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Stage 1 - Traditional
Companies at this stage have characteristics such as: - rarely (i.e. less than 15% of exchanges) exchange data electronically with customers or supply chain partners
- manually manage engineering drawings on traditional media
- don't have a clear and commonly agreed approach to PDM
- don't understand that product definition information is a valuable corporate asset
- may be piloting an PDM system
- haven't defined the information needed for product development
- don't know what the product development workflow is
- have manual release and change management
- have many stand-alone databases in each department
- don't have configuration management
- haven't integrated PDM to other computer systems
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