AI for the next era of product creation

Transform Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a disconnected puzzle piece of your IT strategy into a driver of your success: With CONTACT Fourier AI, we provide you with a foundation that allows you to deploy AI at every stage of the product lifecycle. Our AI solutions understand how products are made, how engineers think, and where productivity can be boosted. Domain-specific AI models, integrated into CONTACT Elements and powered by the secure Central Fourier Cloud, deliver Engineering Intelligence directly where it brings the most value: in development, production, and service – fast, scalable, and customized for your enterprise.

Your Benefits

  • Secure, end-to-end solution with unique AI models for product development, manufacturing, and service management
  • Quickly and easily leverage AI without requiring internal expertise or proprietary hardware
  • Deploy an AI agent with access to all product-centric data, regardless of its modality (text, images, 3D models...)
  • Leverage contextual relationships between product information in CONTACT Elements for AI applications, ensuring reliable, precise results
  • Accelerate product development without incurring spiraling costs
  • Centralized governance and maximum security

Deploy AI applications without lead time

Fourier AI is integrated into our platform CONTACT Elements and ready to use immediately. You don't have to invest time in setting up and maintaining complex hardware or searching for AI talent. Your employees can start using powerful AI applications, tailored to the requirements of product development, from day one by accessing the Fourier AI Cloud.

Here's how CONTACT Elements works

Deploy AI applications without lead time

Fourier AI is integrated into our platform CONTACT Elements and ready to use immediately. You don't have to invest time in setting up and maintaining complex hardware or searching for AI talent. Your employees can start using powerful AI applications, tailored to the requirements of product development, from day one by accessing the Fourier AI Cloud.

Here's how CONTACT Elements works

Fourier AI is integrated into our platform CONTACT Elements and ready to use immediately. You don't have to invest time in setting up and maintaining complex hardware or searching for AI talent. Your employees can start using powerful AI applications, tailored to the requirements of product development, from day one by accessing the Fourier AI Cloud.

Refine PLM with domain-specific AI models

CONTACT Software develops AI models tailored to use cases throughout the product lifecycle. This includes, for example, multimodal 3D similarity search. Fourier AI combines these domain-specific AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT. This enables you to implement AI applications based on your data at every point of your Digital Thread, for example in Variant management, Requirements Engineering, or Bill of Materials (BOM) processing. 

PLM with CIM Database

Refine PLM with domain-specific AI models

CONTACT Software develops AI models tailored to use cases throughout the product lifecycle. This includes, for example, multimodal 3D similarity search. Fourier AI combines these domain-specific AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT. This enables you to implement AI applications based on your data at every point of your Digital Thread, for example in Variant management, Requirements Engineering, or Bill of Materials (BOM) processing. 

PLM with CIM Database

CONTACT Software develops AI models tailored to use cases throughout the product lifecycle. This includes, for example, multimodal 3D similarity search. Fourier AI combines these domain-specific AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT. This enables you to implement AI applications based on your data at every point of your Digital Thread, for example in Variant management, Requirements Engineering, or Bill of Materials (BOM) processing. 

Use Case: AI in test and requirements management

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Task and objective

Our customer, an automotive supplier with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, wants to make repetitive engineering processes more efficient and reliable. These include the analysis of stakeholder requirements and the verification of developed systems using test cases (around 5,000 per year). For both processes, engineers needed about 10 to 15 minutes in each instance. Despite global standards, the quality of the results depended on the expertise of individual experts.

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Solution

Our AI team worked closely with the customer's subject matter experts to define what AI could achieve in both cases. An analysis of the existing data in the PLM system CIM Database led to the identification of two use cases that quickly deliver noticable improvements. Corresponding prototypes, based on an LLM, were refined through prompt engineering in multiple iteration cycles. This resulted in two operational AI assistants in a short period of time.

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Benefits

With the AI assistants, Woco can reduce manual efforts and ensure consistently high quality. The AI systems reliably evaluate stakeholder requirements and, based on these, generate test cases, including acceptance criteria and semantic links. Employees only need to review and approve the results. They save up to twelve minutes per test case. Due to the large number of requirements, this results in annual savings in the high five-figure range. The quality of the results is consistently high, regardless of the experience of the personnel involved.

Use a future-proof, scalable AI infrastructure

Our AI team continuously monitors the market. We swiftly make new technologies and AI applications available to you via the Central Fourier Cloud. Therefore, you always have access to top-tier AI models and finely tuned prompt engineering. Thanks to the modular structure of the CONTACT Elements platform, you can incrementally leverage the opportunities that arise from this, especially for individual use cases tailored to your processes. You scale the deployment of Artificial Intelligence at the pace that best suits your organization.

Use a future-proof, scalable AI infrastructure

Our AI team continuously monitors the market. We swiftly make new technologies and AI applications available to you via the Central Fourier Cloud. Therefore, you always have access to top-tier AI models and finely tuned prompt engineering. Thanks to the modular structure of the CONTACT Elements platform, you can incrementally leverage the opportunities that arise from this, especially for individual use cases tailored to your processes. You scale the deployment of Artificial Intelligence at the pace that best suits your organization.

