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CONTACT Software –energizing great minds

Contact is the leading vendor of open standard software and an open-source pioneer when it comes to the product engineering process and the digital transformation. Our products help organize projects, execute processes reliably and collaborate with others around the world on the basis of virtual product models and their digital twins. Our open tech-nology and our Elements platform are ideal for integrating IT systems and the Internet of Things to create end-to-end business processes. High-tech & Electronics

Machinery & Plants

Logistics & Infrastructure

Medical EngineeringAutomotive & Mobility

Consumer Products

Our industriesUnderstanding customers and maximizing potential Our customers enjoy success throughout the world with their innovative products because they nurture and develop their own special skills. We help them to maximize their potential through the use of best practices and outstanding software. This allows them to speed up their processes and projects, reduce the number of errors and the effort involved in routine tasks, improve their results and meet regulatory obligations. Furthermore, our open solutions are particularly cost efficient as they can be easily adapted to meet new requirements.

CONTACT ElementsThe world’s best platform to design and operate smart products

IN

Innovations

PO

Portfolio Management

TS

Technical Sales

JC

Project Costing

AM

Agile Methods

PM

ProcessManagement

PT

Best Practice Templates

CR

ChangeRecords & Audit Trail

MP

Module &PlatformManagement

VA

Variants

CD

Concept Design

SI

SimulationManagement

TP

Tooling & Production Engineering

DC

Product Costing

WB

WorkBreakdown

RP

ResourcePlanning

RM

Risk Management

MC

MaterialCompliance

RE

Requirements Engineering

PA

PartClassification& Reuse

MM

Materials Management

TE

Prototyping & Test

XB

xBOM

RU

Ramp-up

PI

ProductInformationManagement

SC

Scheduling

DO

Documentation

CO

Controlling &Maturity Management

QI

Quality Issue Management

PS

ProductStructure

DU

DMU

BM

Bill of Materials

EM

Engineering ChangeManagement

CL

Closed Loop Engineering

DT

Digital Twin

DE

Device Management

CS

Customer Services

MA

Monitoring &Analytics

CM

Configuration Management

DM

Document Management

CX

CAx DocumentManagement

EC

Enterprise Collaboration

WF

Workflows

TA

Tasks

AS

Activity Stream

3D

3D Visualization

MR

Metrics &Reporting

CA

Component Architecture

SE

Security

RA

Roles & Access Rights

DS

Digital Signatures

WI

Webservices & Interopera-bility

OP

Multi-Cloud & on-Premise Operations

GD

Global Data Management

UI

Multi-Device UserExperience

AD

Application Development Framework

UC

UniversalClassification

Quality &Compliance

ProductArchitecture

ProductElaboration

Industrializa-tion

Digital Product Application

Product Management

Core Services

Technologies

ProjectManagement

Our productsPowered by CONTACT Elements

Modular, not monolithic

Mastering the entire product lifecycle

CIM Database

Energizing your digital business

Elements for IoT

Better collaboration across systems and organizations

Collaboration Hub

Engineering success –the agile way

Project Office

Our software and servicesDesign principle: modular instead of monolithic The foundation for this is provided by our CONTACT Elements platform. Like Lego, CONTACT Elements’ modu-lar design principle allows comprehensive applications to be created that are far more than the sum of their parts: each outstanding in its own right, together something unique. The same is true of its consistent ease of use and thus outstanding user experience. Our open standard solutions support the product lifecycle from the initial idea through to its deployment at customer sites.

Our open standard solutions are CIM Database PLM, Project Office, Collaboration Hub and Elements for IoT. We combine data management for virtual products with the functions required for collaboration and for process and project management in product development. We offer an extensive library for industrial IoT services, with modules for the digital twinning of real products.

Achieving objectives faster, reliably and with agilityWe live in a world of innovative companies that are working on the products of the future each and every day and are putting the digital transformation to smarter products into motion. Our priority is to consider in depth, listen carefully and offer advice on an equal footing with our partners. What drives us is developing software that works in the real world of day-to-day business and makes companies much more efficient and users more effective.

We do this by utilizing our 30 years of experience, the expertise gained from hundreds of projects for industry and the CONTACT Global Ecosystem for solutions that work around the clock around the globe. Our employ-ees, with their pioneering spirit and short communication paths, work to help their customers achieve objec-tives faster and enable them to respond flexibly to new challenges.

Our products

THE PLM SYSTEM FOR BETTER COLLABORATION AND FASTER PROCESSES DURING PRODUCT ENGINEERINGCIM Database for product lifecycle management supports the lifecycles of your products from the initial idea through to its deployment at customer sites. This allows you to speed up your processes and projects, reduce the number of errors and the effort involved in routine tasks, improve your results and meet regulatory obligations. CIM Database PLM is also particularly cost-effective as it can be adapted to new, future requirements more easily.

BOOST THE SUCCESS OF YOUR ENGINEERING PROJECTS: WITH RELIABLE PROCESSES AND AGILE TEAMWORKWith Project Office, you make hybrid project management, i.e. the combination of classical and agile processes, the standard procedure. This ensures that you achieve the results within the agreed time and cost frame. The principle: Planning, controlling and implementation proceed hand-in-hand based on the same information and specifications – everywhere within your worldwide project and program organization. The basis for this is traditio-nal rough planning supplemented along with agile procedures for self-organized teams.

INTELLIGENT DATA SHARING FOR END-TO-END PROCESSES ACROSS SYSTEM AND ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIESNumerous partners such as suppliers and engineering firms contribute to product development. Users also use a large number of engineering tools for design, validation and data management. Processes can only function effectively if the data is available across organizational and system boundaries. CONTACT‘s Collaboration Hub simplifies the flow of data thanks to intelligent data sharing and supports end-to-end processes.

THE COMPLETE DIGITAL TWIN PLATFORM FOR SMART AND NETWORKED PRODUCTSSmart products that are both intelligent and networked will shape tomorrow‘s business world. Elements for IoT is the leading open architecture and platform, made from best-in-class components, that makes it possible to implement innovative digital business models faster. The foundation for this is the representation of the real products and assets in a comprehensive digital twin model for use cases such as continuous condition monitoring and predictive maintenance.