Control Panel Manufacturing Software​

Panel Builder’s Assembly Task Manager delivers clear, step-by-step digital work instructions for panel assembly. This eliminates the need for paper documentation for mechanical operations such as cutting, mounting, installing, etc. ​

As components are added to a design, their associated assembly tasks are automatically loaded from a centralized database. These work instructions can be organized and sequenced for each build, ensuring a smooth and consistent workflow.​

Technicians see digital work instructions for each assembly task. The exact location of the component is visualized in either 2D or 3D. Task guidance is simultaneously provided through text, images, and/or links. As each step is completed, the system automatically advances to the next, ensuring uninterrupted progress.

Features and Benefits​

Automated Task Assignment & Management​

• Automatically compile and sequence assembly steps based on components in the panel design.​
• Assign mechanical tasks directly to components in a central repository​
• Add custom instructions and reorder workflows for specialized builds​

Interactive Digital Work Instructions​

• Display step-by-step instructions within a read-only E3.series project​
• Show precise installation location with dynamic 2D or 3D visualization​
• Supplement task descriptions with text, images, videos, and external links​

Progress Tracking & Output​

• Monitor and record the completion status of each panel build​
• Export instructions as a PDF for documentation or offline use​

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Control panel contract manufacturers can leverage Panel Builder’s wire list import tool to quickly populate devices into the project with connectivity information. This feature is a huge time saver enabling the designer to drag and drop the devices directly to the panel to create the layout. From here, the designer can intelligently route the panel wiring automatically while meeting the user-specified design rule requirements.

Features and Benefits:

• Excel file format for importing connectivity information
• Automatic device list population to save time searching for parts and naming
• Schematic creation is optional
• Quickly create a digital 1:1 scale control panel layout to drive manufacturing and provide accurate information
• On-demand drill hole and cutout templates
• Automatic wire length calculations

To prepare for production, designers can utilize additional tools to include necessary manufacturing details. With tools like E3.Toolbox, designers can create a bill of materials and wiring lists. Instant access to the bill of materials can aid in part procurement to prepare for assembly. Both outputs are fully customizable and can be placed on the drawing sheets or outputted to Excel.

Designers can leverage E3.DrawingNotesManager to easily add production notes from a database of standard notes to assist with communicating manufacturing standards and operations. Images can be added inside the notes to help enhance the instructions and information, making them more effective.

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To aid in the fabrication of electrical control panels, E3.CutOut provides a way to extract mounting and cut-out information from the design to drive automated drilling and milling machines. Components and panels can contain this cut-out information in the intelligent library, or designers can define dynamic mounting and cut-out areas per project. E3.CutOut exports this detailed information as a project sheet and to a standard DXF format for universal application.

Panel Builder for E3.series includes a customizable hole chart feature for manufacturers using a semi-automatic or manual process. The hole chart automation function automatically creates a drill hole outline sheet detailing the locations and a table of the specifications for each drill hole. This table includes details of the hole diameter, coordinates, and engineering notes or instructions.

By leveraging the automatic wire length calculations based on the wire routing from the 1:1 scale panel design, manufacturers can drive wire processing machines with accurate information to match the manufactured product. Panel Builder 2023 for E3.series creates wiring list export files in native formats to provide instructions for wire processing machines from Schleuniger, Komax, and nVent, cutting and stripping each wire to the required length. Manufacturers can reduce material waste and save on cost and time manufacturing each unit.

E3.ExportToKomax allows customers to export wire information to load into KOMAX TopConvert. This output offers an automated way to quickly load entire cutting lists into wire processing machines. The output merges the wires into bundles based on the output mode. With device-driven bundles, the bundles divide into sub-bundles per device for different destinations. The tool also offers checks for unrouted wires, wires exceeding cut length limits, and availability on Komax machines of wires and connector pin terminals.