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 ...

Discover how digital threads enable real-time decision-making, improve agility, and aligning with manufacturing demands. Learn practical steps, from data governance to interoperability and scalability ...

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, ...

‘Cautious optimism’ is a phrase we are hearing a lot these days. There is a lot to be said for any degree of optimism given the last few years, especially in manufacturing. While talk of a contracting ...

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 ...

It’s nice to think that “aha” moments come out of nowhere — that the next big thing is the result of unbridled genius (or plain dumb luck). But in reality, effective, sustainable product development ...

The boundary between IT and OT is dissolving. Manufacturers that continue to treat them as separate domains risk inefficiency and missed opportunities. By integrating MES-ERP software as the ...