To be successful on the market, you need to be able to establish cooperative ventures and collaborative projects and dismantle them again quickly, securely and reliably. We provide you with support for developing different collaboration models, such as consortium projects, risk-sharing projects, partnerships with development service providers or system suppliers for example, which place different demands on the level of data and process integration.

A key requirement when collaborating within the framework of joint ventures is the ability to provide your partners with the licensed development data that they need to perform their tasks while simultaneously protecting your own data. At the same time, you want to continue to use the components that have been further developed by the joint venture. PROSTEP helps you selectively extract the data required for projects that are being conducted jointly and synchronize it at regular intervals.

Requirements in terms of data security and data quality when exchanging CAD and PLM data are becoming increasingly stringent. PROSTEP not only offers companies leading solutions for the secure and reliable exchange of data via the Internet or OFTP connections, we also help you convert your data and automate your internal and cross-enterprise exchange processes.

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The use of 3D model-based product descriptions is the first step on the path towards a completely digital product model that also includes electronics- and software-specific information. PROSTEP helps you link the information located in different data silos in such a way that it can be used in the core processes of an enhanced digital company, e.g. for interdisciplinary tasks such as systems engineering.

If business processes are to become more agile, all the technical documentation required for decision-making, design reviews, internal and external collaboration and production must be made available in electronic form. PROSTEP's experts advise and provide you with support for establishing paperless and drawingless processes using enhanced 3D models and for merging geometric, technological and administrative data in 3D PDF containers for long-term archiving purposes.

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the way business transactions are conducted over the Internet of Things and Services. Companies around the world are investing billions of dollars in testing the technology and developing blockchain-based applications and services, not only in the fields of finance and logistics but also in industrial environments. PROSTEP is one of the first PLM providers to use this technology to optimize PLM processes and to implement it in one of its software solutions. We help our customers exploit the potential offered by blockchain technology for the benefit of their company.

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Autonomously driving vehicles must master all critical driving situations in order to obtain approval. Testing their behaviour on the road alone would be far too risky and time-consuming. This is why renowned automobile manufacturers and suppliers together with leading German research institutes and software houses, want to develop methods and tool chains for the digital validation and homologation of highly automated (Level 4) and autonomous (Level 5) vehicles in urban environments. We have been involved right from the start!

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Agile development methods ensure the fast and needs-oriented implementation of customer requirements and enable quick wins, which contribute to a higher level of acceptance among users. The software developers at PROSTEP work with methods like Scrum in a modern, benefit-oriented development process with short feedback cycles. This ensures that business-critical functions are implemented first and that resources are deployed in a results-oriented fashion.

When it comes to business-critical applications, scalability, stability and security are key requirements. We work with your company to develop scalable, secure and stable Java Enterprise architectures with a large number of frameworks and technologically tested concepts for configuration, data and transaction security, multi-user operation, etc. We put our faith in efficient database technologies like Oracle and MongoDB.

Although the range of functions offered by commercial PLM systems has become every extensive in recent years, companies often need complex add-on functions that are not available on the market. The software developers at PROSTEP are familiar with the leading PLM systems and are therefore able to develop PLM add-ons for different system environments that will enable you to differentiate yourselves from your competitors.

Many companies want to merge 3D models and data from other data sources in a single web interface. Thanks the use of HOOPS technologies from Tech Soft 3D, we are able to visualize 3D data PLM information in browsers with HTML5 support. Using ThingWorx and other IoT (Internet of Things) platforms, we can combine a variety of different data sources, including the sensor data collected during the operation of products for example, in a single user interface.

Introducing PLM is also, and above all, an organizational task that requires a great deal of project management experience. We here at PROSTEP bring with us the experience gained from countless projects and have developed best practices for agile project management. We assume the role of the project owner, ensure that the requirements of the specialist departments are taken into consideration during implementation, create the operating concept and take measures to make the changes as easy on the users as possible.

Implementing PLM also requires in-depth technical knowledge of the system involved. Our experts have the requisite implementation know-how for all leading PLM systems and can therefore provide you with the support you need to adapt the data model, set up a rights management facility and design the workflows. We also specify the interfaces for the best possible integration of the PLM system in your IT landscape.

Openness and scalability are essential when it comes to the future viability of PLM solutions, which have to be able to deal with new and changing requirements. As vendor-neutral consultants, we are in a position to provide an overview of the PLM market as a whole and we maintain good contacts to the major system vendors. We help you select a system – using benchmarks for example – and thus enable you to ensure the future viability of your PLM solution.

Heterogeneous and error-prone PLM processes make it difficult for many companies to deploy their globally distributed resources more efficiently. Standardizing these processes is a prerequisite for cutting lead times. The consultants from PROSTEP analyze your process landscape, identify deviations between current and target processes and draw up proposals for uniform, enterprise-wide processes. We also provide you with support for digitalizing your processes.

Your PLM strategy should be geared to your company's goals and identify the areas of activity that offer the greatest potential benefits. Using an analysis of the current situation as a starting point, we work together with you to define a robust strategy and the roadmap for its implementation. We use standardized methods to gather information about your IT architecture and develop a PLM infrastructure that takes account of organizational structures and process requirements.

The development of complex, cybertronic products and systems, which include increasing amounts electronics and software and are interlinked with other systems, gives rise to more complex processes and a growing need for harmonization between disciplines. Systems engineering is a systematic approach to making this complexity easier to manage and validating digital products quickly and efficiently. PROSTEP helps you break down the boundaries between disciplines, processes and systems with the aid of systems engineering and improve the integration of your product development activities.

Monolithic PLM architectures are increasingly being replaced by modular and intelligently networked, best-in-class solutions that are better equipped to deal with dynamically changing process requirements. PROSTEP provides companies with support when cross-linking the PLM information residing in different system environments like PLM, ALM, ERP and SDM to ensure that up-to-date PLM data is always available in its entirety throughout the company. The use of open industry standards such as STEP, JT and OSLC make our integrations future-proof.

Do you needs to reduce the number of discontinuities between systems along your value-added chain and integrate newly acquired business units in your established processes? Would you like to exploit the synergies offered by uniform IT support for processes such as development, procurement, partner communication, etc.? We offer you tried-and-tested strategies for integrating and standardizing your PLM system landscape with the temporary coexistence of different data sources.

Replacing existing CAD and PLM systems or consolidating heterogeneous system environments means that large amounts of design data and master data need to be migrated. PROSTEP provides you with advice when it comes to defining the best strategy for transferring the data and helps you clean up, classify and convert the existing data and automatically transfer it to the new system environment.

Have you sold part of your company and now have to extract it together with its development activities from your existing IT infrastructure without compromising your ability to work and at the same time ensuring that your know-how is protected? Thanks to our many years of experience in the field of data migration, we are in a position to provide you with effective support when it comes to unbundling data and systems.

Take advantage of our many years of experience and cross-industry know-how.

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The world's leading product suite OpenPDM supports a wide variety of application scenarios.

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