Value proposition

Your Digitalization Partner

prostep ivip is an association with its headquarter in Darmstadt, Germany. It is a globally active, independent association of 180 member companies from industry, IT and research. As an industry-driven association it focuses on the digital transformation in product creation and production. By designing the digital transformation in the manufacturing industry prostep ivip defines and aggregates the requirements of manufacturers and suppliers, with the goal of defining standards and interfaces primarily for the digitalization of the entire product creation process – from idea to implementation.

Founded in 1993 as ProSTEP Association for the Promotion of Product Data Standards and renamed to ProSTEP iViP Association in 2002.

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.

Standardization, Process Integration, Interoperability Assurance, Methods Development, Digitalization, MBSE, Systems Engineering, and Collaborative Digital Twin