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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 Integrated Management System (IMS)
Interfacing Technologies Corporation
Interfacing’s Integrated Management System (IMS) is an AI-powered platform that unifies BPM, QMS, Document Control, and GRC into one platform. Organizations use IMS to model and automate processes, control documents, manage risks, and maintain regulatory compliance with full traceability and audit readiness. Built for highly regulated sectors such as aerospace, life sciences, finance, and government, IMS provides real-time visibility, automated workflows, and AI-driven insights that improve quality and reduce operational risk. The platform is ISO 27001 certified and fully validated for 21 CFR Part 11, making it suitable for mission-critical environments requiring strong governance, security, and control. IMS also includes low-code automation, process mining, audit management, training tracking, CAPA workflows, and dashboards to help teams streamline operations and continuously improve. AI strengthens governance, improves accuracy, and reinforces regulatory control.Starting Price: $10/month/user -
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HiveMQ
HiveMQ
HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. Built on the MQTT standard and a distributed edge-to-cloud architecture, HiveMQ connects and governs industrial data in real time, enabling organizations to act with intelligence. With proven reliability, scalability, and interoperability, HiveMQ provides the foundation industrial companies need to operationalize AI, powering the next generation of intelligent industry. Global leaders including Audi, BMW, Eli Lilly, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, and Siemens trust HiveMQ to run their most mission-critical operations.Starting Price: $0.34/hour -
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Innoslate
SPEC Innovations
SPEC Innovations’ flagship model-based systems engineering solution can help your team reduce time-to-market, cost, and risk on even some of the most complex systems. This cloud or on-premise application uses a modern web browser, with an intuitive graphical user interface. Innoslate’s full lifecycle capabilities include: • Requirements Management • Documents Management • Modeling • Discrete Event Simulator • Monte Carlo Simulator • DoDAF Models and Views • Database Management • Test Management with full reports, status updates, results, and more. • Real Time Collaboration -
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3SL Cradle
3SL
Manage needs, epics, user stories, features and the product backlog through a series of sprints, each using your choice of requirements management, model based systems engineering (MBSE) and test management with your preferred level of change tracking, configuration management and formal change control. Cradle® is our requirements management and systems engineering software tool that integrates your entire project lifecycle in one, massively scalable, integrated, multi-user product. Whether your projects are small and local, large and distributed, or anywhere in between, Cradle can solve all your agile, requirements management, model driven development, defect tracking and test management needs in one place. With its unrivaled feature set, incredible flexibility, simple configuration and low cost, Cradle is the ideal choice if you are new to agile methods, requirements management or systems engineering.Starting Price: $449.00/one-time/user -
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EMQX
EMQ Technologies
EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.Starting Price: $0.18 per hour -
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Unity
Unity Technologies
The leading platform for creating interactive, real-time content. Build 2D, 3D and VR games and apps at speed. From artist tools to live-ops, everything you need to bring your vision to life today. The complete solutions for professionals to create and operate. Create and operate amazing applications and immersive experiences with a complete solution for professionals across industries. Change up your splash screen. Or completely remove it. Gain greater insight into what’s happening in your game with real-time data on crashes, exceptions and user feedback. Minimize downtime with access to expert technical support when you encounter issues. Available as a separate purchase through a Unity sales representative. Unity Gaming Services: backend and LiveOps services trusted by world-class studios to support multiplayer and live games at any scale, with any engine or tech stack.Starting Price: $35.00/month -
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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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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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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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AWS IoT
Amazon
There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. With the proliferation of devices, you increasingly need solutions to connect them, and collect, store, and analyze device data. AWS has broad and deep IoT services, from the edge to the cloud. AWS IoT is the only cloud vendor to bring together data management and rich analytics in easy-to-use services designed for noisy IoT data. AWS IoT offers services for all layers of security, including preventive security mechanisms, like encryption and access control to device data, and service to continuously monitor and audit configurations. AWS brings AI and IoT together to make devices more intelligent. You can create models in the cloud and deploy them to devices where they run 2x faster compared to other offerings. Optimize operations by easily creating digital twins of real-world systems. Run analytics on volumes of IoT data easily—without building an analytics platform. -
