EPLAN Electric P8 1.9 on the Hanover Fair. Extensions in reports, schematic and master data creation such as intelligent PDF export mean more quality and consistency in the design and planning process. Excellent performance also in multi-user operation makes users competitive in the long term. Quality and speed win: High-quality part and component data are decisive for the quality of a machine / system documentation – as is confirmed by more than 3 million downloads from the EPLAN Data Portal. New search functions, the parallel tree and list view in the part master data navigator ensure even faster searches and a perfect overview. Project accelerator macros These can now be created in EPLAN Electric P8 with up to 128 occurrences through the combination of variants and representation types. The ideal opportunity to store your own know-how for the individual standardization. Flexible value sets make speed and quality in its purest form. All the required occurrences of a partial circuit are managed in the macro file – providing the perfect basis for standardized and efficient design and planning. Perfect overview A highlight in EPLAN is the individual representation of black, PLC and location boxes. These boxes can now be drawn as polygons or polygon lines. This simplifies the representation of complex plant and location structures in machine overviews. The result, a high-quality overview plan that provides all project participants with the necessary overview. Additional flexibility is available for moving components and devices. If required, the device retains its original mounting location identifier even outside the location box, which users can now decide themselves through a shortcut key, whether the elements behave in an object or graphics-oriented way, another sign of the maximum development of the new EPLAN freedom in Service Pack 1.