Conventional thinking has us believe that products are conceived, developed, and made by the product brand owner’s engineering teams. Yet increasingly, final manufactured products are designed and built by a diverse distributed network of individuals and teams—the product stakeholder network.

This means that the engineer who designs the final product must design-in other companies’ components and sub-modules. They must research, evaluate, and select the products that meet the design specifications, then bring in, or recreate, referenceable geometry and metadata so that the complete design can be engineered and documented for downstream processes like quality inspection, procurement, and manufacturing.

But how does an engineer manage this monumental task? Upchain is one possible solution.

In this white paper you will learn:

• What Upchain is.
• How Upchain can make product development easier.
• How Upchain can make it easier to reference and communicate design data.

Complete the form on this page to download your free white paper. Your download is sponsored by Upchain.