CAx Document Management
Integrate MCAD and ECAD systems and provide processes with up-to-date data
Balance flexibility with process reliability
Modern product development operates within the tension between creative flexibility and reliable process security. While freedom for innovative ideas is essential in early design phases, the demands for data quality, traceability, and reliability increase in later project phases – both internally and in collaboration with partners and suppliers. CONTACT Elements CAx Document Management resolves this dilemma: It comprehensively supports all phases of product development, from the initial idea to the provision of reliable and up-to-date data for all subsequent processes.
Your benefits
- Reliable data management for all central development tools
- Flexibility and creative freedom in early design phases
- Process-reliable availability of results from MCAD and ECAD systems
- Seamless exchange of design data with partners and suppliers
Reliable data management for all central development tools
Whether MCAD systems like NX, Catia, Creo, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and Inventor, or ECAD/EDA solutions such as EPlan, E3-Series, and Altium, these systems form the backbone of any modern development. Given their complex data structures, intelligent Team Data Management is essential. CONTACT's CAx Document Management relieves engineering teams of routine tasks and ensures process reliability and consistent databases. This is achieved through maintained standard interfaces to leading systems and the most powerful multi-CAD data management the market has to offer.
Whether MCAD systems like NX, Catia, Creo, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and Inventor, or ECAD/EDA solutions such as EPlan, E3-Series, and Altium, these systems form the backbone of any modern development. Given their complex data structures, intelligent Team Data Management is essential. CONTACT's CAx Document Management relieves engineering teams of routine tasks and ensures process reliability and consistent databases. This is achieved through maintained standard interfaces to leading systems and the most powerful multi-CAD data management the market has to offer.
Process-reliable availability of models and drawings
Modern products are composed of a multitude of models and drawings, which serve as a critical basis for all downstream processes – from procurement and simulation to change management, the Digital Twin in production and service. CONTACT’s CAx Document Management enables intelligent data management, allowing you to automatically retrieve all relevant data, convert it if necessary (for example, into 3D PDFs) and make it available. This virtually eliminates manual effort for your employees.
Modern products are composed of a multitude of models and drawings, which serve as a critical basis for all downstream processes – from procurement and simulation to change management, the Digital Twin in production and service. CONTACT’s CAx Document Management enables intelligent data management, allowing you to automatically retrieve all relevant data, convert it if necessary (for example, into 3D PDFs) and make it available. This virtually eliminates manual effort for your employees.
Collaborate efficiently – internally and with partners
Today, teamwork in engineering increasingly crosses company boundaries. CONTACT Elements CAx Document Management supports this on two levels: For internal development teams, workspaces provide maximum creative freedom in early phases by securely synchronizing interim statuses and results with your internal data. For cross-company collaboration, the Collaboration Portal reliably provides tasks and data on the web, proactively informs about changes, and facilitates the integration of external results. This way, all stakeholders – especially clients – retain full transparency, control, and the certainty of up-to-date data at all times.
Collaborate efficiently – internally and with partners
Today, teamwork in engineering increasingly crosses company boundaries. CONTACT Elements CAx Document Management supports this on two levels: For internal development teams, workspaces provide maximum creative freedom in early phases by securely synchronizing interim statuses and results with your internal data. For cross-company collaboration, the Collaboration Portal reliably provides tasks and data on the web, proactively informs about changes, and facilitates the integration of external results. This way, all stakeholders – especially clients – retain full transparency, control, and the certainty of up-to-date data at all times.
Today, teamwork in engineering increasingly crosses company boundaries. CONTACT Elements CAx Document Management supports this on two levels: For internal development teams, workspaces provide maximum creative freedom in early phases by securely synchronizing interim statuses and results with your internal data. For cross-company collaboration, the Collaboration Portal reliably provides tasks and data on the web, proactively informs about changes, and facilitates the integration of external results. This way, all stakeholders – especially clients – retain full transparency, control, and the certainty of up-to-date data at all times.
Related Elements
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Enhance team collaboration by sharing model data
Leverage standards like 3D PDF, JT, and STEP for more possibilities
Accelerate product protection with digital mockups
Manage product structures and bills of materials securely and efficiently
Ensure compliance through end-to-end documentation of product development
Efficiently configure variants using 150% bills of materials
Compare product structures and drive standardization
Build product architectures across disciplines
Supply downstream processes with reliable data
Combine customer orientation with efficient value creation
Build product portfolios efficiently and strategically
Achieve the ideal balance between customer orientation and cost-effectiveness
Modularize product variability and manage it consistently throughout the product lifecycle
Maintain transparency and clarity even in complex variant spaces
Automatically supply downstream processes with data
Integrally manage simulation data and processes
Make simulation methods available enterprise-wide
Accelerate development and simulation processes through automation
Efficiently integrate CAD and CAE – reduce effort and errors
Clearly define relationships using consistent data management
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