Best Engineering Software for Startups - Page 50

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Startups as of November 2025 - Page 50

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    Ansys HFSS
    Multipurpose, full wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, components, interconnects, connectors, ICs and PCBs. Ansys HFSS is a 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays, RF or microwave components, high-speed interconnects, filters, connectors, IC packages and printed circuit boards. Engineers worldwide use Ansys HFSS software to design high-frequency, high-speed electronics found in communications systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), satellites, and internet-of-things (IoT) products. HFSS’s unmatched capacity, coupled with indisputable accuracy, enables engineers to address RF, microwave, IC, PCB and EMI problems for most complex systems. The Ansys HFSS simulation suite consists of a comprehensive set of solvers to address diverse electromagnetic problems.
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    Ansys Lumerical FDTD
    Ansys Lumerical FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes, and materials. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing, and optimization routines. This finely tuned implementation of the FDTD method delivers best-in-class solver performance over a broad spectrum of applications. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing and optimization routines, allowing you to focus on your design and leave the rest to us. A range of benefits allow for flexible and customizable models and simulations. Ansys Lumerical FDTD models nanophotonic devices, processes and materials so you can focus on creation. Lumerical FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes and materials. This finely tuned implementation of the FDTD method delivers reliable, powerful and scalable solver performance over a broad spectrum of applications.
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    Ansys LS-DYNA
    Ansys LS-DYNA is the industry-leading explicit simulation software used for applications like drop tests, impact and penetration, smashes and crashes, occupant safety, and more. Ansys LS-DYNA is the most used explicit simulation program in the world and is capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem. LS-DYNA delivers a diverse array of analyses with extremely fast and efficient parallelization. Engineers can tackle simulations involving material failure and look at how the failure progresses through a part or through a system. Models with large amounts of parts or surfaces interacting with each other are also easily handled, and the interactions and load passing between complex behaviors are modeled accurately.
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    Ansys Autodyn
    Simulate the response of materials to events ranging from short duration severe mechanical loadings, high pressures and even explosions. Ansys Autodyn provides advanced solution methods without compromising ease of use. Ansys Autodyn makes it easy to quickly understand and simulate large material deformation or failure. Autodyn has a range of models to represent complex physical phenomena such as the interaction of liquids, solids and gases; the phase transitions of materials; and the propagation of shock waves. By Integrating within Ansys Workbench and its own native-user interface, Ansys Autodyn has long led the industry in ease of use, enabling you to produce accurate results with the least amount of time and effort. The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver completes the picture to provide everything needed for explicit analysis. Ansys Autodyn lets you select from different solver technologies so the most effective solver can be used for a given part of the model.
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    Ansys Totem
    Ansys Totem-SC is the proven, trusted industry leader for power noise and reliability signoff for analog and mixed-signal designs built on cloud-native elastic compute infrastructure. Ansys Totem-SC is the industry’s trusted gold standard voltage drop and electromigration multiphysics sign-off solution for transistor-level and mixed-signal designs. With a track record of thousands of tapeouts, Totem-SC’s cloud-based architecture gives it the speed and capacity to handle full-chip analysis. Signoff accuracy is certified by all major foundries for all finFET nodes down to 3nm. Ansys Totem-SC is a transistor-level power noise and reliability analysis platform for analog mixed-signal IP and fully custom designs. It creates IP models for SOC-level power integrity signoff with RedHawk-SC and generates compact chip models of power delivery networks for the chip and system-level. Industry-proven and foundry-certified analog and mixed-signal EM/IR solution.
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    Ansys PathFinder
    Ansys PathFinder-SC is a high-capacity solution to help you plan, verify and sign-off IP and full-chip SoC designs for integrity and robustness against electrostatic discharge (ESD). Ansys PathFinder-SC identifies and isolates the root causes of design issues that can cause chip failure from charged-device model (CDM), human body model (HBM), or other ESD events. It’s high-capacity, cloud-native architecture can enlist thousands of compute cores for fast full-chip turnaround. PathFinder-SC is certified by major foundries for current density checks and ESD sign-off. PathFinder-SC’s integrated data modeling, extraction and transient simulation engine is an end-to end solution for ESD verification. The single-pass use model reads industry-standard design formats, sets up ESD rules, extracts the RCs for the power network, and performs ESD simulations to analyze root causes and provide fix and optimization feedback, all within a single tool.
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    Ansys optiSLang
    Automatize your Simulation toolchain and connect to powerful algorithms of robust design optimization. Address your future needs of parametric and simulation driven virtual product development with Ansys optiSLang. Ansys optiSLang is a constantly evolving, leading-edge answer to the challenges posed by CAE-based Robust Design Optimization (RDO). Its state-of-the-art algorithms efficiently and automatically search for the most robust design configuration, eliminating the slow, manual process that used to define RDO. With optiSLang as your process integration and design optimization solution, you’ll make the right decisions sooner. Accelerate searches for the best and most robust design configuration by automating the search process with interactive visualization and AI technologies. State-of-the-art algorithms for design exploration, optimization, robustness and reliability analysis let you make better decisions with less effort using design optimization software.
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    FrameWorks Plus

