title: Virtual engineering office: a state-of-the-art platform for engineering collaboration
abstract: A sales force in Latin America, the design department in Europe, and production in Asia? Arrangements of this kind are the new business reality for today's global manufacturing companies. But how are such global operations to be effectively coordinated? ABB's answer was to develop and implement a new platform for high-performance, real-time collaboration. Globally distributed engineering teams can now work together, regardless of time, location or the CAD system they use, making ABB easier to do business with, for customers as well as suppliers
keyphrases: virtual engineering office state-of-the-art business global manufacturing companies ABB globally distributed engineering teams CAD system engineering collaboration platform