Cloud PLM Platforms and Digital Thread
As manufacturers move towards Industry 4.0 and the digital age, the "digital thread" has become a key concept to enable the continuing evolution of production. The digital thread is the backbone that ties together all aspects of manufacturing and allows for efficient communication between machines, humans, and software. To take full advantage of Industry 4.0,…
3 Elements of OpenBOM Digital Thread Management
If you never heard about Digital Twin and Digital Thread, don’t worry… you’re not alone. Although these concepts were around for a long time, they are not very well know to a broader group of people outside of PLM insiders and large OEMs. But, for the last few years, I can see both concepts are…
Building a Resilient Supply Chain Using Product Data Networks
The last six months of COVID19 exposed one of the biggest challenges of many supply chains - to sustain large-scale disruptions and to provide flexible and fast adaptation to new product development and manufacturing conditions. While many manufacturing companies suffered closures because of lack of supplies, others suffered from their lack of new sources to…