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What is Engineering Software?
Engineering software is software used by engineers to design, analyze and manufacture various products. It includes a wide range of applications such as CAD/CAE software, analysis tools, optimization tools, and programming tools. Engineering software can be used for a variety of tasks such as designing mechanical parts, analyzing structural stability, simulating system performance, and optimizing product designs. These applications enable engineers to optimize their designs for cost reduction and increased efficiency. Compare and read user reviews of the best Engineering software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Interfacing Enterprise Process Center (EPC)
Interfacing Technologies
Interfacing’s Digital Twin Organization software provides transparency and Governance to improve Quality, Efficiency, and ensure Regulatory Compliance. Map, analyze, and automate processes, manage regulatory compliance, assess risks within a single platform! Interfacing’s digital twin solution (Enterprise Process Center - EPC) is an enterprise management system that helps companies digitalize processes to streamline operations, increase productivity, and continuously improve. Interfacing’s digital business platform – Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools, with its Low-Code Development methodology will optimize usage of your technical resources and maximize transparency for ongoing improvement. Discover how our Low-Code Rapid Application Development module provides all the tools to create and deploy Custom, Scalable, Secure, and Mobile ready Applications in Days vs. Months!Starting Price: $10/month/user -
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Lucidchart
Lucid Software
Lucidchart is an advanced diagramming tool designed to help businesses and teams optimize their processes, systems, and workflows with intelligent, data-driven diagrams. The platform combines powerful AI features, such as AI-generated diagrams, data linking, and real-time collaboration, to make visualizing complex systems and architectures faster and more efficient. Lucidchart supports multiple use cases, including process maps, flowcharts, technical diagrams, organizational charts, and systems planning. Its seamless integrations with popular apps like Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Teams allow for enhanced collaboration, enabling teams to align on priorities and act on insights quickly. Lucidchart is the perfect tool for anyone looking to create professional diagrams in less time, while fostering better decision-making and innovation.Starting Price: $7.95/month/user -
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dataPARC Historian
dataPARC
Get better performance from your time-series data with the dataPARC Historian, an enterprise-grade solution designed to elevate industrial data operations to new heights. The dataPARC Historian simplifies complex data sharing, ensuring seamless collaboration across departments with enhanced security and performance. Its compatibility with external AI, ML, and cloud applications via an open architecture increases adaptability and strategic insights. Experience rapid data access, enriched manufacturing intelligence, and a platform that grows with your business needs. dataPARC historian is the smart choice for enterprises aiming for the forefront of operational excellence. The dataPARC historian is more than a data historian; it's a gateway to unlocking greater flexibility and efficiency in leveraging your time-series data. It's crafted for those who demand reliability, speed, and intuitive use, making every data interaction impactful. -
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MATLAB
The MathWorks
MATLAB® combines a desktop environment tuned for iterative analysis and design processes with a programming language that expresses matrix and array mathematics directly. It includes the Live Editor for creating scripts that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook. MATLAB toolboxes are professionally developed, rigorously tested, and fully documented. MATLAB apps let you see how different algorithms work with your data. Iterate until you’ve got the results you want, then automatically generate a MATLAB program to reproduce or automate your work. Scale your analyses to run on clusters, GPUs, and clouds with only minor code changes. There’s no need to rewrite your code or learn big data programming and out-of-memory techniques. Automatically convert MATLAB algorithms to C/C++, HDL, and CUDA code to run on your embedded processor or FPGA/ASIC. MATLAB works with Simulink to support Model-Based Design. -
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Wolfram Mathematica
Wolfram
The world's definitive system for modern technical computing. For three decades, Mathematica has defined the state of the art in technical computing—and provided the principal computation environment for millions of innovators, educators, students, and others around the world. Widely admired for both its technical prowess and elegant ease of use, Mathematica provides a single integrated, continually expanding system that covers the breadth and depth of technical computing—and is seamlessly available in the cloud through any web browser, as well as natively on all modern desktop systems. With energetic development and consistent vision for three decades, Mathematica stands alone in a huge range of dimensions, unique in its support for today's technical computing environments and workflows.Starting Price: $1,520 per year -
