Today a modern engineering environment is considered as one that emphasizes communication and involves not only many designers but also many people concerned with manufacturing, quality control, marketing, and so on working concurrently on different subparts of a more global design project. The emphasis of this paper is on the representation of product development. The current research on engineering product standards, as well as current work on databases, leads to the definition of an integrated database model for product data. However, to facilitate the integration of CAX/CAY systems and adequately support engineering and managerial activities, it is not sufficient to represent only the data between the processes, but it is also necessary to represent the processes. This paper presents an approach for simultaneous modeling of products and their development processes. This approach also provides a framework to represent the normalized product data and process data using the STEP data models.