PDB layout drawing

07:59 Aug 14, 2020 

Thank you for putting us out of our misery! I'm glad that the answer did actually turn out to be what I had originally said in the first place.

06:57 Aug 14, 2020 

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Des nouvelles de mon côté : hier, j'ai posé la question au client par acquit de conscience (je ne pensais pas recevoir de réponse), et il se trouve que l'équipe du client compte en fait des francophones (!)

Le terme suggéré est "plan d'implantation d'armoire". J'espère que cela mettra tout le monde d'accord. C'est en tout cas, bien entendu, le terme que je retiens pour ma traduction.

Mille merci pour vos généreuses contributions ! :)

Bien cordialement,
Nicolas M

22:00 Aug 13, 2020 

Yes, I would normally refer to it as a 'board' — however, the only relevant ref. I found referred to it as a box, and the (principally internal) physical layout of such boxes is quite important.
I think the danger with 'board', as our colleague Cathy has found, is that it tends to lead to a printed circuit 'board', a quite different kettle of fish, and one that I feel is unlikely here, given Asker's apparent context of "construction"
Certainly, more context would make a huge difference here!

21:23 Aug 13, 2020 

Or it could be Power Distribution Board?

21:23 Aug 13, 2020 

Puisqu'on parle d'informatique, de centralisation et de rationalisation, serait-il possible qu'on parle de "Pluggable databases" ?
Par exemple:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pluggable databases layout d...

19:45 Aug 13, 2020 

The only plausible reference I have been able to find is to Power Distribution Box — would that fit with your wider context? It might refer to 'layout' in the sense of 'where they are positioned', or to the internal 'layout' of the boxes themselves — this is an important factor in high-power installations, and there are specialist software developers like ALPI who publish special software for designing these layouts, e.g. Caneco Implantation.