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Enterprise Architect
Sparx Systems
Enterprise Architect is an enterprise wide solution to visualize, analyze, model, test and maintain all of your systems, software, processes, and architectures. Enterprise Architect is the ideal platform to help you to stay in control of your workspace, support your colleagues and team, enable collaboration and build confidence within your most complex projects.Starting Price: $229 -
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IBM Rhapsody
IBM
IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® (Rational Rhapsody) and its family of products offers a proven solution for modeling and systems design activities that allows you to manage the complexity many organizations face with product and systems development. Rhapsody is part of the IBM Engineering portfolio that provides a collaborative design development, and test environment for systems engineers that supports UML, SysML, UAF and AUTOSAR. The solution also allows for control of defense frameworks (DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM) and helps accelerate industry standards such as DO-178, DO-178B/C and ISO 26262. Get continuous validation through rapid simulation, prototyping and execution to address errors earlier when they are less costly to fix. Use automatic consistency checking to enhance agility and improve reuse with collaboration to reduce both recurring and non-recurring costs. -
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Lumada IIoT
Hitachi
Embed sensors for IoT use cases and enrich sensor data with control system and environment data. Integrate this in real time with enterprise data and deploy predictive algorithms to discover new insights and harvest your data for meaningful use. Use analytics to predict maintenance problems, understand asset utilization, reduce defects and optimize processes. Harness the power of connected devices to deliver remote monitoring and diagnostics services. Employ IoT Analytics to predict safety hazards and comply with regulations to reduce worksite accidents. Lumada Data Integration: Rapidly build and deploy data pipelines at scale. Integrate data from lakes, warehouses and devices, and orchestrate data flows across all environments. By building ecosystems with customers and business partners in various business areas, we can accelerate digital innovation to create new value for a new society. -
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Simcad Pro
CreateASoft, Inc.
Simcad Pro lets you visualize, analyze and optimize process flow systems in an interactive 2D/3D simulation modeling environment. Plan, optimize, and re-arrange processes and procedures while optimizing layouts, facility improvement, automation and scheduling. Simcad Pro integrates live and historical data to provide the most effective simulation tool on the market. Applications in multiple industries including manufacturing, automation, logistics, distribution warehouse, food and beverage, services, and more. Multi-Threaded - 64 bit Engine. On-the-fly simulation - Make real-time changes to the model while the simulation is running. Animate the model in 2D, 3D and VR with Ray Tracing, light effect, and shadows. Singular model building environment. Smart, Spatially Aware Agents, Sub-Flows, Collision Avoidance and Real-Time Connectivity. Spaghetti Diagrams, Congestion Analysis, Heat Maps, Efficiency and OEE. Extensive reporting and analysis tools. Scenario Analyzer.Starting Price: $4950.00/one-time/user -
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GeoSpin
GeoSpin
Get quick and clear answers to your questions about locations. You don’t need any IT or data knowledge, just an Internet connection. A web interface gives you access to Germany-wide forecasts, analyses, and numerous data sources. LIA provides you with a user-friendly menu to select the relevant information for your questions. The answers to your questions are intuitively displayed on an interactive map, allowing you to examine the analyses in even more depth. LIA enables you to make the right decisions in your industry. Analyze and evaluate at the click of a button, and gain a locational and competitive advantage. Whether it is complex AI forecasting, influence factor determination, digital twins, or viewing and filtering millions of data points: LIA makes location intelligence simple, fast, and intuitive for you. With the intelligent geo-data analyses from LIA, you save resources, expand your action competence, and gain advanced knowledge and a competitive edge in the market.Starting Price: €75 per month -
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SystemLink
NI
SystemLink eliminates the manual tasks when keeping test systems current and healthy. From automating updates to monitoring system health, SystemLink delivers key information that improves situational awareness and test readiness to help you deliver quality across the product lifecycle. With SystemLink, you ensure that software configurations are accurate, and that test equipment complies with calibration and quality standards. Leveraging an automation and connectivity platform, SystemLink aggregates test and measurement data from all test systems into a centralized data repository. Users have ready access to asset utilization, calibration forecasts as well as test result history, trends, and production metrics data to make proactive decisions on the capital expense, maintenance events, and test or product modifications. -
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MatDeck
LabDeck