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PDF Conversion SDK
Visual Integrity Technologies
Add PDF Features with 2 API Calls Open, Edit, and View PDF. All that's needed is two API calls and a configuration file. Within a day, you can add, open, import, edit and view PDF features in your app. When formats don't match one-to-one, the SDK neutralizes the differences. This includes adding cropping, fills, color management and fonts. The PDF Conversion SDK processes all PDF versions including ISO Standard PDF 2.0. Any PDF from file or print-ready memory is valid input. Conversions flow straight through without intermediate steps or compromised quality. No printer driver. The PDF Conversion SDK runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It supports .NET. Example code included. Removes redundant information & compresses data. This ensures great performance for fast web and application viewing. Search for objects and text strings. Convert PDF to your native file format. Change the contents of a PDF page. Extract images from PDF. Retrieve metadata from PDF (layers, geospecification, etc).Starting Price: $199 per year -
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AvAIO
SysAIO
At SysAIO, we create all-in-one software solutions to simplify complex operations. Our flagship product, AvAIO, is built for aviation—seamlessly managing reservations, operations, and management, all within in a single platform. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools covering compliance tracking, aircraft airworthiness, and maintenance scheduling. AvAIO centralizes critical data, automates reporting, and enhances decision-making, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and improved resource allocation. Deliver a seamless booking experience with integrated DCS, automated check-in options, and secure payment processing. AvAIO optimizes inventory management, reduces manual workload, and ensures a smooth reservation process—enhancing both passenger satisfaction and operational efficiency. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools. Visit our website for more details.Starting Price: $2000 per month -
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Requirements Portal
Altium
Requirements Portal by Altium is a requirements management and verification tool integrated directly into Altium’s solutions, including Altium Develop, Altium Agile Teams and Altium Agile Enterprise. It enables engineering teams developing hardware products and embedded systems to create, store, and manage formalized requirements and link them to designs and verification data. Each requirement is traceable and connected to upstream system definitions and downstream design and verification artifacts, such as schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, and test cases, providing visibility from system design through implementation, verification, handoff, and certification. This helps teams reduce rework, avoid misalignment across disciplines, and simplify compliance activities. -
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Simulink
MathWorks
Design and simulate your system in Simulink before moving to hardware. Explore and implement designs that you wouldn’t otherwise consider – without having to write C, C++, or HDL code. Explore a wide design space by modeling the system under test and the physical plant. Your entire team can use one multi-domain environment to simulate how all parts of the system behave. Package and share your simulations with collaborators, suppliers, and clients. Reduce expensive prototypes by testing your system under conditions that are otherwise too risky or time-consuming to consider. Validate your design with hardware-in-the-loop testing and rapid prototyping. Maintain traceability from requirements to design to code. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code by hand, automatically generate production-quality C and HDL code that behaves the same way as the model you created in Simulink. Then deploy it directly onto your embedded processor or FPGA/ASIC.Starting Price: $860 per year -
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Ansys Cloud Direct
Ansys
Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications -
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Connect Bridge
Connecting Software
Connect Bridge is a powerful, yet easy to use integration platform that allows every developer to design their own integration solutions without much effort and training. Connect Bridge eliminates the need for using the software API by using standard SQL (Structured Query Language) syntax instead. It uses its connectors to translate the SQL statements into API calls. The Connect Bridge platform provides over 400+ connectors to both popular business applications and sensors and machines for industrial applications. New connectors are built and launched frequently. This robust API management platform can connect from any software of the last 40 years. Any developer can become an integration hero within 3 hours. Only this little time is needed to understand the platform functionality and start building the logic of system integration according to your needs. All our successful market-leader products (1000+ installations worldwide) are built on the Connect Bridge platform. -
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Trezi
Trezi
