Services
ELCAD design and legacy maintenance
ELCAD plants are still running everywhere, while the designers who can run the system grow fewer every year. Anyone with legacy plants documented in ELCAD faces a choice between finding one of the last editors and migrating. We offer both, and we say honestly which makes sense when.
When this service is needed
- The last ELCAD expert in the company is retiring.
- Revisions to ELCAD plants have been piling up for years.
- An extension is due and nobody can continue the drawings.
- Migration is decided, but the stock must be maintained until then.
Result
- Editable, maintained ELCAD documentation
- Traceable revision states
- Designation system recorded in writing
- On migration, a structured EPLAN project instead of an image copy
We take on the electrical design there is no time for in house.
- Electrical design
- Since 1998
- Employees
- 15
- CAE systems (EPLAN, WSCAD, ELCAD)
- 3
- Projects since 1998
- 2,300+
Why FISEKON
One contact, not a distribution list
Whoever takes your project also works on it.
Your CAE system, not ours
EPLAN, WSCAD or ELCAD, using your part master.
Existing plants are our everyday work
Plant runs, documents do not match. That is where we start.
Capacity without a permanent post
Design capacity when you need it.
Process
How we work together
Review the stock
Which plants, what state, which system. You receive an honest assessment of what maintenance achieves and where migration is more economical.
Onboarding
We adopt the system we find and document it, often in writing for the first time.
Maintenance in rhythm
Changes are reported and incorporated, with traceable revision states instead of red pen in the cabinet.
Perspective
Once a year we ask the open question of whether ELCAD still carries or the switch pays off. You decide on figures, not out of necessity.
We continue ELCAD projects with revisions, changes, extensions and the ongoing maintenance of legacy documentation. Your plant stays editable without you paying for a migration for every terminal change.
With legacy systems, care at the start counts double. We adopt the designation system we find and document its state instead of modernising it on the side. ELCAD documentation kept consistent over decades is worth more than a half-converted one.
When migration becomes worthwhile, we tell you unprompted, for instance when extensions are due that cost more in the old system than the switch, or when licences expire. The transfer to EPLAN is then no image conversion but a structured re-engineering with article references, check runs and a list of deviations between drawing and plant.
Until then, well-maintained ELCAD documentation is not a technical risk. The risk arises when nobody is left who can run it. That is exactly the gap we close, permanently under a maintenance agreement if you wish.
Frequently asked
ELCAD design services
You have a technical task? We will look at how it can be solved.
Discuss a projectYou really still work actively in ELCAD?
Yes. ELCAD has been one of our design systems since our founding in 1998, and some of our customers document their legacy plants in it to this day. Maintaining these stocks is everyday work for us, not an exception.
Do we have to migrate to EPLAN in the medium term?
Not necessarily. As long as the documentation is maintained and editors are available, an ELCAD plant runs on stably. The question arises anew when large extensions are due or licences expire. Then we calculate both paths openly, because we offer both.
What does it cost if changes have been left for years?
That depends on the backlog and starts with a survey, meaning drawings checked against the plant, a list of deviations and an effort estimate. After that you know what the catch-up costs, before the order, not after.
Related services
- Migration to EPLANMoving to EPLAN Electric P8 with a plan. The standard comes first, legacy projects are transferred as needed, and existing documentation is maintained until then.
- Digitising legacy drawingsPaper, scans and legacy systems become a consistently structured CAE project, not a picture inside a new program.
- Maintenance agreementsOngoing upkeep of your documents at fixed terms, instead of a separate order for every change.
Contact
Tell us what it is about.
A phone call or three lines is enough. From the very start you talk to the people who will later work on your project, not to a distribution list.
Direct
- Phone+49 (0) 5247 4070-66
- Emailinfo@fisekon.com
- AvailabilityMon to Fri, 8 am to 5 pm CET
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