Product characteristics, e.g. the amount of material used or the number of parts, can have great influence on processing times,
setup times, and lead times, as well as costs in production. Unfortunately, detailed information about interdependencies between
the product and its production is often not available within the product development phase. Developers are not fully supported in
considering the impacts of different design options on manufacturing objectives. This paper addresses the linkage of product and
process design by proposing a value stream based modeling approach for manufacturing information. The approach is
exemplarily applied on the manufacturing of PCB.