A digital thread ensures accurate, up-to-date product data is accessible, reliable, timely, actionable, and delivered in context to stakeholders across the value chain.
A digital thread is an interconnected flow of relevant data that defines a product throughout its lifecycle. It provides a comprehensive view of a product's journey, from initial design and development to manufacturing, maintenance, service, and retirement.
It enables organizations to break down silos, streamline workflows, and achieve interoperability across departments, functions, and systems. A digital thread secures the quality and consistency of product-related data—keeping everyone up-to-date and on the same page.
Ultimately it allows organizations to extract value from, or make use of, product data that was previously inaccessible, underutilized, or hidden to unlock business value and opportunities.
With the digital thread, product configurations stay current, accuracy and quality are improved, change management is simplified, and portfolio complexity is managed, while optimizing cost across the entire value chain and product lifecycle.
These capabilities let companies efficiently meet and exceed regulatory compliance, time to market, and quality requirements in today’s demanding global marketplace.
PTC is uniquely positioned to enable digital thread and unlock value across your enterprise. You can rely on PTC’s heritage of product DNA experience and understanding of the value that product data can provide to your business—as well as our broad range of core digital thread offerings.
Product lifecycle management (PLM) acts as the backbone for the digital thread—connecting product data from ALM, CAD, SLM, and other enterprise systems.
Enterprise PLM manages and orchestrates all aspects of the product development lifecycle—from concept through service and retirement. It supports change and configuration management, traceability, reuse, data integrity, and automation of manual processes to drive digital transformation success.
The concept of the digital thread is emerging as a transformative force for overcoming critical challenges, unlocking business value, and propelling innovation beyond traditional boundaries.