Best Engineering Software for Startups - Page 74

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Startups as of December 2025 - Page 74

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    ABM Connect
    ABM Connect is a powerful, end‑to‑end data intelligence platform that brings real‑time, actionable metrics, robust reporting, and up‑to‑date KPIs, all at a glance. It connects clients to ABM’s workforce, operational leaders, and business intelligence via seamless, transparent data flows from field applications into a user‑friendly client interface. Clients benefit from continuous tracking of operational history and daily activities—including traditional KPIs (safety, financials), real‑time servicing updates, daily scope reports, invoice PDFs, and work order history, augmented by actionable analytics for continuous improvement. It empowers front‑line team members to clock in, follow scoped task routines, complete required training, note building deficiencies, receive and address ad‑hoc tasks, and communicate with supervisors.
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    UtilityIQ
    UtilityIQ (UIQ) is a head‑end software suite that includes applications designed to help utility operators collect and manage AMI meter consumption data. Applications such as Advanced Metering Manager (AMM) and Meter Program Configurator (MPC) are secure and scalable solutions to support meter reading, management, and analysis for power quality, meter status, peak pricing, and more.
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    Fluentgrid MDMS
    Fluentgrid MDMS enables utilities to extract full value out of meter data across the organization by efficiently processing data from meters and a variety of other devices in the smart‑grid ecosystem. It loads, validates, structures , and stores that data in ways that can be easily accessible for internal and external downstream systems across the utility. It supports standard functionality for Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE), aggregations, event subscriptions, bill determinants, and AMI rollout processes. A true commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) product, Fluentgrid MDMS can be quickly set up to work with leading meter head‑ends in target markets. It processes data in real time, identifying anomalies, detecting inefficiencies, forecasting future demand, and providing automated alerts and notifications to support proactive issue resolution.
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    Siemens Grid Software
    Siemens Grid Software is designed to accelerate the energy transition of power grids by delivering mission‑critical capabilities that help grid operators decode and shape a future‑proof power landscape. It is part of the Siemens Xcelerator for Grids portfolio and supports digital transformation across power utilities. It encompasses solutions like Spectrum Power, a globally leading grid management system that alleviates the complexity of modern grid operations by offering resilience, reliability, modularity, scalability, openness, interoperability, and cybersecurity. For high‑voltage transmission, the software provides tools and insights to future‑proof supply security and market efficiency. It addresses key disruptive forces, decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization, giving operators the perspective and guidance needed to manage evolving grid demands confidently and securely.
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    AspenTech Grid Apps
    AspenTech Grid Apps is an integrated solution suite for active management of distribution grids, crowd‑sourcing data for improved visibility of network conditions, DER (Distributed Energy Resource) connections, and outage response. It includes multiple applications: AspenTech Grid Reporter reports and displays real‑time status of network outages, faults, and damage while delivering notifications for time‑to‑restoration, crew locations, and emergency contacts; AspenTech DER Connect enables self‑service DER registration and streamlined connection requests, with automated electrical network and cost analysis via a centralized DER database; AspenTech Network Maps provides geographical views of network load demand and generation capacity; and AspenTech Resilience Portal offers real‑time information on resources, assistance, and assets during large‑scale outages.
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    CGI OpenGrid DERMS
    CGI OpenGrid DERMS is a distributed energy resource management solution designed to help utilities intelligently and safely integrate, orchestrate, monitor, dispatch, optimize, and settle operations involving diverse DERs across the distribution grid. Built on an API‑based, cloud‑native OpenGrid Foundation platform, it enables registration, validation, and connection of independently owned DERs alongside utility‑owned assets, providing complete visibility and control over power, Volt‑Var, and voltage at the transformer and feeder level. It supports both static and dynamic aggregation of disparate DERs, allowing utilities to develop, optimize, and dispatch coordinated schedules based on operator priorities, fault proximity, connection agreements, or financial goals. Dispatching can be manual, scheduled, event‑triggered, or imported from external systems.
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    Badger Meter

