The seamless integration of project and documentation management was a vital factor in our choice of CONTACT Elements.Jan Poppendieck, Head of the ICE 3 redesign project at DB Fernverkehr AG
Project management with CONTACT Elements
Enhance collaboration in global project and program organizations
Project management with PLM and industry focus
Engineering projects are interdisciplinary, tightly scheduled, and technically demanding. This complexity calls for project management software that provides cross-functional teams with consistent product data and integrates seamlessly into industrial application environments such as PLM and industry-specific solutions.
That’s what CONTACT Elements delivers. The software enhances collaboration across global project and program organizations and can be easily customized and extended thanks to its open Elements platform. It connects all technical, scheduling, and organizational information and combines agile teamwork with traditional project planning. This enables you to execute your development projects faster and more cost-effectively.
Your benefits
- Project management as an organic part of the product lifecycle management or industry solutions
- Standardized infrastructure for project and product data
- Clear planning and efficient implementation
- Improved collaboration to increase process quality and accelerate project realization
- Holistic project controlling for efficient management
- Choosing and combining classic or agile methods as required
Standardized infrastructure for project and product data
CONTACT Elements creates a unified project landscape with standardized tools and information. Your teams use a shared infrastructure including multi-project and program support, integrated document management, and a differentiated roles and rights system. Access to product data in the project context is a conceptual cornerstone. The immediate availability of work objects such as checklists, drawings, or CAD models ensures transparency and a focus on results.
Standardized infrastructure for project and product data
CONTACT Elements creates a unified project landscape with standardized tools and information. Your teams use a shared infrastructure including multi-project and program support, integrated document management, and a differentiated roles and rights system. Access to product data in the project context is a conceptual cornerstone. The immediate availability of work objects such as checklists, drawings, or CAD models ensures transparency and a focus on results.
CONTACT Elements creates a unified project landscape with standardized tools and information. Your teams use a shared infrastructure including multi-project and program support, integrated document management, and a differentiated roles and rights system. Access to product data in the project context is a conceptual cornerstone. The immediate availability of work objects such as checklists, drawings, or CAD models ensures transparency and a focus on results.
Clear planning and efficient implementation
With CONTACT Elements, you can plan and coordinate tasks across numerous projects. Project leaders define a clear project structure of tasks, assign these to project roles and develop the process and schedule planning from this. You manage detailed tasks over the entire duration of the project as open points and measures in the context of the project tasks. This efficient task management allows you to keep project structures lean and still manage all details accurately. Project members automatically see their tasks in their personal cockpit and have direct access to CAD models, documents, and information.
Clear planning and efficient implementation
With CONTACT Elements, you can plan and coordinate tasks across numerous projects. Project leaders define a clear project structure of tasks, assign these to project roles and develop the process and schedule planning from this. You manage detailed tasks over the entire duration of the project as open points and measures in the context of the project tasks. This efficient task management allows you to keep project structures lean and still manage all details accurately. Project members automatically see their tasks in their personal cockpit and have direct access to CAD models, documents, and information.
With CONTACT Elements, you can plan and coordinate tasks across numerous projects. Project leaders define a clear project structure of tasks, assign these to project roles and develop the process and schedule planning from this. You manage detailed tasks over the entire duration of the project as open points and measures in the context of the project tasks. This efficient task management allows you to keep project structures lean and still manage all details accurately. Project members automatically see their tasks in their personal cockpit and have direct access to CAD models, documents, and information.
Increase process quality and accelerate project realization
CONTACT Elements promotes efficient teamwork. The software provides all current project and product data – even on mobile devices, whether online or offline. Digital workflows and templates ensure secure processes and provide information about upcoming tasks. With the Activity Stream, your employees can discuss tasks, CAD models, or documents directly and coordinate without leaving the work context or the system. Transparent communication improves collaboration within the team and coordination between departments. Discussion results are automatically documented in the specialized context.
Increase process quality and accelerate project realization
CONTACT Elements promotes efficient teamwork. The software provides all current project and product data – even on mobile devices, whether online or offline. Digital workflows and templates ensure secure processes and provide information about upcoming tasks. With the Activity Stream, your employees can discuss tasks, CAD models, or documents directly and coordinate without leaving the work context or the system. Transparent communication improves collaboration within the team and coordination between departments. Discussion results are automatically documented in the specialized context.
CONTACT Elements promotes efficient teamwork. The software provides all current project and product data – even on mobile devices, whether online or offline. Digital workflows and templates ensure secure processes and provide information about upcoming tasks. With the Activity Stream, your employees can discuss tasks, CAD models, or documents directly and coordinate without leaving the work context or the system. Transparent communication improves collaboration within the team and coordination between departments. Discussion results are automatically documented in the specialized context.
