CE Requires a Strong Foundation for Enterprise Collaboration throughout a Product Life-Cycle in the Twentieth Century

ure out how to make it later&dquo; has created more problems than solutions in the long run. Today, the internet-based CAD/ CAM, CAE tools and Product data management (PDM) systems are offering more and more collaborative tools to pull the lines separating engineering and manufacturing closer together at cyber speeds and shrink the time-to-market by a very large percentage. Company requires an advanced framework of collaborative tools to define (create), manage and track their product and process information as products are transformed from