    Badger Meter

    Badger Meter

    Badger Meter offers a comprehensive suite of smart water solutions, encompassing flow measurement, water quality monitoring, pressure and leak detection, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), analytics software, and communication technologies that empower water utilities, municipalities, and commercial/industrial customers to optimize operations and conserve resources. Its BlueEdge portfolio integrates smart measurement hardware, reliable communications, data visualization tools, and analytics software to deliver actionable intelligence for monitoring, controlling, and maintaining water systems. Key products include ultrasonic, electromagnetic, turbine, compound, vortex, variable area, and differential pressure meters, alongside endpoints like the ORION family offering AMI and AMR communications via mobile and LTE‑M networks with interval reading and multi‑day battery life.
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    Landis+Gyr Gridstream MDMS
    Landis + Gyr’s Gridstream Meter Data Management System (Core MDMS) validates, manages, and controls data from advanced meters and smart grid devices, storing customer and meter metadata alongside usage and diagnostic data to power analytics and business workflows. It supports Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE) rules that ensure data integrity, with non‑conforming readings flagged or estimated, while virtual metering capabilities enable aggregation and net energy calculations for renewable participation. Billing determinants leverage measured or calculated values to accurately support diverse rate structures. Event administration and exception management handle flags and validation exceptions not auto‑resolved via VEE rules. Workflow orchestration manages chained transactions with full tracking and reporting, and automated group management enables batch actions by device technology, rate class, or geography.
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    Ubiik

    Ubiik

    Ubiik

    Obtaining data from thousands to millions of devices deployed across a city and analyzing that data, is the foundation of many smart grid applications. Ubiik’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution helps utilities to cost-effectively collect data from meters or field devices, which will then be used to make informed decisions to maintain grid stability and improve grid resilience. The HES provides portable and scalable microservices aimed at reliable processing and packaging of up-to-date and timely information for customers to understand their meter data and make impactful business decisions. Obtaining massive amounts of data from meters in the field can prove a daunting task. In the case of utility-level deployment, this can mean the implementation of hundreds of thousands to millions of smart meters. Each of these field devices must reliably transmit and receive data at regular intervals (or on demand) from an upstream controller.
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    Corinex

    Corinex

    Corinex

    Corinex Grid Flexibility solution transforms the electric grid into a fully integrated AMI network by leveraging existing powerline infrastructure to enable high-speed, secure smart metering, monitoring, provisioning, and IoT management. It empowers two-way communication between utilities and customers, facilitating efficient energy management, real-time data collection, outage detection, demand forecasting, and time-based programs to reduce costs and consumption. This G.hn‑based Broadband-over-Power-Line (BPL) system supports edge computing and AI at the meter level, enabling autonomous grid operation, over-the-air firmware upgrades, built‑in security, and resilience designed for extreme environments. The scalable architecture supports millions of network elements, virtual metering, outage isolation, automated meter reading, and seamless integration with grid management software like GridValue EMS.
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    UST IQ
    UST IQ for AMI Analytics automates the full data engineering pipeline, from ingestion of high-volume, high-frequency metering data to consolidated insights, so that AMI business operations can focus on critical decision-making rather than IT infrastructure management. It ingests real-time and historical meter, event, alarm, GIS, and external data, harmonizes and curates it into query-ready formats using cloud-native, microservices-based architecture, and enables self-service querying, location-aware, role-based analytics, and proactive exception management. It empowers operations teams with insights on network anomalies, meter status, outages, and environmental overlays (e.g., seismic or weather data) to optimize field crew dispatch, prevent costly failures, and streamline restoration. It processes hundreds of millions of records daily with low-latency micro-batching (e.g., 5-minute intervals), delivering 30-day rolling averages, alert-triggered triggers, and more.
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    ClouESP

    ClouESP

    CLOU GLOBAL

    ClouESP AMI Software is an advanced metering solution designed for utilities to manage and analyze smart meter data in near real-time. It combines head-end system (HES) functionalities with meter data management (MDMS), enabling utilities to enhance energy distribution system oversight, improve customer service, and introduce innovative services like time‑of‑use pricing and demand response. It supports automated data collection at configurable intervals for events, power quality, load profiles, relay control, and billing, and remote monitoring and control of devices on the distribution system, including switches, transformers, and capacitor banks. Users can schedule meter readings, view data graphically (by meter, manufacturer, transformer, or region), and adjust meter parameters (such as TOU settings, calendars, and voltage thresholds) remotely.
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    WATT-Net

    WATT-Net

    Radian Research

    WECO Software Solutions’ WATT‑Net Test and Asset Management Software provides versatile solutions easily tailored and scalable to utilities of any size or type. Designed by metering professionals, WATT‑Net combines powerful functionality with ease of use to deliver a full-featured application for meter test shops and field operations. It features full lifecycle management of all metering assets to serve testing and energy measuring needs, integrating meter test data to leverage RADIAN hardware solutions, improving reliability, and extending metering asset life. It is modular, built on a secure and stable framework that adapts to changing utility business rules and scales efficiently as new features are added. The database and administration module provides central repository management, allowing multiple workstations to share configuration and isolate server management for enterprise efficiency.
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    GHE Analysis

