The new Eplan Platform 2026 is here! Eplan has used this opportunity to completely redevelop its entire portfolio, with an even greater focus on customers and their requirements in their respective market segments. One central point is the significant reduction in complexity. The new software portfolio makes the full power of the Eplan Platform clearer and, with numerous enhancements, provides a comprehensive solution in specific application fields. Furthermore, the Eplan Platform can easily be integrated into existing IT landscapes.

Companies are facing enormous challenges right now in successfully configuring their businesses and making them secure for the future. Solutions provider Eplan supports its customers in shortening the time to value. 

Comprehensive solutions have been created for this that are customised to the tasks and workflows in individual industries and customer segments, and customers can immediately use them, optimised to their full extent for basic engineering, electrical engineering, and control cabinet manufacturing without having to evaluate and procure additional modules and options. 

Eplan’s Vice President Customer Journey, Jan Fleming, explains: “We have systematically aligned our product portfolio toward the tasks and workflows of our customers. The Eplan Platform 2026 provides maximum support for users in their respective application fields. This means more simplicity in engineering and at the same time valuable additional services that help our customers become even more efficient.” 

Simply offers more

All products in the Eplan Platform 2026 have been fundamentally reworked and functionally expanded, making them the new benchmark for electrical engineering. The launch is being accompanied by a completely new product portfolio. Previously, optional extensions are now standard in some versions of the software. The portfolio has been tailored to the specific requirements of certain market segments: Eplan Preplanning meets these requirements for operators and planners. Control cabinet construction is planned using Eplan Pro Panel, and machine builders will find all the relevant functionality for their tasks in Eplan Electric P8. 

New features include the cloud-based Eplan collaboration apps, the Eplan Data Portal, parts management eStock, and eManage for data management, all of which are included in the scope of services for Eplan Electric P8, Eplan Pro Panel, and Eplan Preplanning. Previously, optional extensions are now included in some configuration levels. This allows users to make their processes even more efficient and consistent. This holds true for all project phases and for different industries, from concept development to detail engineering and manufacturing to commissioning and operations.  

Support for operators as well

For instance, Eplan Preplanning now also covers electrical engineering requirements in the early planning phase in the form of single-line schematics in addition to the integration of preplanning data and professional creation of P&I diagrams. So aside from being able to be used by system integrators, the software can now also be used by operators and planners in basic engineering. Users benefit from preconfigured contents such as symbols, example data, and forms that are specifically tailored to the tasks in machine building, control cabinet, and switchgear system engineering, energy technology, and building automation.

Flexible with or without the use of cloud services

Depending on the configuration level, customers can now also collaborate internally and externally using the Eplan Cloud: cloud-based apps for device management, data management, and the view of Eplan projects using the Viewer are now included. As soon as users activate their licences for the Eplan Platform 2026, the extended range of functionality is available to them. The only thing they have to do is install the new software – at no additional cost.