PartMaster GmbH is Now a Member of the ProSTEP iViP Association

“Our membership was long overdue”, said Steffen Nowacki, man-aging director of the company, which is headquartered in Rostock. “We have been working together with the Association for some time now within the context of developing the OMG (Object Management Group) standard, ‘PLM Services 1.0’. It therefore made sense to officially join the Association.”

PartMaster GmbH was founded a year ago as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) and the Com-puter Graphics Center (ZGDV e.V.). The company is developing a framework for online product data integration on the basis of the new OMG standard with the automotive industry as its target indus-try. In this industry, the OEMs and suppliers involved in a vehicle project usually use a number of different PDM systems, and data integration is performed using customized special solutions or a great deal of manual work.

“The standardization of these PDM system interfaces using power-ful technologies such as Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) not only means that data ex-change is raised to a new level of quality but also that efficient, in-tegrated data processing can be performed with the help of special software modules. This does not only make sense financially but is also of great significance to the future of the industry”, Steffen Nowacki continued. “We are looking forward to exchanging informa-tion on the experience gained in this area with other members of the ProSTEP iViP Association and to demonstrating the capabilities of our technology in projects carried out together with users.

The ProSTEP iViP Association offers young, new companies in-volved in the area of product lifecycle management a special “PLM Start Up” membership. PartMaster GmbH is taking advantage of this opportunity to be involved in the Association.

For more Information on ProSTEP iViP, visit: www.prostep.org.