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2023

CADENAS invites thought leaders and industry leaders to the WWK Arena Augsburg on March 19 & 20, 2024 to exchange ideas in the areas of Industry 4.0 and BIM.

CADENAS presented innovative solutions and took part in exciting discussions at this important trade fair for the construction industry.

The EngineeringGPT is intended to support designers and engineers in their work and speed up their processes.

In times of digital planning, the ordering of components is based on comprehensive data. The CADENAS platforms are perfect for providing potential customers with all relevant information as Digital Twins. What is important when it comes to Data Enrichment?

Bader Führungselemente offers its customers a new digital product catalog. This allows interested parties to put together their own customized motion products.
 

norelem and CADENAS make searching for spare parts child's play with their intelligent search app.

Camozzi has launched a website with integrated e-commerce, enhancing the buying experience with simplified setup and purchasing, CAD templates, and fast shipping. An important step in digitizing the B2B sector.

At a first meeting of CADENAS, ARGE and BDH, the starting signal was given for the joint BIM platform for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and sanitary products. The conclusion of the kick-off in Weinheim: the partners are ready for the next steps of implementation.

Every year in November, when the BIM World trade fair takes place, Munich transforms into the stronghold of Building Information Modeling. In 2023, the digitalisation experts for building planning from CADENAS are waiting for you in hall B0 at booth 252.

The importance of a cross-company standard for the digital twin in digital plant modeling is undisputed. The partners of the DIAMOND project met in Munich so that the common data standard for the industry will soon become reality.

What do a mobile loading crane, a destacking unit for boxes and an injection moulding simulator have in common? They were developed by dedicated students, convinced the jury of the ENGINEERING NEWCOMER competition and won high prize money.

Every download via the CADENAS platforms produces valuable information for component manufacturers: Who is interested in which part? Where does this person work? Is the company already a customer? A new tool from CADENAS filters specifically for data that helps increase sales.

Even more user-friendliness awaits the operators of the CADENAS platforms 3Dfindit and BIMcatalogs.net. The portals for 3D CAD, CAE and BIM models are now also available as Progressive Web Apps (PWA). This means they combine the best of a website with the advantages of an app.

Hardly any other industry has undergone such far-reaching change in recent times as the construction industry. Reason enough to take a closer look at the overarching themes on World Architecture Day.

CADENAS fulfils the desire of planners and craftsmen for uncomplicated implementation of BIM in heating and sanitary installations. For this purpose, the company cooperates with two established industry associations to bundle expert knowledge.

For its 50th anniversary, ZPAS presents its customers and itself with CAD, CAE and BIM-capable 3D models of its IT solutions and cabinets. They accelerate and simplify the work for designers and ZPAS employees.

Digital Twins represent the basis of Industry 4.0. CADENAS, ISG and TwinStore use a disruptive lighthouse project to show how intelligent 3D data can be turned into 4D models that will change industrial processes.

The DIAMOND Project is working on a Common Data Model for industry. To make it a success, as many companies as possible must use it in the future. Participate in the survey and help shaping the common data structure of tomorrow!

Practical experience plays an important role in the education of young engineers at the Osnabrück university of applied sciences. So that they can start their professional life well prepared later, the professors make PARTsolutions from CADENAS available to their students.

CADENAS is adding to the programme of the BIM Tage Deutschland 2023 under the motto "Let's Build Together". Over four days, the organisers, speakers and participants will discuss and answer the question of how BIM can help to overcome the current challenges of the construction industry.

For Industry 4.0, the Digital Twin is of elementary importance. In preparation for the digital transformation, CADENAS is now expanding its CAD, CAE and BIM-capable 3D models to include Product Manufacturing Information. This opens up new possibilities for companies. 
 

A digital product catalog is 24/7 available to prospects, which speeds up the planning process. The digital product configurator from Butzbach allows customers to put together the perfectly fitting high-speed door for their industrial hall even faster.

As part of a project with high-carat partners, CADENAS is working on digital twins for plant planning. After all, digital transformation is one approach to guarantee Germany's continuity as an industrial nation.

Customers from industry often have very specific ideas and very rarely have time to wait for a well-founded answer from the manufacturer. MTF Technik solves this problem with a digital product configurator that suggests the appropiriate conveyor belt in just a few clicks.

CNH Industrial has entered into a collaboration with CADENAS Italiana as its partner for the management of parts research by geometry

CADENAS at the location in Belgrade, Serbia, has moved into a new office. The software developer had already expanded in February 2023 to offer customers an even faster and more comprehensive service internationally.

Product Lifecycle Management and Strategic Parts Management are central building blocks in the digitalisation of industrial companies. Their full potential unfolds in combination, as the example of Enterprise 3Dfindit and PRO.FILE next shows.

In a highly competitive environment such as the market for food machinery and solutions, optimising the cost of manufacturing products has a direct impact on the ability of companies to compete, regardless of their size. One of the areas to focus on is, without doubt, the identification and elimination of hidden costs. The intelligent management of parts leads to significant savings, as the example of Tetra Pak shows.

In May 2023, Karsten Spieß, one of the BIM specialists at CADENAS, visited professional events throughout Germany. There he presented the latest developments for product data exchange in the field of BIM. In this way, CADENAS is actively co-creating the current and future requirements of the construction industry.

Thanks to 3D models, Promatec's customers can download drawings in various formats and obtain a high level of customised service. The distribution of CAD models gives greater brand visibility and improves the efficiency of customer projects, providing a competitive advantage.

The more pinpoint and personalised advertising is, the greater its success. With Target Inbox Mailing, manufacturers select exactly the target groups for which their product is interesting. This significantly increases the effectiveness of advertising measures.

