Digital Thread
The Digital Thread (also known as Digital Chain) is a continuous and consistent data flow throughout a product's lifecycle, offering a data-oriented framework for a comprehensive understanding of lifecycle activities, from early design and testing to implementation, maintenance, and end-of-service.
Benefits of Digital Thread
Digital Thread provides powerful and reliable resources for the collection, sharing, and transmission of data among systems and teams. It helps industries make real-time decisions, reduce errors, and keep people on the same page, with the same level of information.
- Breaks silos between teams, departments, and companies involved in a project
- Provides Interoperability among tools, systems, or processes
- Improves Requirement traceability (traceable relationship helps to assess the degree of success of a project's requirements)
- Streamlines workflows
- Enables real-time decision-making
- Allows Digital Continuity
Facilitates Integration of changes and process management