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Mastering Product Lifecycle Management 101: Secure PLM collaboration in global value networks

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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, […]

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A resilient Digital Thread: A comprehensive guide to integrated Product Lifecycle Management

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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

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Understanding the key differences: Digital Thread vs. Digital Twin explained

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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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What is a Digital Thread?

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Digital Thread A digital thread serves as a communication backbone, facilitating an integrated flow of product and asset data throughout their lifecycles. This framework links multiple digital twins, aiming for data that is not only reusable but also clear, concise, and validated. It enables data to move both downstream and upstream through built-in feedback loops.

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Collaborative manufacturing strategies: types, challenges, and scalable solutions

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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: Key considerations and challenges

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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 (PLCS): How ISO 10303-239 enables digital threads

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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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What is PLM? Understanding Product Lifecycle Management

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Product Data Management (PDM) often comes to mind when we talk about managing parts, documents, and files, along with their interrelationships. But if we venture beyond the straightforward core of PDM, we encounter a broader and more nuanced domain—Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). In this article, we’ll dissect what PLM involves, why it’s significant in today’s

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How the ISO Standards PLCS and AP242 Empower ERP and PLM Integration

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The role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems in a business landscape is multifaceted, complex, and crucial to success. They serve as vital components in information architecture, with ERP traditionally being the dominant system. However, the rise of PLM systems, which focus more on lifecycle management of master data, is

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