Huba Control boosts international growth with CONTACT Elements
The Swiss sensor manufacturer implements CONTACT’s PLM solution to enable consistent data management on a global scale and streamline collaboration with its new production facility in China.
The new Elements release
With its integrated intelligence layer Fourier AI and a range of other innovations, the new CONTACT Elements boosts efficiency across the entire lifecycle – from change management and manufacturing to service.
Engineering Compass –
The PLM newsletter
The Engineering Compass highlights trends in PLM, cloud, and AI, helping companies design their digital product development processes more efficiently.
CONTACT Fourier AI for the Digital Thread
The international management consultancy CIMdata highlights the role of CONTACT Fourier AI as a strategic extension of the digital thread. Its integration into the Elements platform ensures in-depth knowledge and secure data.
CONTACT Fourier AI:
AI that drives your business
Discover Fourier AI and seamlessly integrate AI into every stage of the product lifecycle – tailored to your needs. For more speed and productivity, from development to service.
Industry solutions powered by CONTACT Elements
Product Lifecycle Management
Project Management
Manufacturing Execution System
Service Lifecycle Management
Sustainability Reporting
Collaboration
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
With CONTACT Elements, companies bring together all relevant product data, processes, and resources in one central platform and manage them efficiently throughout the entire product lifecycle. The solution enables collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduces errors and manual tasks, and helps companies reliably meet regulatory requirements.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
With CONTACT Elements, companies bring together all relevant product data, processes, and resources in one central platform and manage them efficiently throughout the entire product lifecycle. The solution enables collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduces errors and manual tasks, and helps companies reliably meet regulatory requirements.
With CONTACT Elements, companies bring together all relevant product data, processes, and resources in one central platform and manage them efficiently throughout the entire product lifecycle. The solution enables collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduces errors and manual tasks, and helps companies reliably meet regulatory requirements.
Project Management
Project management in CONTACT Elements enables companies to deliver projects faster and more efficiently. Interdisciplinary teams collaborate on a shared foundation that connects product and project data and enhances transparency. CONTACT Elements combines traditional project planning with agile methods. This allows teams to deliver even complex, international development projects faster, at lower cost, and with greater reliability.
Project Management
Project management in CONTACT Elements enables companies to deliver projects faster and more efficiently. Interdisciplinary teams collaborate on a shared foundation that connects product and project data and enhances transparency. CONTACT Elements combines traditional project planning with agile methods. This allows teams to deliver even complex, international development projects faster, at lower cost, and with greater reliability.
Project management in CONTACT Elements enables companies to deliver projects faster and more efficiently. Interdisciplinary teams collaborate on a shared foundation that connects product and project data and enhances transparency. CONTACT Elements combines traditional project planning with agile methods. This allows teams to deliver even complex, international development projects faster, at lower cost, and with greater reliability.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
With CONTACT Elements, companies can plan, monitor, and continuously optimize their manufacturing operations. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), the platform combines production control with maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. By connecting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with the shop floor, it creates a continuous flow of information. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing that can respond to changes more quickly.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
With CONTACT Elements, companies can plan, monitor, and continuously optimize their manufacturing operations. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), the platform combines production control with maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. By connecting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with the shop floor, it creates a continuous flow of information. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing that can respond to changes more quickly.
With CONTACT Elements, companies can plan, monitor, and continuously optimize their manufacturing operations. Going beyond the capabilities of a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES), the platform combines production control with maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. By connecting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with the shop floor, it creates a continuous flow of information. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing that can respond to changes more quickly.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
With CONTACT Elements, companies turn after-sales service into a growth driver. They seamlessly digitalize processes and create a central information hub for all customer-related data and service activities. Service teams transparently manage planned activities, streamline service processes, and reduce response times. At the same time, companies can lower internal costs and unlock new revenue opportunities – for example, through digital services and customer portals.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
With CONTACT Elements, companies turn after-sales service into a growth driver. They seamlessly digitalize processes and create a central information hub for all customer-related data and service activities. Service teams transparently manage planned activities, streamline service processes, and reduce response times. At the same time, companies can lower internal costs and unlock new revenue opportunities – for example, through digital services and customer portals.
With CONTACT Elements, companies turn after-sales service into a growth driver. They seamlessly digitalize processes and create a central information hub for all customer-related data and service activities. Service teams transparently manage planned activities, streamline service processes, and reduce response times. At the same time, companies can lower internal costs and unlock new revenue opportunities – for example, through digital services and customer portals.
Sustainability Reporting
CONTACT Elements enables companies to consolidate environmental data from different sources, creating a reliable foundation for sustainability reporting. The solution lays the groundwork for a Green digital thread that can be extended across the entire product lifecycle – from engineering and manufacturing to operation. As a result, CONTACT Elements not only enables efficient reporting but also helps reduce resource consumption in manufacturing and operation.
Sustainability Reporting
CONTACT Elements enables companies to consolidate environmental data from different sources, creating a reliable foundation for sustainability reporting. The solution lays the groundwork for a Green digital thread that can be extended across the entire product lifecycle – from engineering and manufacturing to operation. As a result, CONTACT Elements not only enables efficient reporting but also helps reduce resource consumption in manufacturing and operation.
CONTACT Elements enables companies to consolidate environmental data from different sources, creating a reliable foundation for sustainability reporting. The solution lays the groundwork for a Green digital thread that can be extended across the entire product lifecycle – from engineering and manufacturing to operation. As a result, CONTACT Elements not only enables efficient reporting but also helps reduce resource consumption in manufacturing and operation.
Collaboration
With CONTACT Elements, teams can collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across organizational boundaries. Intelligent data sharing simplifies data flows and enables seamless processes. Powerful capabilities for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control streamline collaboration with partners and suppliers and help reduce errors.
Collaboration
With CONTACT Elements, teams can collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across organizational boundaries. Intelligent data sharing simplifies data flows and enables seamless processes. Powerful capabilities for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control streamline collaboration with partners and suppliers and help reduce errors.
With CONTACT Elements, teams can collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across organizational boundaries. Intelligent data sharing simplifies data flows and enables seamless processes. Powerful capabilities for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control streamline collaboration with partners and suppliers and help reduce errors.
Customer Success Stories
BASF Polyurethanes has been using CONTACT Elements 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 CONTACT Elements 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 storyThe camshaft specialist thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components develops innovative solutions for the powertrain as a partner to automotive manufacturers. With CONTACT Elements, the global market leader ensures seamless PLM processes and real-time production control. The goal of the Powertrain division of the globally renowned German conglomerate is to increase productivity along the industrial value chain and to expand its position as a leading technological automotive supplier.
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CONTACT Elements
The world's best platform to design and operate smart products
"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
Modular instead of monolithic
Use new building blocks faster 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
Connecting data and processes end-to-end
Break down data silos and ensure interoperability along the digital thread
