Product engineering is the practice of creating, testing, and implementing software products. With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies and utility-based software delivery via Software as a Service (SaaS), client-enabling engineering services have gradually shifted from conventional software engineering to product engineering. Product engineering handles every stage of the life cycle of a product, from the ideation phase—beginning with the idea being conceived—to the installation and user acceptance testing phase.
Each project team member works on a particular area of product development during each of the process's several phases, which are typically divided into different groups. In most cases, CAD development experts would finish the hardware design while software developers would finish the software design.