Materials
Enable resilient supply chains and sustainable product development through intelligent material data management
Master your supply chain and sustainability challenges
Rising raw material prices, supply bottlenecks, and growing demands for sustainability and compliance present significant challenges for production planning. To prevent production disruptions, companies must make their supply chains more resilient. At the same time, customers and legislators are demanding improved environmental performance of products. CONTACT Elements Materials is the PLM building block for modern, sustainable material management. The solution helps you manage materials efficiently, flexibly, and in a future-proof way. This enables you to reliably meet new requirements – such as the rapid identification of alternative materials – and establish strategically robust procurement.
Your benefits
- Provide detailed material information company-wide
- Collaborate seamlessly thanks to reliable material data
- Quickly identify alternative materials
- Ensure sustainability and compliance
Provide material information company-wide
CONTACT Elements Materials centralizes all relevant material information: from properties and substances to product composition, analyses, and measurement reports. The integrated material catalog is seamlessly connected to Product Lifecycle Management and Simulation Management. This enables a smooth, cross-departmental exchange of information. Status networks and release workflows ensure consistent material data and traceable design decisions.
Provide material information company-wide
CONTACT Elements Materials centralizes all relevant material information: from properties and substances to product composition, analyses, and measurement reports. The integrated material catalog is seamlessly connected to Product Lifecycle Management and Simulation Management. This enables a smooth, cross-departmental exchange of information. Status networks and release workflows ensure consistent material data and traceable design decisions.
CONTACT Elements Materials centralizes all relevant material information: from properties and substances to product composition, analyses, and measurement reports. The integrated material catalog is seamlessly connected to Product Lifecycle Management and Simulation Management. This enables a smooth, cross-departmental exchange of information. Status networks and release workflows ensure consistent material data and traceable design decisions.
Collaborate seamlessly thanks to reliable material data
Materials provides all relevant departments with direct access to qualified and released material data. This allows design department to precisely weigh properties during material selection, procurement to assess availability and prices, simulation to test product requirements such as elasticity, and quality assurance to evaluate the data regarding sustainability and compliance. This company-wide access to consistent data promotes highly efficient cross-team collaboration.
Collaborate seamlessly thanks to reliable material data
Materials provides all relevant departments with direct access to qualified and released material data. This allows design department to precisely weigh properties during material selection, procurement to assess availability and prices, simulation to test product requirements such as elasticity, and quality assurance to evaluate the data regarding sustainability and compliance. This company-wide access to consistent data promotes highly efficient cross-team collaboration.
Materials provides all relevant departments with direct access to qualified and released material data. This allows design department to precisely weigh properties during material selection, procurement to assess availability and prices, simulation to test product requirements such as elasticity, and quality assurance to evaluate the data regarding sustainability and compliance. This company-wide access to consistent data promotes highly efficient cross-team collaboration.
Quickly identify alternative materials
In view of disrupted supply chains, rising raw material prices, and growing sustainability requirements, the rapid identification of alternative materials is crucial. CONTACT Elements Materials significantly simplifies and accelerates this search: Employees can filter by attributes such as manufacturer, supplier, substances, material properties, or material classes (for example, metal or plastic). The comprehensive classification and detailed mapping of material information drastically speeds up the search for suitable alternatives.
Quickly identify alternative materials
In view of disrupted supply chains, rising raw material prices, and growing sustainability requirements, the rapid identification of alternative materials is crucial. CONTACT Elements Materials significantly simplifies and accelerates this search: Employees can filter by attributes such as manufacturer, supplier, substances, material properties, or material classes (for example, metal or plastic). The comprehensive classification and detailed mapping of material information drastically speeds up the search for suitable alternatives.
In view of disrupted supply chains, rising raw material prices, and growing sustainability requirements, the rapid identification of alternative materials is crucial. CONTACT Elements Materials significantly simplifies and accelerates this search: Employees can filter by attributes such as manufacturer, supplier, substances, material properties, or material classes (for example, metal or plastic). The comprehensive classification and detailed mapping of material information drastically speeds up the search for suitable alternatives.
Ensure sustainability and compliance
An integrated material management system is essential for sustainable product development and compliance with product regulations. With CONTACT Elements Materials, companies can easily fulfill requirements such as substance declarations and the declaration of materials used. Furthermore, sustainability information can be comprehensively mapped in digital product files. This enables its use for environmentally sound product design (Design for Environment, DfE) and the creation of life cycle assessments, thereby paving the way for future-proof production.
Ensure sustainability and compliance
An integrated material management system is essential for sustainable product development and compliance with product regulations. With CONTACT Elements Materials, companies can easily fulfill requirements such as substance declarations and the declaration of materials used. Furthermore, sustainability information can be comprehensively mapped in digital product files. This enables its use for environmentally sound product design (Design for Environment, DfE) and the creation of life cycle assessments, thereby paving the way for future-proof production.
An integrated material management system is essential for sustainable product development and compliance with product regulations. With CONTACT Elements Materials, companies can easily fulfill requirements such as substance declarations and the declaration of materials used. Furthermore, sustainability information can be comprehensively mapped in digital product files. This enables its use for environmentally sound product design (Design for Environment, DfE) and the creation of life cycle assessments, thereby paving the way for future-proof production.
Anchor sustainability in PLM
In the commentary by consulting firm CIMdata, you learn how to document and reduce the environmental impact of your products with CONTACT Elements.
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