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A Retrospective on 30 Years of CONTACT Software
CONTACT Software celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2020. Founder and CEO Karl Heinz Zachries looks back on the early years, the biggest hurdles and key milestones and reveals what has shaped the CONTACT spirit.
The Digital Twin in production
Companies can increase operational excellence in production through data-driven business processes that focus on the Digital Twin. This article describes important building blocks for corresponding IoT solutions.
The University of Wolverhampton racing team shifts up a gear with CIM Database PLM
The School of Engineering of the British University of Wolverhampton and its motorsport team participate in the CONTACT University programme. As a sponsor and technical partner CONTACT supports the students in the further development of their racing cars.
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. Therefore, you should actively control the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. This enables you to accelerate processes and projects, 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. Therefore, you should actively control the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. This enables you to accelerate processes and projects, reduce routine tasks and errors, and safely fulfill regulatory obligations. Our solution: CIM Database PLM powered by CONTACT Elements.
Product development today is complex. Therefore, you should actively control the life cycle of your products from the very beginning. This enables you to accelerate processes and projects, 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
Connect your machines and systems with the digital world. Use the operating data for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. The Digital Twin provides hardware and software configurations, 3D models, maintenance history, customer data and much more. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.
IoT – Lifting the data treasure of the Digital Twin
Connect your machines and systems with the digital world. Use the operating data for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. The Digital Twin provides hardware and software configurations, 3D models, maintenance history, customer data and much more. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.
Connect your machines and systems with the digital world. Use the operating data for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. The Digital Twin provides hardware and software configurations, 3D models, maintenance history, customer data and much more. Our solution: CONTACT Elements for IoT.
Project management – Execute engineering projects agile and right on target
Complex projects often fail to meet time and cost limits because planning and implementation are not sufficiently synchronized. Hybrid project management orchestrates planning, control and execution hand in hand using agile and classic methods. Our solution: Project Office powered by CONTACT Elements.
Project management – Execute engineering projects agile and right on target
Complex projects often fail to meet time and cost limits because planning and implementation are not sufficiently synchronized. Hybrid project management orchestrates planning, control and execution hand in hand using agile and classic methods. Our solution: Project Office powered by CONTACT Elements.
Complex projects often fail to meet time and cost limits because planning and implementation are not sufficiently synchronized. Hybrid project management orchestrates planning, control and execution hand in hand using agile and classic methods. 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
