From eplan to elecworks, how will the development direction of electrical design software change?
Author: France, Trace Software International Technical Director Wang
No longer recall the taste of spring because it is over.
Never worry about the color of summer, because it has arrived.
No longer worry about mechatronics because elecworks for PTC Creo is coming.
Since I set foot in the electrical design industry on the first day, I was wondering why electrical design cannot be taken seriously by companies. I always thought that the storm of electrical design was coming. As a result, I could not wake up with a decade-long dream. I still don't think that electrical design can compete with mechanical design.
Why can't electrical design be valued?
Because China is a big manufacturing country, and because electrical design is harder to master than mechanical design.
Electrical design is a sorting process that transforms electrical control logic into reality. That is, all the design content is invisible and invisible. Therefore, when the layman understands and masters this technology, it becomes very weak. After all, the interlacing is like every other mountain. Unlike mechanical software, the 3D model can realistically simulate the physical appearance, and it is a 1:1 real restoration. For enterprises, such tools can pre-plan the physical appearance of products without taking samples; from a manufacturing point of view, 3D design can virtualize physical scenes onto the desktop and feed back into production. Technologically, this process of producing products can save a lot of human exploration and experimentation. Therefore, the number of mechanical engineers in most companies may be 10 times or more than that of electrical engineers.
Although it is difficult, we still have the word "electrical" on our brains, because we still want this line to prosper. In other words, the dreams in our hearts still exist and have never disappeared.
Superworks is an electrical design tool developed by the local development team based on AutoCAD and has made significant contributions to the convenience of operation. Although the number of people now used is decreasing year by year, we cannot deny that Superworks has ever been brilliant. To know, how many similar local tools have been smashed and annihilated by the market because of piracy! What a pity.
In the history of the development of electrical design software, Eplan played the biggest role. In China, the object-oriented design approach proposed by Eplan introduced the database into electrical design. Many people just see the appearance, think that such tools can automatically generate reports. In fact, automatic statistics is just a result of it. The real core value is the change of electrical software from drawing to design, from drawing work to data management. The introduction of management concepts has made electrical design a lot of fun.
If you say that Eplan has sprouted spring willows, this is not an exaggeration.
Time is always joking with us, and we have accomplished heroes one by one, but we have also quietly erased it a little bit. Any product will have its own life cycle.
After entering maturity, the most painful thing is to deny itself into a recession. But in fact, after reaching the peak, the product needs more time and cost (X-axis) to complete a little improvement (Y-axis).
How to ensure that you are always in maturity? R & D! The same is true for electrical software.
Constantly accept the market demand, constantly change their own according to demand, but also need to add some spare mechanisms so that they will not be at a loss when future needs arise.
A gust of wind from France is quietly helping Eplan to break through its bottleneck – the emergence of elecworks has changed the direction of electrical design software to a certain extent.
Still the object-oriented design is still based on the database management, but the route taken by elecworks has made many people in the industry brighten up.
If I say farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants. - Newton
Elecworks software developed by Trace Software first stood on the shoulders of SolidWorks. It turns out that this shoulder is very thick. In 2013, Dassault officially signed a covenant with Trace Software Corporation and announced to the world that SolidWorks Electrical (elecworks' OEM product) was introduced using the elecworks technology to realize a truly mechatronics design solution. Moreover, Dassault did not disappoint Trace Software and promoted SolidWorks electrical globally. In the following year, Eplan also announced the official launch of the Pro Panel design tool that enables mechatronic design with the Eplan P8.
Eplan accepted the move.
In 2016, Trace Software also announced that elecworks for PTC Creo has perfectly implemented the integration of elecworks and PTC Creo. This was even more interesting because Trace Software stood on the shoulders of PTC while standing on Dassault's shoulders. You know, PTC's annual sales can be "billion dollars" as a unit, this giant is much higher than SolidWorks.
Eplan, how to take the move?
No matter how you look, the elecworks are in the growth period and have not entered the mature period yet, but Eplan has entered the mature period for many years.
The summer of June is in full swing. Some people see the unbearable helplessness and others see the excitement of burning flames.
From the consumer's point of view, we also hope that Eplan and elecworks can do more, because their ultimate beneficiaries of the battle are always the consumers themselves.
Someone made a metaphor for Eplan and elecworks: Eplan used Apple strategy to build a huge empire and the keywords were "controllable"; electworks adopted Android strategy and integrated seamlessly with other platforms to form alliances. The key word was " integrated". It doesn't really matter who wins or loses. The important thing is which way is the most needed for the development of your company and your company. This is also the most fundamental basis for companies to choose electrical design software.
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