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CONTACT Elements 15.5
The new release of the leading open platform for the digital transformation of the product business
New member of the Egdecross Consortium
CONTACT supports an initiative from Japan, which develops industry standards for edge computing. This technology is relevant for the Digital Factory and IIoT applications.
CONTACT expands its partner network in North America and India
FLEXUR Systems is a new Channel Partner of the CONTACT Global Ecosystem. The international solution provider in the field of PLM and IoT now offers companies with CONTACT Elements a powerful technology platform to successfully realize future requirements.
Five products, one platform – industry solutions powered by CONTACT Elements
- PLM
- Industrial IoT
- Project management
- Collaboration
- Integration
PLM – Develop first-class products faster

Product development today is complex and often slow. Accelerate processes and projects by actively managing the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. Reduce routine tasks and errors and safely fulfill regulatory obligations. Our solution: CIM Database PLM powered by CONTACT Elements

PLM – Develop first-class products faster
Product development today is complex and often slow. Accelerate processes and projects by actively managing the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. Reduce routine tasks and errors and safely fulfill regulatory obligations. Our solution: CIM Database PLM powered by CONTACT Elements

Product development today is complex and often slow. Accelerate processes and projects by actively managing the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. Reduce routine tasks and errors and safely fulfill regulatory obligations. Our solution: CIM Database PLM powered by CONTACT Elements
IoT – Lifting the data treasure of the Digital Twin

Connecting your machines and systems offers great opportunities for more reliable manufacturing processes and better service business. The digital twin for smart industrial assets and a platform that makes digital business applications particularly easy lay the foundations. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.
IoT – Lifting the data treasure of the Digital Twin
Connecting your machines and systems offers great opportunities for more reliable manufacturing processes and better service business. The digital twin for smart industrial assets and a platform that makes digital business applications particularly easy lay the foundations. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.

Connecting your machines and systems offers great opportunities for more reliable manufacturing processes and better service business. The digital twin for smart industrial assets and a platform that makes digital business applications particularly easy lay the foundations. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.
Project management – Execute complex projects agile and right on target

Demanding projects, for example in engineering, often miss their time and cost frame because planning and implementation diverge. Hybrid project management combines planning, control and execution hand in hand through the interplay of agile and classic processes. Our solution: Project Office powered by CONTACT Elements.

Project management – Execute complex projects agile and right on target
Demanding projects, for example in engineering, often miss their time and cost frame because planning and implementation diverge. Hybrid project management combines planning, control and execution hand in hand through the interplay of agile and classic processes. Our solution: Project Office powered by CONTACT Elements.

Demanding projects, for example in engineering, often miss their time and cost frame because planning and implementation diverge. Hybrid project management combines planning, control and execution hand in hand through the interplay of agile and classic processes. Our solution: Project Office powered by CONTACT Elements.
Collaboration – Working hand in hand with other companies

Demanding products are the result of good cooperation between numerous companies. The challenge is to strengthen their interaction through the smooth flow of data and end-to-end processes across company boundaries. Our solution: Collaboration Hub powered by CONTACT Elements.
Collaboration – Working hand in hand with other companies
Demanding products are the result of good cooperation between numerous companies. The challenge is to strengthen their interaction through the smooth flow of data and end-to-end processes across company boundaries. Our solution: Collaboration Hub powered by CONTACT Elements.

Demanding products are the result of good cooperation between numerous companies. The challenge is to strengthen their interaction through the smooth flow of data and end-to-end processes across company boundaries. Our solution: Collaboration Hub powered by CONTACT Elements.
Integration – Use valuable data across system boundaries

Leverage the potential of data distributed in legacy systems such as ERP, CRM or PLM. Connect these systems through open APIs and offer your users an integrated view of all important data. Our solution: The integration platform CONTACT Elements.

Integration – Use valuable data across system boundaries
Leverage the potential of data distributed in legacy systems such as ERP, CRM or PLM. Connect these systems through open APIs and offer your users an integrated view of all important data. Our solution: The integration platform CONTACT Elements.

Leverage the potential of data distributed in legacy systems such as ERP, CRM or PLM. Connect these systems through open APIs and offer your users an integrated view of all important data. Our solution: The integration platform CONTACT Elements.
Customer Success Stories
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 leading supplier of filtration solutions. The Group manages its global development projects at around 50 locations worldwide using CIM database. As a partner of the OEMs MANN + HUMMEL uses the specified CAD systems for each case. The powerful multi-CAD data management is therefore a central component of our solution.
Read Success StorySennheiser relies on CIM Database as a global platform for product development. With CONTACT's PLM system, the audio specialist accelerates throughput times, reduces the amount of work required for routine tasks and decreases the error rate. The special features of our solution cover compliance management including standards-specific material management.
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CONTACT Elements
The world's best platform to design and operate smart products
Modular instead of monolithic
Use new building blocks faster, as with LEGO, and make updates productive earlier
Open interfaces instead of vendor lock-in
Use leading open source software and connect different systems more easily
Configuration instead of programming
Implement your own solutions more agilely in the low-code platform and maintain them more easily
More than the sum of its parts
Carefully selected and tuned building blocks that interact along the digital thread