Siemens and Eplan Enter Strategic Partnership
西门子和Eplan建立战略伙伴关系

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Eplan have signed a strategic partnership to strengthen collaboration in the area of software solutions for the industry and infrastructure market segments. As part of this agreement, Siemens’ Electrical Products business unit will join the Eplan Partner Network as a strategic partner. The objective is to coordinate the products of both companies in a more targeted manner in order to offer optimized solutions for switchgear manufacturers and electrical planners.

西门子智能基础设施和Eplan签署了一项战略伙伴关系，以加强在工业和基础设施市场领域的软件解决方案方面的合作。作为该协议的一部分，西门子的电气产品业务部门将作为战略合作伙伴加入Eplan合作伙伴网络。其目的是以更有针对性的方式协调两家公司的产品，以便为开关设备制造商和电气规划师提供优化的解决方案。

Sebastian Seitz, CEO of Eplan, and Andreas Matthé, CEO of Electrical Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, signed the agreement.

Eplan公司首席执行官Sebastian Seitz和西门子智能基础设施电气产品首席执行官Andreas Matthé签署了该协议。

The industry segment comprises offerings and products for control panel building, while the infrastructure segment includes switchgear construction for power distribution. In the industry market segment, Siemens and Eplan will intensify the excellent cooperation that has existed for many years, for example, to provide Eplan data across all configured Siemens products. For the infrastructure market, Eplan and Siemens have decided to jointly optimize and automate customer processes, for instance in the Sivacon and Alpha environment (power distribution systems) by integrating Simaris (planning tools) and the Eplan platform.

工业领域包括用于控制面板建设的产品，而基础设施领域包括用于配电的开关设备建设。在工业市场领域，西门子和Eplan将加强多年来的良好合作，例如在所有配置的西门子产品中提供Eplan数据。对于基础设施市场，Eplan和西门子已经决定共同优化和自动化客户流程，例如在Sivacon和Alpha环境（配电系统）中通过整合Simaris（规划工具）和Eplan平台。

Both parties will contribute their expertise to the benefit of their joint customers to enable more efficient workflows in switchgear construction and power distribution.

双方将贡献他们的专业知识，使其共同的客户受益，在开关设备建设和配电领域实现更有效的工作流程。
 
Eplan offers engineering software and services in the fields of electrical engineering, automation, and mechatronics. The company develops one of the world's leading software solutions for machine, switchgear, and control panel builders. In addition, it helps customers simplify challenging engineering processes.

Eplan在电气工程、自动化和机电一体化领域提供工程软件和服务。该公司为机器、开关设备和控制板制造商开发了世界领先的软件解决方案之一。此外，它还帮助客户简化了具有挑战性的工程流程。

Siemens’Electrical Products offers products for a safe and efficient electrical infrastructure at the low-voltage level in buildings and industrial environments, including safety and control products, measuring and monitoring devices, switches, and sockets. Furthermore, the business unit’s portfolio includes communication-enabled software tools that can be used to connect power distribution products to building and industrial automation, as well as to open cloud-based IoT systems.
 
西门子电气产品部为建筑和工业环境中的低压电气基础设施提供安全和高效的产品，包括安全和控制产品、测量和监控设备、开关和插座。此外，该业务部门的产品组合包括支持通信的软件工具，可用于将配电产品与建筑和工业自动化以及基于云的开放式物联网系统相连接。