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

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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

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Phone: + 49(0)2173 3964-0

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E-Mail: info@eplan.de · www.eplan.de

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