Manufacturers of complex products in the investment goods industry are facing a market situation that demands an increasing consideration level of customer requests, shorter product development cycles, higher quality and lower prices. As a reaction, many firms are concentrating on their core business and drawing additional services from external subcontractors, independent of their location. The use of digital product development tools in combination with novel information- and communication technologies enables the place-independent integration of firms and builds the basis for the creation of distributed development process chains.

This project is sponsered by BMBF. and web site is hosted by Osirion Sytem Technologies

Project Coordination:
Dr. Martin Göbel Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, St. Augustin
Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Jansen Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology, Berlin