Develop and operate smart products
With CONTACT Elements, you connect all data, processes, and teams across the entire product lifecycle on one integrated platform.
Break down silos and eliminate system gaps
Whether in industry, commerce, or the public sector, people everywhere work together to solve complex challenges. Yet the information they need is often spread across CAD, ERP, and other isolated applications. This hinders collaboration, leads to errors, and slows down processes. CONTACT Elements connects your data into a seamless digital thread, ensuring that information flows throughout the entire lifecycle and reaches your employees right where they need it. Your teams work together efficiently on a shared platform – whether they are developing products, operating equipment, delivering services, or managing assets digitally.
Your benefits
- Share and leverage data across system boundaries
- Integrate and scale the solution with ease
- Synchronize and accelerate processes
- Connect the entire product lifecycle end to end
- Embed AI throughout the product lifecycle
- Choose the operating model that best fits your needs
Open, intelligent, modular
CONTACT Elements combines cutting-edge technology with maximum flexibility. Thanks to its modular architecture, the open platform can be rolled out step by step, expanded as needed, and adapted to changing requirements. Fourier AI enables you to embed AI deep into your processes and turn your product data into a strategic competitive advantage. When it comes to infrastructure, you remain independent: cloud or on-premises – you choose the model that best fits your strategy while maintaining full control over your data.
Open, intelligent, modular
CONTACT Elements combines cutting-edge technology with maximum flexibility. Thanks to its modular architecture, the open platform can be rolled out step by step, expanded as needed, and adapted to changing requirements. Fourier AI enables you to embed AI deep into your processes and turn your product data into a strategic competitive advantage. When it comes to infrastructure, you remain independent: cloud or on-premises – you choose the model that best fits your strategy while maintaining full control over your data.
CONTACT Elements combines cutting-edge technology with maximum flexibility. Thanks to its modular architecture, the open platform can be rolled out step by step, expanded as needed, and adapted to changing requirements. Fourier AI enables you to embed AI deep into your processes and turn your product data into a strategic competitive advantage. When it comes to infrastructure, you remain independent: cloud or on-premises – you choose the model that best fits your strategy while maintaining full control over your data.
One platform – more than 70 applications
The modular Elements platform connects the entire product lifecycle into a digital thread – from the initial product idea all the way to after-sales service. Combine exactly the applications you need on a shared foundation of Core Services, Fourier AI, and open technology.
"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
One software for your digital thread
Product Lifecycle Management
Project Management
Manufacturing Execution System
Service Lifecycle Management
Sustainability Reporting
Collaboration
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
CONTACT Elements enables you to centrally manage all data, processes, and resources involved in product development. Improve collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduce routine tasks and errors, and reliably meet regulatory requirements.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
CONTACT Elements enables you to centrally manage all data, processes, and resources involved in product development. Improve collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduce routine tasks and errors, and reliably meet regulatory requirements.
CONTACT Elements enables you to centrally manage all data, processes, and resources involved in product development. Improve collaboration across departments, locations, and company boundaries, reduce routine tasks and errors, and reliably meet regulatory requirements.
Project Management
With CONTACT Elements, you complete complex development projects faster and more efficiently. Your teams collaborate across disciplines on a shared data foundation and combine agile teamwork with traditional project planning. Connecting product data with project management creates transparency, reduces coordination efforts, and helps identify risks at an early stage.
Project Management
With CONTACT Elements, you complete complex development projects faster and more efficiently. Your teams collaborate across disciplines on a shared data foundation and combine agile teamwork with traditional project planning. Connecting product data with project management creates transparency, reduces coordination efforts, and helps identify risks at an early stage.
With CONTACT Elements, you complete complex development projects faster and more efficiently. Your teams collaborate across disciplines on a shared data foundation and combine agile teamwork with traditional project planning. Connecting product data with project management creates transparency, reduces coordination efforts, and helps identify risks at an early stage.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
CONTACT Elements allows you to control, monitor, and continuously improve your production. The software goes beyond a traditional MES by combining advanced maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. It closes the gap between business planning in ERP and the machines on the shop floor. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing operations that can respond faster to changes.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
CONTACT Elements allows you to control, monitor, and continuously improve your production. The software goes beyond a traditional MES by combining advanced maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. It closes the gap between business planning in ERP and the machines on the shop floor. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing operations that can respond faster to changes.
CONTACT Elements allows you to control, monitor, and continuously improve your production. The software goes beyond a traditional MES by combining advanced maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. It closes the gap between business planning in ERP and the machines on the shop floor. The result: higher productivity, lower costs, and manufacturing operations that can respond faster to changes.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Turn after-sales service into a growth driver. With CONTACT Elements, you consolidate customer and service data into a single source of truth and manage maintenance activities transparently. This helps you shorten response times, reduce internal costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities through additional offerings like customer portals.
Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Turn after-sales service into a growth driver. With CONTACT Elements, you consolidate customer and service data into a single source of truth and manage maintenance activities transparently. This helps you shorten response times, reduce internal costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities through additional offerings like customer portals.
Turn after-sales service into a growth driver. With CONTACT Elements, you consolidate customer and service data into a single source of truth and manage maintenance activities transparently. This helps you shorten response times, reduce internal costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities through additional offerings like customer portals.
Sustainability Reporting
CONTACT Elements makes the environmental impact of your products transparent, simplifies reporting, and helps you efficiently meet regulatory requirements. The Green digital thread connects sustainability data from various sources – from engineering to operation – and reveals opportunities for improvement across the entire product lifecycle.
Sustainability Reporting
CONTACT Elements makes the environmental impact of your products transparent, simplifies reporting, and helps you efficiently meet regulatory requirements. The Green digital thread connects sustainability data from various sources – from engineering to operation – and reveals opportunities for improvement across the entire product lifecycle.
CONTACT Elements makes the environmental impact of your products transparent, simplifies reporting, and helps you efficiently meet regulatory requirements. The Green digital thread connects sustainability data from various sources – from engineering to operation – and reveals opportunities for improvement across the entire product lifecycle.
Collaboration
With CONTACT Elements, teams collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across all organizational and system boundaries – regardless of their location. Powerful features for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control optimize collaboration and reduce errors.
Collaboration
With CONTACT Elements, teams collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across all organizational and system boundaries – regardless of their location. Powerful features for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control optimize collaboration and reduce errors.
With CONTACT Elements, teams collaborate securely and efficiently on projects and product data across all organizational and system boundaries – regardless of their location. Powerful features for file sharing, task management, real-time communication, and version control optimize collaboration and reduce errors.
AI that understands your processes
The structured and connected data in CONTACT Elements provides AI with the ideal context to deliver real business value. With Fourier AI, we have developed an AI solution that combines our own highly specialized AI models – for example, to find parts in seconds – with market-leading LLMs. Fourier AI understands how your processes work, how your products are created, and identifies untapped potential. This turns AI into a productivity driver across your entire digital thread – from variant management and requirements engineering to bill of materials processing, manufacturing, and service.
AI that understands your processes
The structured and connected data in CONTACT Elements provides AI with the ideal context to deliver real business value. With Fourier AI, we have developed an AI solution that combines our own highly specialized AI models – for example, to find parts in seconds – with market-leading LLMs. Fourier AI understands how your processes work, how your products are created, and identifies untapped potential. This turns AI into a productivity driver across your entire digital thread – from variant management and requirements engineering to bill of materials processing, manufacturing, and service.
The structured and connected data in CONTACT Elements provides AI with the ideal context to deliver real business value. With Fourier AI, we have developed an AI solution that combines our own highly specialized AI models – for example, to find parts in seconds – with market-leading LLMs. Fourier AI understands how your processes work, how your products are created, and identifies untapped potential. This turns AI into a productivity driver across your entire digital thread – from variant management and requirements engineering to bill of materials processing, manufacturing, and service.
Reliable data foundation
Fourier AI is retrieval-based: To generate answers, it accesses existing company knowledge along with its context and relationships. This strong grounding in your data reduces hallucinations and delivers reliable results.
Specialized AI Models
Complex industrial tasks often require more than conventional AI models can deliver. That's why we have developed specialized AI models for Fourier AI that are specifically tailored to industrial use cases.
Full data sovereignty
Fourier AI processes corporate data on a GDPR-compliant infrastructure hosted in Europe. Data is stored permanently only within the customer's instance and is not used for third-party purposes.
Flexible deployment. Full sovereignty.
Whether you want full control with on-premises deployment or reduced effort in the cloud, CONTACT Elements lets you choose the operating model that best fits your IT strategy. If your requirements change, you can switch at any time. Data sovereignty is always a top priority: The development and operation of our cloud solution are ISO 27001 certified. Together with our partner STACKIT, we also offer a sovereign European cloud infrastructure.
Flexible deployment. Full sovereignty.
Whether you want full control with on-premises deployment or reduced effort in the cloud, CONTACT Elements lets you choose the operating model that best fits your IT strategy. If your requirements change, you can switch at any time. Data sovereignty is always a top priority: The development and operation of our cloud solution are ISO 27001 certified. Together with our partner STACKIT, we also offer a sovereign European cloud infrastructure.
Whether you want full control with on-premises deployment or reduced effort in the cloud, CONTACT Elements lets you choose the operating model that best fits your IT strategy. If your requirements change, you can switch at any time. Data sovereignty is always a top priority: The development and operation of our cloud solution are ISO 27001 certified. Together with our partner STACKIT, we also offer a sovereign European cloud infrastructure.
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