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PLM: The key to the digital transformation
Under the motto "Energizing the digital engineering world", Open World 2017 presented CONTACT's new products, innovations and strategies. The aim: To make it easier to develop smart products and service-oriented business models for the Internet of Things.

Challenges of the digital transformation: PLM is more important than ever
The dominant theme at Open World, the most important meeting of the CONTACT Community, was the digital transformation. As Managing Director Karl Heinz Zachries said when opening the event, the challenge is to continue developing proven business models while simultaneously remaining open for new, disruptive business ideas. "We develop solutions that help people work together more easily and develop even better products and the matching IoT services."

Mojo: The new Experience System from CONTACT Elements
Unlike its competitors, CONTACT believes PLM to be the key for smart products and digital business models. “PLM is more important than ever,” stressed Zachries in his keynote. CONTACT is underscoring the fact that products and processes are becoming ever more complex with Mojo, the new User Experience System. The aim: PLM should not only simplify task completion but should also be fun to use.

PALM: Combining PLM and ALM
Complexity is growing because networking is turning products into "systems of systems". They contain increasing numbers of software-controlled functions as CONTACT's head of development, Frank Patz-Brockmann, explained. “We need an interdisciplinary systems engineering and a development platform that accepts the fact that software follows different rules.” CONTACT integrates Git, the leading open-source software for application lifecycle management (ALM), in its Elements technology platform. To do this, CONTACT works together with GitLab so that enterprises can now combine PLM and ALM much better than before.

Systems engineering for smart products
To ensure functional reliability, smart products demand end-to-end traceability at requirements level, explained Dr. Patrick Müller, Product Manager PLM. That is why CONTACT has extended its Requirements Management to include the possibility of using :em engineering methods' ReqMan software to automate the extraction of requirements from document-based specifications and their import into CIM Database. There they can be linked with other objects, updated more easily if changes occur and be exchanged via ReqIF.

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