Siemens and engineering automation specialist Eplan have enabled data interoperability for machine engineering. The two companies have integrated the Eplan machine engineering automation platform and Siemens Xcelerator digital platform. This provides interoperability between machine automation platforms, and between such platforms and other users of Siemens Xcelerator platform.

The interoperability will become available to customers next year.

Eplan CEO Sebastian Seitz said: “With this collaboration, Eplan and Siemens are bringing together their extensive experience in machine engineering to provide our joint customers with an end-to-end engineering tool chain. This makes engineering processes much faster and less prone to errors.”

The optimized data exchange enables customers to realize their projects in construction, operation and expansion faster and more efficiently,” said Cedrik Neike, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries. “With this collaboration we’re strengthening our Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem and are creating more value for our customers than each of us could individually.”