The digital thread is a seamless flow of data—a digital backbone—that connects products and processes to drive business value ...

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Smart manufacturing is transforming manufacturing back into ...

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 ...

As explained in the Automation World feature on the digital thread, though definitions of this technology concept may differ depending on the provider or manufacturing end user you’re speaking with, ...

A high-end construction equipment manufacturer unifies previously siloed processes and manual hand-offs with a digital approach that supports concurrent engineering and manufacturing planning, ...

Sustainability has long been a spoken ideal in the manufacturing world, but the complexities and costs associated with it have deterred many producers from updating their workflows. Now, however, ...

Enterprises are increasingly adopting new digital technologies to help streamline and automate the design and manufacturing of physical products. Digital twins help organize and share much of this ...

Digital transformation involves the integration of digital technologies and the reimagining of business processes to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. Digital ...

When Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) vendor PTC bought ServiceMax at the beginning of last year, one of the stated aims was to join up data from product design and engineering stored in PLM ...

In the dynamic landscape of today's industries, the journey toward achieving a substantial Return on Investment (ROI) in digital transformation is riddled with challenges. Organizations grapple with ...