Honda Joined the Prostep Ivip Community

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Honda joined the prostep ivip community

Darmstadt, 22 May 2017 – Great news: After Toyota, Honda is now the second Japanese car manufacturer who wants to benefit from the experiences gathered in prostep ivip and who will play an active role in our community. Special interest of Honda lies in exchanging experiences for supporting collaborative engineering processes. Thereby the standard-based exchange via STEP AP 242 and JT is seen promising. Additionally, topics like ALM-PLM Interoperability and IT-Openness, address by prostep ivip’s CPO-initiative, are in Focus. Prof. Dr. Oliver Riedel, Chair of prostep ivip’s Board states “We welcome the experts of Honda in our community. This is an engaged step forward. Big Japanese players, like Denso, Fujitsu and Toyota already take advantage of the prostep ivip membership. We are glad, that our efforts in the past year to strengthen the Japanese community within prostep ivip bear such remarkable fruits.”

About the prostep ivip Association prostep ivip is a leading global independent network of participants from industry, IT, and research. This industry association is focused on the digital transformation in product development and production. As a driving force behind the digital transformation in the manufacturing industry, prostep ivip focuses and coordinates the requirements of manufacturers and suppliers. The goal is to define standards and interfaces, especially for the digitization of the entire product creation process – from idea to implementation. prostep ivip is an association based in Darmstadt, Germany. It was founded in September 1993 on the behest of 38 well-known industrial and numerous IT companies, originally as part of the German STEP initiative. The association currently has 180 members from 20 countries.

For more information on the prostep ivip Association, visit www.prostep.org.

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