I was fortunate enough to sit in on a meeting with the packaging lead at a leading luxury brand manufacturing company. We talked extensively about how they tracked product specifications: ...

Smart manufacturing, or "industry 4.0," is transforming manufacturing back into an economic powerhouse. It’s helping companies digitally transform their manufacturing operations to provide new ...

Let’s say you’re about to design a brand new product. You have a lot of work ahead of you. You need to define the specs, create the design, source suppliers, check in with experts in legal and in ...

In the industrial marketplace, the prevalence of connected devices through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and digitization of enterprise-wide data sources is expanding the possibilities of ...

What is the digital thread? And why does it matter when thinking about the operating life of an asset? PTC, who recently acquired ServiceMax, gives this definition: A digital thread creates a closed ...

To survive in an increasingly digital world, the automotive industry needs to leverage digital thread — the seamless flow of information throughout the product lifecycle, connecting various data ...

Data is everywhere, and if you know what to do with it, can be tremendously valuable. Huge volumes of data are collected in manufacturing industries across the supply chain, with the help of ...

A digital twin is a multifaceted digital model of a physical instance. The primary function of the digital twin is to provide an accurate representation of a manufactured product, although it could ...

Professor Ben Morgan, research director at the AMRC, defines the digital thread and explains how can it help untangle the complexities of manufacturing and benefit the industry. The University of ...