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Digital Thread
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What Digital Thread Means
The digital thread is the ambition that data flows rather than being retyped: a design change propagates into analysis, into support planning, and eventually into the manual a technician reads.
Publications are where the thread either arrives or breaks. A program can have excellent model-based engineering upstream and still hand a maintainer a PDF that nobody can trace back to anything.
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The approach where an annotated 3D model, rather than a drawing, is the authoritative definition of a product and the source downstream data derives from.
TDPThe complete technical description of an item sufficient to support procurement, production and sustainment, from drawings and models to specifications.
S3000LThe S-Series specification for Logistic Support Analysis, the upstream process whose data drives publications, provisioning and training.
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