    GHE Analysis

    P3 Geothermal

    GHE Analysis is a software package for the easy, intuitive and interactive design of ground-source heat pump systems. Use it to size irregular ground heat exchangers, optimize the heat transfer of geothermal boreholes and assess the seasonal performance coefficients of geothermal heat pumps. Based on over two decades of academic research, GHE Analysis incorporates a robust simulation engine designed to quickly simulate the hourly response of a GSHP system. This allows you to easily visualize the energy consumption and power demand of selected equipment and design a cost-effective system.
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    FreeWave

    FreeWave

    FreeWave

    FreeWave platform is a cloud-native IIoT solution that seamlessly connects sensor-enabled devices and rugged radios to deliver real-time data insights and analytics anytime, anywhere. It offers robust edge computing via FreeWave Edge, enabling on-device data polling (including Modbus and IO), storage, alarm configuration, and MQTT or email publishing to enterprise systems, mitigating lost data, connectivity gaps, and bandwidth constraints. Integrated with Fusion radios and satellite/cellular connectivity under a zero-trust cybersecurity framework, it ensures continuous, secure communications in remote and harsh environments. Users gain access to dashboards, alerts, and customizable visualizations, and can build custom applications on the platform using APIs and edge logic, all without disrupting existing networks.
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    Ivanti Neurons for IIoT
    Ivanti Neurons for Security Operations Management provides a centralized platform for tracking and automating the remediation of security events and vulnerabilities across service management, operations, and development. All security events are created as incidents, prioritized, and linked to configuration items in the CMDB, enabling teams to manage the full incident lifecycle, from investigation and change-management workflows to resolution, while logging, classifying, and tracking vulnerability remediation based on Ivanti’s Risk-Based Vulnerability Management. Out-of-the-box integrations with Azure DevOps and Jira (or any external solution via REST APIs) ensure that security findings flow directly into DevOps pipelines, keeping remediation activities aligned with development efforts. Configurable dashboards and analytics deliver real-time visibility into risks, affected assets, and remediation status, and automated workflows assign tasks to the right teams to boost efficiency.
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    Metso

    Metso

    Metso

    Metso Metrics connects crushers and screens through a secured, cloud‑based telematics platform that delivers 24/7 live data access for remote monitoring and enables data‑driven decisions with comprehensive visibility into performance variables. It tracks sustainability metrics such as CO₂ footprint and fuel consumption, delivers advanced real‑time troubleshooting to minimize downtime, and quantifies production output with the Production Tracker add‑on using a proprietary mass‑measurement formula. A built‑in maintenance plan and digital logbook anticipate service activities and optimize parts management, while continuous R&D ensures new features evolve per customer demand. As a retrofit‑ready system, Metrics can modernize legacy equipment with a plug‑and‑play kit, granting accurate performance analytics on any web‑enabled device without additional infrastructure.
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    PROFIS Engineering Suite
    Hilti PROFIS Engineering Suite is a user-friendly, cloud-based software that makes designing structural connections faster and easier in construction projects with time saving productivity features. Design connections for multiple base materials and applications. Design anchors in multiple base materials such as concrete, masonry, and concrete over metal. Not just for anchors, PROFIS Engineering designs post-installed rebar, base plates, and diaphragm shear fasteners for metal deck attachments. Help save time with productivity features such as Smart Design anchor layout, import loads, running multiple load combinations and developing design templates. New to PROFIS Engineering? Sign up for a free 30-day trial of the premium version or try the free standard version.
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    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM is a comprehensive product-lifecycle-management solution and service concept that helps businesses accelerate their time-to-market by strengthening the network of individual business segments and optimizing how they work together. It goes beyond core PLM components of design, production, and replacement parts management by offering a holistic approach that considers the entire IT landscape, including hardware, infrastructure, software, business applications such as BI, CRM, ERP, CAD, PDM, CAM, DMS/ECM, and AI, to create an integrated, turnkey PLM environment. The solution supports all lifecycle phases from beginning-of­-life (product and design development), through middle-of­-life (supplier collaboration, warranty, and product information management), to end-of­-life (recycling, disposal, remarketing) and enables parallel development stages, improved information quality, reduced reliance on physical prototypes, and faster response times.
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    Viven