Trezi is a Virtual Reality platform for the Architect, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry. Trezi Lens is a software that dramatically transforms Revit, SketchUp, Rhino and FBX design models into Virtual Reality. It also offers a seamless way of design presentation and collaboration with its hero feature Trezi Teleport. Trezi showcase offers building product manufacturers a completely fresh platform to showcase their products with the power of digit twins, a centralized cataloging system and many more exciting features. Trezi offers immersive collaboration without any boundation of the number of people in the meeting or the size of the design model. Trezi's third offering Trezi Academy trains the students of architecture and Interior design with VR skills to upskill them and help them start their digital journey. -
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MockFlow
MockFlow
Super easy tool to brainstorm UI ideas. MockFlow is the complete UI planning platform that your team needs to kickstart software projects. Rapidly sketch interface layouts in a short time without any complexity. Full featured and intuitive editor that brings your concepts to life. Thousands of pre-built components and layouts to draw any UI. Play, review or present your UI drawings in preview mode. Ideas always evolve, so do UI. Iterate faster with revision tracker. Draw UI collaboratively in MockFlow with its powerful cloud features such as role-based permissions, real time editing, annotated comments and design approvals to name a few. Create beautiful StyleGuides in minutes to document your brand's UI guidelines. Also, auto-generate design specifications and documentation from wireframes.Starting Price: $15 per user per month -
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Autodesk AEC Collection
Autodesk
The AEC Collection provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that support projects from early-stage design through to construction. Create high-quality, high-performing building and infrastructure designs with conceptual and detailed design tools. Optimize projects with integrated analysis, generative design, and visualization and simulation tools. Improve predictability in the field with tools that maximize constructability and project coordination. Accelerate design processes and improve quality with integrated workflows for conceptual design, modeling, multidiscipline coordination, and construction documentation. Access tools that enable you to bid for, win, and deliver more business. Automate tasks to reduce design time and improve handoff with streamlined data exchange.Starting Price: $3,115 per year -
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Autodesk Platform Services
Autodesk
Autodesk Platform Services (APS) is a growing set of web services that increase the breadth and depth of your ability to automate processes and flow data across industries and projects, enabling better, faster decision making and time to delivery of your products and services. APS APIs help companies build applications that tap into their design and engineering data. From automated processes to alerts, 3D in-browser to virtual reality, APS APIs can be combined with existing software systems to innovate how you work and get more from your data. When you render 3D and 2D model data within a browser, the models can come from a variety of applications such as AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Revit, and many more. You can also integrate with the Autodesk Construction Cloud to extend its capabilities to reach segments of the construction ecosystem that don't have direct access to BIM data. -
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Ansys SCADE Architect
Ansys
Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers. It provides full support of industrial systems engineering processes, such as ARP 4754A, ISO 26262 and EN 50126. SCADE Architect features functional and architectural system modeling and verification in a SysML-based environment. Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers; the underlying SysML™ technology is hidden, making modeling more user-friendly and intuitive. Ansys tools support software development aligned to the FACE Technical Standard at both the model and generated code levels, providing users with an easy workflow that passes the FACE Conformance Test Suite (CTS), a necessary test process included in the FACE Technical Standard. -
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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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Ansys Twin Builder
Ansys
An analytics-driven, simulation-based digital twin is a connected, virtual replica of an in-service physical asset — in the form of an integrated multidomain system simulation —that mirrors the life and experience of the asset. Hybrid digital twins enable system design and optimization and predictive maintenance, and they optimize industrial asset management. By implementing Ansys Twin Builder, you can improve top-line revenue, manage bottom-line costs and both gain and retain a competitive advantage. Ansys Twin Builder enables you to quickly create a digital twin–a connected replica of an in-service asset. This allows for enhanced lifecycle management and true predictive maintenance, saving costs to help maintain a competitive advantage. -
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Davra IoT Platform
Davra
Davra IoT helps companies, fleet owners, OEMs, municipalities and others to define, build and rapidly bring industrial-grade IoT applications on a reliable, secure and scalable IoT platform. Get your IoT project to the market in less than 50 days. Experience an open system with integrations at its core. Reduce your IoT project cost by up to 80%. Get descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics data. Run our cloud-based streaming analytics, ML, NLP and AI algorithm at the edge of the network. Experience HTML5 dashboard visualization, advanced Geo-mapping, layout manager and much more. Get a complete developer suite with source control, versioning, full code editor and more. Provide an "asset-centric view" of IoT devices by attaching both static and dynamic attributes. Leverage a complete microservice-based design for infrastructure libraries and runtime engines. -
