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ProSTEP iViP

ProSTEP iViP is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand ProSTEP iViP rather than just read about it. In short: ProSTEP iViP is an association with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Founded in 1993 as the ProSTEP Association for the Promotion of Product Data Standards and later renamed to ProSTEP iViP Association in 2002, and since May 2017 the association's name has been written as "prostep ivip".

Key takeaways

ProSTEP iViP belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect ProSTEP iViP to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of ProSTEP iViP from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

ProSTEP iViP is an association with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Founded in 1993 as the ProSTEP Association for the Promotion of Product Data Standards and later renamed to ProSTEP iViP Association in 2002, and since May 2017 the association's name has been written as "prostep ivip". Prostep ivip is a globally active, independent association of 180 member companies from industry, IT and research.

History After the end of the ProSTEP Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (German acronym: BMW), the ProSTEP Association was founded in 1993. Leading IT managers at BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, Delphi, Opel, Siemens, Volkswagen and 30 other companies realized that the development of modern processes for efficient product data management was crucial to ensuring the ability of German companies to compete in the global marketplace and that they can address their common aims at best when joining under the neutral umbrella of an association.

Organization 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. This tripartism is also reflected within the by-annually elected board of the association: one representative of the manufacturers, one of the suppliers, one of the IT and one of the research institutions. Prostep ivip's Technical Programme, with its currently over 20 running project groups, is governed by the Technical Steering Committee (TSC).

Publications ProSTEP iViP publishes Standards, Recommendations, White Paper and Best Practices together with its partner organizations. For example:

ISO 10303-242:2014: STEP AP 242 - Managed model-based 3D engineering ISO 14306:2012: JT file format specification for 3D visualization OMG Requirements Interchange Format ASD-STAN EN 9300 / AIA NAS 9300 Long-term Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) VDA 4965 - Engineering Change Management (ECM) VDA 4968 - Vehicle Electric Container (VEC) PSI 11 - Smart Systems Engineering (SmartSE) PSI 12 - Manufacturing Change Management (MCM) PSI 13 - OEM-OEM and OEM-Joint Venture Collaboration (PDM to PDM) PSI 14 - JT Industrial Application Package, Format and Use Cases (JTIAP) PSI 15 - Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) PSI 16 - Code of Openness (CPO) DIN SPEC 91383 - JT Industrial Application Package (JTIAP) DIN SPEC 91372 - Code of PLM Openness (CPO) - IT Offenheitskriterien (CPO)

Events Each year in spring prostep ivip conducts one of the world's largest neutral PLM Congresses: the prostep ivip symposium.

References

External links Homepage prostep ivip Symposium YouTube

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with ProSTEP iViP

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what ProSTEP iViP claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to ProSTEP iViP before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about ProSTEP iViP ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of ProSTEP iViP

In research: ProSTEP iViP appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses ProSTEP iViP in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: ProSTEP iViP is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Aerospace, Motor trade associations, Standards organisations in Germany, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for ProSTEP iViP outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study ProSTEP iViP in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what ProSTEP iViP means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain ProSTEP iViP out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is ProSTEP iViP in simple terms?

Why does ProSTEP iViP matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study ProSTEP iViP?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on ProSTEP iViP.