Talking with… Alain Pfouga

How can AI improve the efficiency and effectiveness of product development processes? What added value will companies derive from the AI Marketplace? And what does the prostep ivip association have to do with it? We are talking with Dr. Alain Pfouga, Rachel Bauer and Nora Tazir about their take on the AI Marketplace project.

You want to know his answers? Take a look here: youtu.be/etJ-9acn8LA

The prostep ivip association is dedicated to the development of forward-looking solutions and standards for product data management and virtual product creation. In doing so, it bundles the interests of manufacturers and suppliers in the manufacturing industry, as well as IT providers in close cooperation with science and research, in order to enable its members to achieve long-term competitive advantages through more efficient processes, methods and systems. The association was founded in 1993 based on the insight of well-known IT managers from BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, Delphi, Opel, Siemens, Volkswagen and 30 others that the competitiveness of German companies will be largely determined by the development of modern methods for efficient product data management. Further information can be found here: www.prostep.org.

Further expert interviews are available here:

Marc Foullois, Fraunhofer IEM
Ulrich Ahle, FIWARE Foundation
Ruslan Bernijazov, Fraunhofer IEM
Christoph Mertens, IDSA

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