Siemens Digital Industries Software offers Zel X software, a next generation browser-based engineering app for streamlining manufacturing and shop-floor operations. Zel X consolidates software for manufacturing, operations, collaboration, design and simulation into a comprehensive, yet lightweight browser-based solution that delivers value instantly.

“The manufacturing industry is demanding open, flexible toolsets that are not only laser focused on their needs but are instant on and accessible anywhere they need them,” said John Miller, senior vice president, mainstream engineering software for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Zel X combines Siemens’ expertise and technology leadership across the manufacturing, operations, design, simulation and collaboration domains to deliver next generational capabilities through the browser that our customers are demanding. Zel X supports their rapidly changing businesses with instant-on toolsets that offer them the whole process coverage they need to innovate and gain competitive advantage.”

Sharing a common architecture with NX, and delivered as part of the Siemens Xcelerator platform, Zel X delivers real-time monitoring and tracking of project and job statuses with interactive dashboards, and shop floor specific instructions with notifications available on any device. Zel X also includes tools to help with automated Request-for-Quote (RFQ), both inbound from customers and outbound to suppliers.