Need Powerful Capabilities Without the Heavy Overhead? Zel X Is the Ideal Solution to Streamline Your Design & Manufacturing Processes.
Zel X Is the Perfect Software Solution for Small Manufacturing Businesses
With Siemens Zel X, get access to proven design, manufacturing, and engineering toolsets made for your industry, scalable to your business, and available when you need them. Instantly deploy and access Zel X from any device, without the need for expensive upgrades or hardware investments.
Zel X is the ideal platform for small manufacturers embarking on their digital transformation journey. This cost-effective, browser-based engineering solution streamlines manufacturing, operations, collaboration, design, and simulation, making advanced technology accessible and affordable for smaller enterprises. By incorporating proven Siemens technology into an accessible, browser-based platform, Zel X ensures that even the smallest business can benefit from advanced engineering tools traditionally reserved for larger organizations.
Choose a Zel X Package: Zel X Standard or Zel X Advanced
Why Choose Zel X?
With Zel X, small businesses can embark on their digital transformation journey with confidence, leveraging powerful, cloud-based tools to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Explore the possibilities with Zel X today and see how it can revolutionize your manufacturing processes.
Boost Proposal Win Rates & Customer Satisfaction
Eliminate manufacturing errors, shorten engineering time, and lower IT costs with Zel X's affordable software. Access a complete suite of tools, including CAD, CAM, CAE, MRP, and RFQ, all within a browser-based app.
Easy Deployment & Instant Access
Zel X can be accessed instantly from any device, providing easy deployment and automatic enhancements without the need for expensive, time-consuming upgrades.
Cost-Effective Functionality
Avoid the costs of hardware and IT overhead with Zel X's easy-to-use functionality tailored to your business needs.
Integrated Tools that Scale with You
Zel X replaces the many tools you would otherwise buy separately, reducing administration and enhancing seamless integration.
Expand Your Contract & Part Manufacturing With Zel X
Everything You Need, Sized Right for Your Business
Streamline Quoting & Instant Shop Floor Insight
Efficiently plan, execute, and track operations with Zel X. Automated RFQ tools ensure competitive quotes, while the Quoting Assistant simplifies outbound quotes with cost and lead time calculation and PDF export. Interactive dashboards provide instant job and project tracking, along with shop floor instructions and notifications on any device.
Automate Manufacturing Operations
Simplified model-based programming makes CAM accessible for designers and engineers on any device. Zel X automates 2.5-axis CAM operations with custom setup and toolpath simulation, allowing you to adapt to machining changes from anywhere.
Share & Collaborate from Anywhere
Unite your supply chain with secure cloud storage and data management. Collaborate with team members, colleagues, partners, and customers through permission-based file sharing, CAD view/markup, and unlimited guest access. Manage and track tasks with project dashboards and intuitive Kanban boards, and visualize designs in real-world environments with augmented reality (AR).
Accelerate Design with AI-Based Modeling
Streamline 3D CAD modeling for quoting, manufacturing, and fixture design with AI-predictive modeling and automated 2D drawing creation. Open and modify models from various CAD systems or design your own part and assembly models using shape and part libraries.
Optimize Designs with Powerful Simulation
Validate material choices and mechanical performance early on with Zel X's powerful simulation capabilities. Near-instant simulation of parts under various stresses enables simulation-driven design, with visualization displayed on the 3D model. Cloud-based computing delivers rapid simulation results on any device.
Which Zel X Package Is Right for You?
Ideal for smaller manufacturers of industrial components requiring more sophisticated design, simulation, and data management capabilities.
- STANDARD FEATURES
Collaboration
- Online project storage (500GB + 5GB per license)
- Any device view and markup
- Project sharing with task board and guest access
- Augmented Reality (AR) visualization
Design
- Multi-CAD open (NX, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, etc.)
- Ability to open files in NX
- Direct multi-body modeling with shape library
- Automated 2D drawings
- Sketching
Manufacturing
- 2.5 axis CAM G-code automation
- Post-processor controller selection
- Custom machine tool creation
- Facing, pocketing, contouring, slotting, drilling
- Toolpath simulation
- Ability to open in NX CAM
Operations
- Project/job dashboard
- Template-based shop floor planning
- Mobile instructions with traveler notification
- Live manufacturing status for customers
- Outbound Request for Quote (RFQ) automation
Support
- Phone, chat and email, online training and in-app guides
Ideal for smaller manufacturers of industrial components requiring more sophisticated design, simulation, and data management capabilities, this package provides an enhanced suite of tools to streamline your operations.
- ADVANCED FEATURES
Collaboration
- Online project storage (500GB + 5GB per license)
- Any device view and markup
- Project sharing with task board and guest access
- Augmented Reality (AR) visualization
- Part numbering, revisioning, lifecycle status
- Where-used indication
Design
- Multi-CAD open (NX, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, etc.)
- Ability to open files in NX
- Direct multi-body modeling with shape library
- Automated 2D drawings
- Sketching
- History-based part modeling
- Sheet metal modeling with DXF export
- Assembly modeling with partners library and parts list
Manufacturing
- 2.5 axis CAM G-code automation
- Post-processor controller selection
- Custom machine tool creation
- Facing, pocketing, contouring, slotting, drilling
- Toolpath simulation
- Ability to open in NX CAM
Simulation
- Stress and displacement (linear, static)
- Fixed, pinned, slider constraints
- Force, bearing, pressure loads
- Cloud-powered voxel compute with auto-update
- Open in NX, Simcenter 3D
Operations
- Project/job dashboard
- Template-based shop floor planning
- Mobile instructions with traveler notification
- Live manufacturing status for customers
- Outbound Request for Quote (RFQ) automation
Support
- Phone, chat and email, online training and in-app guides