Eplan has presented a new, fee-based web service at the Hannover Messe: Eplan Data Portal Professional. Users get comprehensive functionalities to update or enrich device data, as well as significantly expanded filtering possibilities.

When device data has been updated in the portal, the system alerts users as to which data is more current than that found in their local database. The advantage: users can update their data at the push of a button, without manually searching and replacing.

The portal's new data enhancement functionality begins at the start of a project, when device data is not yet available in the device management system. Users can send lists of devices or model numbers to the Data Portal, and then they receive a shopping cart to download with all the found device data.

Besides supplementing commercial data, these updates also include important engineering data such as macros, documentation and production data. Users can begin designing without having to go through the tedious process of setting up master data beforehand. Another practical benefit: once device data has been enhanced, the change is accounted for during the update routine for device data.

Comprehensive filtering options such as the ability to save prefilters can be assigned to individual persons via the integrated rights administration. Components can be located more quickly, considerably increasing the speed of the design process.

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