P'X5™ Solutions: Electrical Engineering

P’X5™ is a perfect planning and sales tool also for the electrical industry. Variant management of modular electrical products and rule-based solution definition in the spatial context are – like in other P’X5™ industries – key for the optimization of sales-related business processes.

Wieland Electric GmbH (Bamberg, Germany) for instance relies on P’X5™ with its combination of sales configuration and 2D/3D planning. Wieland Electric is among the leading companies in the global electrical connector technology market. Wieland Electric creates contacts at the interface between electrotechnical equipment and installations – through every branch and industry.

At Wieland, the particular strengths of the P’X5™ shine through:

  • Using the P’X5™ Configuration Engine, geometric validation of spatial planning and the processing of commercial product data can be done at the same time as complex electrotechnical calculations.
  • The required rule-set for each area is created using the P’X5™ Authoring Workbench. It allows the connections between all the product information required for the sales task to be described using one and the same rule concept.
  • The P’X5™ Authoring Workbench is naturally also available to our customers wishing to independently create and maintain their product knowledge base.

Electro-technical configuration in the spatial context

  • Acquisition of customer requirements and gross-planning by sales personnel and partners
  • Interaction with symbolic and real product components
  • Simulation of limiting room elements in 3D Room Builder
  • Wiring planning in imported CAD floor plans applying strong routing functionality

Calculation of permissible currents, voltage drops etc.

  • Concurrent processing of geometrical constraint verification, complex electro-technical calculations, and commercial information
  • Realtime identification of anomalies, i.e. power overload, voltage drop, short circuits, etc.
  • Checking of fuse protection dimensioning

Basic Engineering and Project Planning

  • Generation of detailed wiring plans in the technical planning department
  • Processing of plans for entire buildings, i.e. multiple floors planning
  • Construction of cross connectors subject to the basic configuration and planning

Price Calculation and Quote Generation

  • Partslist generation including technical and commercial information
  • Flexible grouping of quote positions according to spatial separation
  • Automatic calculation of prices and conditions
  • Inclusion of inexistent, user-defined articles

Document Generation and Data Output

  • Generation and printout of detailed quotes for planers, engineers, and end customers
  • Output of assembling and installation drawings / manuals in compliance with the spatial situation