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AI for the next era of product creation

Product video about Fourier AI, CONTACT Software's Industrial AI solution.

Don't let your AI investment become one of the 95%* that fail. Transform Artificial Intelligence from a disconnected piece of your IT strategy into the engine of your success: With CONTACT Fourier AI, we provide you with an infrastructure that embeds AI into every phase of the product lifecycle. Our AI solutions understand how products are created, how engineers think, and where productivity can be boosted. Domain-specific AI models, integrated into CONTACT Elements and operated via the secure Fourier Cloud, bring Engineering Intelligence to development, production, and service – quickly, scalably, and tailored to your organization.

*NANDA: State of AI in Business 2025

Don't let your AI investment become one of the 95%* that fail. Transform Artificial Intelligence from a disconnected piece of your IT strategy into the engine of your success: With CONTACT Fourier AI, we provide you with an infrastructure that embeds AI into every phase of the product lifecycle. Our AI solutions understand how products are created, how engineers think, and where productivity can be boosted. Domain-specific AI models, integrated into CONTACT Elements and operated via the secure Fourier Cloud, bring Engineering Intelligence to development, production, and service – quickly, scalably, and tailored to your organization.

*NANDA: State of AI in Business 2025

Product video about Fourier AI, CONTACT Software's Industrial AI solution.

Don't let your AI investment become one of the 95%* that fail. Transform Artificial Intelligence from a disconnected piece of your IT strategy into the engine of your success: With CONTACT Fourier AI, we provide you with an infrastructure that embeds AI into every phase of the product lifecycle. Our AI solutions understand how products are created, how engineers think, and where productivity can be boosted. Domain-specific AI models, integrated into CONTACT Elements and operated via the secure Fourier Cloud, bring Engineering Intelligence to development, production, and service – quickly, scalably, and tailored to your organization.

*NANDA: State of AI in Business 2025

Company logo of CIMdata.
"Based on its ability to embed AI into governed lifecycle workflows, support federated architectures, and protect sensitive product data, CIMdata recommends that manufacturers seeking to strengthen their digital threads evaluate CONTACT Software’s Fourier AI."

CIMdata, Inc. über CONTACT Fourier AI, March 2026

 

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
Visual representation of the benefits of Engineering Intelligence with Fourier AI.

Deploy AI applications without lead time

Product logo Fourier AI

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
Product logo Fourier AI

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

Examples for engineering intelligence with Fourier AI.

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
Examples for engineering intelligence with Fourier AI.

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. 

Deploying Fourier AI in the Digital Thread

With Fourier AI, you integrate Engineering und Manufacturing Intelligence in every stage of the product lifecycle. What is possible in practice depends on your company's specific requirements. Here are some examples:

Read about a Use Case
Company logo of CIMdata.
"Engineers interact with an AI assistant that functions as a knowledgeable colleague with access to product information, design history, and organizational context, augmenting human expertise rather than replacing it."

CIMdata, Inc. über CONTACT Fourier AI, March 2026

 

Use a future-proof, scalable AI infrastructure

Screenshot of Fourier AI.

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.

Fourier AI Data Processing

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.

Fourier AI Data Processing
Screenshot of Fourier AI.

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 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.

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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 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 Fourier Cloud analyzes incoming requests and selects the best models to answer the query.

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

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 Fourier Cloud. There, the most suitable AI model for the query is selected, engaged with the embeddings, and the response is sent back. The 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 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.

Yes. The AI Act, the European Union's regulation on artificial intelligence, is the world's first comprehensive AI legislation. Based on a careful internal assessment of its functionality and intended purpose, we classify Fourier AI as a limited risk AI system in accordance with Article 52 of the EU AI Act. This means that specific transparency obligations apply to our product. We fulfill our responsibilities under the AI Act by:

  • Clearly and unequivocally informing users when they interact with our AI system.
  • Labeling content (such as texts, reports, or other data) generated by the AI as such.

When the software is used in individual customer contexts, customers are responsible for assessing the level of risk.