ship’s engine to entire offshore platforms: EPLAN Electric P8 is the ECAD tool of choice.

EPLAN ERP/PDM Integration Suite

Integration into Your System Landscapes

We offer shipyards, shipping companies and port operators comprehensive PLM integrations – also into existing system landscapes.

EPLAN Fluid

For Your Fluid Power Designs

EPLAN offers a stand-alone solution for fluid-power and hydraulic engineering that meets all the established codes and common standards.

EPLAN Pro Panel

Virtual Panel Building in 3D

Control and switchgear system engineering for all application areas in maritime industries and beyond – EPLAN offers you all of this and more in 3D.

EPLAN eVIEW

Share and comment your Schematic Projects

Keep an eye on your projects – no matter where you are. You can use the redlining function to keep all EPLAN Project documentation up to date in the cloud.

EPLAN Preplanning

Integrated Digital Preplanning

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.

EPLAN in Practice

Find out how companies from the maritime sector use our solutions to meet the current technical and economic challenges and improve their company’s competitiveness.

Steerprop Oy
Steerprop Oy's criteria for design software: versatility, reliability, integrability
Hanseatic Power Solutions GmbH (HPS)
Automation saves time – also in batch size one
AL-KO THERM GmbH
Configuration instead of construction