Articles and Case Studies

03.2022 / Case Study

Isar Aerospace: Electrical Engineering in rocket construction

Aerospace technology stands for the art of engineering under extreme conditions. In order to precisely launch satellites into space, for example, everything has to be right, and not just on launch day. Perfection is required in advance – for example, on the testing stations for parts and components.
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03.2021 / Case Study

Fraport is designing building and room automation with WSCAD

“In order to avoid data discontinuity, errors and delays, we have followed a holistic design for building and room automation from the beginning.”
Find out how the building automation for 1,500 rooms, 240 controls and 150,000 automation functions at the new Terminal 3 at Frankfurt Airport was planned using the electrical CAD solution from WSCAD.
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10.2020 / Case Study

Wickman Group: Professional CAD Package Producing error-free electrical design drawings

Wickman Group Ltd, based in United Kingdom, is using WSCAD Electrical CAD Software to custom design machines. Read in our latest success story, how the company benefits from WSCADs ease of use and excellent functionality-for-price ratio.
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09.2020 / Case Study

Hosokawa Alpine AG: Standardized electrical design for special machine construction

Hosokawa Alpine AG from Augsburg is consistently pushing ahead with standardization in its electrical design. This saves a lot of time, increases the efficiency of processes and increases the quality of products. The two prerequisites for standardization are a modular well structured product portfolio and an appropriate electrical CAD software.
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05.2020 / Case Study

Electrical Engineering at WAGO

Innovation and digitsation are key when using electrical connectors and electrical connection technology. Electrical designers and building planners can benefit significantly from a powerful combination of quality components, up-to-date product data and an efficient electrical CAD system.
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01.2020 / Case Study

BSG: Automated Electrical Engineering Design including protection data

Time pressure, a shortage of skills and ever-decreasing development-cycles are forcing machinery and plant construction companies to take increasingly streamlined rationalisation and automation measures. Un-der pressure and in the middle of it all are the switchgear manufacturers: one such manufacturer – Bruckmann Steuerungstechnik GmbH in North Rhine-Westphalia – shows how much potential lies in automated electrical engineering design.
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01.2020 / Case Study

Niemann GmbH: Professional control Panel engineering with integrated manufacturing

Highly specialized control panel manufacturers need to be equally proficient in both the technology and the skills of the trade. In addition to the appropri-ate machines for production, it is crucial that they also have the right CAD tools. Managing Director Holger Pawel from the NW-Niemann GmbH Elek-trotechnik provides some insight into how he and his team have mastered the daily challenges.
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12.2019 / Case Study

HTT Energy GmbH: Value added by reliable ERP integration

The objective of HTT ENERGY GmbH, a medium-sized manufacturer of individual process heating and cooling systems, was to improve customer satisfaction by speeding up process cycles. A key step towards reducing planning times and speeding up the project cycle was the integration of the electrical engineering environment in the ERP system. Since then, Technology and Purchasing have worked together in close collaboration, without any loss of momentum.
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11.2019 / Case Study

Caterpillar Energy Solutions: Evolution in Electrical Engineering

German Mechanical and Plant Engineering has been successfully automating production and processes for decades and has thus established itself as a glo-bal leader. Under the concept Industry 4.0, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), the industrial sector is now heralding the next phase in manufacturing with self-controlling production. But what exactly is happening in the enginee-ring and design departments, especially in the area of electrical engineering and design?
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11.2019 / Article

SPS compact: Coupling included

Bruckmann Steuerungstechnik (BSG) has been planning and manufacturing automation solutions for the plastic producing industry since 1995. Reuse and automation play an important role in the electrical design. What is special about BSG is that the quotation system is coupled with the ECAD solution using the One Tool configurator it has written itself. All relevant items included in a quotation are transferred to the WSCAD SUITE for the complete electrical engineering design, including complete, standard-compliant documentation.

Find out more in the following article on page 88.
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09.2017 / Case Study

Miele: A single software tool for the entire electrical engineering process

Highly specialized machine and equipment manufacturers often need to work on different interdisciplinary tasks concurrently …
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06.2016 / Case Study

Max Planck Institute: Electrical engineering planned with WSCAD

The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) is one of the largest centers for fusion research in Europe. In December 2015, the scientific operation of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment was started at the Greifswald site. On February 3, 2016, Chancellor Angela Merkel personally pressed the Start button to initiate the first ignition of the hydrogen plasma. The entire electrical engineering for this was planned by researchers with the E-CAD software from WSCAD.
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