Experts meet at the EEC Forum

How do I implement an integrated and automated process, from order processing to engineering to manufacturing? This question is the focus of this year’s EEC Forum, which solutions provider EPLAN is hosting in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, from 17 to 19 September. Numerous partner companies and clients – including Festo, Heller, SAP and Microsoft – will be on location and presenting field reports and practical, real-world concepts. Monheim, Germany, 6 August 2018 – Both national and international customers as well as (potential) customers of EPLAN are invited to come discuss automated engineering, whether executives or users of the software. How do I implement an integrated and automated process, from order processing to engineering to manufacturing? Experts will be providing answers to this question and many others during the two-and-a-half-day event, which has become a “must attend” for many clients over the past five years.

Practical, first-hand experience of Industry 4.0

Participants can receive initial answers to the current challenges during an optional, half-day visit to the Rittal Innovation Center in Haiger, where they can get hands-on experience with control and switchgear engineering. On the following day, companies including Festo, Gebr. Heller, Spangler Automation, Zahnen Technik and Yaskawa Europe will be presenting practice-oriented insights into solutions that have already been implemented during the EEC Forum Talks. Expect a wide range of topics, from automation in control cabinet engineering, to the integrated use of a SAP configuration for engineering, to connecting web product configurators with automated engineering solutions. The declared maxim is maximum integration, from sales to engineering to manufacturing.

Sharing practical knowledge

The focus for the third and final day is lively discussions, with a total of twelve workgroups dealing with a variety of topics. Some of the agenda points include product structuring, SAP LO-VC connectivity to EEC, and configuration and automated data creation for EPLAN Data Portal. This allows attendees from different company divisions to pick the appropriate groups of topics for themselves and to have productive discussions with other experts in their fields. The workgroups will be complemented by keynote talks by GFaI (Society for Promoting Applied Informatics), Fischer Information Technology, KIM, Lenze SE and SAP.

Background

When EPLAN looks back over the past twelve months, seamless integration and automated engineering were amongst the key topics in discussions with clients. Nowadays, integration through to manufacturing is an absolute must. It’s not “whether,” but “how” that is of top concern right now in discussions with customers. Specifically, engineering processing must become fully automated – ideally networked with configuration processes in sales and/or order processing. EPLAN Engineering Configuration (EEC) is perfectly tailored for this task. With EEC, schematics and fluid-technology plans can be created automatically, as can 3D control cabinet setups, PLC programming, documentation and even mechanical engineering models. EEC controls the process by way of upstream configurators. The number of participants for this year’s EEC Forum is limited to two hundred. To find out more and register free of charge, please go to: www.eplan.de/eecforum-2018. ©EPLAN Software & Service, August 2018