The world's best platform to design and operate smart products
Experience CONTACT Elements, the world's best software platform for engineers to improve collaboration, accelerate product development, and bring digital twins to life.
Global production control in real time
thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components is a worldwide leading manufacturer of powertrain components and a significant development partner of the automotive industry. Find out what added value the globally rolled out shopfloor management solution CPOS (Central Production Operating System) based on CONTACT Elements offers production employees and management.
LogoMotive accelerates business processes with CONTACT Software
The engineering service provider for rail vehicles uses CONTACT Elements to enable end-to-end processes and thus improve collaboration across different departments and systems.
More rock 'n' roll in development
The Adam Hall Group is one of the largest event technology providers. Read here how the company uses CIM Database's integrated multi-project management and other PLM applications to make the product development process through to series production efficient and economical.
DB Fernverkehr AG: Mobile app gets ICE fleet on track faster
DB Fernverkehr AG and CONTACT Software have jointly developed an app that reduces the time spent on vehicle acceptance for the ICE fleet by more than 50 percent. In our video, Siegfried Krähahn, Head of Safety Analyses and Technical Management at DB Fernverkehr AG, talks about the project and the successful collaboration.
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 global leader in the field of filtration. The group uses CIM Database to manage projects at approximately 50 locations worldwide and relies on powerful multi-CAD data management, materials management and BOM management. The specialist has also extensively digitalized its project management: CONTACT's hybrid methodology makes it possible to respond quickly to new market requirements by combining agile methods and conventional management.
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
"CONTACT is one of the providers driving the PLM market [...] addressing the current challenges of the industry with comprehensive solutions. Its open, modular low-code platform Elements and the PLM modules based on it, which companies can combine flexibly, are leading the way here."
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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
