marjan mohammad jafari
shamsuddin ahmed
siti zawiah Md Dawal
Hadi zayandehroodi

When entering the global market the companles encounter several difficultles , the most important one being excessive time for new product development . As global competitive pressure increases and product life cycles compress, companies are trying to shorten product development cycles. Globalization and rapid evolving of internet have revolutionized the product development process. this paper describes an approach that can reduce time during product design by e-collaboration .

Terms, E-collaboration, Reduce time, Design for product , SMEs.