Senior engineering executives from leading manufacturers use MAPI to make their enterprises more competitive and to increase their personal effectiveness.  In this member-driven community, executives share best practices on such issues as enabling a dual career ladder by providing a technical career path, ideation processes, new product development, project management, and expanding the capabilities of out-of-the-box PDM systems. In addition to semiannual, vendor-free meetings, MAPI Engineering, Research, & Development Council members participate in group polls, benchmark surveys, and webinars that provide insight into current and best practices.