Today dozens of systems form the backbone of a company's digital infrastructure, including enterprise systems such as ERP or PLM, CAx applications and Office tools. This leads to fragmentation, data silos and a trend towards monolithic systems. IT analysts like Gartner therefore see integration as a key factor for economic success. CONTACT Elements is the integration platform you need to make your processes more consistent, reliable and faster across different systems.
Inaccessible data silos result in high costs due to manual data collection and editing. CONTACT Elements ensures that data is distributed reliably and automatically. You can use the data in your digital processes regardless of its origin and enjoy decisive advantages , for example in purchasing owing to a company-wide parts inventory, or when gathering information thanks to significantly shorter search times.
Inaccessible data silos result in high costs due to manual data collection and editing. CONTACT Elements ensures that data is distributed reliably and automatically. You can use the data in your digital processes regardless of its origin and enjoy decisive advantages , for example in purchasing owing to a company-wide parts inventory, or when gathering information thanks to significantly shorter search times.
Inaccessible data silos result in high costs due to manual data collection and editing. CONTACT Elements ensures that data is distributed reliably and automatically. You can use the data in your digital processes regardless of its origin and enjoy decisive advantages , for example in purchasing owing to a company-wide parts inventory, or when gathering information thanks to significantly shorter search times.
The integration platform CONTACT Elements speeds up and synchronizes your business processes. For example, engineering change processes: Digital workflows register the provision of results, reduce idle times and map process chains even across systems such as PLM and ERP. Automatic data synchronization ensures that the latest information is available to your employees in all the participating systems.
The integration platform CONTACT Elements speeds up and synchronizes your business processes. For example, engineering change processes: Digital workflows register the provision of results, reduce idle times and map process chains even across systems such as PLM and ERP. Automatic data synchronization ensures that the latest information is available to your employees in all the participating systems.
The integration platform CONTACT Elements speeds up and synchronizes your business processes. For example, engineering change processes: Digital workflows register the provision of results, reduce idle times and map process chains even across systems such as PLM and ERP. Automatic data synchronization ensures that the latest information is available to your employees in all the participating systems.
The networking of your machines and systems offers a great opportunity. Openness and interoperability based on industry standards makes it easy to integrate data sources and devices. This means that you can generate new business or boost the efficiency of your own production with innovative digital services such as condition monitoring or predictive maintenance.
The networking of your machines and systems offers a great opportunity. Openness and interoperability based on industry standards makes it easy to integrate data sources and devices. This means that you can generate new business or boost the efficiency of your own production with innovative digital services such as condition monitoring or predictive maintenance.
The networking of your machines and systems offers a great opportunity. Openness and interoperability based on industry standards makes it easy to integrate data sources and devices. This means that you can generate new business or boost the efficiency of your own production with innovative digital services such as condition monitoring or predictive maintenance.
Increasingly complex development processes require greater clarity. The aim is to make data and process elements from different sources along the digital thread more readily available, for example in dashboards. CONTACT Elements' InSync Design System displays extensive product and project data, together with their context, in the browser and on mobile devices more clearly and makes them particularly easy to navigate.
Increasingly complex development processes require greater clarity. The aim is to make data and process elements from different sources along the digital thread more readily available, for example in dashboards. CONTACT Elements' InSync Design System displays extensive product and project data, together with their context, in the browser and on mobile devices more clearly and makes them particularly easy to navigate.
Increasingly complex development processes require greater clarity. The aim is to make data and process elements from different sources along the digital thread more readily available, for example in dashboards. CONTACT Elements' InSync Design System displays extensive product and project data, together with their context, in the browser and on mobile devices more clearly and makes them particularly easy to navigate.
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The CONTACT Elements platform is based on open standards:
Elements is synonymous with CONTACT's many years of experience with and extensive expertise in interface technologies:
This enables you to implement end-to-end processes along the digital thread: from product planning, development and production to the implementation of IoT services in your company.
Monolithic systems today are less and less able to meet new requirements. Agility in innovative digital processes requires an IT infrastructure that makes change easy.
This is why the core of CONTACT Elements is its component architecture. Like Lego, Elements is modular rather than monolithic and comprises more than 50 technology, core service and special application modules. Open interfaces and a comprehensive dictionary link these modules with one another and with other open source and third-party components. The advantages:
Specialist departments usually have to contact the central IT department with regard to their requirements. The aim is therefore to reduce dependence on these limited resources and make it possible to implement new requirements much faster. Elements offers even users and key users a wide range of options in keeping with the principle of configuring instead of programming:
Examples include dashboards, which are easily assembled using a widget library, or declarative triggers for the condition monitoring of an IoT solution.
Companies are changing, be it through acquisitions, mergers, internationalization, new areas of business or new operator models in the cloud. Future-proof solutions are therefore characterized by a high level of scalability. CONTACT Elements’ characteristics in this context include:
Created as the result of a merger between two market leaders, Diebold Nixdorf, a provider of connected-commerce applications for the financial and retail sectors, connects its heterogeneous IT systems on the basis of CONTACT Elements. As middleware with intelligent workflows, Elements automates the exchange of data between the different PLM systems of the merged companies and thus ensures consistent development data within the framework of collaboration between its locations worldwide.
Weidmüller sets standards for networking and automation in industrial environments worldwide. The high-tech specialist makes extensive use of both the large number of modules and the options for easy system ad-aptation and application development that CONTACT Elements provides. Weidmüller has implemented an end-to-end PLM process from the initial idea to the discontinuation of products. One special feature is the fully automatic generation of bids thanks to end-to-end digital processes.
Zur Success StoryMANN+HUMMEL is a global leader in the field of filtration. The company has extensively digitalized its project methodology with CONTACT Elements. The aim was to provide employees with access to the latest project information at the click of a button – globally and tailored to all devices right through to smartphones. The solution involved merging the complex project data in such a way that it can be accessed in its entirety and in a clear and concise manner – from the project itself through to the work items such as documents and ele-ments of the product structure.
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