DARMSTADT, Germany, Mar 21, 2024 – The PROSTEP Group will be celebrating a milestone birthday this year. As a recognized expert for PLM integration, it has been providing customers in the automotive industry, mechanical and plant engineering, shipbuilding and other industries with support when it comes to digitalizing their business processes, and thus ensuring digital continuity, for 30 years. Over the course of three decades, PROSTEP has become the leading vendor-neutral PLM consulting and software company with a comprehensive range of solutions and consulting services for manufacturing industry.
ProSTEP Produktdatentechnologie GmbH, as the company was originally called, grew up with the topic of standards. It was founded as the operational arm of the ProSTEP Association with the aim of proving support to industry in the context of implementing the STEP standard. A major milestone was transformation of the limited liability company (GmbH) into a stock corporation (AG) in 2001. It set further professionalization of PROSTEP’s commercial service offerings and expansion of the network of branch offices in motion.
PROSTEP is headquartered in Darmstadt and today has five offices in Germany and a subsidiary in Poland, which strengthens software development.
The founding of the US subsidiary PROSTEP, Inc. in Troy, Michigan, near Detroit, in 2006 marked the first milestone in the company’s international expansion.
The group aims to further expand its international footprint in the coming years.
Acquisition of the Böblingen-based company BHC GmbH, which specializes in application lifecycle management (ALM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) consulting for mechatronic and software-driven products, was also a key milestone in PROSTEP’s further development. It represents a strategic expansion of the group’s comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions. Following the retirement of long-time CEO Bernd Pätzold last year, BHC’s managing director, Philipp Hasenäcker, is now responsible for guiding the fortunes of the company together with his colleague on the management board, Karsten Theis.
“Always being at the forefront of new technologies and always ensuring that our customers are our top priority was and is the secret of our success,” says Philipp Hasenäcker. “We maintain close contacts with all leading PLM vendors and pursue an intensive exchange of ideas with many research institutes. We also regularly participate in key innovation projects involving topics like the digital twin, digital thread, autonomous driving and sustainability.”
The flagship solutions in PROSTEP’s product portfolio are the world’s leading PLM integration platform OpenPDM and the data exchange solution OpenDXM GlobalX, which has been established on the market for many years. In 2021, the two products were expanded to include the digital thread solution OpenCLM, which enables the cross-domain linking of data in different IT systems.
PROSTEP’s OpenDESC.com team also help customers with data logistics from CAD conversion to data migration and quality assurance thorough to the transfer of data to the receiving systems.
An important mainstay alongside the solutions business are the PLM/ALM consulting services and custom software development services that we provide to major OEMs in the automotive and aviation industries and other sectors. We have been helping some of them with the ongoing further development of their PLM and ALM system landscapes for many years.
We also advise larger SMEs in particular in the context of defining their PLM/ALM strategies and help them implement these strategies, i.e. modernize their system landscapes.
The PROSTEP Group has grown steadily in recent years and now has a workforce of over 300 from more than 25 countries. As Karsten Theis points out, “Diversity and integration have always been the main pillars of our corporate culture. PROSTEP is synonymous with tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity. Extremist ideologies have no place with us.”
About PROSTEP Inc.
PROSTEP Inc., the fastest growing PLM solutions, systems integration, and migration consultant in the North American region for the discrete manufacturing industry, is the wholly-owned subsidiary of leading global parent company PROSTEP AG.
Located in the US automotive industry hub, Troy, MI, PROSTEP provides PLM solutions across industries including Automotive, Aerospace, Shipbuilding, and other manufacturing.
For more information about PROSTEP Inc., visit https://prostep.us.
About PROSTEP Group
PROSTEP Group is recognized as a partner to the leading manufacturing companies worldwide. We count the top companies in this industry among our customers. PROSTEP is an independent consulting and solution development company, but also supplies ready-made product solutions. Our strength lies in a combination of industry-specific expertise, process know-how and technological competence. We offer our customers competent consultancy services, a comprehensive range of other services, and innovative solutions covering every aspect of product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM).
The PROSTEP Group has a current headcount of more than 300 in Germany, Poland and the USA. In addition to its headquarters in Darmstadt, PROSTEP also maintains branch offices in Berlin, Boeblingen, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Wolfsburg, as well as in Wrocław (Poland), Troy, Michigan (USA) and its subsidiary BHC in Boeblingen.
