CIDEON Vault Integration for EPLAN

The CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface optimizes data transfer between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN, resulting in a significant increase in efficiency in your design process.

CIDEON Vault Integration for EPLAN

Combine process data using CIDEON Vault Integration for EPLAN and bridge the gap between electrical engineering, fluid power and mechanical engineering.


Comprehensive Data Management for Your Engineering


Are you wondering how to efficiently manage design challenges? What if there was a way to smoothly connect Autodesk Vault Professional and EPLAN P8? With the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface, you can easily overcome this hurdle. Autodesk Vault Professional manages your design data precisely and reliably, while EPLAN P8 takes electrical design to a new level.

By seamlessly connecting the two systems, you optimize your work processes and significantly increase design efficiency. Discover how our interface enables you to exploit the full potential of your design software and drive projects forward with maximum precision and efficiency. Learn more about how the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface revolutionizes your design process and gives you a decisive competitive edge.




Challenges


Efficient Data Management in Engineering

Customers face the challenge of managing design data efficiently to ensure smooth workflows. The amount of data in design engineering projects can be overwhelming, and without effective management, delays, errors and inefficient processes can result. A solution that enables accurate data management is critical.

Seamless Integration of Autodesk Vault and EPLAN

Seamless integration between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN is critical to increasing efficiency in electrical design. Often, customers find that data exchange between these two systems is not smooth. This leads to time-consuming manual work and potentially errors in the design processes.


Enable Precise Electrical Design

In electrical design, precision is of utmost importance. Inaccurate or faulty design data can lead to serious problems in product development. Customers are looking for solutions that enable more accurate electrical design to improve product quality.

Optimization of Data Exchange Between Design Departments

Effective data exchange between different design departments is critical to ensure smooth workflows. Customers often recognize the challenge of data exchange not being efficient enough, resulting in delays and inefficient processes. A solution that optimizes this process and promotes seamless collaboration between departments is essential.




Advantages of the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN Interface


Integrate your EPLAN data into Vault with the Vault-EPLAN interface from CIDEON. Optimize the smooth collaboration in the product development process.


Efficient Automated Data Transmission

The CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface automates data exchange between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN, eliminating manual steps and increasing efficiency.

Real-Time Synchronization for Current Data

Real-time synchronization between Vault and EPLAN means that up-to-date data is always used, preventing delays and errors caused by outdated information.

Consistent Data Integrity and Structure

The interface ensures a uniform data structure and integrity, which minimizes sources of error and increases the reliability of the design data.


Efficient Revision Management

With the interface, revisions can be managed efficiently, making changes traceable and documented.

Minimizing Errors Through Automation

Automated processes reduce the risk of human error, resulting in higher accuracy and quality of designs.

Better Internal Collaboration and Communication

Seamless integration between Vault and EPLAN breaks down silos between departments, improving communication and collaboration.


Time Saving in Data Management

Automatic data transfer significantly reduces the manual effort required to manage design data.

Adaptability to Individual Company Requirements

The CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface can be adapted to specific requirements to ensure optimal integration into existing workflows.




Product Features


The CIDEON Vault integration for EPLAN simplifies your data management to further simplify your product development. Learn more.

Automated Data Integration

Optimized data transfer: The interface enables automatic, precise and error-free transfer of design data between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN. This minimizes manual processes, increases efficiency and ensures the accuracy of the data.

Real Time Synchronization

Immediately up-to-date data: Real-time synchronization means the most up-to-date information is always available. This avoids delays and errors due to outdated data, which significantly improves the reliability and efficiency of design processes.


Efficient Revision Management

Clear revision management: The interface facilitates the management of revisions, making changes transparently documented and traceable. This is essential for quality control and ensuring compliance.

Efficient Revision Management

With the interface, revisions can be managed efficiently, making changes traceable and documented.




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Application Areas & Industries for the Vault - EPLAN Interface


In an increasingly digitalized working world, the smooth collaboration of design software is crucial for the success of companies. The CIDEON Vault EPLAN interface creates a seamless connection between Autodesk Vault Professional and EPLAN to enable accurate data management and efficient electrical design. Learn how this interface provides critical benefits across multiple industries and paves the way for faster, more accurate and more innovative design processes.

Mechanical and Plant Engineering

The CIDEON Vault EPLAN interface revolutionizes the design process in the mechanical and plant engineering industry by enabling seamless integration between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN. This makes product development and electrical design more efficient and accurate.

Automotive industry

In the automotive industry, the precise integration of Autodesk Vault and EPLAN P8 is critical for the efficient development of vehicle systems. The CIDEON interface optimizes the data flow between the two systems, resulting in accelerated design processes and higher product quality.


Energy and Utility Industry

For companies in the energy and utilities industry, the CIDEON Vault EPLAN interface offers decisive advantages. It enables effective management of design data, resulting in accelerated implementation of energy projects and increased reliability in electrical design.

Electronics and Electrical Engineering Industry

In the electronics and electrical engineering industry, precise integration between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN is essential. The CIDEON interface simplifies data exchange and promotes seamless collaboration between engineering and design departments, resulting in more efficient production processes and innovative solutions.



Our CIDEON Vault Integration For EPLAN Implementation Packages


Professional And Coordinated Support For Your Project Team!

