Increased globalization, the trend towards global outsourcing of many aspects of product design, the drive towards mass-customization, increased innovation and the pressure to shorten product life-cycles are creating a complex environment for manufacturers and their design/supply chains. To thrive and continue to improve profit margins requires entire enterprise value-chains to collaborate during every aspect of the product life cycle: from product design, sourcing, procurement, production and delivery to maintenance.

The Campfire Interactive solution provides users with an internet-based Collaborative Product Development (CPD) platform that tightly integrates product design data with the business processes of the product lifecycle across an enterprise value-chain. This enables collaborative product commerce (CPC) in direct and engineered goods.

Campfire Interactive is a privately held company founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Enable product and process collaboration across the product development value-chain.

With the ubiquitous nature and peer-to-peer connection capability of the internet, enterprises can use the following features to derive key benefits across their value-chains -

• Establish project folders to enable geographically distributed virtual teams to share and collaborate on product data and documents
  
  
• Establish process templates that enable the enterprise design and supply chains to conduct business with high-efficiency
  
  
• Synchronous online meetings to resolve issues, send/receive product data and process information updates in real-time
  
  
• Tightly integrate enterprise product and business processes using the project and workflow management tools
  
  
• Visualize product data in a variety of different multimedia formats

• Reduced product development cost
  
  
• Reduced product cost
  
  
• Improved time-to-market
  
  
• Improved product quality