cadett ELSA Enterprise is the product for plant owners and decentralized organizations with multi-site operations. Efficient solutions for working from home are also included.
cadett ELSA Enterprise is the product for the really big projects, such as the documentation of entire plants. Several concurrent users, multiple interconnected projects, designers in several locations, and sometimes working from home. This is where the functionality of cadett ELSA Enterprise excels the most. The product is fully compatible with other cadett ELSA products. The differences between all cadett ELSA products are described in the comparison list below.
A super project is a large project consisting of multiple interconnected sub-projects with references and connections between them. Reports can be created for the entire super project. Central databases manage, among other things, all PLC I/O's, and provide the opportunity to define both plant structure and objects in advance.
Support for efficient and fast work over slow networks like VPN is provided by WAN mode or thin clients. If you have no network connection at all, you can use the Travel features.
Edit the automatically generated tables directly on the screen or in Excel. The whole project is updated automatically, efficiently and dynamically.
Manages the projects in any number of revisions and tracks all changes fully automatically.
Checks that all documents are consistent and helps to correct any discrepancies.
Enables multiple variants in the same project. Parts of a project spread over several sheets can be activated or deactivated as needed.
Advanced block diagram management with configurable framework ideal for large plant suppliers. Based on MS SQL.
The built-in article portal from CADENAS allows you to load hundreds of thousands of articles directly into cadett ELSA.
Generation of PDF files in the background for multiple projects simultaneously.
Multiple users can work on the same project at the same time.
Full symbol library for all control systems with I/O symbols and PLC mirrors. Automatic transfer of data between them provides all the benefits of both function and location oriented documentation at the same time. Link to Excel. Automatic audit trail so you can retrieve old I/O information whenever you want, even if you have changed or deleted it.
The table below shows the differences between all the cadett ELSA products, which features are available in each product.
1) The changes in the table are transferred OnLine to the circuit diagram.
With cadett ELSA Enterprise you can manage huge projects by linking several projects together. It is possible to have references between drawing sheets in different sub-projects that are part of such a super project.
With the plant database in cadett ELSA Enterprise you can define devices in advance, before you even start to draw anything, and then use this as a pick-list for circuit diagram or cabinet layout.
cadett ELSA Enterprise has powerful functionality for working remotely, for example in organizations spread across multiple locations, or when working from home.
We call it Dynamic OnLine. It provides direct access to device lists, connection tables, terminal tables and cable tables. You can edit the content directly on the screen. Circuit diagram sheets and other documents in the project are updated with your changes at lightning speed, fully automatically.
If you wish, you can start your design work with the cabinet layout. When it is time for the circuit diagram, you will then automatically receive a pick list with everything to be inserted into the circuit diagram. Or you can do the opposite. You can start with the circuit diagram and from that get a pick list for the cabinet layout. A third option is to work in parallel. You have complete freedom to do what you want with an automatic consistency check that compares the different document types with each other and both tells you what is different and helps you to fill in what is missing.
There are functions to convert a 2D cabinet layout into 3D, allowing for a simple collision check. Is there room for everything, in all directions? The physical sizes in all three dimensions are available in the cadett ELSA article database.
The connection management takes into account how the devices are positioned in the cabinet layout to optimize the connection order, so that the wires are routed the shortest way.
The connection table can be easily exported, for example to Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge, Solidworks or other 3D CAD systems.
A cooperation agreement between cadett and CADENAS gives all users of cadett ELSA access to a built-in portal with hundreds of thousands of articles. This makes it easy to search for the right article and then retrieve metadata and symbols for both 2D and 3D layouts and circuit diagrams. Everything is based on the eClass standard, which in turn is based on ISO3584 and IEC1360.
Read more about eClass in the FAQ.
It is easy to produce reports in your preferred formats, such as Excel or AutoCAD.
PDF files are generated quickly and easily. They are searchable, have handy bookmarks and hyperlinks for the cross-references.
The block diagram module in cadett ELSA Enterprise contains functions with advanced rules for item structures with, for example, cabinets that are combined into a complete plant. The block diagram can contain information about all cables, cable cores, and connection possibilities.
An automatic check ensures that there are no double coatings or impossible connections.
Everything is tied together using MS SQL.
SilentPDF creates PDF files for multiple projects at once. It works in the background, while you do something else.
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