Global companies have unique challenges in product development and manufacturing. Multiple global design and manufacturing centers must collaborate and integrate product introduction and life cycle management. Silicon foundries are almost entirely offshore in the Far East and there is an increasing trend to offshore silicon design, i.e. product management in the US, design in Romania and manufacture in China. We will also explore costly failures, Airbus 380, of a non-integrated global design environment. We will discuss the best practice processes and tools, such as a global product simulation environment, necessary to efficiently accomplish global design.

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