CONTACT Software
Energizing great minds
The best software for the digital transformation of your products
CONTACT is the leading vendor of open standard software and open source pioneer for 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 technology and our Elements platform are ideal for integrating additional IT systems and the Internet of Things to create end-to-end business processes.
Our mission is to understand customers and maximize 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.
Our software and its design principle: Modular instead of monolithic
The foundation for this is provided by our CONTACT Elements platform. Like Lego, CONTACT Elements' modular design principle allows comprehensive applications to be created that are far more than the sum of their parts: each impressive in its own right – combined outstanding. 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, Workspaces and Elements for IoT.
Our services: Achieving objectives faster, reliably and with agility
We 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 almost 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 employees, with their pioneering spirit and short communication paths, work to help their customers achieve objectives faster and enable them to respond flexibly to new challenges.
Open standard solutions
We combine the data management for virtual products with the functions for collaboration and process and project management in product development. With building blocks around the digital twin of real products, we offer a comprehensive library for industrial IoT services. Our open standard solutions are CIM Database PLM, Project Office, Collaboration Hub and Elements for IoT.
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CONTACT Elements – EPLAN integration
CONTACT's EPLAN Electric Link is your connection to CONTACT Software's software offerings such as the PLM solution CIM Database or the project management solution Project Office. The integration enables intuitive participation in all relevant phases and functions, e.g. of the product lifecycle solution. Control elements integrated in the EPLAN user interface provide easy access to the core functions of the integration.
The core functions are:
- Material maintenance and synchronization of the EPLAN parts database (CIM DB<->EPLAN)
- Export of EPLAN parts lists (flat, plant-location, other search conditions)
- EPLAN project management (opening, new installations, changes and saving)
Regardless of whether from a single workstation or in multi-user scenarios, the development and work results of the electrical design department are integrated into the global PLM solution. This allows all connected departments to benefit from all available PLM functions such as the centrally built product, object-oriented communication or the traceability of changes throughout all phases of product development.
