Shanghai Product Development Center (PDC) was established in 1998. The mission of PDC is to become a Shared Center of Excellence for software development to drive Kodak digital business growth in the region, and global market.

In the past few years, PDC has developed very strong links with business units. Products and services PDC has developed and co-developed cover consumer, professional, entertainment, medical, and commercial markets. PDC is now an integral part of global development workforce of business units, and a part of Engineering and Design Center. Below are the key milestones for PDC:
• Product localization from 1998
• Software product development for local market from 1999
• Software product development for WW market from 2001
• Software product platform development from 2003
• Advanced development from 2004
PDC achieved CMM L2 in Oct 2003. The team is currently working towards CMM L3.