Accelerate Engineering with Product Lifecycle Management
Better collaboration and faster processes
From Endless Searching for Data and Documents ...
Imagine your teams constantly fighting fires. Engineers hunt for specs in outdated PDFs, manufacturing uses the wrong BOM, service can't quickly find parts history, and your valuable AI projects stumble over mountains of unstructured data that nobody has time to organize. This isn't just inefficient; it's a daily drain on productivity, leading to costly errors, project delays, and endless rework.
From Endless Searching for Data and Documents ...
Imagine your teams constantly fighting fires. Engineers hunt for specs in outdated PDFs, manufacturing uses the wrong BOM, service can't quickly find parts history, and your valuable AI projects stumble over mountains of unstructured data that nobody has time to organize. This isn't just inefficient; it's a daily drain on productivity, leading to costly errors, project delays, and endless rework.
Imagine your teams constantly fighting fires. Engineers hunt for specs in outdated PDFs, manufacturing uses the wrong BOM, service can't quickly find parts history, and your valuable AI projects stumble over mountains of unstructured data that nobody has time to organize. This isn't just inefficient; it's a daily drain on productivity, leading to costly errors, project delays, and endless rework.
... to Finding the Needle in the Haystack
And now, picture this: engineers instantly find any piece of information as drawings, manuals, and reports are connected directly to the 3D model. Changes flow seamlessly across all departments, with AI analyzing this unified data to predict failures and suggest optimal designs. As a result, manufacturing and service teams always operate with accurate, real-world configurations rather than outdated information.
This means:
- Less time spent searching for and validating information
- Fewer errors caused by inconsistent data
- Faster, more confident decision-making
With our PLM, based on CONTACT Elements, this becomes reality.
... to Finding the Needle in the Haystack
And now, picture this: engineers instantly find any piece of information as drawings, manuals, and reports are connected directly to the 3D model. Changes flow seamlessly across all departments, with AI analyzing this unified data to predict failures and suggest optimal designs. As a result, manufacturing and service teams always operate with accurate, real-world configurations rather than outdated information.
This means:
- Less time spent searching for and validating information
- Fewer errors caused by inconsistent data
- Faster, more confident decision-making
With our PLM, based on CONTACT Elements, this becomes reality.
And now, picture this: engineers instantly find any piece of information as drawings, manuals, and reports are connected directly to the 3D model. Changes flow seamlessly across all departments, with AI analyzing this unified data to predict failures and suggest optimal designs. As a result, manufacturing and service teams always operate with accurate, real-world configurations rather than outdated information.
This means:
- Less time spent searching for and validating information
- Fewer errors caused by inconsistent data
- Faster, more confident decision-making
With our PLM, based on CONTACT Elements, this becomes reality.
A Different Approach to PLM
Most PLM systems were built by combining separate tools over time. Different modules. Different data models. Different assumptions. This is why data becomes fragmented, even within the system itself.
Our product lifecycle management connects directly with systems you already use:
- CAD and multi-CAD environments
- ERP and manufacturing systems
- Engineering and operational platforms
Information flows across systems without constant manual reconciliation. Work moves faster and becomes more predictable.
A Different Approach to PLM
Most PLM systems were built by combining separate tools over time. Different modules. Different data models. Different assumptions. This is why data becomes fragmented, even within the system itself.
Our product lifecycle management connects directly with systems you already use:
- CAD and multi-CAD environments
- ERP and manufacturing systems
- Engineering and operational platforms
Information flows across systems without constant manual reconciliation. Work moves faster and becomes more predictable.
Most PLM systems were built by combining separate tools over time. Different modules. Different data models. Different assumptions. This is why data becomes fragmented, even within the system itself.
Our product lifecycle management connects directly with systems you already use:
- CAD and multi-CAD environments
- ERP and manufacturing systems
- Engineering and operational platforms
Information flows across systems without constant manual reconciliation. Work moves faster and becomes more predictable.