    FrameWorks Plus

    Hexagon PPM

    FrameWorks® Plus is a powerful structural modeling and drawing tool that supports your total workflow: drawing, modeling, analysis and reporting. Add value to your modeling process by integrating structural tasks with the plant creation process. Because it integrates with third-party analytical and steel detailing software, as well as with other Hexagon plant design software, FrameWorks Plus supports all parts of the structural engineering workflow to keep your data accurate and current. FrameWorks Plus fully supports PDS. You can create structural models of plants and, through an interface to PDS, share the most recent project data across your workplace and around the world. FrameWorks Plus integrates with the engineering and construction workflow. More than just a CAD program, FrameWorks Plus provides intelligent graphics that support easy modeling, analysis and reporting.
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    Ansys Meshing
    Mesh influences the accuracy, convergence and speed of a simulation. Ansys provides tools to produce the most appropriate mesh for accurate, efficient solutions. Ansys provides general purpose, high-performance, automated, intelligent meshing software that produces the most appropriate mesh for accurate, efficient multiphysics solutions — from easy, automatic meshing to highly crafted mesh. Smart defaults are built into the software to make meshing a painless and intuitive task, delivering the required resolution to capture solution gradients properly for dependable results. Ansys meshing solutions range from easy, automated meshing to highly crafted meshing. Methods available cover the meshing spectrum of high-order to linear elements and fast tetrahedral and polyhedral to high-quality hexahedral and mosaic. Ansys meshing capabilities help reduce the amount of time and effort spent to get to accurate results.
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    HxGN SDx