In 2023, the German contribution to the Venice Biennale focuses on the circular construction industry. The pavilion conveys a clear message: in order to turn old into new and at the same time conserve resources, the digital planning of buildings is indispensable.

In order to lead the construction industry into a digital future, the two portals buildup and 3Dfindit have entered into a cooperation. This makes the high-quality, digital product data available to an even broader and international planning community.

Tria2000 has chosen the Catalog powered by CADENAS for the on-demand distribution of product data. The CADENAS platforms simplify the search and selection of components, offering designers the possibility of downloading products in different CAD formats. This avoids errors and streamlines the entire production process, as well as increases customer satisfaction.

In marketing, lead generation often has the highest priority. But it is crucial for sales that generated leads are also converted into buyers. In this process the CADENAS CRM Connector supports component manufacturers.

Bortolin Kemo adopted CADENAS' solution for intelligent part and code management to optimise production costs. Thanks to the collaboration with CADENAS, the company achieved tangible benefits, such as the reduction of duplicate parts, and intangible benefits, such as increased forecasting capacity.

A new function on 3Dfindit facilitates the work of building designers who use Autodesk Revit. From now on, they can generate BIM-enabled components in numerous variants as entire Revit families on the platform. This has great advantages for the planning process.

3Dfindit now offers users an intuitive user interface and an even easier login. Thanks to SSO, designers can access 3Dfindit's unlimited 3D CAD, CAE and BIM models with just one click.

Two days with exciting lectures, new impulses and profitable exchange. In addition, the participants ate well and gambled. That was the programme of the Industry Forum 2023.

In order for more road users to switch to electric cars in the future, a nationwide charging infrastructure is missing. KEBA and CADENAS increase the speed of the mobility turnaround by accelerating the planning process for charging stations. 

The Asset Administration Shell is advancing to become the new industry standard. At the Hannover Messe 2023, the group, of which CADENAS is also a member, presented a current interim status of their work based on a concrete use case.

The integration of CAD models on ROYME's website simplifies the selection and purchasing process for international customers. This improves the company's visibility and enables it to reach new customers in distant countries. In addition, the availability of CAD models simplifies the design and manufacturing process, improving the efficiency of their production process.

Last year, CADENAS has again set standards in the industry and provided customers with innovative solutions in the course of digital transformation. In our annual customer magazine we summarize the most important achievements for you.

The new and updated solutions facilitate the work of electrical engineers and speed up the design process

Young talents can submit their design and development projects online until July 31, 2023. The most promising design will be awarded a total of 4,500 euros. In addition, the winner will receive the opportunity and support to put his project into practice.

The collaboration between CADENAS and WITTENSTEIN simplifies and accelerates the design process for industrial-grade servo drive solutions. On 3Dfindit, users from the mechanical and plant engineering sector can not only find WITTENSTEIN's product data for free download, but can also configure them according to their own needs.

From April 17th to 22nd 2023 CADENAS and buildingSMART will be represented at a joint booth at BAU 2023.

ALLPLAN and CADENAS are expanding their partnership. In the near future, architects and planners will be able to access 3Dfindit data directly in the BIM software, find components with the visual search engine and integrate them into their designs

In November 2022, the B2B PARTcommunity download portal has moved to the new platform 3Dfindit. Since then, users have been able to put the new user interface through its paces: How do they rate 3Dfindit?

The software developer CADENAS has opened a new branch office in Belgrade, Serbia. Thus, the company will offer its customers an even faster and more comprehensive service in the future and continues to increase its international market presence.

In order to promote the digitalization of the real estate industry, CADENAS has been a member of the competence network buildingSMART Germany for years. Recently, the software manufacturer also joined the Austrian sister of the initiative. 

The automotive industry is facing major challenges. CAD-enabled component data simplifies the design processes of automotive manufacturers, which is why HENN has created a digital product catalog with CADENAS. The webinar will focus on the added value for users.

CADENAS and WILO are expanding their cooperation: Preparations are already in full swing and the productive launch of PARTsolutions as WILO's global solution for standard parts will take place in summer 2023. 

Since the launch of the ECLASS standard is often difficult, CADENAS as an authorized partner offers consulting and practical help with the implementation. For this service, the company was recently awarded the status "ECLASS Preferred Partner Gold".

CADENAS and ORCA Software have linked their portals 3Dfindit and AUSSCHREIBEN.DE. This allows manufacturers to provide complete component data in one place: as 2D and 3D BIM models with tender texts. 

“Numbers don’t lie“, goes the popular saying. The 2022 download statistics of eCATALOGsolutions substantiate, that the digitalization of component data is not a short-term trend but an ongoing development. Since 2006, the number of annual downloads had been climbing inexorably to dizzying heights.  

The University of Ausgburg and CADENAS are part oft he research project KOGNIA in order to develop an assistance system for Computer Aided Design (CAD), supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The researchers took advantage of the resemblence of CAD to the human language.

The popular Industry Forum trade congress is making its long-awaited comeback in May 2023. After a three-year break due to the pandemic, participants can now expect a first-class program with established and innovative formats.

The companies CADENAS and Bosch Rexroth are working together since many years to provide the manufacturers‘ customers valuable planning data of drive and control technology. Thanks to the cooperation, designers can now configurate the product innovation CytroMotion online and download it as 3D CAD model.

The German plant and mechanical engineering sector is lacking trained specialists by the dozen and the problem is getting worse. With Enterprise 3Dfindit CADENAS offers a solution to better utilize human resources.