Improving Collaboration with Customers and Suppliers

The need to respond and capitalize on new customer requirements is more important than ever during the current economic downturn.  However, the pressures of globally distributed design teams and more stringent time, cost, regulatory and quality requirements continue to complicate the product development process.  In order to succeed, Small and Medium Organizations need to collaborate across project teams more efficiently to bring the right products to the marketplace at the right time. 

In this live webcast, you’ll learn best practices to effective collaboration:

• Enabling concurrent engineering with members of a distributed design team
• Conducting efficient design reviews across the value chain network
• Creating a controlled collaboration environment 
• Proving secure collaboration to the design team and suppliers

Real World Success Story:

Acorn develops mechanical and electro-mechanical products for client companies across industries from consumer goods to computer and networking to medical devices. Acorn uses collaboration techniques and tools to execute projects among geo dispersed teams of engineers in Silicon Valley, Boston, and China.
Learn how to build an engineering collaboration framework that’s best suited for your business.