    Viven

    Viven

    Viven creates “Digital Twins” for employees by building personalized language models trained on a person’s actual work, emails, meetings, documents, and chat threads, so that their twin thinks, writes, and acts like them. The twin serves as an always-on assistant; it recalls critical context, prepares individuals before meetings, nudges teams when things are stuck, drafts follow-ups, and allows colleagues to ask it questions directly so the work can progress without the original person being present. Enterprise-grade deployment options support SaaS, private VPC, or on-premises environments, with fine-grained role-based access controls, full audit trails, and strong data governance built in. Viven integrates with tools like Gmail, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Google Drive, OneDrive, Jira, Salesforce, and many others, so that the twin has a complete view of your working context.
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    QuartzBio

    QuartzBio

    QuartzBio

    QuartzBio is a precision-medicine intelligence platform designed to transform how clinical development and translational research teams work by providing a unified data ecosystem where biospecimen, biomarker, and clinical data can be ingested, harmonized, explored, and interrogated via conversational AI. Powered by its Precision Medicine AI Agent Platform, QuartzBio includes key solutions like Sample Intelligence, which offers a 360° view of biospecimen lifecycles from collection to long-term storage and uses automated logistics, stability monitoring and data-reconciliation tools; and Biomarker Intelligence, which delivers unified ingestion of assay data across DNA, RNA, protein and cell-based modalities, a no-code data-mapper, global search, dashboards, visual analytics and genomic/cytometry modules; additionally, the Agent Intelligence layer enables natural-language queries across the data asset so stakeholders.
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    Vicon Precision Plasma Fabrication
    Vicon Fabrication Software is a powerful, Windows-based application designed to integrate with computer-controlled cutting, processing, and roll-forming machinery, especially in HVAC, coil-line, and plasma fabrication shops. It offers customizable fabrication libraries, direct integration with CAD/CAM systems, and a seamless workflow from part import to machine execution. The software supports coil-lines, roll-formers, cut-to-length lines, plasma/laser cutters, and liner systems, enabling manufacturers to nest, program, track, and manage jobs from a single interface. Its architecture is built for flexibility; shops of all sizes can tailor the libraries to their parts and materials, while optional add-ons allow for importing existing CAD output, streamlining the transition from design to production. Developed in-house and included with Vicon-branded machinery, the fabricator software is engineered to eliminate bottlenecks and reduce programming overhead.
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    Simplex 3D

    Simplex 3D

    Simplex 3D

    Simplex 3D is a high-resolution 3D reality-planning platform designed to help professionals visualize, plan, and build within accurate urban and infrastructural contexts. It provides seamless 360° navigation through cityscapes at up to 3 cm-per-pixel resolution, layering integrated data (zoning, transportation, financial, infrastructure) for comprehensive situational awareness. Users can import detailed architectural CAD or BIM models (such as from Revit or SketchUp), draft new structures, run “what-if” scenarios for height, shadows, and visibility, and evaluate designs within real-world surroundings. A complete collaboration workspace enables project stakeholders to share views, bookmarks, comments, and presentations in one unified environment, streamlining approval workflows and reducing misalignment. With engineering-grade measurement tools, split-screen past-vs-future views, and real-time data layers, Simplex 3D eliminates guesswork and supports data-driven decisions.
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    CORVINA

    CORVINA

    CORVINA

    CORVINA is an industrial IoT cloud platform engineered for smart manufacturing and machine-builder applications, combining edge management, data analytics, and remote connectivity in a unified system. It enables companies to monitor plants and machines in real time, deploy predictive-maintenance schedules, manage fleets of equipment, analyze machine performance, and reduce downtime, from remote access and VPN tunneling to soft-PLC embedded control, edge visualization, and multi-protocol support. The platform supports the full device-to-cloud workflow; onboarding devices and gateways, secure data transmission, edge computing, and cloud-based dashboards. It integrates easily with existing enterprise systems (ERP, MES, CRM), offers role-based access control and centralized device-management tools, and is backed by a parent company with decades of experience in industrial automation.
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    50 Hertz

    50 Hertz

    50 Hertz

    The SEMS platform delivers real-time insights into electrical consumption by tracking more than 40 parameters, including active and reactive power, voltage, current, frequency, power factor, and total harmonic distortion, through a web or mobile interface. It supports 3-phase 3-wire or 4-wire systems with Class 0.2s metrology accuracy, communication over GPRS/WiFi, and internal storage for backup. The solution allows consumption-pattern analysis for any interval, consolidated data access from a single portal, and automated reading with no human intervention. Designed to serve commercial and industrial customers, SEMS enables cloud-based data upload, centralized dashboards, detailed reporting, internal usage monitoring, and improved efficiency for power-exchange bidding. Comprehensive monitoring and analytics help organizations optimize energy usage, identify inefficiencies, minimize wastage, and support purchasing decisions.
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    Imubit

