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Stage 2 - Awakening


Companies at this stage have characteristics such as:
  • sometimes (i.e. 15-40% of exchanges) exchange data electronically with customers and supply chain partners
  • manually manage most engineering drawings on traditional media
  • haven't defined the product development process
  • have mainly manual release and change management
  • have many departmental stand-alone vaults and databases
  • have introduced some local PDM applications for specific activities
  • use basic PDM functionality such as vaulting
  • have limited electronic transfer of data between a few departments
  • have few users of PDM
  • have an ineffective configuration management system
  • have basic integration between PDM and CAD, but some manual intervention is required







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