Building Automation
Interdisciplinary Automation of Your Building Planning
To ensure cost-effective engineering processes, architects, engineers, planning offices and construction companies need a transparent foundation of information and efficient digital tools. EPLAN solutions make it possible for you to work in an interdisciplinary way with integrated data for building automation – for instance, you can quickly and easily plan electrical and control cabinets installed in buildings. Improved data consistency enables you to effectively increase the productivity of your planning processes as regards quality, time and expenditures.
Building Automation – A Central Part of Modern Facilities Management
Building automation includes the entirety of monitoring, control, regulation and optimisation equipment in a building, thereby making it an important part of technical facilities management.
Guideline-Compliant Planning
EPLAN Preplanning is a CAE solution for building automation. The software’s easy-to-use importing functions facilitate data transfers from upstream planning phases. Intelligent macro projects and templates automate the creation of logical I&C diagrams that support downstream engineering processes. The automatic creation of data point lists, materials lists and bills of materials make price determinations and cost calculations much easier. The system automatically supports you from structure to signal identification.
Data Continuity Through to Manufacturing
Your data is enriched through to manufacturing of the control cabinets thanks to intelligent EPLAN Platform technology, considerably simplifying change management. The digital twins of control cabinets and distributors are also available for implementation in the 3D model of your building planning – EPLAN Pro Panel makes it possible.
Important Codes That Apply to Building Automation
There are a variety of codes that must be complied with in the field of building automation. A number of examples are listed here. EPLAN solutions allow you to plan and design in compliance with current codes and standards.
BIM, Smart Building – New Potential With the Digital Twin
Every planning office is familiar with it – software-based building information modelling, or BIM. It allows a virtual building model to be created that is then used, for instance, as the foundation for cost calculations and task planning during the construction phase. Another element is the area of smart building, where real-time information about the building is delivered across its entire life cycle and beyond. However, a complete digital twin can do much more than this: it receives building data from all sources, including physical and system sources. What’s more is that the data is further enhanced to create a completely digital image as well as to simulate “what-if scenarios”. The digital twin is therefore a powerful, spatially oriented data model – a virtual prototype of your building, for instance, but also of the installed systems and control cabinets.
The Digital Twin in Control Cabinet and Switchgear System Engineering
EPLAN and its affiliate Rittal already offer system and automation solutions from a single source for control cabinet and switchgear system engineering. The digital twin is a mainstay of this, created on a foundation of integrated data. The control cabinets and switchgear systems virtually designed using EPLAN Pro Panel can also be integrated into your external 3D building planning as an example. Rittal delivers you optimal physical systems in continuous data exchange with the digital prototype.
Building Technology – Information for all Industries at a Glance
You can find out more and about best practices in our industry overview for the building technology sector.
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