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MBD
Definition
What MBD Means
MBD stands for
Model-Based Definition
In an MBD approach the model carries the dimensions, tolerances and annotations that a drawing used to carry, and it becomes the record other activities work from rather than a picture generated alongside one.
For publications this changes where content comes from. When the model is authoritative, illustrations and procedures can derive from it rather than being redrawn, and the relationship between engineering change and documentation change becomes direct instead of manual.
Also written: model-based definition, model based definition, model-based enterprise
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The complete technical description of an item sufficient to support procurement, production and sustainment, from drawings and models to specifications.
Digital ThreadThe connected chain of authoritative data across a product's life, from design through sustainment, with publications as its last mile.
S3000LThe S-Series specification for Logistic Support Analysis, the upstream process whose data drives publications, provisioning and training.
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