    Imubit

    Imubit

    Imubit’s AI platform delivers real-time, closed-loop process optimization for heavy-process industries by combining a dynamic process simulator, reinforcement-learning neural controller, and performance dashboards. The dynamic simulator is trained on years of historical plant data and guided by first principles to build a virtual model of the true process, enabling what-if simulation of variable relationships, constraint changes, and operating strategy shifts. The reinforcement-learning controller, trained offline with millions of trial-and-error scenarios, is then deployed to optimize control variables continuously, maximizing margins while respecting safe-operating constraints. Live dashboards track model availability, engagement, uptime and offer interactive visualizations of bound values, operational limits, and KPI trends. Use cases include aligning economic strategy with real-time operations and detecting process degradation.
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    Fuuz

    Fuuz

    Fuuz

    Fuuz is an industrial-operations platform that unifies manufacturing execution, warehouse management, asset monitoring, and data intelligence into one enterprise-grade system, designed to bridge the divide between OT and IT while enabling scale, agility, and rapid deployment. It enables users to connect, collect, store, analyze, and visualize real-time data across machines, sensors, edge devices, and legacy systems, normalizing and contextualizing industrial data for live use. With built-in support for secure edge-to-cloud connectivity, drag-and-drop low-code application design, and adaptive AI-driven workflows, including pre-built accelerators and templates, the platform aims to reduce implementation friction and accelerate time to value. Fuuz offers native integration with ERPs, automation systems, cloud platforms, and AI tools, supporting full-stack visibility from plant floor to enterprise.
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    Paraxia-Plus-10

    Paraxia-Plus-10

    Sciopt Enterprises

    With origins from Stanford U., Paraxia-Plus-10 is a Windows based optical design program specifically optimized for laser resonator and laser beam propagation applications. Its drag and drop layout mode enables real time visualization of beam properties using the “Digital Laser Workbench”. Laser engineers/designers can access laser beam data not generally available from geometric ray tracing optical design codes. Tools include optimization, tolerance analysis, stability plots, and FFT based rigorous beam propagation of arbitrary input beams. This enables simulation of diffraction effects and beam deviations from decentered and/or laser damaged components. Waist size and location is listed relative to each component, and beam diameter and beam radius of curvature is available anywhere along the beam path. Users can supply code to extend capabilities, and to enable scripting. The program is used worldwide by, consultants, laser companies, & govt. labs, often with multiple copies.
    Starting Price: $1,750 one time fee
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    Dive

    Dive

    Dive

    Dive CAE is a cloud-native computational fluid dynamics software platform that enables engineers to simulate complex fluid behaviors, such as free-surface flow, multiphase interactions, heat transfer, and moving machinery, using a mesh-free Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method. It runs entirely in the browser and on high-performance computing infrastructure, so users don’t need local hardware or installation. The mesh-free approach allows for modeling of complex geometry, surface tension, non-Newtonian fluids, and transient flows without the time-consuming meshing and tuning required by conventional CFD. Onboarding is fast (typically under one day), and the software supports parallel design-of-experiment workflows that deliver multiple iterations in hours rather than days. Dive CAE emphasizes collaboration, license simplicity (one licence for all users), transparent cost control, data usage governance, and scalability via cloud infrastructure.
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    Secomea

    Secomea

    Secomea

    Secomea Prime is a secure-remote-access and industrial IoT solution purpose-built for operational technology and industrial control systems. It enables technicians, vendors, and maintenance teams to access, program, troubleshoot, and maintain machines (PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, DCS, RTUs, etc.) remotely, from any device and location, without needing VPNs, open ports, or inbound traffic. Secomea includes a turnkey gateway (hardware or software), SiteManager, that connects to legacy and modern OT equipment and supports a variety of protocols, including Modbus, Ethernet/IP, serial/USB, Layer-2 tunneling, and more. Once deployed (often in under a day per site), Secomea provides unified remote-access management via GateManager and LinkManager; administrators set granular, role-based access controls and authenticate users securely (e.g., via MFA or SSO such as Azure AD or Okta), then track, log, and record every session for audit, compliance, and troubleshooting purposes.