PROSTEP, a leading PLM consulting and software company, has partnered with Swiss materials information management pioneer Total Materia. As part of the collaboration, PROSTEP will support the integration of Total Materia's online material lifecycle management (MLM) solution into customers' PLM and ERP systems. For this purpose, PROSTEP has developed a new standard connector that connects the Total Materia Integrator environment to common PLM and ERP systems via the OpenPDM integration platform. Customers can either use the integration software as a service from the cloud or install it on-premises.
Manufacturing companies today face the challenge of integrating material information into the digital thread of their products at an early stage of development to generally improve product life-cycle management, be able to calculate the ecological footprint and comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations. This material information is typically managed in specialized databases. One of the world's largest online material databases is that of material management pioneer Total Materia, containing over 540,000 materials with 25 million property attributes, combined with the ability to manage a customers approved, private view of materials information within their organization.
Total Materia, founded in 1999, is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with its main development office in Belgrade, Serbia. The company is a global leader in material lifecycle management. Its online material reference database offers detailed, reliable data on metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites, helping engineers and manufacturers optimize material selection, improve product performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Total Materia's customers increasingly value the seamless integration of the MLM platform into their PLM and ERP systems, enabling automatic transformation of material information to digital product data. Thanks to the partnership with PROSTEP, Total Materia is finding a way to leverage the PROSTEP expertise to create a seamless integration layer between two critical engineering software environments. "It is a perfect fit”, says Neil Bauman, COO from Total Materia. “The PLM integration platform OpenPDM offers proven standard connectors for common PLM and ERP systems. This allows us to avoid reinventing the wheel and deliver much high end to end value of our combined solutions to our customers.”
PROSTEP will support Total Materia's customers with the PLM and ERP integration of their material databases and recommend the Total Materia-solution to its own customers. "Sustainability is playing an increasingly important role for our customers," says Karsten Theis, CEO of PROSTEP AG. "The partnership with Total Materia allows us to expand our solution portfolio to include the aspect of material lifecycle management and, as a result, provide our customers with even better support in meeting compliance requirements."
