WSCAD software licences are in use in the Electrical Design Department

The size of customers and their expectations are increasing

The company is finding that customers are becoming more demanding. They work with larger and more serious clients, so they aim to enhance the calibre of their products and documentation. Larger customers have developed their own standards, which must be adapted to during the project. Ledinek takes care of the entire project from start to finish, from design to assembly. Machines and parts are delivered to the location by ships, trucks, or trains. In addition to the production line they create, they also provide training to the client’s employees to operate the machines and equipment. Their proj-ects can be worth 10 million euro or more, and their clients are mostly from other countries. They also have a few clients in Slovenia, where they completed a project for the Koles company in Kočevje. However, in Slovenia, this industry is quite small.

WSCAD ELECTRIX software for electrical design

The electrical design department has 11 licenses, which they use for planning industrial automated processes. With WSCAD, they create electrical schematics and documentation for machines and almost entirely for electrical cabinets. These steps are necessary for the entire production line to be manufactured and installed. The Ledinek company chose WSCAD software 25 years ago and has benefited from it on a daily basis ever since. They try to get the most out of WSCAD software and increase efficiency, so they have plans for the future – they want fragmentation, structuring, and implementation into their own ERP system, which would efficiently connect processes in the company. Linking WSCAD to the ERP system would facilitate production, electrical assembly, storage, and procurement when manufacturing electrical cabinets.

They use WSCAD software in the disciplines of electrical schematics and electrical cabinet design. Schemat-ics account for 70% of WSCAD docu-mentation and serve as the foundation for additional work in the discipline of electrical cabinet design. Last year, nine engineers produced 45,000 pages of electrical documentation for project purposes WSCAD also allows them to divide the production line into sev-eral sections during the planning phase. Because each part works as a whole, they can easily reuse parts from previous projects on the next project. In addition to the existing advan-tages of WSCAD software, Ledinek also sees potential in the Cabinet AR (Augmented Reality) application, which has been designed for electrical cabinet maintenance. Ledinek have already test-ed the application and found it effective and are planning to use it in the future.

A multi-million-euro project and successful adaptation of established solutions

One of the larger projects where Ledinek used WSCAD software was the development and installation of a production line for a client in Sweden. The project, worth several million euros, had to meet extremely high requirements as well as client’s internal standards. Typically, investors in large projects engage an internal assessor or a team that is involved in the project at all stages. This ensures that the project is aligned with all necessary standards and requirements, both corporate and national, at all levels. Such projects are more or less adapted to the customer’s needs and can be supplemented and upgraded later on.

In this specific project, the customer’s requirements for the electrical side were so extensive that they actually required a completely new approach in all stages, both in the planning and implementation phases, which further increased the overall project cost. Quality collaboration with partners is also important for the successful implementation of projects. The official representative for WSCAD software in Slovenia is EXOR ETI d.o.o. The team at Ledinek is very satisfied with their collaboration and emphasises that responsive technical support is of great importance to them. Ledinek’s goal for the future is to continue their successful path and further strengthen their position globally, as they aim to co-create global trends in the woodworking industry. Greater and more extensive use of WSCAD software will contribute to achieving this goal.

Ledinek uses WSCAD software to design control cabinets