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PROSTEP Newsletter 2|2022

New business models need the digital twin

By Karsten Theis

New service-oriented business models not only encourage a more sustainable economy but also represent a financial win-win situation for both providers and consumers. Manufacturers who offer their products as a service retain their customers over the long term and gain easier access to operational data that enables them to optimize products while they are in operation and make targeted improvements to the next generation of products. Customers reduce their investment costs or transform them into running costs. They get what the product is supposed to do in the form of a service at a clearly calculable conditions without having to worry about maintenance or replacement.

Too much variance overwhelms customers

An interview with Prof. Dr. Georg Rock

It is not just cars that are increasingly being tailored to customers’ wishes but also other products. As a result, the number of variants is increasing. Professor Georg Rock from the Software Engineering department at Trier University of Applied Sciences explains how manufacturers can better get to grips with variants and what challenges they face when managing them. He is a specialist in variant management.

AI-based preparation of 3D scan data for plants

By Johannes Lützenberger

Up-to-date 3D documentation not only makes it easier to maintain and operate plants, it is also vital when it comes to modernizing them. However, creating CAD models or digital twins of existing plants manually is a time-consuming and costly process. PROSTEP's AI-based 3DigitalTwin solution can make this process much faster.

New whitepaper on the digital thread in manufacturing process planning

By Mirko Theiß

In order to make production processes more flexible and control them more efficiently, IT systems for manufacturing process planning must be seamlessly integrated into the digital information flows between the PDM/PLM and ERP worlds. This white paper explains how the digital thread can be spun from product development through manufacturing process planning to production.

Modules for efficient PLM system selection

Many manufacturing companies work with PDM/PLM solutions that are not being developed further and/or are no longer able to meet changed functional requirements. They often lack employees who have the skills needed to find an alternative. As a vendor-neutral consulting company that knows the PLM market well, PROSTEP can provide them with the support they need when it comes to selecting an appropriate system.

OpenPDM supports new use cases for the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud

By Mirko Theiß

Last year, PROSTEP introduced the first connector that connects the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud to OpenPDM, thus allowing engineering data and ERP data to be linked via the integration platform. PROSTEP has continued to develop the connector and now additional data objects can be exchanged and geometry information can be made available in native or neutral formats.

New market study: Digital transformation requires employees with new skills

By Michael Wendenburg

Mechanical and plant engineering in Germany is in the midst of digital transformation. This means fundamental technological changes, which at the same time require new skills from employees. The study "Future Skills in Mechanical and Plant Engineering", which was conducted by the VDMA in cooperation with the consulting firm Kienbaum, explains what these skills are.

PROSTEP showcases new application in VDMA's blockchain panel

By Martin Holland

In the middle of last year, a blockchain committee was founded at the VDMA with the aim of establishing a platform for the exchange of information on blockchain technology. At the last meeting of the committee, PROSTEP presented a use case that shows how the authorship of complex CAD models can be proven beyond doubt using the technology.

New website shows the facets of the digital thread solution OpenCLM

By Rainer Zeifang

Do you want to manage your development projects more efficiently and ensure the traceability of processes and deliverables? PROSTEP's new OpenCLM website has the solution. With our lightweight, intuitive, cloud-based digital thread application, you can link product information across system and domain boundaries and make it easily accessible to all project participants.

Great interest in the SAMPL demonstrator at the Forum Digital Technologies

By Martin Holland

At the Forum Digital Technologies in Berlin, over 2,000 people have seen the demonstrator of the blockchain solution that PROSTEP developed together with partners as part of the SAMPL project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). The solution enables the tamper-proof exchange of 3D print and process data and the unambiguous identification of the printed components.

Save the date

By Joachim Christ


Siemens PLM Connection, Seeheim, Germany and virtual Event	21. - 22. June 2022

Compit, Pontignano, Italy	21. - 23. June 2022

PROSTEP SHIPBUILDING PLM INSIGHTS Episode 4 SPECIAL: Live from Office – PLM Architecture	22. June 2022

Daimler Digital Product Forum, Stuttgart, Germany and virtual Event	20. - 21. July 2022

Digital Spare Parts World Europe 2022, Essen, Germany	13. - 14. September 2022

ICCAS 2022, Yokohama, Japan	13. - 15. September 2022

3DEXPERIENCE Conference, Darmstadt, Deutschland	14. - 15. September 2022

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