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2022 was another record year for North American PLM integration and migration expert PROSTEP, Inc. This marks the fourth consecutive year of record growth. PROSTEP’s enterprise-grade commercial off the shelf (COTS) software for PLM integration, migration and collaboration, data exchange, and digital thread led growth with a 40% increase in year-over-year bookings. PROSTEP, Inc. does not publish specific financial figures independently of the PROSTEP Group’s annual report.

Darmstadt, May 2023 – In the absence of a universally accepted format for exchanging 3D data, shipyards, design offices and classification societies have up until now continued to exchange drawings of the hull structure, especially in the early design phase. With OCX, however, that is due to change. The companies involved want to establish drawing-free processes and drastically reduce the time and effort needed to create drawings or new designs in special calculation tools with the help of the new standard. As a member of the OCX consortium, PROSTEP develops solutions that enable the use of OCX data in IT systems that do not yet support this standard.

PROSTEP AG is expanding and rejuvenating its executive board: PROSTEP’s supervisory board has appointed Philipp Hasenäcker, managing director of PROSTEP’s subsidiary BHC GmbH, to the company’s executive board, effective 1 May 2023. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for consulting and will help his two colleagues on the executive board, Bernd Pätzold and Karsten Theis, expand the company’s consulting and solutions offering in the direction of software-driven business.