Project controlling for efficient management
Effective project controlling is based on deadlines, costs, and the quality of work results. With checklists of tasks or milestones and their link to results, completion can be linked to predefined result criteria or the completion of review workflows. In Project Costing, you define budgets and cost plans and regularly compare these with the actual costs. Project dashboards and multi-project views provide you with an overview of individual projects and the entire portfolio. Early warning indicators allow you to recognize deviations early on and take targeted corrective action. Configurable KPIs round off the holistic project controlling.
Project controlling for efficient management
Effective project controlling is based on deadlines, costs, and the quality of work results. With checklists of tasks or milestones and their link to results, completion can be linked to predefined result criteria or the completion of review workflows. In Project Costing, you define budgets and cost plans and regularly compare these with the actual costs. Project dashboards and multi-project views provide you with an overview of individual projects and the entire portfolio. Early warning indicators allow you to recognize deviations early on and take targeted corrective action. Configurable KPIs round off the holistic project controlling.
Effective project controlling is based on deadlines, costs, and the quality of work results. With checklists of tasks or milestones and their link to results, completion can be linked to predefined result criteria or the completion of review workflows. In Project Costing, you define budgets and cost plans and regularly compare these with the actual costs. Project dashboards and multi-project views provide you with an overview of individual projects and the entire portfolio. Early warning indicators allow you to recognize deviations early on and take targeted corrective action. Configurable KPIs round off the holistic project controlling.
Select and combine methods as required
Corporate organisations often require both classic framework planning for multi-project monitoring as well as agile procedures within the individual projects. Your project leaders carry out the framework planning with milestones, checklists, and Gantt charts and create planning specifications for the teams. Meanwhile, your project teams work self-organized in order to implement tasks efficiently. Agile tools such as task boards and activity streams provide decentralised support for employees in their areas of responsibility by enabling them to process tasks quickly and easily exchange information in context.
Select and combine methods as required
Corporate organisations often require both classic framework planning for multi-project monitoring as well as agile procedures within the individual projects. Your project leaders carry out the framework planning with milestones, checklists, and Gantt charts and create planning specifications for the teams. Meanwhile, your project teams work self-organized in order to implement tasks efficiently. Agile tools such as task boards and activity streams provide decentralised support for employees in their areas of responsibility by enabling them to process tasks quickly and easily exchange information in context.
Corporate organisations often require both classic framework planning for multi-project monitoring as well as agile procedures within the individual projects. Your project leaders carry out the framework planning with milestones, checklists, and Gantt charts and create planning specifications for the teams. Meanwhile, your project teams work self-organized in order to implement tasks efficiently. Agile tools such as task boards and activity streams provide decentralised support for employees in their areas of responsibility by enabling them to process tasks quickly and easily exchange information in context.
AI for your project management
With Fourier AI, CONTACT Elements provides a highly scalable and secure AI infrastructure. It combines proprietary AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT, allowing you to deploy AI applications based on your own data in your project management from day one. You make data-driven decisions, ensure optimal team utilization, and give project managers more freedom to focus on strategic tasks.
AI for your project management
With Fourier AI, CONTACT Elements provides a highly scalable and secure AI infrastructure. It combines proprietary AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT, allowing you to deploy AI applications based on your own data in your project management from day one. You make data-driven decisions, ensure optimal team utilization, and give project managers more freedom to focus on strategic tasks.
With Fourier AI, CONTACT Elements provides a highly scalable and secure AI infrastructure. It combines proprietary AI models with proven tools like ChatGPT, allowing you to deploy AI applications based on your own data in your project management from day one. You make data-driven decisions, ensure optimal team utilization, and give project managers more freedom to focus on strategic tasks.
We protect your data
CONTACT Elements is tool-qualified according to ISO 26262. With this certification, the independent testing organization TÜV Nord confirms that our software meets the ISO 26262 requirements for software tools used in the development of safety-related functions.
Everything you need for project success
Manage complex engineering projects with flexibility and efficiency: CONTACT Elements provides powerful applications for planning, managing, and executing your projects. Start with the applications you need today and expand your solution as required – for example, with PLM, MES, or service capabilities.
Plan & Innovate
- Innovations
- Product Portfolio
- Closed Loop Engineering
- Design for X
Conceptualize & Develop
- Modules & Platform
- Product Costing
- mCAD/eCAD
- 3D Visualization
- Engineering Changes
- Requirements Engineering
- Part Classification & Reuse
- Variants
- ALM & MBSE
- Tool Design
- Product Structure & MultiBOM
- Materials
- Simulation
- Digital Mockup
- Work Plan
Validate & Test
- Process Templates
- Material Compliance
- Controlling & Maturity
- Tests & Ramp-up
- Audit Trail & Change Records
- Quality Issues
Produce & Deliver
- Production Plan & Control
- Shopfloor
- Track & Trace
Operate & Maintain
- Digital Twin
- Monitoring & Analytics
- Maintenance
- Energy & Resources
Service & Support
- Self-Service Customer Platform
- Field Services
- Ticket System
Projects
Core Services
Fourier AI
Foundation
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