About Us

Ready For The Engineering Of Tomorrow

EPLAN – efficient engineering. What this means for you: Increasing quality, time savings and optimised processes using future-proof engineering solutions. Find out what makes us special.

Efficient engineering is when a PLAN becomes EPLAN.

Company Profile

EPLAN provides software and service solutions in the fields of electrical, automation and mechatronic engineering. The company develops one of the world’s leading design software solutions for machine and panel builders. EPLAN is also the ideal partner to streamline challenging engineering processes.

Both standardised as well as customised interfaces to ERP and PLM/PDM systems ensure data consistency along the whole value chain. Working with EPLAN means boundless communication across all engineering disciplines. No matter whether small or large enterprises: Customers can apply their expertise more efficiently. Worldwide, EPLAN supports 68,000 customers. EPLAN wants to grow further with customers and partners and pushes integration and automation in engineering forward. Within the EPLAN Partner Network, open interfaces and seamless integrations are realised together with partners. „Efficient engineering“ is the focus.

EPLAN was founded in 1984 and is part of the owner-operated Friedhelm Loh Group. The Friedhelm Loh Group operates worldwide with more than 12 production sites and over 95 international subsidiaries. The entire group employs more than 12,100 people and generated revenues of €3 billion in 2023.

Growing Together

Corporate Principles

We abide by the ten corporate principles of the Friedhelm Loh Group.

The capability and cooperation of our staff harnessed to their goal focused motivation is a key asset of our company.

We recognise the correlation between skills and knowledge development, motivation and company success. To that end, we encourage and sponsor our staff in training and further education and to share in the overall company success.

We view our customers as partners who determine the success of the company:

We must satisfy our customers’ wishes and help to solve their problems for they are the guarantors of our future.
Our products and services must offer clear benefits to our customers in particular with regard to quality, technical capability, range and availability.

We must be quicker and better than the competition and we must prove this to our customers on a daily basis.

Our inspiration and creativity result in our competitive advantage. We must, therefore, continually strive to generate ideas and initiatives that can translate into effective implementation.

Perfect mastery of our daily business secures our existence and positions us to meet the challenges of the future.

Our goal is to develop long term and meaningful relationships on a partnership basis with our suppliers. This requires a strategic outlook based on competitive focused quality, delivery service, price and cooperative problem solving.

We focus all of our energies on cost effective designing, developing and delivery of products, system solutions and services in a professional and timely manner.