Automation and robotics: change in design software

December 12, 2013 8:20 am

“EPLAN is well-designed user-friendly software. It has reduced the engineering time by at least 40 per cent. The quality and data consistency over the documentation is very good,” says Atul Patil, VP – Control Systems Engineering, Precision Automation & Robotics India Ltd.
Precision Automation & Robotics India (PARI) is a global automation solution provider of robotic products and technologies.  With over 850 employees and 6 facilities worldwide, PARI provides a complete range of automation solutions including conceptualising, designing, manufacturing, implementing and supporting of advanced factory automation systems.
PARI switched to EPLAN in 2004 and since then has never looked back. With a large market base in India, Europe and the US, PARI felt the need for an error-free design system to help cater to the high standards of quality expected. However, the software that was being used by PARI required that the work be done manually, which held a potential risk for errors at every step. Switching to the current solution gave PARI a host of advantages including generation of various reports, at click of button, generation of bill of material (BOM) automatically based on the schematics, automatic assignment of device ID’s and wire numbering and easy error detection (for example, not allowing two different voltage wires to be connected). The change also helped in the provision of different standard symbol libraries, customization when following different drawing standards, uniformity in the presentation of the wiring diagrams (the look is independent of the engineer), and in the creation of the internal component layouts of panels by using footprints from a library.“EPLAN is well-designed user-friendly software. It has reduced the engineering time by at least 40 per cent. The quality and data consistency over the documentation is very good,” says Atul Patil on the effectiveness of the change.
The transition brings desired resultsPARI experienced a smooth transition from the existing software to the use of the present solution. Before the launch of EPLAN, all engineers at PARI were trained to work on EPLAN through a series of training workshops that were conducted. The faculty especially focused on providing adequate training to all the engineers associated with hardware design.  The result was a successful setting up of standard part’s database, macros, templates, etc. making it easy for the engineers at PARI to do a better job in lesser time.

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