The Cogineer is an add-on of the EPLAN platform that allows you to further standardize and automate your engineering processes and data. On the basis of pre-defined partial circuits (macros), value sets and rules you create configurators for your products. Subsequently you enrich the configurators with project-specific information and generate the required project documentation automatically to a great extent. Depending on the trade you generate the project documentation for EPLAN Electric P8 or EPLAN Fluid.
All the data that are required for the project documentation of a project are stored in a macro project of the EPLAN platform. This also includes all the elements that you create in the Cogineer. This macro project is conceived as a library which you can use when creating the Macro-Typicals, Typical-Groups and configurators.
All the required macros are organized and managed in Macro-Typicals. Each Macro-Typical maps a part of the product that is to be configured. Typical-Groups serve to group partial functions. In a configurator you specify which components your product must consist of and which components are optional.
The library that contains your macros, Macro-Typicals, Typical-Groups and configurators is the starting point for the mechatronics configuration of your products.
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Depending on the aim that you follow the required information is available in one of the sections of the help system:
- You wish to use the Cogineer to define electrical engineering / fluid-power standards and configurators of your company. The corresponding information is available in the Designer section.
- You wish to use the Cogineer to generate the documentation for your projects on the basis of pre-defined configurators and standards. The corresponding information is available in the Project Builder section.
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