Eplan CEO Sebastian Seitz explains: “Aside from using Eplan software, our customers also use a variety of other software applications from various manufacturers in the ERP, PLM, PLC and simulation environments to name just a few. The effective interaction of these various applications is especially important to them. As part of the EPN, we will therefore be focusing on joint development of integrations as well as quality assurance and support.”

Asked about the motivation to found the new EPLAN Partner Network, the company’s senior vice president for strategy and corporate program, Marco Litto says: “The professionalisation of our network systematically increases the benefits for end users.”

As Litto explains, the goals are ambitious: “The connectors between our systems should be planned, developed, tested, supported and marketed with at least the same rigour and soundness that we are accustomed to with our own solutions. Together with our EPN partners, it will allow us to achieve a completely new level of customer focus.”

Open interfaces and modern integrations will create a wide range of opportunities that users of the various software solutions will benefit from, not to mention the partner companies themselves.

Global key players of automation including Bosch Rexroth, B&R, Endress+Hauser, Festo, IFM Electronic, Mitsubishi Electric, Phoenix Contact, Pilz, Rittal and Rockwell Automation are already taking part in the initiative. Software partners – for example configit, Contact Software, Encoway, Gain, ISD, ISG, Keytech, Machineering, Procad, Quanos and SAE – are also participating in the new network. Both German and international companies are being approached to participate too, and Eplan is currently in talks with many of them. For instance, UDMTEK in Korea was the first Asian company to seal the membership deal – and Eplan says others are certain to follow.

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Manufacturing sectors in the UK and across the world have been going through accelerated changes in the last few months and an unprecedented transformation is in full swing. As a result, the market conditions are changing for everyone. As a forward-thinking enterprise, EPLAN is consistently adapting to these changes and offering flexible licensing options for engineering teams.

“For our customers, we are aligning our business 100 per cent towards the future. This ground-breaking decision will pay off for both current and new customers alike”, explained EPLAN CEO Sebastian Seitz. “I am certain that benefits like the attractive entry conditions, flexibility regarding the subscription duration, as well as the comprehensive package of new features being introduced with the launch of the coming version of EPLAN will enhance our customers’ experience.

Putting customer success at the centre of all its innovations through software development, EPLAN aims to boost its customers’ productivity and profitability via efficient engineering. The new subscription model is expected to bring about even more fruitful dialogue with customers in these times of the digital and industrial transformation.

“Close communication forms the basis of success for us and for our customers”, added Ken Christie, Director at EPLAN UK. “The new licensing options encourage feedback and information exchange, whilst at the same time furnishing engineering teams with the tools they need for efficient, automated and digitalised practices.”

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