Engineering data should be connected to a single authoritative source of truth, with changes communicated to all. That’s the real power of the digital thread.

Individual pieces of data must be liberated from the static document and free to be used where and how end-users need them. This is the first in a series about the principles of the Transform Manifesto. If you want to start at the beginning, go here. When you're ready...

Engineers do too much manual labor, which takes too much time, and produces too many errors. It's time for a paradigm shift.  Engineering documents have largely been left behind in the wider quest for digital transformation, but as more companies are seeing...

“Digital thread” is probably a term you’ve heard many times, but it’s not always clear what it means, and often has different nuanced definitions depending on the industry. In this quick primer, we’ll define the digital thread and then focus on one way to make your...

In Part 1 of this series, we defined digital models, digital twins, and the process of change management, impact assessment, and requirements management. We also described the challenges that static PDF documents pose to modern engineering workflow, i.e. they don’t...

Our readers have varying degrees of familiarity with the terms “digital models” and “digital twins,” from experts to novices and everything in between. People and companies like to bandy these words about under the general rubric of “digital transformation”, but they...