    HxGN SDx

    Hexagon PPM

    Owner operators struggle to manage large volumes of unstructured, unintelligent information – documents, drawings, data sheets – which are often duplicated in various folders and databases throughout the organization. HxGN SDx® Operations, part of HxGN SDx, is an information management solution designed for digital transformation by addressing this challenge in practical, cost-effective ways. Create a safe and efficient operation in your facility by putting the power of information in the hands of your facility workers. With better information management technology, you can have faith that you always have the right information. HxGN SDx will improve access to engineering information at a lower service cost, lower application maintenance cost, faster deployment and easier scale. Use the ROI tool below and trust the math. Once you’ve gathered your existing data, management of change will help you keep your digital twin accurate.
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    Intergraph Smart 3D
    Intergraph Smart® 3D – a next generation, data-centric, rule-driven solution – is specifically designed to deliver mission-critical requirements. It breaks through barriers imposed by traditional technologies to enable a truly iterative engineering design environment. Smart 3D provides all capabilities needed to design plant, marine and materials handling facilities and then maintain their 3D “as-built” representations, which offers a competitive edge to all businesses. 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software assists in the creating, modifying, analysing or optimising a design. Hexagon PPM is the leading provide of CAD software to companies that design, build and operate industrial facilities. Primarily, 3D CAD helps with detailed engineering but is found throughout the engineering process from conceptual design to facility maintenance and operation. For example, design and visualisation has a huge role to play in representing physical assets in the digital twin concept.
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    Ansys Granta
    The market-leading Ansys Granta products have been developed over 25 years to enable you to capture, safeguard and capitalize on your organization’s Material Intelligence. Ansys helps businesses digitalize their company’s materials knowledge, choose the right materials for their products, and provide resources for materials education. Ansys Granta offers a range of materials information management software, designed for companies to realize their in-house Material Intelligence. Ansys Granta MI™ offers a scalable solution to create, control and store your company's valuable material data, offering seamless integration with leading CAD, CAE and PLM systems for enterprise-wide consistency. Make smarter materials choices with Ansys Granta Selector. Trade-off various materials properties from a comprehensive database to help you select the best-suited material for the application. Boost your simulation accuracy with access to our unrivalled materials data library.
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    Integraph Smart Electrical
    Design and maintain a safe, reliable power distribution system from load identification to plant startup using the leading Electrical Design Software from Hexagon PPM. Fast-track project execution for engineering companies and lower operational risk for plant owners are keys to business success, and Hexagon can help you achieve these goals. Intergraph Smart® Electrical Design Software is a task-specific, rule-driven and data-centric solution that helps you gain a competitive edge in the industry. Smart Electrical-enforced design consistency as a single source for creating deliverables. Intelligent data updates the deliverables and eliminates the need for manual drawing updates. Update the data with the new EDE (Engineering Data Editor) to allow viewing data and performing editing or other operations on one or more items of a specified item type similar to work in Excel.
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    Intergraph Smart Engineering Integrity
    The next step in engineering leads to rule-based or knowledge-based designs. The majority of an engineer’s time is spent looking for data and checking for correctness and consistency. ARC found in its market surveys that on average, engineers spend 40 to 60 percent of their day looking or checking for information. These tasks of finding and verifying can now be automated with Intergraph Smart® Engineering Integrity (SEI), which will check on Intergraph Smart P&ID (SPID), Smart Instrumentation (INS), and Intergraph Smart Electrical (SEL) designs. SEI can validate the data quality/consistency against company engineering practices and standards plus check across the application. For example, this software can verify if a control valve on the P&ID is also in Intergraph Smart Instrumentation to be designed with the right process data and sizes.
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    Integraph Smart Isometrics
    Intergraph Smart® Isometrics, powered by Isogen®, is an easy-to-use, powerful Microsoft® Windows®-based, specification-driven, pipe-sketching application for the as-built plant. Designed to meet the design and documentation challenges of EPCs, fabricators and owner operators, Smart Isometrics is a versatile 2D design product that plays an important role in the production and transfer of piping data along the Digital Isometric Value Chain. The user will have improved productivity through the automation of drawing production and reduced manual editing time. Smart Isometrics is a standalone solution that is user-friendly, so minimal training is required. It is a quick and easy implementation for users. It also reduces errors for increased accuracy. Smart Isometrics enables the sketching of individual pipelines or piping systems in only minutes and generation of isometric drawings in seconds.
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    Intergraph Smart P&ID
    Intergraph Smart® P&ID software develops and manages your piping and instrumentation diagrams, focusing on design quality and consistency in the context of the plant asset. The piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is the detailed drawing of the process roadmap in an industrial facility. It shows the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control those related processes. The documents are developed, accessed, shared and modified throughout the plant lifecycle from design to operation. The best P&ID software focuses on a task-based approach. Connecting tasks between engineering, construction and operations is crucial to improving deliverables. Hexagon PPM makes data and information sharing a cornerstone of its products, so all engineering information is kept up-to-date to accurately reflecting the as-built plant. This enables other disciplines to base their design decisions on information from the latest digital P&IDs.
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    Intergraph Smart Review
    Intergraph Smart® Review is the complete visualization environment for interactively reviewing and analyzing large, complex 3D models of process and power plants. Used by many companies around the world, the software provides all the visualization tools you need to review designs during engineering, construction or maintenance – in one powerful application. Make better engineering design judgments by accessing the model data. Improve maintainability, safety and accuracy through a variety of communication tools. Intergraph Smart Review offers integration capabilities to review models with their related engineering data. Access associated project data, from environmental compliance information to equipment specs. Attach virtually any external data file to any object in your model.
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    Mixamo

    Mixamo

    Adobe

    Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more. Empowering creativity with animated 3D characters. Bring your projects to life with 3D characters, skeletal rigs, and animations, ready for use in film, games, interactive experiences and illustration. Browse a collection of high-quality 3D characters. From realistic to cartoon, fantasy to sci-fi, there’s a character for every purpose. Each character comes fully textured and rigged so you can use immediately in your creative projects. Upload your custom character to Mixamo and get an automatically rigged full human skeleton, custom fit to your model and ready to animate. Customize your rigging options with optimizations for mobile performance. Explore a library of thousands of full-body character animations, captured from professional motion actors. Each animation is transferred to your own character and can be previewed and edited directly with Mixamo, so you can control the look and feel of each motion.
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    Isogen

