Rockwell Automation & Eplan launch digital twin-driven electrical simulation integration

Rockwell Automation and Eplan unveiled a new digital twin-driven electrical simulation integration at SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany. It is designed to simplify electrical design and simulation.

The integration connects Eplan’s schematic design tools with Emulate3D™ digital twin software from Rockwell Automation, allowing engineers to virtually model, test, and optimize systems such as industrial robots, control panels, and automated conveyors before building any hardware.

This streamlines workflows, reduces engineering time (especially during the creation of the simulation model), and enhances accuracy, according to the announcement.

Digital twin tools are transforming the way businesses manage operations, optimize efficiency, and improve decision-making. By creating real-time virtual replicas of physical assets, processes or systems, organizations gain insights into performance, predictive maintenance, and overall operational health.

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Rockwell Automation & Eplan launch digital twin integration

The Rockwell Automation-Eplan integration empowers engineers to simulate and validate electrical logic with speed and precision, bridging the gap between design and execution, said Gunther Saelzer, director software and control, north region at Rockwell Automation. 

“By combining schematic design with dynamic simulation, teams minimize the design time for virtual commissioning and bring digital twin capabilities into everyday engineering.”

By importing Eplan schematics into Emulate3D, companies can simulate and validate production-line control systems in a virtual environment before committing to physical builds, reducing risk, improving accuracy, and accelerating development, stated a press release.

Engineers first use the Eplan Platform to design wiring diagrams and control panels with standardized components, then employ Emulate3D to test and verify these electrical systems early in the development cycle. Connecting control-cabinet layouts to digital-twin models further strengthens visibility and cross-team collaboration.

“Together with Rockwell Automation, we’re enabling a smarter, more connected engineering process,” commented Simon Budde, head of partner management at Eplan. “This new integration reduces engineering times from days to hours, delivering enormous value to manufacturers and machine builders by unlocking new levels of efficiency in control system design.”

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