A digital thread creates a closed loop between digital and physical worlds to optimize products, people, processes, and places. With the technologies available today, a holistic digital thread spans the entire product lifecycle that takes place within a company and extends outward to suppliers, customers, and products and people in the field.

What are the benefits of digital thread?

-Engineering Excellence: improve quality, reduce rework, and expedite new product development and time-to-market

-Manufacturing Efficiency: drive process effectiveness with greater insights into assets, throughput, and worker productivity

-Product & Service Innovation: enable (and uncover) new business models and opportunities that impact top line revenue

-Service Optimization: improve technician effectiveness and reduce asset downtime

-Sales & Marketing Experience: enrich the customer experience with new ways to engage and drive customer loyalty