The study results an illustration of the project management body of new sputtering system development (NSSD). It is including the project management (PM) method with its structured task definition and simulation tools, which is generally to use for managing new system development. However, NSSD in some areas of project management is incompletely meets the needs of new production development (NPD) in Industrial 4.0. The paper identifies that more research is required to design the system and lean project management methods, to clarify which areas in particular they benefit and how to reliably achieve those benefits. Specifically, NSSD is characterized by complex interrelated activities and large uncertainties about precisely which solution path will be taken, such that the full scope of the project can often not be pre-schedule. This is likely to exist for innovation processes such as NPD. For practitioners, the main message is that the PM method provides a basic, but imperfect, tool for controlling and managing NPD. Several locations are identified where further research is required as two items, (1) better understand the causality between factors and project related, and (2) adapt PM methods to better serve the NPD process. The relevance for researchers is that gaps have been identified in the PM method as it is currently applied to NSSD.