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Enterprise Engineering - enable companies with several manufacturing facilities to centralize pre production data while still efficiently utilizing different manufacturing capabilities in each individual plant. The economic downturn this industry is experiencing introduced a significant shift from volume to QTA production. Although the overall square footage being produced becomes lower, the number of different parts is increased - shitting workloads from the shop floor to pre production departments. Trying to analyze the pre production challenges, one will probably find that while Tooling (CAM) process turn to maturity, other activities such as sales quotation, and process planning lack in the basics and are the main cause to throughput and quality issues in pre production.