Product data management is an engineering oriented information system. Engineering change request, engineering change notice, and engineering change control workflow in a product data management system are usually utilized starting from the detail product design phase. Lack of guidelines to identify configuration items and design change control workflow is one of the major reasons for not using product data management system during conceptual design phase. In this paper, a conceptual design configuration framework is proposed, and a closed-loop design change control workflow is developed for applying product data management to conceptual design phase. The proposed approach has been implemented and tested for a steel foundry. The production planning activities of the foundry can therefore get involved sooner to the conceptual design phase. This work enables early involvement of the strategy in concurrent engineering during new product design.