The article presents an analysis of the development of CALS-technology. CALS technology allows to reduce costs during the entire product life cycle and improve its quality and competitiveness. As a result of the introduction of these technologies, there is an increase in the efficiency and competitiveness of the enterprises themselves. Efficiency improvement is achieved through the integration and continuity of information based on information systems. This result is achieved by significantly

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... ducing the time of development of new products, improving the quality of these products and technical documentation (submitted electronically), providing a high level of service and logistics support at all stages of the product life cycle. The characteristics of many parts of previously created products, descriptions of systems, processes, machines and equipment involved in the manufacture of this product are stored in a unified electronic form and are available to any user regardless of its location.