CONTACT Elements: End-to-End Digital Thread Software
The platform that connects what others can’t
From Friction to Freedom: Connect Your Entire Product Lifecycle Through a Native Platform
Today's engineering and product teams are facing unprecedented challenges: global competition, rapid design cycles, and rising regulatory demands. Yet, instead of innovating, teams often waste valuable hours battling fragmented toolsets, manual data transfers, and outdated information. When your PLM, ERP, and IoT systems can't talk to each other, progress stalls.
That’s why we built CONTACT Elements.
It is designed to eliminate these barriers. As an open, highly modular platform, it unites your entire product lifecycle—from early-stage design to smart services. By establishing a single, consistent digital thread, CONTACT Elements replaces operational friction with agility, giving your teams the freedom to collaborate effortlessly and bring outstanding products to life.
The Composable Alternative to Stitched-Together Legacy Systems
Most manufacturing companies struggle to manage a disjointed landscape of CAD, PDM, PLM, MES, Project Management, and Document Management solutions. Many enterprise software providers assembled these capabilities over time through acquisitions. While these products may be "integrated," they retain completely different architectures, data models, and process logic—forcing companies to spend significant effort synchronizing information, maintaining complex interfaces, and reconciling conflicting versions of reality.
CONTACT Elements is the native platform trusted by Europe’s most innovative manufacturers for over 35 years. Built for speed and scalability it offers a composable alternative to stitched-together portfolios.
Recognized By CIMdata ...
"CONTACT’s approach to digital threads based on CONTACT Elements’ open web architecture, configurable data model, and composable reusable components enables companies to break down silos and connect their data and processes across the product lifecycle from concept through life."
Mark Reisig, CIMdata 2024, on CONTACT as enabler for digital threads
... Trusted by Leading Companies:
Your Unique Benefits
Skip the rigid workflows and tool lock-in. CONTACT Elements connects your entire product ecosystem—from CAD and BOM to IoT and MES—on one flexible, CAD-agnostic platform. Move faster, collaborate freely, and build without barriers.
- Share data between systems
- Speed up workflows using synchronized processes
- Create value from operating data in the Internet of Things
- Display relationships clearly and understand them faster
- Use AI intelligence for more efficiency
- Meet international ISO 26262 / ISO 27001 standards
One Platform. Various Solution Areas.
CONTACT Elements is more than “just” PLM. Thanks to its open and composable architecture, it provides various use cases into one platform. Meaning your teams work seamlessly across departments and whole organizations.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Project Management
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
CONTACT Elements provides powerful applications for modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), helping you manage the people, processes, and product data that drive innovation. Connect engineering teams across departments, locations, and partners, streamline workflows, reduce manual effort and errors, and confidently meet regulatory and compliance requirements—all on a single, integrated platform.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
CONTACT Elements provides powerful applications for modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), helping you manage the people, processes, and product data that drive innovation. Connect engineering teams across departments, locations, and partners, streamline workflows, reduce manual effort and errors, and confidently meet regulatory and compliance requirements—all on a single, integrated platform.
CONTACT Elements provides powerful applications for modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), helping you manage the people, processes, and product data that drive innovation. Connect engineering teams across departments, locations, and partners, streamline workflows, reduce manual effort and errors, and confidently meet regulatory and compliance requirements—all on a single, integrated platform.
Project Management
With CONTACT Elements, project management becomes a connected, collaborative process. Your teams work from consistent product data while linking technical, project, and business information in one place. Combine agile collaboration with traditional project management to accelerate product development, improve cross-functional alignment, and deliver projects more efficiently—even across global teams and complex program organizations.
Project Management
With CONTACT Elements, project management becomes a connected, collaborative process. Your teams work from consistent product data while linking technical, project, and business information in one place. Combine agile collaboration with traditional project management to accelerate product development, improve cross-functional alignment, and deliver projects more efficiently—even across global teams and complex program organizations.
