2.4 Translate Management - SRG-E-Engineering

Technical Overview Engineering Base © by AUCOTEC AG
Welcome to Engineering Base 1
1 Welcome to Engineering Base
Strong Basis for New Solutions
Systems for the documentation of electrical engineering systems have been on the
market for over 20 years. AUCOTEC has been involved from the very start. At that
time the computer was used like an intelligent drawing board. In addition, the first
ECAD systems offered users functions that also took into account logical relations
to exclude sources of error.
The limits of conventional E-CAD systems lie in their dependence on graphic representation.
For instance, lists are complete and correct only as long as the diagrams
actually represent the complete plant. The forced dependence of the work sequence
on graphic representation carries even more weight, however, since in the actual
planning process devices and plant structure are specified long before they are represented
in the circuit diagrams.
Engineering Base (EB) sets new standards because as a product of the most recent
ECAE generation it offers unique editing options – due to the independence of the
plant model from graphic representations and the independence of the users regarding
their work sequence. An always up-to-date plant model enables this degree of
freedom because all objects such as devices, cables and leads but also functions,
graphic documents and catalogs are kept in it with all their references. Whenever a
piece of information is available, it is put into the model via input masks, list editing
or graphic representation and supplemented later on by further representations or
details. Thus emerge the complete planning and documentation of electrical systems
in diverse industrial sectors: from the first concepts and basic information down to
the last refinement – and all that under permanent supervision.
February 4, 2008