In today’s evolving business landscape, carve-outs have become a standard tool for companies looking to refine their focus and divest non-core assets or units. While carve-outs involve multiple complex processes like legal compliance, HR transition, and financial re-evaluation, effective data management stands out as a critical success factor. This article zeroes in on best practices […]
Introduction Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a complex process that becomes even more intricate when it involves various stakeholders like OEMs, suppliers, and design partners. As organizations move toward globally interconnected networks, the digital thread emerges as an indispensable tool in PLM collaboration. This article explores the role of a digital thread in enhancing PLM
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Introduction Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the strategic discipline applied within an enterprise to create, govern, and leverage all product-related knowledge—from the first spark of an idea through detailed design, industrialisation, service, and end-of-life—so every internal stakeholder works from one authoritative product record. Practised properly, PLM weaves a continuous digital thread that links engineering, manufacturing,
As manufacturing races into the future, there’s one concept consistently rising to the top of every conversation: the digital thread. At first glance, the term might feel a bit abstract, but its implications are profound. Think of the digital thread as the connective tissue that links every phase of a product’s existence, ensuring you always
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing landscape, two terms stand out as transformative: Digital Thread and Digital Twin. While they may seem interchangeable, understanding their unique features can empower businesses to create agile, efficient, and competitive production systems. A Digital Thread serves as a communication backbone, facilitating the seamless flow of product and asset data throughout their
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If you’ve ever had a supplier build to the wrong revision, or a production issue that took days to trace back to a single change notice, you already understand the problem a digital thread is trying to solve. Most organisations don’t have a lack of data. They have a lack of continuity. Requirements sit in
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Manufacturing in the modern era is far from straightforward. With global supply chains and complex, multi-layered projects, collaboration is both a necessity and a challenge. Traditionally, one might think of collaboration as a simple query-response interaction between two entities. However, this simplistic view barely scratches the surface. Let’s delve deeper into the primary types of
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Digital twins serve as virtual replicas of physical systems and are increasingly becoming indispensable in industries such as Defence & Aerospace, Manufacturing, and AEC & Plant. However, leveraging them effectively involves navigating intricate challenges around data management, open access to information, and a shift in how contracts are framed. This article aims to demystify these
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Product life cycle support is the work of keeping products operational, safe, compliant, and cost-effective from early definition through in-service use to retirement. For organisations managing complex, long-life products, success depends on trusted, traceable information that remains usable as the product and its configuration changes over time. This is where the PLCS standard helps, by
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If you’ve ever asked, “Which version is the approved one?” you’re already close to the point of PLM. Because the problem usually isn’t a lack of data. It’s too many copies, too many handovers, and not enough certainty about what’s current, what’s approved, and who’s allowed to use it. Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the
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