ProSTEP iViP

After the end of the ProSTEP Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (German acronym: BMW), the ProSTEP Association was founded in 1993. Leading IT managers at BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, Delphi, Opel, Siemens, Volkswagen and 30 other companies realized that the development of modern processes for efficient product data management was crucial to ensuring the ability of German companies to compete in the global marketplace and that they can address their common aims at best when joining under the neutral umbrella of an association.[http://www.prostep.org/en/profile.html prostep ivip profile], as of January 2017.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emko_EjDAD8 prostep ivip: 25 years of digital transformation], as of August 2018.

The starting point for this endeavor was the joint development of the STEP data format (ISO 10303). In 2002, it merged with the initiative "Integrated Virtual Product Creation (German acronym: iViP)" of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (German acronym: BMBF), which led to a massive scope extension. Up to today, the prostep ivip association remains committed to developing new approaches to end-to-end process, system and data integration for its members and providing digital support for all the phases of the product creation process.

40% of today's 180 member companies in prostep ivip are manufacturing companies (manufacturers and suppliers), 40% are IT companies and service providers and 20% are research institutions and other standardization bodies.[http://www.prostep.org/en/profile/members.html prostep ivip Member List], as of January 2017. This tripartism is also reflected within the by-annually elected board of the association: one representative of the manufacturers, one of the suppliers, one of the IT and one of the research institutions.[http://www.prostep.org/en/profile/board.html prostep ivip Board], as of January 2017. Prostep ivip's Technical Programme, with its currently over 20 running project groups, is governed by the Technical Steering Committee (TSC).[http://www.prostep.org/en/projects.html prostep ivip Technical Program], as of January 2017.

Prostep ivip maintains and continuously expands its network toward like-minded organizations. Examples for these organizations are AIA, ISO, OMG as well as associations like the French [http://www.galia.com/en/dyn/AboutUs.asp GALIA], the Japanese JAMA, the US-based [https://www.pdesinc.org/ PDES, Inc.], the German [https://www.vda.de/en/association/organization/organization-committees/working-group-PLM.html VDA] .

ProSTEP iViP publishes Standards, Recommendations, White Paper and Best Practices together with its partner organizations. For example:

• ISO 10303-242:2014: [http://www.ap242.org/ STEP AP 242 - Managed model-based 3D engineering]
• ISO 14306:2012: JT file format specification for 3D visualization
• OMG Requirements Interchange Format[http://www.automotiveit.com/daimler-it-exec-standards-will-help-manage-engineering-complexity/news/id-0010695 Daimler IT Exec: Standards will help manage engineering complexity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819190025/http://www.automotiveit.com/daimler-it-exec-standards-will-help-manage-engineering-complexity/news/id-0010695 |date=2016-08-19 }}, as of August 2015.[http://www.plmportal.org/en/standard-reqif.html ReqIF – Standard for Automated Interchange of Requirements], as of May 2015.
• ASD-STAN EN 9300 / AIA NAS 9300 [http://www.lotar-international.org/ Long-term Archiving and Retrieval] (LOTAR)
• VDA 4965 - Engineering Change Management (ECM)
• VDA 4968 - [http://ecad-wiki.prostep.org/doku.php Vehicle Electric Container] (VEC)
• PSI 11 - [http://www.prostep.org/en/medialibrary/publications/recommendations-standards.html#c1077 Smart Systems Engineering] (SmartSE)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3iIot0fO8&t=52s Benefits of utilizing FMI for realizing cross-company Systems Engineering], as of December 2016
• PSI 12 - [http://www.prostep.org/en/medialibrary/publications/recommendations-standards.html#c1077 Manufacturing Change Management] (MCM)
• PSI 13 - [http://www.prostep.org/en/medialibrary/publications/recommendations-standards.html#c1077 OEM-OEM and OEM-Joint Venture Collaboration] (PDM to PDM)
• PSI 14 - [http://www.prostep.org/en/medialibrary/publications/recommendations-standards.html#c1077 JT Industrial Application Package, Format and Use Cases] (JTIAP)
• PSI 15 - [http://www.prostep.org/en/medialibrary/publications/recommendations-standards.html#c1077 Enterprise Rights Management] (ERM)
• PSI 16 - Code of Openness (CPO)
• DIN SPEC 91383 - [https://www.beuth.de/en/technical-rule/din-spec-91383/293817912 JT Industrial Application Package] (JTIAP)
• DIN SPEC 91372 - [https://www.beuth.de/en/technical-rule/din-spec-91372-1/284985634 Code of PLM Openness (CPO) - IT Offenheitskriterien] (CPO)

Each year in spring prostep ivip conducts one of the world's largest neutral PLM Congresses: the prostep ivip symposium.[https://www.prostep.org/en/events prostep ivip events], as of December 2016 Beside this, it invites to smaller topic-specific events and Webinars.

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• [https://www.prostep.org/en.html Homepage]
• [https://www.prostep-ivip-symposium.org/en prostep ivip Symposium]
• [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCri1XJsdA8VUjKnRStBgD1w YouTube]

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