Product Development Processes
The product development process (PDP) brings a product to the marketplace from planning to production. While some organizations still describe their PDP in documents, leading engineering companies have achieved significant improvements by transitioning to a model-based PDP.
This model-based PDP approach has been realized using Stages in automotive, aerospace, medical device, transportation, and other engineering-driven industries. Five key practices are critical for the success of such a transformation.
Learn the five key practices here:


Upcoming Live Demonstration
Product Development Processes (PDP) with Stages: Start Your Transformation Journey
What you will learn:
- Importance of harmonized processes across all product development disciplines
- Example of a model-based PDP in Stages – and its benefits
- How a PDP could look like in your organization
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
WHITEPAPER: ORCHESTRATING AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS
A Product Development Process model helps explain the dependences of all systems and people within the enterprise. It serves as a base to start modeling a department’s work (their silo) in detail, and to engage department members in process improvements. As benefits become obvious it encourages other departments to model the details of their processes, quickly identifying opportunities for the efficiency benefits.
Our Solution

Stages has successfully been used in large scale PDP transformation projects to implement all five key approaches within a single process management platform and achieve
- reduced product development overhead and time to market
- higher quality of developed products
- increased business agility
Product Development Processes with Stages


WHITE PAPER: Safer Deployment of Automotive Innovations
This paper discusses how current industry challenges interconnect and have a common denominator: the processes used to manage the products across their life cycles.
- Product development process baseline
- Automakers are delivering faster innovation
- Ensuring compliance while innovating
- Safety standards need visible compliance
- Managing overlapping, conflicting standards
PROCESS MANAGEMENT WITH STAGES
What you will learn:
- Optimize processes with a model-based approach
- Improve the quality of your processes in practice
- Understand the advantages and features of the Stages tool