MatDeck is a universal, technical software for Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Coding, Databases and many other uses. Our software offers a complete Python IDE; thousands of mathematical functions; a drag and drop GUI Designer and various visualization tools, all embedded within a cutting-edge, live document for an inexpensive and professional computing environment.Starting Price: Free -
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SKY ENGINE
SKY ENGINE AI
SKY ENGINE AI is a simulation and deep learning platform that generates fully annotated, synthetic data and trains AI computer vision algorithms at scale. The platform is architected to procedurally generate highly balanced imagery data of photorealistic environments and objects and provides advanced domain adaptation algorithms. SKY ENGINE AI platform is a tool for developers: Data Scientists, ML/Software Engineers creating computer vision projects in any industry. SKY ENGINE AI is a Deep Learning environment for AI training in Virtual Reality with Sensors Physics Simulation & Fusion for any Computer Vision applications. SKY ENGINE AI Synthetic Data Generation makes Data Scientist life easier providing perfectly balanced datasets for any Computer Vision applications like object detection & recognition, 3D positioning, pose estimation and other sophisticated cases including analysis of multi-sensor data i.e., Radars, Lidars, Satellite, X-rays, and more. -
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JADBio AutoML
JADBio
JADBio is a state-of-the-art automated Machine Learning Platform without the need for coding. With its breakthrough algorithms it can solve open problems in machine learning. Anybody can use it and perform a sophisticated and correct machine learning analysis even if they do not know any math, statistics, or coding. It is purpose-built for life science data and particularly molecular data. This means that it can deal with the idiosyncrasies of molecular data such as very low sample size and very high number of measured quantities that could reach to millions. Life scientists need it to understand what are the features and biomarkers that are predictive and important, what is their role, and get intuition about the molecular mechanisms involved. Knowledge discovery is often more important than a predictive model. So, JADBio focuses on feature selection and its interpretation.Starting Price: Free -
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ParaView
Kitware
ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that enables users to build visualizations for analyzing data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. It supports interactive 3D exploration and programmatic data processing through batch processing capabilities. ParaView is designed to handle extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources, making it suitable for supercomputers analyzing terascale datasets as well as laptops for smaller data. The application features a client-server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets and generates level-of-detail models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. ParaView's extensible architecture is based on open standards, allowing for customization and integration with existing tools and workflows. It includes readers for various well-known file formats and offers more than 200 filters and tools for data processing and visualization.Starting Price: Free -
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12d Synergy
12d Solutions
12d Synergy is efficiency for those who’ve had enough of collaboration chaos and stressful, slow networks. 12d Synergy is freedom to be unchained from your desk, to work flexibly anywhere, anytime. 12d Synergy is productivity for the pioneers who know there’s a smarter, faster, better way to work. Transform email clutter into dependable documentation with simple and easy email filing, management and retrieval. Step up to centralised, rock-solid document management, built specifically for busy AEC offices. Superior folder-based geospatial data management that speeds up data transfers, reduces data storage and streamlines worksharing. Conquer CAD chaos with a smarter, more automated way to manage your CAD data, maximising your productivity and efficiency. -
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LabKey
LabKey
Unlock the power of your data with the LabKey platform and accelerate life-changing discovery. We believe that your time is best spent devoted to your research rather than battling information bottlenecks. Our team puts their years of experience to work to provide intuitive and reliable solutions for managing your research. Your data holds the key to life changing scientific insights. LabKey’s biology-aware research data management platform helps teams centralize and organize their complex data to better support discovery. Your mission to understand, treat, and ultimately cure disease is critical. Helping you be successful in your mission is what drives us to deliver exceptional software solutions and support. Easily integrate, organize and share Skyline targeted mass spectrometry documents in a centralized repository. Consistently monitor the performance of instruments to ensure accurate results. -
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ReliaSoft
Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK)
ReliaSoft software provides a powerful range of reliability software solutions to facilitate a comprehensive set of reliability engineering modeling and analysis techniques. We are the leading reliability solution provider for product test, design, maintenance strategy and optimization. Our products support a wide range of reliability and maintainability analysis techniques, such as life data analysis, accelerated life testing, system modelling and RAM analysis, reliability growth, FRACAS, FMEA and RCM analysis to meet and improve reliability of your products, processes and optimize maintenance planning. -