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Vuforia
PTC
Vuforia is a comprehensive, scalable enterprise AR platform. Our wide-ranging solution suite ensures that we can provide the right AR technology to every customer based on their business needs. Vuforia provides the fastest, easiest and most advanced AR content development solutions to help industrial enterprise customers address workforce challenges and meet business goals. Vuforia’s Augmented Reality solutions have numerous practical applications—where to start depends on understanding where you'll get the fastest, most meaningful ROI. These use cases stand out as offering easy adoption, clear returns, tangible benefits, and a roadmap to scale up. Use industrial AR to improve workforce productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction with real-time, step-by-step work instructions. Analytics and automation have changed manufacturing operations. AR is now transforming human processes by accelerating skills development and empowering guidance. -
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Altair Embed
Altair
It offers thousands of pre-built models that cover a wide range of engineering disciplines, with search to identify a model that matches your design requirements, and broad target support. The Embed library of motor models and motor control algorithms, for both sensored and sensorless applications, provides the starting point to accelerate embedded motor control projects for any type of electric motor, including AC induction, BLDC, PMSM, brushed DC, or stepper motors. With Embed, users can easily model and simulate end-to-end, physical layer data communication systems providing determination of energy and bit required for a given bit error rate for a comprehensive set of modulation, encoding, and channel configuration. -
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DesignConcept
Lectra
DesignConcept is a virtual prototyping, preliminary costing and digital product development solution that enables you to quickly design and develop high-quality trim covers without going over budget. Using virtual prototyping, you can analyze and discuss the impact of any changes to styling, choice of material or trim processes to determine the most cost-effective options. DesignConcept simplifies technical feasibility studies, allowing for accurate, immediate material stress analysis and pattern-flattening adjustments. Using embedded automatic marker making, achieve faster RFQ turnaround with precise fabric and leather consumption estimates. These studies can even include estimates of sewing and supply costs. The software also makes it possible to prepare ready-to-cut pieces for automatic cutting with full trim specifications. Streamline your trim cover business by seamlessly integrating all your design and development processes. -
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RTI Connext DDS
Real-Time Innovations
RTI provides the software connectivity framework designed for smart machines and real-world systems. RTI Connext DDS enables intelligent architecture by sharing information in real time, making large applications work together as one. RTI is the best in the world at connecting intelligent, distributed systems. These systems improve medical care, make our roads safer, improve energy use, and protect our freedom. Based on the Connext DDS Databus, RTI’s software allows applications to exchange data in real time and provides the non-stop availability and security essential for mission-critical systems. The Connext Databus enables applications to work together as one, integrated system, significantly reducing development, integration and maintenance costs. RTI Connext is the first intelligent connectivity framework designed to control, monitor, secure and optimize demanding distributed systems. -
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Memfault
Memfault
Reduce risk, ship products faster, and resolve issues proactively by upgrading your Android and MCU-based devices with Memfault. By integrating Memfault into smart device infrastructure, developers and IoT device manufacturers can monitor and manage the entire device lifecycle, from development to feature updates, with ease and speed. Monitor hardware and firmware performance, remotely investigate issues, and incrementally rollout targeted updates to devices without disrupting customers. Go beyond application monitoring with device and fleet-level metrics, like battery health and connectivity with crash analytics for firmware. Resolve issues more efficiently with automatic detection, alerts, deduplication, and actionable insights sent via the cloud. Keep customers happy by fixing bugs quickly and shipping features more frequently with staged rollouts and specific device groups (cohorts). -
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Questa Verification
Siemens
Questa Verification is the first verification platform with a UVM-aware debug solution that provides engineers essential information about the operation of their dynamic class-based testbenches in the familiar context of source code and waveform viewing. The Questa verification solution is an assemblage of technologies, methodologies, and libraries for modern ASIC and FPGA designs. Questa continues to evolve in response to the growing complexity of SoC designs. Insight and updates on concepts, values, standards, methodologies, and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them. The Verification Horizons publication provides concepts, values, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them.
