Electrical engineering design for Eastern Westphalia, the Münsterland and the Osnabrück area

We are based in Gütersloh and Harsewinkel, close enough to drive to you rather than exchange files. That sounds like a detail. On existing plants it is the difference between a design that fits and one that rests on a drawing nobody has checked for years.

Across Germany and abroad

From Gütersloh for clients throughout Germany and abroad

We work throughout Germany and, for some clients, internationally. Electrical engineering design can largely be done at a distance, and we have done so for years. The only difference is that in this region we can also come by without it becoming a question of travel cost. If you are further away, that changes nothing about working together. Just give us a call.

Why distance matters

Three things that cannot be done remotely

Surveying what is there
On a plant that has grown over decades the documents never quite match. Recording the actual state means standing in front of it, opening terminal boxes, reading rating plates and counting what is actually installed. Those hours are the reason a retrofit holds later. No amount of file exchange replaces them.
Commissioning
Start-up reveals what the drawing could not show. Then it is decided in hours, not days, whether someone can come. One hour of travel becomes an appointment the same morning, four hours become the next working day.
The first conversation
A meeting where you can see the plant replaces three phone calls and two misunderstandings. For an enquiry from the region we usually suggest simply coming over before anyone writes a quotation.

The work in detail

What electrical design here actually deals with

New plants on a blank sheet are the exception. The normal case is a plant that has run for twenty years, been extended three times, and whose documents no longer know about the last rebuild. These are the five situations we meet most often here.

Documents that no longer match the plant

On-site survey, comparison with the circuit diagram and a list of deviations between drawing and plant.

The 1998 diagram follows DIN 40719, the 2015 extension EN 81346, and last summer’s change is a pencil note in the folder. Before we design anything, we record the actual state. We open terminal boxes, read rating plates and trace cores. Along the way, a list of the differences between drawing and reality emerges. For maintenance it is often worth more than the new drawing itself.

Rebuilding while the plant runs

Electrical design in conversion steps that are each complete in themselves, so the plant starts up again after every shutdown.

In food and beverage production the shutdown windows are short and fall at night or at weekends. That changes the design, not just the schedule. Each step has to be self-contained so the plant starts up again afterwards. Terminal diagrams that do not reflect this cost the electrician at three in the morning exactly the time nobody has.

The customer’s CAE system, not ours

Electrical design in EPLAN Electric P8, WSCAD or ELCAD, with your part master, your macros and your designation system.

Many companies here work in EPLAN Electric P8, others in WSCAD, and older holdings sit in ELCAD. An external designer who masters only one system either forces a migration or delivers a foreign body into the existing set. We design in the system the plant is documented in, with its part master, its macros and the designation system already in use there.

Retrofitting discontinued controllers

When retrofitting Simatic S5, the controller is the easy part. The work lies in interfaces, cabinet space and twenty years of changes.

Simatic S5 with ET200 peripherals still runs in more plants in this region than one would assume. Spare parts come from the second-hand market. In a changeover the controller is the easy part. The work lies in the interfaces to the existing peripherals, in whether the enclosure capacity is sufficient at all, and in twenty years of changes that never flowed back into the documents.

Manufacturing data for the panel builder

Drilling patterns, terminal and cable lists for panel building straight from 3D layout planning, with partners on request.

Many panel builders in the region manufacture from drilling patterns, terminal and cable lists taken straight from the design. If the layout planning is only a drawing and not a data set, measuring and reworking happen in the workshop. That is exactly the point at which 3D layout planning pays for itself. Or does not.

What we take on

The work companies here bring us

It usually starts with a plant that already exists and documents that no longer match it. Rarely with a blank sheet.

Industry here

What gets designed in this region

Between Osnabrück and Paderborn sits one of the densest machine-building landscapes in Germany, alongside agricultural machinery, furniture and kitchen production, food processing and a pronounced intralogistics sector. That shapes what we deal with most often here.