With CONTACT Elements, project management becomes a connected, collaborative process. Your teams work from consistent product data while linking technical, project, and business information in one place. Combine agile collaboration with traditional project management to accelerate product development, improve cross-functional alignment, and deliver projects more efficiently—even across global teams and complex program organizations.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
CONTACT Elements helps you plan, monitor, and optimize your production in real time. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), it combines advanced production management, maintenance, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration on a single platform. By connecting ERP systems with shop floor operations, you gain real-time visibility, improve operational efficiency, and make smarter production decisions.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
CONTACT Elements helps you plan, monitor, and optimize your production in real time. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), it combines advanced production management, maintenance, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration on a single platform. By connecting ERP systems with shop floor operations, you gain real-time visibility, improve operational efficiency, and make smarter production decisions.
CONTACT Elements helps you plan, monitor, and optimize your production in real time. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), it combines advanced production management, maintenance, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration on a single platform. By connecting ERP systems with shop floor operations, you gain real-time visibility, improve operational efficiency, and make smarter production decisions.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Digitalize your after-sales operations with CONTACT Elements and deliver a more connected service experience. Create a single source of truth for customer, product, and service information to improve visibility into maintenance activities and service history. Reduce response times, lower service costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities with digital services such as customer portals and self-service capabilities.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Digitalize your after-sales operations with CONTACT Elements and deliver a more connected service experience. Create a single source of truth for customer, product, and service information to improve visibility into maintenance activities and service history. Reduce response times, lower service costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities with digital services such as customer portals and self-service capabilities.
Digitalize your after-sales operations with CONTACT Elements and deliver a more connected service experience. Create a single source of truth for customer, product, and service information to improve visibility into maintenance activities and service history. Reduce response times, lower service costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities with digital services such as customer portals and self-service capabilities.
AI Built for Engineering. Powered by Connected Data.
CONTACT Elements brings AI directly into your engineering processes—transforming disconnected product data into actionable engineering intelligence. Built on a single, integrated platform, it connects product knowledge across documents, requirements, CAD models, BOMs, and business systems, enabling AI-powered search, document intelligence, and intelligent assistance. Empower your teams to make faster decisions, accelerate innovation, and securely scale AI across the entire product lifecycle.
AI Built for Engineering. Powered by Connected Data.
CONTACT Elements brings AI directly into your engineering processes—transforming disconnected product data into actionable engineering intelligence. Built on a single, integrated platform, it connects product knowledge across documents, requirements, CAD models, BOMs, and business systems, enabling AI-powered search, document intelligence, and intelligent assistance. Empower your teams to make faster decisions, accelerate innovation, and securely scale AI across the entire product lifecycle.
CONTACT Elements brings AI directly into your engineering processes—transforming disconnected product data into actionable engineering intelligence. Built on a single, integrated platform, it connects product knowledge across documents, requirements, CAD models, BOMs, and business systems, enabling AI-powered search, document intelligence, and intelligent assistance. Empower your teams to make faster decisions, accelerate innovation, and securely scale AI across the entire product lifecycle.
Our Customers' Successes Thanks to CONTACT Elements
BASF Polyurethanes has created greater transparency across its global product development projects, helping teams coordinate complex activities more efficiently. By bringing PLM and project management together on one CONTACT Elements platform, product data, project information, and processes are connected and accessible across locations. This enables teams to reduce coordination effort, respond faster to changes, and manage development projects more efficiently from planning through execution.
Read Success StoryTo optimize development times and ensure digital consistency across 50 global locations, filtration leader MANN+HUMMEL expanded its long-standing PLM environment with the CONTACT Elements platform. By seamlessly integrating CAD, SAP, and costing software, the company established a single source of truth that synchronizes engineering and manufacturing bills of materials in real time. This end-to-end digital thread automates financial data transfer, saving 1,000 hours in controlling annually while enabling rapid, high-confidence quoting and 70% faster data access worldwide.
Read Success StoryTo accelerate its global product lifecycle, industrial connectivity leader Weidmüller used the CONTACT Elements platform to establish a unified digital thread. By integrating diverse engineering domains, the platform eliminates data silos from the initial product idea down to retirement. This end-to-end digitization has successfully automated the bidding process, cutting quotation preparation from five days to just five minutes while drastically reducing development errors.
Read Success StoryCONTACT Elements: Composable Modules For Your Digital Initiatives
Built on a cutting-edge, composable architecture, the CONTACT Elements platform unifies product engineering, collaboration, and project management. Its flexible, modular design lets you seamlessly connect applications to fit your exact business needs. While each individual module is highly powerful on its own, combining them delivers a unified solution that is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
