Collaborative engineering is an interactive process of collaboration to design and develop products and services. It enables to work across divisions and companies. Experts of different domains share the expertise and complementary capabilities are connected. The interests of several stakeholders have to be considered and harmonized in this process. The ambition behind this development is the demand of the market and the global competition for shorter innovation cycles, time-to-market with shrinking development budgets. This requires more interaction and collaboration between the developers and their suppliers in the design area, necessitating the syndication of standards and processes. Design processes are now expanded to outside the borders of an organization, requiring new methods and tools. This is also the prerequisite for the outsourcing of processes to a specialized service provider.