Construction in Transition Integration and Transparency as Key to Successful Product Development

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The demands placed on design teams are changing fundamentally: geopolitical uncertainties, trade disputes, supply chain disruptions, high raw material and energy costs and the shortage of skilled workers are forcing us to rethink processes.

149,100: This was the size of the STEM labor shortage in Germany alone in November 2025, according to a recent analysis. The resulting bottlenecks have a direct impact on the entire product life cycle and cause longer lead times, for example.
Designers today are faced with the major task of not only developing innovative and high-quality products, but also increasingly thinking about the entire value chain. This includes keeping an eye on their own supply chain and bills of materials (BOMs). What do you do if a component is suddenly missing because a business partner can no longer supply it? Where can a replacement be procured? In addition, there are high compliance requirements and changing reporting obligations that must be adhered to;