Digital Transformation for North American Industry Leaders

From industrial machinery OEMs and automotive suppliers to high-tech medical device developers, CONTACT Software transforms how North American businesses build outstanding products. Our modular platform adapts to the unique design, manufacturing, and compliance demands of your specific sector. Discover our customer references across the continent and see how we help leaders streamline collaboration, secure their intellectual property, and accelerate digital innovation.

  1. Automotive and Transportation
  2. Industrial Machinery & Equipment
  3. Industrial Automation and Robotics
  4. Material Handling and Packaging

Automotive & Transportation

To lead the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving, and sustainable transit, automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers need seamless data exchange and highly efficient processes. Our end-to-end platform integrates product development, design, and manufacturing workflows. By establishing a continuous digital thread across your entire supply chain, we help you eliminate communication bottlenecks, maintain compliance with strict safety standards, and launch next-generation mobility solutions faster and more sustainably.

Automotive & Transportation

To lead the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving, and sustainable transit, automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers need seamless data exchange and highly efficient processes. Our end-to-end platform integrates product development, design, and manufacturing workflows. By establishing a continuous digital thread across your entire supply chain, we help you eliminate communication bottlenecks, maintain compliance with strict safety standards, and launch next-generation mobility solutions faster and more sustainably.

To lead the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving, and sustainable transit, automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers need seamless data exchange and highly efficient processes. Our end-to-end platform integrates product development, design, and manufacturing workflows. By establishing a continuous digital thread across your entire supply chain, we help you eliminate communication bottlenecks, maintain compliance with strict safety standards, and launch next-generation mobility solutions faster and more sustainably.

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Driving Faster Decisions with Integrated Product Costing

Shorter product lifecycles and increasing product complexity made it difficult for MANN+HUMMEL to manage development projects and calculate product costs efficiently. The company needed a connected platform that would unify product data, project management, and costing across global teams. With CONTACT Elements, MANN+HUMMEL created an integrated digital development environment, accelerated product costing, improved project transparency, and saved approximately 1,000 person-hours per year through automated cost data management.

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Accelerating Global Engineering Change Management

Managing engineering changes across global teams, multiple engineering disciplines, and connected business systems can quickly become complex and time-consuming. KOSTAL needed a unified platform to standardize change processes, improve cross-functional collaboration, and maintain consistent product data worldwide. With CONTACT's integrated PLM platform, the company established global change management on a single data foundation, shortened engineering change lead times, and enabled more efficient collaboration for over 6,000 users across 34 locations worldwide.

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Connecting Development & Production Worldwide

As global manufacturing operations grow, disconnected engineering and production systems make it difficult to maintain consistent processes, data, and operational visibility. thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components needed an integrated platform to connect product development with real-time production management across its worldwide sites. With CONTACT Elements, the company established end-to-end PLM processes, standardized data across systems, and gained real-time production insights to improve operational excellence and shopfloor efficiency.

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Driving Global Collaboration Through Standardized PLM

As engineering teams expand across locations, inconsistent processes and disconnected product data make collaboration increasingly difficult. KIRCHHOFF Automotive needed a standardized PLM environment to connect global development teams and establish consistent engineering processes worldwide. With our platform, the company created a single source of product information, streamlined collaboration across international sites, and increased transparency throughout the entire product development process.

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Industrial Machinery & Equipment

Succeeding in today’s highly competitive industrial market requires deep digital integration and the ability to handle complex Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and Configure-to-Order (CTO) projects. We help to streamline complex, multi-disciplinary engineering across dispersed teams, helping you manage variants efficiently and meet regional regulations. By bridging the gap between engineering and operations, we enable machine builders to reduce overhead, speed up shop-floor execution, and unlock new revenue streams through smart, digital services.

Industrial Machinery & Equipment

Succeeding in today’s highly competitive industrial market requires deep digital integration and the ability to handle complex Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and Configure-to-Order (CTO) projects. We help to streamline complex, multi-disciplinary engineering across dispersed teams, helping you manage variants efficiently and meet regional regulations. By bridging the gap between engineering and operations, we enable machine builders to reduce overhead, speed up shop-floor execution, and unlock new revenue streams through smart, digital services.

Succeeding in today’s highly competitive industrial market requires deep digital integration and the ability to handle complex Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and Configure-to-Order (CTO) projects. We help to streamline complex, multi-disciplinary engineering across dispersed teams, helping you manage variants efficiently and meet regional regulations. By bridging the gap between engineering and operations, we enable machine builders to reduce overhead, speed up shop-floor execution, and unlock new revenue streams through smart, digital services.

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Connecting Product Development and Production Worldwide

As global manufacturing operations grow, disconnected engineering and production systems make it difficult to maintain consistent processes, data, and operational visibility. thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components needed an integrated platform to connect product development with real-time production management across its worldwide sites. With CONTACT Elements, the company established end-to-end PLM processes, standardized data across systems, and gained real-time production insights to improve operational excellence and shop floor efficiency.

