When an organization has global product development teams spread across geographies, their philosophy is generally going to be “design anywhere, build anywhere.”
With this philosophy, however, comes the need to track and integrate product change across the entire company—otherwise, collaboration becomes pointless when you’re not working with the same CAD data. You need visibility on ongoing changes, and change control on highly configurable products that need to be altered for customer demands and preferences.
Doing so means that change needs to be synchronized across the product modifications itself and all the downstream assets: tooling, equipment, operations, assemblies, plant layout, etc.
