I was fortunate enough to sit in on a meeting with the packaging lead at a leading luxury brand manufacturing company. We talked extensively about how they tracked product specifications: ...

To survive in an increasingly digital world, the automotive industry needs to leverage digital thread — the seamless flow of information throughout the product lifecycle, connecting various data ...

Smart manufacturing, or "industry 4.0," is transforming manufacturing back into an economic powerhouse. It’s helping companies digitally transform their manufacturing operations to provide new ...

A digital twin is a multifaceted digital model of a physical instance. The primary function of the digital twin is to provide an accurate representation of a manufactured product, although it could ...

This is an online sidebar for the July 2020 article, “Composites 4.0: Digital transformation, adaptive production, new paradigms”. When I first discussed these concepts in 2016, they were still ...