Your Unique Benefits
Today, many companies struggle with fragmented communication and scattered archives, leaving teams to guess which file version is actually the latest release. We solve this by replacing local storage folders and chaotic email attachments with a unified digital archive. Our native Office and CAD integrations, rapid search, and structured release workflows systematically streamline collaboration across development. By establishing this reliable baseline of data, every engineer, purchaser, and salesperson can easily retrieve files via order or project numbers—while secure, mobile-friendly views allow your teams to work productively from any device, anywhere.
Connect virtual models, physical products, and digital twins to revolutionize your development process. By integrating PLM and IoT, you create a seamless, closed-loop Digital Thread. This enables you to leverage real-world usage data to continuously optimize current offerings and design superior future generations.
Manual engineering changes often fail to reach downstream departments in time, causing procurement and shop-floor teams to work from obsolete drawings. A connected PLM workflow solves this by automatically pushing approved design changes to your ERP and manufacturing systems, preventing expensive assembly-line mistakes. Furthermore, it replaces risky FTP transfers with a secure, built-in supplier portal so you can share large technical files safely.
AI doesn’t fix disconnected data. It depends on data being structured, contextualized, and accessible. We establish that foundation first by connecting product data across systems and embed AI across every phase of the product lifecycle. In doing so, our AI understands how products are created, how engineers think, and where productivity can be boosted.
By mapping your best practices to digital templates, you can establish highly reliable, compliant, and efficient daily operations. Replacing manual procedures with automated workflows and status networks seamlessly synchronizes parallel development tasks across your teams. This integrated approach gives employees direct access to the exact information they need, significantly boosting productivity and collaboration.
Connect PLM with enterprise systems like SAP to ensure end-to-end consistency across all business processes. It automatically synchronizes articles, BOMs, and project data, even provisioning them to multiple ERP systems in parallel. This event-driven integration guarantees that any changes to product data are instantly shared, keeping your entire enterprise perfectly aligned.
Deploy in the cloud for maximum agility, bulletproof security, and minimal IT maintenance—or choose an on-premises installation for complete data sovereignty and independent strategic control. We deliver the same powerful PLM capabilities, exactly where you need them.
Customer Success Stories
How our customers save time, costs and accelerate speed of innovation through PLM.
Packaging leader Syntegon rolled out the CONTACT Elements platform globally after highly successful deployments at two initial sites. By leveraging this unified PLM solution, the specialized machinery manufacturer is digitizing and automating workflows and project execution across its entire value chain. The platform delivers complete transparency and seamless collaboration for complex engineer-to-order projects, allowing Syntegon to easily master customized, "batch size 1" production.
Read Success StoryFor packaging giant SIG Combibloc, modernizing a legacy development environment with decades-long plant lifecycles posed a massive challenge. To future-proof its operations, the company successfully migrated to a new CAD system and deployed PLM with CONTACT Elements as its master system. This new PLM platform integrates seamlessly with SAP, merging so smoothly into the existing IT landscape that enterprise resource planning users barely noticed the major system change.
Read moreGlobal filtration leader MANN+HUMMEL modernized its product development to reduce engineering complexity and accelerate time to market. By expanding its CONTACT Elements platform with integrated product structures, BOM management, and seamless CAD and SAP integration, the company built a fully connected engineering environment. Today, global teams leverage trusted, real-time product data to achieve greater workflow transparency, faster cost calculations, and highly efficient product development across the entire organization.
Read Success StoryPocket Guide: When Product Data Doesn't Line Up...
… everything slows down. Did you know that engineers spend up to 27% of their time searching for information? This highlights the urgent need for robust digital product lifecycle management. Crucially, AI product development can only be as effective as the consistent data it relies on, a foundation often lacking due to these disconnections. In our short guide we explain the Why and the How.
Pocket Guide: When Product Data Doesn't Line Up...
… everything slows down. Did you know that engineers spend up to 27% of their time searching for information? This highlights the urgent need for robust digital product lifecycle management. Crucially, AI product development can only be as effective as the consistent data it relies on, a foundation often lacking due to these disconnections. In our short guide we explain the Why and the How.
… everything slows down. Did you know that engineers spend up to 27% of their time searching for information? This highlights the urgent need for robust digital product lifecycle management. Crucially, AI product development can only be as effective as the consistent data it relies on, a foundation often lacking due to these disconnections. In our short guide we explain the Why and the How.
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