Industry Solutions

Every industry has its own special requirements and develops its products under special framework conditions, such as special regulations. The industry solutions that are coordinated with our customers are based on our experience from many projects. The basis is the CIM DATABASE platform that can be excellently adapted to special requirements.

Automotive Industry

Today, suppliers are responsible for a large part of product innovations. This means that project networks are formed in which various companies, locations and departments need to be integrated. In combination with complex development processes and external requirements of OEMs, public authorities etc., this results in high demands in terms of the security, transparency and controllability of the development process.

CIM DATABASE supports collaborative work processes and provides management with effective controlling instruments by means of PEP, methods on the maturity level and quality gates. Multi-CAD data management enables a central logical repository of all the engineering data and forms the central gateway to ERP.

Mechanical Engineering and Machinery

Virtual product development and a systematic development process are also increasingly the focus of mechanical engineering and machinery. The flexibility of mechanical engineering and machinery is supplemented by methodical and specific processes for the optimization of time, costs and quality. The result is solutions, such as a "fast track process" for product changes, that combine flexibility and a methodical approach.

Adapted to the requirements of medium-sized business, CONTACT provides fitting solutions, from the CDB Data Manager to the comprehensive PDM/PLM system. It ensures adaptability to the growth and the changing requirements of a company.

Consumer Goods

Companies, like the automotive industry, which deal with consumer goods are faced with great challenges in terms of the optimization and reliability of the processes, increasing product complexity and the dynamics of the market. For example, processes need to be developed that minimize the number of changes before the start of series production.

Today, optimum data management and consistently designed processes are critical for success in an extremely competitive market. CONTACT uses CIM DATABASE to provide and implement solutions for optimum product development processes.

Transport Companies

Planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the transport infrastructures as well as maintenance, servicing and modernization of the vehicles result in high demands on information management. The secure documentation of the entire life cycle, from "as designed" to "as maintained", is in the foreground - increasingly also in terms of exchanging data with suppliers, engineering offices, executing companies and authorization authorities. Special aspects, such as the integration of the documentation systems (CAD-/CAE, GIS), supporting inspection work and the use of mobile solutions, also characterize this area.

CIM DATABASE also supports project, plant and vehicle-related work processes and provides project management with up-to-date project data and the complete project documentation as well supporting the implementation of the project and effective project controlling.

Suppliers

Planning, construction, operation and maintenance of supply infrastructures, such as networks and plants, place high demands on information management. The entire lifecycle is in the foreground. The differentiation between project and plant-related documentation, including managing more complex documents such as electronic construction documents and technical instructions, and the central project documentation mean that changes are processed faster and more reliably. The activities of all business areas – gas, electricity, water/waste water treatment, heating engineering, telecommunications – are registered and monitored centrally.

Special aspects, such as the effective support of unbundling measures, the integration of geographic and operational information systems, data exchange with authorizing authorities and engineering offices, supporting inspection tasks and the use of mobile solutions, characterize these areas.