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A lot of development work has gone into the expansion of Engineering Base — and now Aucotec is reaping the rewards. Having often been pioneers, the developers at software designer Aucotec have pulled off a masterstroke with the revamp of the EB platform. The team around Uwe Vogt is seeing something of a boom in orders at the moment, but the Hanover company is keeping its feet firmly on the ground.

Anyone designing, building, operating or further developing plants today must at the same time depict state-of-the-art process technology, anticipate the paths of digitisation, take into account accelerated innovation cycles and be meaningful to all disciplines involved at all times. The advantages of the universal data model of Aucotec's cooperative engineering platform EB 2019 become clear in demanding engineering phases such as FEED or during the cause-and-effect check.

With its new partner It-motive, Aucotec wants to link its cooperative platform Engineering Base (EB) even more closely and rapidly to ERP and PLM systems. This will also make the idea of a holistic digital twin easier to implement.

Intelligent linking with simulation data saves many weeks of engineering work: easier Feed scenario handling as well as its documentation and calculation.

Aucotecs flexible cloud model for the cooperative platform Engineering Base (EB) offers new engineering flexibility. Including cost saving for hardware and administration.

Software developer Aucotec is only around 30 years old, but in the company's young history it has already achieved a number of milestones. Earlier than anyone else, the Hanover-based company backed database technology and object-oriented programming and developed Engineering Base, one of the most state-of-the-art engineering tools currently available. In time for Achema 2018, Aucotec brought EB up to speed for Industry 4.0 and thus catapulted itself to the forefront of this development.