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Automation & Robotics
Precision Automation & Robotics India Ltd.
PARI enjoys a decade of enhanced quality, production and documentation with
EPLAN
PARI- India’s global automation solution provider
Precision Automation & Robotics India Ltd. is a global automation solution provider of
robotic products and technologies. With over 850 employees and 8 facilities worldwide,
PARI provides its customers with a complete range of automation solutions including
conceptualizing, designing, manufacturing, implementing and supporting of advanced
factory automation systems. The company began its operations in 1990, and has since
grown at an amazing rate of 50% each year. Till date, PARI has provided over 600
automated solutions worldwide including standard robots, gantry and portal robots, and
designs and builds integration components like transporters, trunions, auxiliary axis,
robotic enclosures and end-arm tooling. The company operates through deploying
well-engineered automation solutions through mass customized technologies and system
to achieve the global needs of its customers.
PARI’s success lies in the fact that the company strives to provide excellence in every step
of the process from sales to commissioning and ensuring that this excellence is reflected in
its products, people and solutions. With a wide range of innovative solutions and focus on
complete customer satisfaction combined with a fast growing global presence, PARI aims
to be among the top 10 global automation companies.
“We have significant improvement in quality of project documentation using EPLAN. Many
times our wiring diagrams are superior than our international competitors and some
customers have expressed this view.”
Atul Patil
Vice President
Precision Automation & Robotics India Ltd.
PARI switched to EPLAN in 2004 and since then has never looked back. With a large
market base in India, Europe and the US, PARI felt the need for an error-free design system
to help cater to the high standards of quality expected. However, the software that was
being used by PARI required that the work be done manually, which held a potential risk
for errors at every step. Switching to the current product gave PARI a host of advantages
including generation of various reports, at click of button, generation of Bill of Material
(BOM) automatically based on the schematics, automatic assignment of device ID’s and
wire numbering and easy error detection (for example, not allowing two different
voltage wires to be connected). The change also helped in the provision of different
standard symbol libraries, customization when following different drawing standards,
uniformity in the presentation of the wiring diagrams (the look is independent of the
engineer), and in the creation of the internal component layouts of panels by using
footprints from a library.
“EPLAN is a well-designed user friendly software. It has reduced the engineering time by
at least 40%. The quality and data consistency over the documentation is very good,” says
Atul Patil, VP (Control Systems Engineering), PARI, on the effectiveness of the change.
The transition brings desired results
PARI experienced a smooth transition from the existing software to the use of the present
solution. Before the launch of EPLAN, all engineers at PARI were trained to work on EPLAN
through a series of training workshops that were conducted. The faculty especially focused on
providing adequate training to all the engineers associated with hardware design. The result
was a successful setting up of standard part’s database, macros, templates, etc. making it
easy for the engineers at PARI to do a better job in lesser time.
Commenting on the significant amount of savings in time, Vice President Patil says, “We had
not set any target in reduction of project turnaround time, when we switched over to EPLAN.
Our focus then was to generate good-looking error free drawings of international level. We did
not set any specific goals in this regards, but yes, it has reduced the engineering time by at
least 40%.”
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Automation & Robotics
A change in design software
PARI succeeds in eliminating errors
The successful launch of the engineering solution has
encouraged best practices in PARI in four different areas,
namely through the provision of standardization of recurrent
content, through faster and more reliable generation of
documentation, through the reduction or elimination of errors
and easier error-checking and through faster integration of
data corrections and customer-specified changes. At PARI,
the control design engineers use EPLAN mainly for schematic
generation. 1500+ macros have been created, including DIN
and ANSI type macros and corresponding parts database.
The product has also enabled PARI to use DIN based
modularization using the HLA+LOD concept. Engineers at
PARI further use associated products like EPLAN Data Portal
to pick up parts. The high quality wiring diagrams produced
by PARI are also found to be far superior to their international
competitors, a fact that has been widely expressed by PARI’s
various clients.
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Execution of a typical project at PARI
PARI uses EPLAN in its design phase. In a typical project,
the designing starts with the creation of a platform based
on customer requirement. The engineering solution is
used in designing plot frames, forms, symbol libraries,
schemes, database, etc. Based on this, the wiring diagram
is created after which auto-ferruling, device numbering and
PLC numbering is done to optimize time. PARI designs
schematics in-house for the panels being along with the
field wiring. However, the production team at PARI does
not use terminal/wire/cable reports during the production
phase of the project, since the electricians are used to
wiring up the panels/ boxes and the field wiring based
on the wiring schematics. After the design phase, some
clients of PARI continue to use EPLAN schematics for
maintenance purposes. For clients who wish for their
schematics in software other than EPLAN, PARI further
uses the engineering solution to produce an output in
editable format as required by the client.
Impact on PARI’s engineering productivity
Although PARI’s primary reason to change its design
software was to generate impressive and error free
drawings at an international level, EPLAN has in turn
provided a positive impact on PARI’s overall engineering
productivity. PARI reports a reduction in engineering time
by a massive 40% by reducing the engineering hours for
wiring diagram preparation, checking and associated
re-work. PARI is also planning to directly import the bill of
material (BOM) generated via the software into their home
grown ERP system – hence reducing the errors in ordering
material and saving time in entering the BOM into the ERP.
Overall PARI is very happy with the excellence in quality and
data consistency in documentation.
Automation & Robotics
SummaryPARI
EPLAN Software & Service
Rittal India Pvt Ltd. No.4 Subhodayam Complex, 1st Floor
RMV 2nd Stage, New BEL Road, Bangalore-560094
Phone: 080-41515497 · Fax: 080-23519791
E-Mail: info@eplan.in · www.eplan.in
PARI is extremely satisfied with EPLAN
PARI’s extreme satisfaction has resulted in them rating the service and support at a high 4, on a scale of 1 to 5. This stems
from the fact that the product has not only made it possible to increase production even further, but has also provided a
full range of services to fall back upon. For example, thanks to Unicode, the integration of their international locations was
made easy for PARI. Extremely satisfied with the current engineering solutions, PARI also recently purchased EPLAN Fluid
to aid in other areas of design and production.
Overall, PARI found EPLAN as a reliable tool, especially since it contributed towards significant improvements in areas
such as project documentation, error reduction, content standardization and document generation.
Find out more about PARI at www.parirobotics.com
EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG
An der alten Ziegelei 2 · D-40789 Monheim am Rhein
Phone: + 49(0)2173 3964-0
Fax: + 49(0)2173 3964-25
E-Mail: info@eplan.de · www.eplan.de
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