Are you interested in the implementation of CIDEON Vault Professional Integration for EPLAN to bridge the gap between electrical engineering, fluid power and mechanical engineering? With our special implementation packages we make the rollout as easy as possible for you, so that you can use your valuable time effectively!

We help with a structured and coordinated requirements definition and subsequent system implementation based on existing standard configurations.




CIDEON Vault EPLAN Scoping

Determine requirements and define framework
  • Recording of the system environment
  • Requirments definition workshop (projects, project articles, parts lists, articles)
  • Recording and definition of workflows
  • Definition and documentation of the necessary requirements for the implementation
  • Specifications for implementation and budget review

CIDEON Vault EPLAN Ready2Run

Successfully reaching the goal with team and systems
  • Project management and project organization of the CIDEON employees involved
  • Development and implementation of various use cases
  • Definition and setup of users and user groups
  • Configuration of the Vault environment
  • Configuration of the CIDEON Vault Integration for EPLAN (with parts and BOMs)
  • Configuration of the ERP/PDM Integration Suite
  • Integration user training


Your Benefits


Data management

Optimal storage and management of ECAD/MCAD data.

Cost Savings

Reduction of expensive use of resources due to time-consuming independent familiarization with the system configuration.

Facilitated Work

Optimal support for engineering staff in all phases of the implementation project.

Quality Improvement

Increase the quality of your implementation project through sound implementation know-how.


FAQ


The CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface provides a seamless connection between Autodesk Vault and EPLAN, enabling efficient data synchronization.

The integration enables automated data transfer, real-time synchronization, efficient revision management and ensures consistent data integrity.

The interface ensures a uniform data structure and minimizes sources of error, which increases the reliability of the design data.

Yes, the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface can be customized to ensure seamless integration into existing workflows.

Automated processes reduce the risk of human error, resulting in higher accuracy and quality of designs.

The interface facilitates efficient management of revisions, enabling transparent documentation and traceability.

Yes, the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface is designed to work efficiently in complex projects with many stakeholders and dependencies.

Real-time synchronization prevents conflicts when data is processed simultaneously, ensuring reliable and consistent results.

The CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface breaks down silos between departments and promotes better communication and collaboration.

Automated data transfer reduces manual effort, saving time and increasing productivity.

Implementation depends on specific requirements, but is designed to enable rapid integration to optimize the production process as quickly as possible.

Yes, the interface is designed to efficiently manage even large amounts of design data to meet the specific needs of large projects.

The interface implements proven security standards and encryption protocols to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your design data.

Yes, the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface can be adapted to existing IT systems to ensure smooth integration.

CIDEON provides comprehensive support and training to ensure that implementation runs smoothly and that employees can work effectively with the interface.

CIDEON is continuously working to keep the interface up to date and ensure that it is compatible with future software versions.

Yes, the CIDEON Vault - EPLAN interface enables efficient collaboration in global projects, regardless of the teams' geographical locations.



CIDEON Support

Quality, speed and reliability in engineering play a crucial role in your success. All-round services are therefore as important as committed specialists and powerful software.

CIDEON Support gives you quick and easy answers to your questions, detailed information about products and solutions, and helpful tips and tricks.

Managed Services take us one step further: This service enables us to maintain an overview of your CAD/PDM/PLM environment and thus ensure your software's long-term operational reliability. You can then always be sure that your systems are always up to date and operable.



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Use Cases


Using CIDEON Vault Integration for EPLAN you can comprehensively manage CAD design data and EPLAN project data. Find out more about the opportunities in document and parts management. 


Central Parts Management

All parts information such as part number, supplier, manufacturer and BOM information, is always accessible across departments.

Bills of Materials

Structured BOMs with plant location structures. Simple and clear management of all project data such as projects, part masters, PDFs of schematics and structural BOMs.

Secure Storage and Management of Your EPLAN Projects

Record and manage all EPLAN project data in a structure that is accessible in parallel with mechanical CAD design data. Managing permissions in Vault means that all project data is centrally accessible and can be protected against unauthorized use.

Header Data Management

Managing EPLAN project header data or properties takes place via Vault Professional. The data is freely configurable bidirectionally and is consistent in both systems.


Mechatronic Bill of Materials: MCAD And ECAD Combined

Combine your bill of materials from mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, fluid and electrical engineering and create a common, redundancy-free mechatronic bill of materials. It serves as a common data source for all departments such as procurement, work preparation and manufacturing.
 

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Our Added Values


CIDEON advises and supports companies in optimizing their product development processes - from conception and engineering to manufacturing and service. We stand for:


Decades of Expertise

Rely on decades of practical knowledge in system integration and process consulting. CIDEON understands your business challenges in digital transformation and supports you with unique solutions along the entire value chain.

Customized Engineering

Benefit from customized solutions with CIDEON software and interfaces. Integrative, powerful and perfectly tailored to your individual requirements in day-to-day business.

 

End-to-End Process Consulting

Transform your digital requirements into corporate (added) value. We simplify your processes, map them digitally and make them economically viable - across functions and divisions throughout the entire product development process.  

International Cooperation

Place your trust in a strong group of companies. CIDEON is part of the family-run, globally active Friedhelm Loh Group and is guided by the principles of customer-focused and sustainable corporate management. 






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