CONTACT Elements: End-to-End Digital Thread
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 Yet, instead of innovating, teams often waste valuable hours battling fragmented toolsets, manual data transfers, and outdated information.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
Most PLM systems force you into rigid workflows, tool lock-ins, or endless integrations. CONTACT Elements is different. It’s a composable, CAD-agnostic platform that connects your entire product ecosystem – from CAD and BOM to Projects, IoT, and MES – without the complexity. With pre-configured templates for shop floor execution, CAD data management, and process automation, it helps you move faster, collaborate more 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 Use Cases.
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.
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.
Learn moreWith 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.
Learn moreCONTACT 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.
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Digitize 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.
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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)
Digitize 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)
Digitize 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.
Digitize 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.
Our Customers' Successes Thanks to CONTACT Elements
BASF Polyurethanes has been using CIM Database since 1994 as a platform for integrated product lifecycle management. When planning and managing development projects and designing new production plants, BASF's synthetics experts benefit from reliable processes and agile teamwork.
Read Success StoryMANN+HUMMEL is a global leader in the field of filtration. The company has extensively digitalized its project methodology with CONTACT Elements. The aim was to provide employees with access to the latest project information at the click of a button – globally and tailored to all devices right through to smartphones. The solution involved merging the complex project data in such a way that it can be accessed in its entirety and in a clear and concise manner. This supports the digital consistency of development processes and accelerates product costing.
Read Success StoryWeidmüller sets standards for networking and automation in industrial environments worldwide. The high-tech specialist has implemented an end-to-end PLM process from the initial idea to the discontinuation of products. Among other things, Weidmüller sees major cost savings, reduced errors, and improved collaboration in its development process. One special feature is the fully automatic generation of bids thanks to end-to-end digital processes.
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