Matthias Keller, Head of Product Data Management, Volkswagen AG
Motivation and expected benefits leading Volkswagen to sign the CPO
Volkswagen, like all other automotive OEM’s, has invested highly in its existing IT systems.
The migration to new systems - especially for large monolithic systems - requires huge efforts and costs.
Hence the extreme importance for Volkswagen for the assurance of interoperability, supportability, cost effective maintainability and scalability of the implemented systems.
The signatories to the CPO commit to these aims.
Andy Timm
Chief Technology Officer PTC
PTC supports the Code of PLM Openness
Evolution around PLM is fast and exciting but depends on
A robust foundation
Reliable interfaces to grow, change and connect digital environments
The freedom to think forward to a digital future
That’s why PTC joined the CPO Board in 2011 and was the first Vendor signing the CPO as soon as it was released. Raise of Industry 4.0 and Internet of things shows even more: The digital heritage of the 90es, characterized by heavy customization and some protective behavior, needs to be cleaned up in the sense of openness. There will always be a necessary tension between standardization and innovation. But it should not be bigger than necessary. And the more reliable the openness between ours, our competitors and our customers and partners environments is, that better will it be for the business of all of us.

More openness -> More business
Peter Schroer, President & Founder Aras Corp
Aras Support for Codex of PLM Openness (CPO)
We are a signatory member of Codex of PLM Openness (CPO) to confirm our long term commitment to openness.
At Aras we believe that every company has unique and complex data & process models, and that software should be adapted to fit those models, rather than the business compromised to fit the software.
Our enterprise open source model gives organizations control to evaluate, implement and deploy a PLM solution.
To enable true interoperability, portability and extensibility we provide an open architecture which features an open data model and open interfaces, and we are committed to open Web standards in our technology implementations.
Jim Rusk, Chief Technology Officer Siemens PLM Software
CPO - Motivation and expected benefits at Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software considers openness critical to the digital enterprise so that all phases of the product and production lifecycle are connected by a comprehensive digital data model regardless of where the data originated.
Customers need the support of software vendors and service providers to optimize the re-use of digital data, facilitating collaboration across ideation, realization and utilization processes. Incompatible data formats and versioning problems that inhibit data re-use and collaboration are counter productive and need to be eliminated.
Dr. Elmar Pritsch CIO Robert Bosch GmbH
As a leading company in numerous industrial areas, Robert Bosch GmbH follows the strategy to enhance business by connecting products as well as offering additional services.
With an IOT approach in focus, connectivity of things and services is the key for all applications. To achieve this, collaborative development is essential.
Because of this, Bosch is deeply interested in tools that enable organizations with different requirements and tool chains to collaborate within product creation.
The CPO is a promising initiative to support this. Consequently, Bosch was one of the first companies to sign CPO and expects increased effectiveness with the establishment of a certification process.

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CPO: Plug and Play in IT

Industry 4.0, IoT, and other trends are clearly driving a rise in complexity. This relates not only to products but also to processes used to develop and produce them as well as the IT systems in use here. With this greater complexity comes greater costs. While industry is increasingly facing challenges related cost pressures, legacy systems, and the demand for greater agility and flexibility, the issue of vendor lock is also being heard more and more.

The Code of Openness (CPO) is an initiative of the prostep ivip Association, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, which seeks to address the associated challenges by taking a strategy unique anywhere. The acronym ‘CPO’ originally stood for Code of PLM Openness.

The aim of the CPO is to create openness that will make it easy to integrate IT systems into connected IT environments, such as company networks and IoT. The code combines IT requirements with those of the users. The CPO is a standard catalogue that defines measurable criteria (‘shall,’ ‘should,’ ‘may’) for the following categories: interoperability, infrastructure, extensibility, interfaces, standards, architecture, and partnership.

Alongside the CPO initiative that is working to promote the use of the CPO in industrial applications, an accredited CPO certification program was set up.

How You Benefit

CPO is a clear signal and invitation to all global market players, whether they are members of the prostep ivip Association or not, to participate.

The CPO is an important step towards the future for IT vendors as well as IT customers in aerospace and defense, automotive, mechanical engineering, and shipbuilding. The initiative is necessary to speed up the pace at which innovation and technical progress make their way into the IT systems in use in industry.

IT customers can stake out a clear position together with IT service providers and IT vendors and outline their basic requirements for PLM openness, helping achieve the agility, flexibility, and speed they need to further develop their PLM system environments while also safeguarding their investments.

Along with seeking certification, IT vendors and IT service providers receive harmonized, clearly defined requirements regarding the openness of IT systems as well as the wide range of information they need to create an innovative product range. Long-term business strategies are made easier by creating openness in this area. A commitment to the CPO does not mean giving your services away. It means working together with your customers and other parties involved to establish the parameters of a strong partnership.

In short, the code allows you to improve your market position.