Process Industry

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.

Oil and Gas

Higher Plant System Availability, More Planning Security

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.

Oil and Gas Processes

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.

Oil and Gas Processes

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

Trouble-Free and Reliable Manufacturing

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.

Pharmaceutical Industry Processes

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.

Pharmaceutical Industry Processes

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

Profitable Growth Through Efficient Engineering

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.

Chemical Industry Processes

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.

Chemical Industry Processes

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.

Water and Wastewater Management

Efficient Engineering for Uninterrupted Plant Operations

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.

Water and Wastewater Management Processes

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.

Water and Wastewater Management Processes

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.

Digitalised Process for Water Suppliers and Wastewater Treatment

Our world’s limited resources make sustainable water supplies and wastewater management an imperative. Efficient engineering makes an important contribution to a secure the water supply and wastewater treatment. From plant design through to operation, you benefit from consistent data continuity and a high degree of standardisation.

 

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!

Digitalised Process for Water Suppliers and Wastewater Treatment

Our world’s limited resources make sustainable water supplies and wastewater management an imperative. Efficient engineering makes an important contribution to a secure the water supply and wastewater treatment. From plant design through to operation, you benefit from consistent data continuity and a high degree of standardisation.

 

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!

EPLAN is MTP-ready
Data consistency between automation and engineering

The open data standard Module Type Package (MTP) offers decisive added value for the process industry. To promote data consistency with other software systems, EPLAN software is now MTP-ready: project data from EPLAN can be exported directly in MTP format and imported into other systems. This enables seamless data transfer between engineering and automation. 

EPLAN is MTP-ready
Data consistency between automation and engineering

The open data standard Module Type Package (MTP) offers decisive added value for the process industry. To promote data consistency with other software systems, EPLAN software is now MTP-ready: project data from EPLAN can be exported directly in MTP format and imported into other systems. This enables seamless data transfer between engineering and automation. 

Advantages

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.

Advantages

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.

Solutions

Our Solutions for the Process Industry

Discover our integrated solutions that match your specific areas of application.

EPLAN Preplanning

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.

EPLAN Electric P8

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.

EPLAN Pro Panel

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.

EPLAN eVIEW

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.

User Reports & Customer Testimonials

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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