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From RFQ to Production—One Connected Development Process

Disconnected tools and manual handovers can slow product development, reduce transparency, and make it difficult to manage global engineering projects. ACPS Automotive wanted to standardize and digitalize its entire product creation process—from the initial request for quotation (RFQ) through prototype management to the start of production. With CONTACT's integrated PLM platform, the company established seamless global processes, accelerated project execution, and improved collaboration across engineering, project management, and manufacturing.

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Managing Complex Product Configurations with Confidence

Developing highly configurable products requires complete transparency across engineering data, product structures, and change processes. Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik needed a centralized solution to manage complex product configurations while ensuring consistency throughout development. With our platform, the company established a single source of truth for product data, streamlined configuration management, and improved collaboration across engineering teams—creating a solid foundation for efficient product development and long-term product quality.

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Industrial Automation & Robotics

Building the future of smart manufacturing requires highly coordinated, complex systems engineering. Automation and robotics manufacturers must manage the intricate convergence of advanced software, precision mechanics, and complex electrical designs. Our platform allows your teams to integrate these diverse disciplines, handle customized product configurations, and manage safety certifications (like functional safety standards). By streamlining the digital thread from initial layout to commissioning, we help you deploy reliable robotic cells and automation systems faster.

Industrial Automation & Robotics

Building the future of smart manufacturing requires highly coordinated, complex systems engineering. Automation and robotics manufacturers must manage the intricate convergence of advanced software, precision mechanics, and complex electrical designs. Our platform allows your teams to integrate these diverse disciplines, handle customized product configurations, and manage safety certifications (like functional safety standards). By streamlining the digital thread from initial layout to commissioning, we help you deploy reliable robotic cells and automation systems faster.

Building the future of smart manufacturing requires highly coordinated, complex systems engineering. Automation and robotics manufacturers must manage the intricate convergence of advanced software, precision mechanics, and complex electrical designs. Our platform allows your teams to integrate these diverse disciplines, handle customized product configurations, and manage safety certifications (like functional safety standards). By streamlining the digital thread from initial layout to commissioning, we help you deploy reliable robotic cells and automation systems faster.

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Standardizing Engineering Across Global Teams

As engineering projects become more complex and globally distributed, disconnected processes and inconsistent product data slow collaboration and increase project risk. PIA Automation needed a unified PLM platform to standardize engineering processes across all locations while improving data quality and cross-functional collaboration. With our platform, the company established a global engineering platform, introduced end-to-end processes, improved master data quality, and enabled efficient collaboration using a shared mechatronic bill of materials (BOM).

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From Days to Minutes: Automating Customer-Specific Quotations

Creating customer-specific quotations required manual effort across multiple systems, slowing down sales and increasing the risk of errors. Weidmüller wanted to digitize its entire product lifecycle process while connecting engineering, product data, and business processes on one platform. With our integrated PLM solution, the company established a single source of truth, automated quotation generation, and reduced processing time from three to five days to just five minutes—while improving collaboration and reducing costs across product development.

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Material Handling & Packaging

In an era of rapid logistics, e-commerce growth, and highly automated warehouses, material handling and packaging systems must be fast, modular, and customized. Our platform streamlines the engineering of complex conveyor systems, automated sorting machinery, and high-speed packaging equipment. By enabling efficient design reuse and managing modular product architectures, we help you turn custom, client-specific requirements into highly repeatable, automated engineering processes that keep your projects strictly on time and within budget.

Material Handling & Packaging

In an era of rapid logistics, e-commerce growth, and highly automated warehouses, material handling and packaging systems must be fast, modular, and customized. Our platform streamlines the engineering of complex conveyor systems, automated sorting machinery, and high-speed packaging equipment. By enabling efficient design reuse and managing modular product architectures, we help you turn custom, client-specific requirements into highly repeatable, automated engineering processes that keep your projects strictly on time and within budget.

In an era of rapid logistics, e-commerce growth, and highly automated warehouses, material handling and packaging systems must be fast, modular, and customized. Our platform streamlines the engineering of complex conveyor systems, automated sorting machinery, and high-speed packaging equipment. By enabling efficient design reuse and managing modular product architectures, we help you turn custom, client-specific requirements into highly repeatable, automated engineering processes that keep your projects strictly on time and within budget.

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Digitalizing Engineer-to-Order Processes Worldwide

Managing engineer-to-order projects across global locations often leads to fragmented data, inconsistent processes, and limited transparency. Syntegon Technology needed a single PLM platform to connect product development, project management, and service while standardizing business processes worldwide. We helped the company establish a global engineering platform, digitalize the entire value chain from sales to service, and enable seamless collaboration with centralized product, project, and document management.

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Connecting Global Engineering for Faster Innovation

Developing innovative packaging systems requires seamless collaboration across international engineering teams. To support its global growth, SIG Combibloc set out to replace fragmented product data with a unified engineering platform. Today, teams worldwide work from a single source of truth, enabling faster collaboration, greater transparency, and more consistent product development.

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Building a Digital Backbone for Global Engineering

As Marel continued to grow, the company set out to modernize its product development processes and create a consistent digital foundation across its global engineering organization. By introducing an integrated PLM platform, we helped connect product data, engineering disciplines, and business processes in one environment. Today, Marel benefits from greater transparency, improved collaboration, and a scalable foundation for continuous innovation.

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