1. Sales and Construction in One Package: osCAS Saves 80% Engineering Base makes it particularly easy for project planners to consistently configure and document machines and entire plants from the design to the sales stages including all changes and the corresponding cost estimates. The modern platform enables an integral solution where working with functional modules is the basic requirement for optimizing the work and material expenditure. Once the preparatory work has been done in Engineering Base and the EB library is filled with standardized modules and system components, then the usefulness of this object-oriented and database-driven tools goes decisive 7 steps further:
2. Infrastructure Planning: Consistency Thanks to Database General diagrams, hall superstructures, machine representations and route tracings were hitherto created without taking into account the required equipment. For the commissioning and later on maintenance tasks consistency of the documentation is indispensable, however. The EB database model is equipped with all prerequisites needed for working with different plant views. Be it single-lines, cable run drawings or plant overviews: all planning jobs required in machine and plant construction can be carried out – and that without multiple entries or the otherwise common data discontinuities. Functions and equipment can e.g. be planned directly in or linked to imported machine drawings or hall plans. The EB navigation function provides quick movement in the most varied types of documentation.
3. Ascertainment of Demand: Automatic (Cost) Adaptation with Delta Management Different clients in international markets mean varying requirements and the use of different electrical and mechanical modules. In order for the diverse suppliers not to become a calculatory risk, Engineering Base determines the module-oriented costs and stores them in the database for later comparison. After the initial calculation, all materials not yet sufficiently specified in the offer can be recorded. This list of materials can be completed via the built-in ERP system or supplier specifications and can then – using the item name – be matched with the engineering data. Here EB autonomously supplements the supplied technical data online in a way traceable via an integrated delta management.
4. Machine Interface for Integrating External Package Units The integration of supplier data into the plant documentation remains an special challenge even today, and many plants exhibit incompletely documented machine or system components at the supply limits. Navigation spanning limits of supply was up to now not possible. Therefore Aucotec's novel machine interface for the integration of external machine projects into the superordinate plant design offers a genuine specialty. The so-called "package units" can be managed and versioned separately yet communicate with the complete plant by means of intelligent adapters. When a supplied subproject is changed, the data unit in question can simply be exchanged, the interfaces defined for the total plant are kept. Thanks to the database concept of Engineering Base it is possible to subdivide system components into arbitrarily large data units and to link them to each other.
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