Editorial

At PROSTEP, the future of PLM has already begun

Von Bernd Pätzold

PROSTEP AG is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year – a ripe old age for a company in such a fast-moving industry as ours. During this time, we have developed into a leading vendor-neutral PLM consulting and software company and we never stop moving forward. In order to provide the best possible support for our customers during this period of digital transformation, we are constantly rethinking PLM and integrating new aspects such as Industry 4.0, the digital twin and blockchain. In fact, this is what we have been doing for 25 years. "We Integrate the future" is and remains our motto.

PROSTEP has won over the PLM market

Interview

PROSTEP AG is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, which is a good reason to review the past and look ahead to the future. In this interview, representatives from the manufacturing industry, PLM industry and the research community who have long known and accompanied PROSTEP comment on the company's successful development over recent years, its strengths, and the challenges it will face in the future.

PROSTEP sponsert Fraunhofer Blockchain-Hackathon in Bayreuth

By Mirko Theiß

As a jury sponsor for the Fraunhofer blockchain hackathon, PROSTEP set the participants a tricky challenge: To fraud-proof a "license to drink coffee" using the fair pay-per-use model. And the Fair Pay team, supported by PROSTEP, solved it brilliantly. At the end of the competition, my humble person had the honor to present the winning team with a check for 2,500 euros.

New white paper on collaboration in the PLM context

By Bernd Döbel  

The need for cross-company collaboration is growing. At the same time, the requirements of companies when it comes to IT solutions that support collaboration are becoming more complex. The new PROSTEP white paper on collaboration scenarios in the PLM context outlines the factors to be considered when selecting an appropriate solution and describes possible use cases.

PROSTEP at TdSE: Youthful, refreshing and relevant to industry

By Steven Vettermann

The Systems Engineering Day (TdSE) is to systems engineering experts what the prostep ivip Symposium is to PLM. From the 5th to the 7th of November, more than 400 representatives from industry and research came together in Berlin to discuss problems and solutions relating to systems engineering. PROSTEP has been active at TdSE for years and this year's presence featured a booth and two presentations.

Jansen gives PROSTEP top marks for data migration

By Michael Manderfeld

Migration of CAD and PLM data often presents the greatest obstacle when moving to a different system. With the support of PROSTEP, the Swiss company Jansen AG, which manufactures precision steel tubes and steel profile systems as well as plastic tubes for the construction and industrial sectors, has successfully overcome the challenges of data migration when consolidating its heterogeneous CAD/PLM landscape.

PROSTEP's supervisory board appoints Dr. Karsten Theis to its executive board

By Bernd Pätzold

At its last meeting in November, PROSTEP AG's supervisory board appointed Dr. Karsten Theis to the company's executive board. Theis, who has been with the company for over 15 years and has held a number of different management positions, will be responsible for PROSTEP products, marketing, sales (excluding key accounts) and US business in his new function as deputy chairman of the executive board.

PROSTEP expands OpenPDM by adding 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA connector

By Udo Hering

PROSTEP has added a 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA connector to its OpenPDM PLM integration platform to provide support for the end-to-end digitalization of manufacturing processes. The connector enables DELMIA users to directly access the latest product and production equipment data in the connected PLM and ERP systems during the virtual planning and simulation of manufacturing processes.

German companies need to digitalize their business models

Von Michael Wendenburg

Although 70 percent of German companies assume that a digital business model will be crucial to their future business success, their digitalization measures continue to focus predominantly on the transformation and automation of internal business processes. This is the conclusion reached in a white paper from IDC, which was sponsored by the PLM vendor Dassault Systèmes.

PROSTEP TECHDAY 2018: The right mix of hands-on experience and new products

By Peter Pfalzgraf

PROSTEP TECHDAY, which takes place every two years, serves primarily to inform customers and prospective customers about the latest news and product innovations from PROSTEP, and there were plenty of these this year. In addition, a number of customers reported on the use of PROSTEP solutions in their companies – a well-balanced mix of hands-on experience and product innovations that was very well received by the nearly 50 attendees.

PROSTEP stand well attended at tekom annual conference

By <link typo3 sysext cms layout bearbeiten>Timo Trautmann

The PROSTEP stand at the tekom annual conference in Stuttgart, which is aimed at experts in technical communication, attracted many visitors. PROSTEP showed how they can use intelligent service content solutions to automatically prepare engineering data for downstream processes such as service and after-sales and make the data available, for example, in the form of web-based 3D spare parts catalogs or as interactive 3D service documentation.

New web pages on migration, integration, collaboration and OpenPDM

By Joachim Christ

Versatile, tried and tested, and for the most part invisible: OpenPDM is our all-purpose tool for PLM migration, integration and collaboration and provides the basis for the comprehensive range of services we offer. Learn how you can use OpenPDM with our support to migrate or seamlessly integrate your PLM systems or better integrate collaboration partners without risk on our redesigned OpenPDM web pages.

Save the date

By Joachim Christ

Our members will be happy to provide you with information personally at the following events. We look forward to seeing you there.

COExperience, New Orleans, USA	24.-27. February 2019
Advanced Digital Engineering Summit, Stuttgart, Germany	27.-28. February 2019
tekom Frühjahrstagung 2019, Wien, Austria	21.-22. March 2019
Compit 2019, Tullamore, Irland	25. March 2019
HMI 2019, Hannover, Germany	01.-05. April 2019
prostep ivip Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany	09.-10. April 2019
PTC LiveWorx, Boston, USA	10.-13. June 2019
5. Serviceforum, Fellbach, Germany	03. July 2019
Realize Live (Siemens), Detroit, USA	04.- 07.July 2019
Daimler EDM CAE Forum, Stuttgart, Germany	17.-18. July 2019