    Isogen

    Hexagon PPM

    Isogen® is the world's leading solution for the total automation of piping isometric drawing production and is the Hexagon PPM standard system for drawing piping isometrics. Isogen is bundled with Intergraph Smart® 3D, PDS®, CADWorx®, CAESAR II®, Intergraph Spoolgen® and Intergraph Smart Isometrics. Isogen is also supported by all major piping design solution vendors who will either bundle Isogen with their product or will output one of the two Isogen data files – the PCF or the older IDF. Eliminating the need to manually edit isometric drawings significantly reduces fabrication and on-site construction errors. Consistent drawing content is provided through isometric repeatability, which ensures that the number of drawings, basic content and spool and weld numbers following pipe design changes remain consistent.
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    PDS

    PDS

    Hexagon PPM

    PDS® is a comprehensive, intelligent computer-aided design/engineering application. Production-driven, PDS delivers the best design possible and does it more efficiently to reduce the total installed cost of the project. It enhances value and minimizes risk while preserving the value of data. PDS has been chosen by owner operators and engineering, procurement and construction firms for design projects globally since the mid-1980s. Dynamic walkthroughs that allow operations and maintenance personnel to interactively view the plant before it is constructed. Provides specification-driven design and interference checking both "hard" and "soft." Provides accurate material take-offs, supplies extensive, customizable reference data created to industry standards.
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    Lantek Expert
    Lantek Expert is the most advanced CAD/CAM nesting software system, designed for automating the CNC programming of sheet metal machines. Lantek Expert provides the most advanced nesting algorithms and mechanization strategies for any of the existing cutting (laser, plasma, oxy-fuel, water jet technologies) and punching machines. Lantek Expert achieves an outstanding performance with our Machine Tool Builder Partners, based on our close collaboration with them, but also optimizes the results of machines from manufacturers like Amada, Esab, Ficep, Flow, HK Laser & Systems, Koike, Mazak, Messer, Prima Power, Salvagnini, Trumpf, and many other. Lantek ensures excellent results, both in nesting and machining, for any cutting or punching machine today and in the future. CAD/CAM nesting software system specially designed for automating the CNC programming of sheet metal cutting machines with oxy-fuel, plasma, laser, and water jet technologies.
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    ROOTCLOUD

    ROOTCLOUD

    ROOTCLOUD

    Machine-driven world, ROOTCLOUD empowers industry. ROOTCLOUD industrial Internet-enabled platform for the industry to provide a variety of industry segments based on "connection, computing, applications and innovative" solutions. Based on 12 years of technology accumulation and a cumulative investment of more than 2 billion yuan, the Root Cloud platform can cover 95% of mainstream industrial controllers, support 1300+ industrial protocol analysis, and has been connected to various More than 850,000 sets of similar industrial equipment, and successfully helped the industry chain ecology to create 20 industry chain industrial Internet platforms including the foundry industry chain, injection molding industry chain, textile industry chain, custom home industry chain, household plastic product industry chain, etc. The rootcloud platform of Shugen Internet can be targeted at social organizations such as machine manufacturers, equipment users, government regulatory agencies, etc.
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    shopfloor.io
    shopfloor.io is an Industrial IoT application for cloud or on-premises operation with which you can connect your systems, products and employees and visualize all relevant data in well-structured cockpits. Tapping into the IoT potential of your machinery creates added value for the manufacturer, the operator and the end-users of the equipment. shopfloor.io creates a digital representation of all assets and staff within the production hierarchy and provides insight into all relevant data, processes and events. The centralized task management for users and operators allows you to track overdue, open and completed tasks on machine, employee and team level. Each entity has its timeline to display all relevant human and machine activities along with posts, comments and likes. In this social network of man and machines, processes become easier to understand and to optimize. shopfloor.io offers you a single source of truth for your product range or individual items.
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    Verizon Condition Based Maintenance
    Remotely monitor your equipment with an edge gateway device to help reduce the risk of downtime or failure. Keep machinery moving with proactive maintenance. It just got a lot easier for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to act proactively, rather than reactively, when it comes to equipment repairs. Condition Based Maintenance with Edge Management and Monitoring delivers critical visibility into any equipment with an edge gateway device. That means you can now proactively monitor any edge gateway device—including consumer products, healthcare equipment, security cameras, digital signage, robotics, manufacturing tools and more—with a reliable, secure, remote management solution. You’ll save time and money, while extending the life of your equipment and building customer loyalty with this edge monitoring solution. Condition Based Maintenance is an IoT platform-as-a-service that uses streaming data from sensors to help you monitor assets in near real-time.
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    AOMS

