DARMSTADT, Germany, Mar 24, 2025 – PROSTEP, a leading PLM consulting and software company, has partnered with Swiss materials information management pioneer Total Materia. As part of the collaboration, PROSTEP will support the integration of Total Materia’s online material lifecycle management (MLM) solution into customers’ PLM and ERP systems. For this purpose, PROSTEP has developed a new standard connector that connects the Total Materia Integrator environment to common PLM and ERP systems via the OpenPDM integration platform. Customers can either use the integration software as a service from the cloud or install it on-premises.
Manufacturing companies today face the challenge of integrating material information into the digital thread of their products at an early stage of development to generally improve product life-cycle management, be able to calculate the ecological footprint and comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations. This material information is typically managed in specialized databases. One of the world’s largest online material databases is that of material management pioneer Total Materia, containing over 540,000 materials with 25 million property attributes, combined with the ability to manage a customers approved, private view of materials information within their organization.
Total Materia, founded in 1999, is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with its main development office in Belgrade, Serbia. The company is a global leader in material lifecycle management. Its online material reference database offers detailed, reliable data on metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites, helping engineers and manufacturers optimize material selection, improve product performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Total Materia’s customers increasingly value the seamless integration of the MLM platform into their PLM and ERP systems, enabling automatic transformation of material information to digital product data. Thanks to the partnership with PROSTEP, Total Materia is finding a way to leverage the PROSTEP expertise to create a seamless integration layer between two critical engineering software environments. “It is a perfect fit”, says Neil Bauman, COO from Total Materia. “The PLM integration platform OpenPDM offers proven standard connectors for common PLM and ERP systems. This allows us to avoid reinventing the wheel and deliver much high end to end value of our combined solutions to our customers.”
PROSTEP will support Total Materia’s customers with the PLM and ERP integration of their material databases and recommend the Total Materia-solution to its own customers. “Sustainability is playing an increasingly important role for our customers,” says Karsten Theis, CEO of PROSTEP AG. “The partnership with Total Materia allows us to expand our solution portfolio to include the aspect of material lifecycle management and, as a result, provide our customers with even better support in meeting compliance requirements.”
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.
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