»CADENAS as co-exhibitor – a great success! The CADENAS corner at our trade fair stand this year was a masterpiece and an eye catcher.«
Marc Zingg
Managing Director
Afag Automation AG

Facts & Figures

Founding Year

1992

Number of employees

approx. 300 employees worldwide

Headquarters

Augsburg, Germany

Branch offices

14 international locations

Milestones

  • Did you know...

    ...that CADENAS was initially founded as engineering firm?
    However, CADENAS soon realized the potential of the emerging IT age. In addition to that we understood the needs of engineers, purchasers and component manufacturers, so today our software solutions simplify their workflows.

  • Entering the 3D world

    CADENAS soon entered the 3D CAD standard & supplier parts world with the software solutions PARTsolutions and eCATALOGsolutions.

  • 1st CADENAS Industry-Forum

    Acting as a link between component manufacturers and the industry, CADENAS organized the first international Industry-Forum.

    Ever since more than 200 specialists of renowed companies meet annually to exchange their experience with CADENAS’ software solutions in the areas of Strategic Parts Management and Electronic Product Catalogs.

  • Entering the world’s largest mechanical engineering market

    CADENAS expands its sales potential to the North American continent. With the new location based in the USA, CADENAS is even closer to the American customers and their needs.

  • Foundation of new subsidiaries

    To support the existing sales network in Europe, CADENAS founded subsidiaries in many European countries.

  • Expansion to Asia

    CADENAS expands its excellent global position to the Asian market, to profit from the potential of the world’s fastest growing markets. Now customers in China and South Korea have their own subsidiaries with their local contact person. In Japan CADENAS buys web2cad, a successful business for product catalogs.

  • GEOsearch sets
    new standards

    The Geometrical Similarity Search, an innovation of the PARTsolutions software is successfully presented on the annual symposium, the CADENAS Industry-Forum.

  • Intelligent finding of components

    The new version of the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions reveals a new, intelligent approach to find 3D CAD components at companies. This includes searching with a 2D sketch and with the help of topologies.

  • 20th anniversary

    CADENAS looks back on 20 successful years. In times of the financial crisis the flexible company was able to emerge strengthened with even more innovative products. As it is independent from investors, CADENAS can quickly and dynamically operate on the market.

Corporate structure

Organization chart of CADENAS branch offices

Business areas

Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions

PARTsolutions is the solution for engineering and purchase to easily find components and standard parts, reduce and control them and moreover cut down production costs considerably during the design phase.


Electronic Product Catalogs eCATALOGsolutions

eCATALOGsolutions is the solution for manufacturers of engineered products for creating and merchandising Electronic CAD Product Catalogs.