Kari Penttinen, Senior Technology Adviser, Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) reports under the title - The Digital Product Process programme. 

Tekes in Finland has in 2008 initiated a programme for the Digital Product Process looking to boost the competitiveness of companies by improving the utilization of information technology in their product process. The goal of the programme is to improve the customer oriented business and increase the productivity of company networks designing and delivering products, systems and services to global markets. The programme is large in scope and involves PLM and Enterprise Interoperability as well as the utilization of standards in the digital product process. 

Kari Penttinen is working in the area of Products, Production Systems and Manufacturing Technologies mainly for Mechanical Engineering Industry. He is the programme manager of the Digital Product Process programme, initiated by Tekes in 2008. The goal of the programme is to develop further the customer oriented product based business and increase the productivity of company networks designing and delivering products, systems and services to global markets by means of using advanced IT-systems and practices. He has industrial background from Metso Corporation, where he has worked as R&D manager and has been in charge of implementation of the first global CAD and PDM solutions in Metso Automation business area.