Best Engineering Software

Compare the Top Engineering Software as of January 2026

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 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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    3SL Cradle
    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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    iGrafx Process360 Live
    iGrafx enables true business transformation by helping organizations continuously improve their processes. An integrated intelligence platform is critical for achieving continuous process improvement. Today’s complex processes involve multiple departments, systems, and stakeholders, making it hard to understand the entire process ecosystem. Without a holistic view, it can be difficult to assess what’s actually going wrong and which potential solutions are most effective. Unlock the power of process intelligence with the Process360 Live platform, bringing together process mining, design and simulation. Streamline processes, identify bottlenecks, and optimize workflows to get more done and create higher quality products with the same amount of resources. Keep volume, pace and quality stable while decreasing financial investment through process optimization and improved resource allocation.
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    Merlin Project

    Merlin Project

    ProjectWizards GmbH

    Merlin Project is the standard for project management in industries such as Architecture & Construction, Media & Agencies, Research & Development, Education and others. For more than 18 years customers in over 160 countries have been using our flexible app to plan, manage & control their small and large projects – no matter whether you're on a Mac or an iPad! Merlin Project is project management with a bit of magic!
    Starting Price: $19.99
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    Tulip

    Tulip

    Tulip

    Tulip's flexible, no-code frontline operations platform helps manufacturers create front-end applications that guide operators, collect data from workers, machines, and devices, and track metrics against your KPIs. With Tulip, companies can digitally transform their operations in days, gaining real-time visibility of their operations to increase productivity, reduce errors, and drive continuous improvement.
    Starting Price: $1,200 per year
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    MADe

    MADe

    PHM Technology

    Mitigate technical engineering-based risks that impact performance, operational availability and the cost of maintenance using modeling, analysis and decision support workflows. MADe is used to enable better decisions about the design and support of safety/mission-critical equipment at each stage of the product lifecycle. Reduce risk using interdependent analysis capabilities that consider the technical, operational and economic requirements of the operator and/or maintainer of the system. The MADe software is an integrated analysis solution that generates the artifacts required for Airworthiness certification. The analysis generated concurrently with design leads to improvements in the certification process. MADe automatically tracks the source of all parameters used in an analysis to provide a means of assessing the quality of data used to support engineering decisions and analysis.
    Starting Price: $10000.00/year
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    MediaLab Document Control
    MediaLab’s Document Control is a powerful way to manage your laboratory’s policies, procedures, and documentation. Our twenty years of expertise in clinical laboratories have created a document control solution that guides you to full compliance with all laboratory standards, regulations, and best practices. Document Control provides an automated, centralized platform for all of your document approvals, workflows, edits, sign-offs, audits, and more—with flexibility and customization features to match your laboratory’s unique needs. MediaLab's Document Control supports: • Digital records and version control of all documents, • Standardization across all documents from all sites, • Electronic signatures that meet 21 CFR Part 11 standards, • Customized approval workflows and processes, • Robust searching to easily locate specific documents, and more!
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    Analytic Solver

    Analytic Solver

    Frontline Systems

    Analytic Solver Optimization - 100% upward compatible from the Excel Solver - handles every type and size of the conventional optimization problem (without uncertainty). Unlike other optimization software, it algebraically analyzes your model structure and maximally exploits multiple cores in your PC. You can solve nonlinear models 10 times larger, and linear models 40 times larger than the Excel Solver, get solutions much faster – and plug-in Solver Engines to handle up to millions of variables! Analytic Solver Simulation gives you easy-to-use, powerful Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis, decision trees, and simulation optimization using Frontline’s advanced Evolutionary Solver. With 60 probability distributions plus compound distributions, automatic distribution fitting, rank-order and copula-based correlation, 80 statistics, risk measures and Six Sigma functions, multiple parameterized simulations and more.
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    PLATO e1ns
    PLATO e1ns is the central platform for the optimal design of the product development process. Transparent development processes, a common understanding of the system and good, networked collaboration provide the basis for economic, fast and successful product development. PLATO e1ns is the system for the optimal design of the product development process (PDP). With e1ns PLATO has developed a solution that works in the early stages of PDP. Right where you lay the foundation for cost and risk avoidance. e1ns combines methods and development phases in a system. Under its aspects the system model modeling (SysML) each discipline (mechanical, software, electrical, etc.) "Single Point of Information" - central and direct access to all networked data and measures within the product development process via web browser. We will put together a customized methods framework that is designed specifically for your development process.
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    PaleBlue

