• Predict Impact of Change
• Provide Design Traceability and Consistency
• Capture Design Know-how
• Manage Trade-offs
• Manage Product Architecture

DesignMaps make you money:

• By reducing your time-to-market
• By building your collection of re-usable designs
• By reducing the need for prototypes

KollabNet Studio Features:

• Tie requirements together and to CAD and PDM by linking to objects - words, numbers, dimensions, etc. - in other documents

• Perform impact analyses - see what affects what, immediately

• Explore change history and rationale, for any object

• Record design decisions

• Create and store "common practice" blocks