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JP Interactive Viewer
JP Global Digital
Brings substantial value to your Point Cloud, BIM models, and other 3D datasets by centralizing your projects in an easy-to-use, digital platform. JPIV allows you to share, visualize, manage, analyze, and generate insights from your 3D datasets by being your hub for point clouds, 3D meshes, BIM models, 360 images, project, and asset information. JPIV cloud-based capabilities allow everyone to quickly convert massive 3D datasets into actionable insights while improving collaboration between teams. Visualize, manage, and share your project with your stakeholders in a single platform. Leverage collaborative features, like the annotation tool, to improve communication flow among stakeholders. Perform visual inspections anytime, anywhere, with just an internet connection and a web browser. Overlay and visualize new components with BIM models, Point Cloud, and 360 images. Host all relevant project information and 3D data in the same platform, resulting in a single source of truth. -
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Peakboard
Peakboard
With its low-code platform for creating industrial applications, Peakboard GmbH assists production and logistics companies in monitoring their internal processes and managing their own systems interactively. The solution can gather process data from all common data sources, including SAP, machine controls, material flow controls, and Excel. It can then evaluate and display this data on screens in real-time. This approach enables easy identification of sources of errors, thereby increasing productivity. Customers have the autonomy to decide which key figures they would like to be displayed on the dashboard. Furthermore, information can be relayed to over 90 connected IT interfaces using touchscreens. This establishes an intuitive user interface that employees in production and the warehouse can utilize to interact with the complex IT landscape. As a result, controlling production machinery becomes as simple as using a smartphone.Starting Price: 708 € (annually/license) -
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Qlucore Omics Explorer
Qlucore
Qlucore Omics Explorer is so easy to use that you no longer have to depend on an expert in bioinformatics to explore and analyze your Omics and NGS data sets. Qlucore Omics Explorer is a D.I.Y next-generation bioinformatics software for research in life science, plant- and biotech industries, as well as academia. The powerful and flexible visualization-based data analysis tool with inbuilt powerful statistics delivers immediate results and provides instant exploration and visualization of big data. The software is developed to allow the workflow which best suits you and your experiments and maximizes the outcome of your research. By combining instant visualization with powerful statistics and flexible selection methods, you will be able to see your results immediately. As a user, you decide your own workflow and starting point. You are in control and can tailor the exploration to meet your specific needs. -
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Altair Compose
Altair Engineering
Analyzing data, developing algorithms, or creating models - Altair Compose is designed to bring your ideas forward. Altair Compose is an environment for doing math calculations, manipulating, and visualizing data, programming, and debugging scripts useful for repeated computations and process automation. Altair Compose allows users to perform a wide variety of math operations including linear algebra and matrix manipulations, statistics, differential equations, signal processing, control systems, polynomial fitting, and optimization. The broad set of native CAE and test result readers accelerates system understanding and works with Altair Activate® to support model-based development, for multi-domain and system of systems simulations. Altair Embed® completes the model-based design portfolio with automated code generation, allowing for the testing and verification of embedded systems. -
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Digital Twin Streaming Service
ScaleOut Software
ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™ Easily build and deploy real-time digital twins for streaming analytics Connect to many data sources with Azure & AWS IoT hubs, Kafka, and more Maximize situational awareness with live, aggregate analytics. Introducing a breakthrough cloud service that simultaneously tracks telemetry from millions of data sources with “real-time” digital twins — enabling immediate, deep introspection with state-tracking and highly targeted, real-time feedback for thousands of devices. A powerful UI simplifies deployment and displays aggregate analytics in real time to maximize situational awareness. Ideal for a wide range of applications, including the Internet of Things (IoT), real-time intelligent monitoring, logistics, and financial services. Simplified pricing makes getting started fast and easy. Combined with the ScaleOut Digital Twin Builder software toolkit, the ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service enables the next generation in stream processing. -
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SAP Asset Information Workbench
Utopia Global, Inc.