    AOMS

    AOMS

    Empowering industries with performance insights from assets and processes. AOMS end-to-end IoT sensing solutions combine the most cutting edge hardware, software, and connectivity technologies to expand the bounds of innovation among industries. Our solutions are designed to collect data from assets and processes and generate insights for critical decision making. Built for the construction industry, LumiCon provides insights pertaining to concrete curing, job site conditions, and asset and material management. Designed for harsh environments, LumiRem monitors subsurface conditions including temperature and groundwater level in real-time. LumiAPM monitors asset health and performance and provides insights for preventive maintenance in the most demanding industrial applications. Based on Internet of Things technology, AOMS solutions are a nexus of sensors, cloud, and analytics software designed to tackle industries’ most challenging monitoring needs.
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    Bridgera IoT
    Bridgera’s custom IoT service enablement is made possible by our fully managed and hosted IoT platform and ecosystem. Fast – The Bridgera IoT platform and ecosystem is underpinned by a proven technology stack and provides an accelerated starting point for your IoT service, resulting in delivery of your custom solution in weeks, not years. Flexible – Bridgera’s IoT platform is cloud-hosted and platform-agnostic for optimal access and consistency. It’s also fully supported with no lock-in risk. Cost-Effective – Because our Bridgera IoT platform and ecosystem provide a majority of the functionality needed for any IoT service, our skilled global workforce is able to develop your turnkey, highly customized IoT service at an attractive price. Bridgera’s end-to-end IoT enablement service and platform accelerate your time to market, revenue, and competitive advantage by delivering custom IoT services faster, more affordably, and with greater flexibility than in-house development.
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    Bright Wolf Industrial IoT Platform
    The best industrial IoT platform for your business is your own IIoT platform. Build your IIoT solution better with edge to cloud integrated services and platforms from Microsoft and Amazon, adaptable enterprise data components, and production application source code. There’s no need to start from scratch to build your industrial IoT platform. Create more value and increase efficiency for your business with pre-integrated, IT-friendly digital solution IIoT components for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud platforms – with tools for rapid device connectivity and AI-driven edge analytics. Go further with our customizable smart product engine for solving common internet of things challenges, including templates and source code for UI dashboards, user management, asset lifecycle, predictive maintenance, geofences, and alerts – for rapid IIoT data integration with digital enterprise systems, technologies, devices and workflows.
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    GMSWorks

    GMSWorks

    C-Solutions, Inc

    GMSWorks 4.4 is the latest release of the CAD/CAM software that has been helping engineers design and manufacture complex parts since 1982. This computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software package includes a full integration of the new DESIGNBASE advanced modeling kernel, featuring superior free form surface and solid geometry modeling and unmatched design editing capabilities. Major enhancements to complex surface and solid modeling allow for the design, modification, and manufacturing of today's most complicated parts. GMSWorks features an extensive, best of all worlds, combination of design editing capabilities. Design modifications can be accomplished in a variety of ways including direct geometry manipulation, advanced history management, or simply changing a parametric dimension. The updated graphical interface provides stunning 3-D visualizations of designs, taking full advantage of OpenGL to deliver higher quality images, faster rendering and a dynamic work.
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    Telit secureWISE
    Machine builders and machine owners can access and share only the data they choose in an exceptionally secure way. You’ll maximize uptime for critical equipment, improve tool performance and avoid customer visits. Telit secureWISE® delivers secure, configurable end-to-end remote connectivity across private networks to equipment. It allows machine owners and machine builders to remotely collaborate in ways that improve equipment performance at every stage of the process and lifecycle while protecting valuable intellectual property (IP) for all involved parties. Telit secureWISE provides tool makers a simple and secure way to remote monitor and mediate the deployment. It provides manufacturers or tool owners with a secure infrastructure to allow machine builders to access their infrastructure securely with full audit capabilities. secureWISE for Factory gives machine builders secure remote monitoring and mediation to improve machines and increase equipment uptime.
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    FANUC FIELD System
    FIELD system (FANUC Intelligent Edge Link & Drive) is a FANUC developed Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) platform that allows users to connect production machines of different generations and all manufacturers - not just FANUC equipment - in a system. This enables comprehensive data collection and analysis along the entire process chain, decreasing equipment downtime while improving operational efficiency, product quality, and more. Since FIELD is a truly open platform, manufacturers have the freedom to connect devices from a variety of manufacturers (robots, PLCs, sensors, etc) develop and implement FIELD Apps tailored to their specific needs. Users can also purchase FIELD Apps written by device manufacturers (robots, machines, PLCs, sensors, etc.) to deliver advanced functionality for their equipment, or purchase FIELD Apps written by third party software developers with contextual experience and resources to deliver game changing innovative solutions.