    PaleBlue

    PaleBlue

    Create immersive training courses in minutes, building on top of rich and powerful templates. Turn your employee training programs into engaging virtual experiences that last – on screen devices or in Virtual Reality. Reduce training costs by introducing immersive training. Improve efficiency of your operations saving up to 40% project budget. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected. Immersive training is fun and easy to follow. Gamification makes it much more engaging than an eLearning course. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected.
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    Solver SDK

    Solver SDK

    Frontline Systems

    Use optimization and simulation models in your desktop, Web or mobile application. Use the same high-level objects (like Problem, Solver, Variable and Function), collections, properties and methods across different programming languages. The same object-oriented API is exposed "over the wire" through Web Services WS-* standards to remote clients in PHP, JavaScript, C# and other languages. Procedural languages can use conventional calls that correspond naturally to the properties and methods of the Object-Oriented API. Linear and quadratic programming, mixed-integer programming, smooth nonlinear optimization, global optimization, and non-smooth evolutionary and tabu search are all included. The world's best optimizers, from Gurobi™, XPRESS™ and MOSEK™ for linear, quadratic and conic models to KNITRO™, SQP and GRG methods for nonlinear models "plug into" Solver SDK. Easily create a sparse DoubleMatrix object with 1 million rows and columns.
    Starting Price: $2495 one-time payment
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    Aras Innovator
    Aras Innovator uniquely offers one software platform for complete, end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management, from Requirements and Engineering to Manufacturing and Operation. Our applications are designed to be customized with an easy, low-code approach you can try today. Managing requirements is fundamental to designing great products. Learn how to author and manage requirements in the Digital Thread with Aras. Improve product development with more efficient and effective design processes, streamlining program and project management with powerful capabilities in Aras Innovator. Successful engineering changes are central to improving products and accelerating their development. Aras offers powerful capabilities to manage engineering change. Select, source, and compare electronic components to meet your products’ needs. Connect to a commercial database of millions of parts from leading global manufacturers.
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    Holocentric

    Holocentric

    Holocentric

    Organizations are the sum of their parts; people, process and technology, all working together in concert. Our software provides organizations with the tools to model these relationships and capture them in a secure and organized digital repository. Maintaining the integrity, currency, and accessibility of corporate knowledge is an ongoing struggle for all organizations. Holocentric offers an intuitive user experience where content can be easily captured and displayed in multiple ways. It's no secret that organizations often suffer the pitfalls of siloed work environments. Holocentric enables users to access both role-based content and enterprise information from all corners of an organization for end-to-end visibility. Transforming your organization requires an established level of business maturity. Holocentric provides decision-makers with the business blueprints to improve the way you work, support optimization, and ongoing reform activities.
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    SmartSense

    SmartSense

    SmartSense

    Global IoT leader Digi International created SmartSense to guard critical environments in healthcare, food service, and transportation and logistics. Our solutions give you actionable enterprise insights while empowering your teams with intuitive tools that improve standard operating procedures, reduce loss, and ensure compliance. SmartSense connects your operations to give visibility into the compliance and execution performance at all of your locations. Our end-to-end solution is designed and built by SmartSense to ensure implementation, performance, and support without compromise. Calibrated sensors and data loggers are added to your critical assets and environments to record condition data. This data is used to trigger alarms when there is a problem and provide insight into the performance of your equipment.
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