Engineering has been generating rich data and Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) as a part of the model-based engineering practices, but that data has struggled to find its way through to quality and manufacturing in a traceable and consistent format. The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) has provided a standard for Model-Based Characteristics to extend a definition and structure for exchanging and tracing characteristics using a model-based approach. Take a dive with us into the first PLM centered process that is supporting the DMSC Model based characteristics standard for authoring characteristics from PMI and managing them across the product lifecycle for use by manufacturing sites, quality teams, and suppliers.