Siegfried Heinz, CEO Kronion GmbH
The Openness initiative of the ProSTEP iViP Association supports this in an excellent manner and consequently Kronion has signed the CPO statement.
Data management, data analysis and a collaboration along the supply chain requires the connection of different software products.
Kronion as a leading vendor of that kind of products for 3D Measurement management follows this strategy extended by Industry 4.0, Smart Factory and other digitalization visions in the manufacturing industries.
Dr. Bernd Pätzold, CEO PROSTEP AG
To PROSTEP customers, standards and system openness that extends beyond the boundaries of individual systems are essential prerequisites within a company and when collaborating with partners. This also applies to current topics such as IoT and Industry 4.0, which cannot be implemented without the interconnection of systems and data.
As a 100% PLM company in the manufacturing industry, PROSTEP provides services and solutions across different disciplines and across companies.
This is why PROSTEP and its customers depend on open software systems in the PLM environment to seamlessly integrate systems, data and processes throughout the entire product lifecycle.
As one of the first companies to sign the CPO, PROSTEP has been synonymous with system openness ever since it was founded. The CPO initiative is, for PROSTEP, a guarantee of interoperability between systems and companies and a precondition for the digitalization of companies.
Dr.-Ing. Sam. Saltiel, Chief Communications Officer BETA CAE Systems International AG
CPO Statement of BETA CAE Systems
We also acknowledge that broad co-operations and strong alliances are necessary for the realization of best PLM solutions and practices.
In BETA CAE Systems, we believe that the openness and the standardization in data exchange are key ingredients for the evolution and deployment of effective PLM.
As systems’ interoperability and good business ethics are high in our strategic agenda, we support the "Code of PLM Openness (CPO)" initiative and we are aligned to its values and principles.

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Joining the CPO Initiative

We provide the relevant CPO-related documents as a CPO Download Package (CPO Document, CPO Commentary, CPO Community Bylaws).

For IT Customers and IT Service Providers (cf. Organization) the process is very simple:

Sign the CPO document (cf. page 13 of the CPO)
Send a scan of signed document via e-mail.

For IT Vendors the process is twofold:

Please follow the process for IT Customers and IT Service Providers (cf. above)
Additionally, within three month after signing the CPO IT Vendors shall provide a so-called CPO Statement, which document the fulfillment of the CPO criteria by the company’s software.

The cornerstones of a CPO statement are:

Providing a CPO Statement is inevitable for every IT Vendor within the CPO initiative
It should be provided at latest three month after signing the CPO.
For documenting the CPO Statement the related template shall be applied. of an IT vendor comprises (cf. CPO Statement Template)
Thereby the CPO Commentary offers help to apply the CPO and the Template as intended.

The CPO Statement template shall be used for the statement's documentation. In general there are two possibilities for making it publicly available:

Without further request, the vendor provides the URL to the relevant CPO Statement(s) within its website, so that we can set a related link at CPO Signees.
Without further request, the vendor provides its CPO Statement as PDF, so that we can provide a related link at CPO Signees.

For feedbacks on the CPO itself or on a certain CPO statement, please send an e-mail to psi-issues(at)prostep.org.