SAP AIW is an enterprise data governance platform for monitoring, tracking, and managing structured and unstructured asset data among multiple systems-of-record (ERP, engineering, PLM, and maintenance systems). Improve your master data governance productivity by making complex multi-object change requests or large-scale master data changes in one simple step. Provide consistent, synchronized data from all systems of records, accessible from one view, to mitigate environmental and health and safety risks. Track and monitor your maintenance work with uniform master data, which shrinks downtime and improves shop-floor productivity. Use an advanced user interface for multi-change object requests to efficiently handle a complete asset structure. Access external and internal sources of information to enrich asset data that can be propagated to internal systems of record. Improve usability with intuitive hierarchy processing, including search, copy, and replace. -
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Elucidata Polly
Elucidata
Harness the power of biomedical data with Polly. The Polly Platform helps to scale batch jobs, workflows, coding environments and visualization applications. Polly allows resource pooling and provides optimal resource allocation based on your usage requirements and makes use of spot instances whenever possible. All this leads to optimization, efficiency, faster response time and lower costs for the resources. Get access to a dashboard to monitor resource usage and cost real time and minimize overhead of resource management by your IT team. Version control is integral to Polly’s infrastructure. Polly ensures version control for your workflows and analyses through a combination of dockers and interactive notebooks. We have built a mechanism that allows the data, code and the environment co-exist. This coupled with data storage on the cloud and the ability to share projects ensures reproducibility of every analysis you perform. -
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Learn how CloudWorx for Intergraph Smart 3D connects to the point cloud and enables users to make the hybrid between the existing plant and newly modeled parts. Intergraph Smart® Laser Data Engineer provides state-of-the-art point cloud rendering performance in CloudWorx for Intergraph Smart 3D users via the JetStream point cloud engine. With its instant loading and persistent full rendering of the point cloud during user actions – regardless of the size of the dataset – Smart Laser Data Engineer delivers ultimate fidelity to the user. JetStream’s centralized data storage and administrative architecture – while serving the high-performance point cloud to users – also provides an easy-to-use project environment, making data distribution, user access control, backups and other IT functions easy and effective, saving time and money.
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VGSTUDIO
Volume Graphics
VGSTUDIO is the ideal choice for visual quality inspection in industrial applications, e.g., in the electronics industry, but also for the visualization of data in fields of academic research such as archaeology, geology, and life sciences. VGSTUDIO covers the entire workflow, from the precise reconstruction of three-dimensional volume data sets using the images taken by your CT scanner to visualization (in 3D and 2D) and the creation of impressive animations. 3D visualization of even very large CT data sets, with almost no limit on data volume. Real-time ray tracing for a photo-realistic look. Combined visualization of voxel and mesh data, including textured meshes. Arbitrary orientation of 2D slices, 2D slice rotation view around a customizable axis. Gray-value classification of a data set, and a wide variety of 3D clipping options. Unrolling of objects or leveling of freeform surfaces in a 2D view. Combination of consecutive slices into a single 2D view. -
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Materials Zone
Materials Zone
From materials data to better products, faster! Accelerates R&D, scale-up, and optimizes manufacturing QC and supply chain decisions. Discover new materials, use ML guidance to forecast outcomes, and achieve faster and improved results. Build a model on your way to production. Test the model's limits behind your products to design cost-efficient and robust production lines. Use models to predict future failures based on supplied materials informatics and production line parameters. The Materials Zone platform aggregates data from independent entities, materials providers, factories, or manufacturing facilities, communicating between them through a secured platform. By using machine learning (ML) algorithms on your experimental data, you can discover new materials with desired properties, generate ‘recipes’ for materials synthesis, build tools to analyze unique measurements automatically, and retrieve insights. -
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Canary Historian
Canary
The beauty of the Canary Historian is that the same solution works as well on site as it does for the entire enterprise. You can log data locally, while sending it to your enterprise historian simultaneously. Best of all, as you grow, so does the solution. A single Canary Historian can log more than two million tags, and multiple Canary Historians can be clustered to handle tens of millions of tags. Enterprise historian solutions can be hosted in your own data centers or in AWS and Azure. And, unlike other enterprise historian solutions, Canary Historians don't require specialized teams of ten and more to maintain them. The Canary Historian is a NoSQL time series database that uses loss-less compression algorithms to provide you the best of both worlds, high-speed performance without requiring data interpolation!Starting Price: $9,970 one-time payment -
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ProSource E&P
SLB
Information management professionals need the ability to collect, find, edit, manage, and transfer data quickly and easily, allowing them to provide the right information to the right people at the right time in support of their business processes. The ProSource E&P data management and delivery system provides a powerful and broad solution for acquisition, management, and delivery of corporate data required by all disciplines across an E&P organization. Building on the strength of the Seabed E&P open data model and database, the ProSource data management system adds the structure for an integrated working environment and holds a vast array of data domains in a single, integrated repository. Through the platform-neutral interface, you can leverage intuitive and compelling tools and capabilities for acquiring, browsing, querying, editing, comparing, transferring, and controlling the quality of your data.