By Philipp Hasenäcker
The growing proportion of software and electrics/electronics in products, the associated increase in product complexity, ever stricter legal requirements, and support for new business models make end-to-end digitalization across different domains a MUST for automotive OEMs. It will, however, be a long and arduous journey. So, what does the automotive OEM's ALM strategy look like?
An interview with Prof. Frank Köster
Professor Frank Köster is the founding director of the Institute for AI Safety and Security at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and one of the coordinators of the joint SET Level project, which focuses on safety in the context of automated driving. In this interview, he explains the importance of simulation and artificial intelligence for the development of automated vehicles.
By Peter Pfalzgraf
PROSTEP has been developing standards-based integration solutions for the Siemens Digital Industries Software product family for many years. We have now expanded our long-standing partnership so that the Polarion ALM™ and the MPM software Teamcenter® for Manufacturing can be integrated in our integration platform OpenPDM. The aim is to provide customers with even greater support for end-to-end digitalization.
By Joachim Christ
Digital Thread or digital continuity are a major challenge for manufacturers of mechatronic and software-driven products. In particular, the integration of application lifecycle management (ALM) with other domains is often still deficient. This is one of the key findings of a joint study presented by PROSTEP subsidiary BHC and PROSTEP in a webinar.
By Michael Buchholz
Heterogeneous IT system landscapes lead to higher IT costs and make collaboration more difficult. Putzmeister has therefore consolidated the CAD and PDM landscape at its French subsidiary PL2M and integrated it in the group-wide environment. The PLM experts at PROSTEP assumed responsibility for converting and migrating the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire data, including the design history, to the NX format.
By Rainer Zeifang
PROSTEP AG is consolidating the activities carried out by its various offices in the Stuttgart area in a new office in Böblingen. The main reasons for choosing the new, state-of-the-art business premises were its attractive location, good transport links, short distances to the carmaker Mercedes-Benz and its proximity to PROSTEP's subsidiary BHC, which is located in the same building.
By Michael Wendenburg
Alongside supply chain and sustainability, digitalization is one of the key challenges facing German companies. They are aware of the importance of their data treasures but find it difficult to exploit their potential. This is the conclusion of a survey conducted by PLM manufacturer Aras among more than 130 top decision-makers from German companies with at least 100 million euros in sales. Click here for the study.
By Karsten Theis
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, PROSTEP continued to grow and hire additional staff during the course of the last business year. We expect an even stronger surge in growth in 2022. We are urgently looking for new employees and partners who can help us turn our ambitious plans for growth into action and provide us with support in implementation projects.
PROSTEP's PLM integration platform OpenPDM can be used in hybrid cloud scenarios since version 9.0. In the future, we will also offer it as an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). In close cooperation with Arena, a PTC Business, we are currently developing a cloud-enabled standard integration between PTC's cloud-native PLM solution Arena, and Atlassian's ALM application Jira, which is also cloud-native.
By Johannes Lützenberger
Digital twins of existing plants facilitate the monitoring of operations, enable more efficient service and accelerate the planning of maintenance and modernization measures. However, setting them up manually is time-consuming and costly. A new white paper by PROSTEP and Schuller & Company describes how the process can be automated through AI-based evaluation of 3D scans and their linkage with P&ID information. Read it on your own (the English white paper is available soon).
