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Press Release03 December 2024Digital IndustriesNuremberg
Siemens Xcelerator: Eplan and Siemens enable seamless data interoperability in machine engineering
Accelerating the digital transformation with Siemens Xcelerator
This collaboration expands Siemens’ and Eplan’s partner
ecosystems. The Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform creates a
powerful ecosystem of partners that’s accelerating the digital and sustainable
transformation of industry. Eplan customers are benefiting from the extended collaboration
via the Eplan Partner Network.
"The partnership between Siemens and Eplan
is a milestone in digital engineering. The optimized data exchange enables
customers to realize their projects in construction, operation and expansion
faster and more efficiently," said Cedrik Neike, member of the Managing
Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries. “With this collaboration
we’re strengthening our Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem and are creating more
value for our customers than each of us could individually."
Eplan CEO Sebastian Seitz added: "With this
collaboration, Eplan and Siemens are bringing together their extensive
experience in machine engineering to provide our joint customers with an
end-to-end engineering tool chain. This makes engineering processes much faster
and less prone to errors."
The collaboration between the two companies was
agreed on by Cedrik Neike and Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Loh, owner and chairman of Friedhelm
Loh Group, at the SPS trade show (Eplan is part of the Friedhelm
Loh Group). The improved offerings will become successively available to
customers beginning next year.
Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Loh, owner and chairman of Friedhelm Loh Group and Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries sealed the agreement at SPS.
Siemens and Eplan are ensuring seamless data integration in machine engineering: for example from Eplan into the Siemens TIA Selection Tool.
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Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 70,000 people worldwide.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
In fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €75.9 billion and net income of €9.0 billion. As of September 30, 2024, the company employed around 312,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at
www.siemens.com.
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 12 production sites and 95 international subsidiaries. The entire group employs 12.100 people and generated revenues of €3 billion in fiscal 2023. In 2023, the Friedhelm Loh Group was named “Best Place to Learn” and “Employer of the Future”.
For more information visit:
www.eplan-software.com and
www.friedhelm-loh-group.com