Our AI team continuously monitors the market. We swiftly make new technologies and AI applications available to you via the Central Fourier Cloud. Therefore, you always have access to top-tier AI models and finely tuned prompt engineering. Thanks to the modular structure of the CONTACT Elements platform, you can incrementally leverage the opportunities that arise from this, especially for individual use cases tailored to your processes. You scale the deployment of Artificial Intelligence at the pace that best suits your organization.

Flexibly integrate information sources

By leveraging MCP servers, you can quickly and easily connect not only your product data but also other internal information sources (such as your company's intranet or wiki) to Fourier AI. This broadens your AI assistant's scope of understanding. As a result, Fourier AI delivers precise, relevant insights that are tailored to your company and precisely match your colleagues' queries.

Flexibly integrate information sources

By leveraging MCP servers, you can quickly and easily connect not only your product data but also other internal information sources (such as your company's intranet or wiki) to Fourier AI. This broadens your AI assistant's scope of understanding. As a result, Fourier AI delivers precise, relevant insights that are tailored to your company and precisely match your colleagues' queries.

By leveraging MCP servers, you can quickly and easily connect not only your product data but also other internal information sources (such as your company's intranet or wiki) to Fourier AI. This broadens your AI assistant's scope of understanding. As a result, Fourier AI delivers precise, relevant insights that are tailored to your company and precisely match your colleagues' queries.

Always maintain control over your data

Fourier AI converts your data into embeddings for AI use. These are stored in the vector database already present within your CONTACT Elements instance. For each query, Fourier AI selects the necessary embeddings and transmits them to the Central Fourier Cloud. There, the most suitable AI model for the query is selected, engaged with the embeddings, and the response is sent back. The Central Fourier Cloud is hosted on European servers, compliant with GDPR. Information processed along this path is neither stored nor used for third-party purposes.

Always maintain control over your data

Fourier AI converts your data into embeddings for AI use. These are stored in the vector database already present within your CONTACT Elements instance. For each query, Fourier AI selects the necessary embeddings and transmits them to the Central Fourier Cloud. There, the most suitable AI model for the query is selected, engaged with the embeddings, and the response is sent back. The Central Fourier Cloud is hosted on European servers, compliant with GDPR. Information processed along this path is neither stored nor used for third-party purposes.

Fourier AI converts your data into embeddings for AI use. These are stored in the vector database already present within your CONTACT Elements instance. For each query, Fourier AI selects the necessary embeddings and transmits them to the Central Fourier Cloud. There, the most suitable AI model for the query is selected, engaged with the embeddings, and the response is sent back. The Central Fourier Cloud is hosted on European servers, compliant with GDPR. Information processed along this path is neither stored nor used for third-party purposes.

Deploying Fourier AI in the Digital Thread

With Fourier AI, you increase the efficiency of your value creation at every point of your Digital Thread. What is possible in practice depends on your company's specific requirements. Here are some examples:

We drive AI in industry forward

In 2019, CONTACT Software established a research team that intensively investigates AI solutions for engineering and production of the future. It collaborates closely with experts from industry and academia on research projects aligned with political initiatives such as Industry 4.0 or the European Green Deal. The projects encompass applied research, as well as the development of technologies and methods that enable the industry to develop and manufacture more efficiently. This ensures our products always remain at the cutting edge.

Explore our research projects

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FAQ

Quick overview: Your questions, our answers.

Without an overarching strategy, the use of AI quickly leads to fragmented IT landscapes with data silos and high maintenance overhead. That's why, with Fourier AI, we don't just deliver another app. You receive an intelligent layer that is based on the integrated, modular platform CONTACT Elements and seamlessly integrates into your IT landscape. This allows you to systematically embed current and future AI functionalities within your company. This occurs in a hybrid environment where data remains secure within the company, while computing power is provided from the cloud infrastructure.

Fourier AI is more than a single AI model. It consists of the Fourier Chat, which is directly accessible to users within the system, several technological extensions in your CONTACT Elements instance such as an MCP Server and the vector database, and the Central Fourier Cloud. There, AI requests are orchestrated and processed using a combination of AI models. Therefore, Fourier AI is not merely an interface to any generic Large Language Model (LLM), but an end-to-end solution for your AI applications along the Digital Thread.

Several factors are relevant for the industrial application of AI. Fourier AI provides highly data-focused answers and always delivers source references instead of hallucinating responses. Your data is stored exclusively within your instance. Furthermore, Fourier AI operates in alignment with CONTACT Elements' role and rights concept. The assistant only gains access to content that authenticated users also have access to.

Fourier AI does not rely on a single AI model but combines the latest Large Language Models on the market (for example, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Anthropic) with specialized AI models from CONTACT Software (for instance, for multi-modal similarity search of 3D models). An orchestration service in the Central Fourier Cloud analyzes incoming requests and selects the best models to answer the query.

The Central Fourier Cloud and all AI models are hosted by AWS on European soil, thereby complying with EU data protection laws.

Fourier AI is available as of CONTACT Elements 15.9. It can handle tasks within the context of objects, eliminate language barriers through in-system translations, and boost innovation capacity. Additionally, starting with CONTACT Elements 2026.2, Fourier AI will also be able to semantically process your data and information and handle complex tasks with high contextual accuracy.