The DS-E3 design data management environment provides electrical designers and manufacturing engineers with up-to-date, validated libraries, E3.series design data and BOM information. This information enables them to manage tasks and workflows for change and approval processes and support intelligent design configuration and reuse through module and variant management. DS-E3’s powerful design data management functionality is built directly into the familiar user interface of Zuken’s E3.series suite. It can be individually configured to meet the specific needs of different roles, such as schematic designer, panel layout designer, librarian or manufacturing engineer. DS-E3 is based on an industry-standard object-oriented architecture and is fully equipped for integration into existing PDM/PLM and ERP environments. It provides a true electromechanical data model with complete transparency of electrical designs down to the component level.