ProSTEP iViP


ProSTEP iViP is an association with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Founded in 1993 as the ProSTEP Association for the Promotion of Product Data Standards and later renamed to ProSTEP iViP Association in 2002, and since May 2017 the association's name has been written as "prostep ivip". Prostep ivip is a globally active, independent association of 180 member companies from industry, IT and research.
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History

After the end of the ProSTEP Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, 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.

Organization

40% of today's 180 member companies in prostep ivip are manufacturing companies, 40% are IT companies and service providers and 20% are research institutions and other standardization bodies. 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. Prostep ivip's Technical Programme, with its currently over 20 running project groups, is governed by the Technical Steering Committee.

Publications

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

Events

Each year in spring prostep ivip conducts one of the world's largest neutral PLM Congresses: the prostep ivip symposium.