What is CONTACT Elements?

CONTACT Elements helps you optimize collaboration across global project and program organizations. The system connects technical, scheduling, and organizational information in a single source of truth. Agile teamwork and traditional project planning can be combined flexibly. The result: faster, more cost-efficient development projects.

What sets CONTACT Elements apart from other tools?

Unlike project management solutions without an industrial focus, CONTACT Elements can be connected to the IT systems used by the departments and partners involved in engineering projects. This makes it easier to coordinate and monitor tasks while taking customer requirements into account. Planning, management, and control work hand in hand with operational value creation. Since work items such as checklists, drawings, and CAD models are available directly within the system, companies can increase transparency and drive a stronger focus on project outcomes.

Can CONTACT Elements be integrated into existing IT environments?

CONTACT Elements uses open standards such as HTML5, REST, and Python. Powerful interfaces enable seamless synchronization with third-party systems – whether they are part of your own IT environment or operated by suppliers. This allows you to create seamless information flows across system and application boundaries throughout your projects.

Is CONTACT Elements also available as a cloud solution?

CONTACT Elements is available both as an on-premise installation and as a cloud solution. The model that best suits your organization depends on your specific needs and IT strategy. Our cloud solutions provide flexibility and a high level of security. Your company avoids the effort involved in maintaining and managing the software, while the platform can be gradually expanded with additional capabilities from the PLM and IoT ecosystem as needed. You always retain control over time and costs.

Can companies start working with CONTACT Elements immediately?

Our agile Fast-Track approach enables you to implement CONTACT Elements in a structured and straightforward way. You initially select a standardized software package with preconfigured PLM functionality. It is available within just a few weeks as either an on-premise or cloud installation.Following a gap analysis, we can then gradually adapt the standard solution to meet your specific requirements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn more about 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.

Learn more about 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.

More about Agile Methods

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.

More about Agile Methods

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.

More about Fourier AI

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.

More about Fourier AI

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.

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

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.

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