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Background Up to 43 per cent of the working time required to manufacture a control cabinet is consumed by the wiring (depending on its specific application). This process
Advantages of the Smart Wiring Application • Integrated workflow from customer requirements through engineering to manufacturing and testing • 100% digital data • Wiring without schematics • Perfect visualisation • Step-for-step directions for the worker • Project comparison for last-minute changes • Logging of wiring status • Better scalability of workloads
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Fast process for last-minute changes The Smart Wiring Application really demonstrates its strength with last-minute changes to the project, which are simply registered in Eplan Pro Panel and then updated. Through the Smart Wiring Application, the two project statuses are compared to one another and the software documents all the differences, saving enormous amounts of time as compared to doing this manually. The software shows all the obsolete connections, those which have already been wired but must be removed, and which additional connections are required. This means that the times when wirers had to search and think about how the changes affect the entire wiring and manufactur-ing process have come to an end.
is extremely time-consuming and requires enormous specialist knowledge. What must be connected by wire, , and how can the required wires be optimally routed? These control-technology questions usually must be answered by using the schematics, which provide the basis for the cabinet’s wiring. As a result, highly qualified specialists pore over hundred of circuit diagrams and, page for page, work through the wiring for assembly and installation, the realisation of which may not always be unambiguous in every case. The Smart Wiring Applica-tion means that the time saved can be used more productively.
Source: Eplan Software & Service.
terminal point handling – crimped or ultrasonic welding, for instance. Bundle affiliation is also exactly shown, which, taken together, means that every connection as well as every working step are clearly understandable and transparent. As soon as a connection is completely wired, it’s shown in traffic-light-principle green. This is tremendously helpful if several shifts are necessary to complete the work: colleagues can start wiring exactly where their predecessors left off.
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