Nuclear and aerospace applications are critical to safety that demand quality metallic
components. The cost of failure in these components far exceed that of repair or …

Design for manufacturing (DFM), especially the use of manufacturing knowledge to support
design decisions, has received attention in the academic domain. However, industry …

Abstract Contemporary Cloud Manufacturing-as-a-Service (CMaaS) platforms now promise
customers instant pricing and access to a large capacity of manufacturing nodes. However …

Realizing the digital thread is essential for linking and orchestrating data across the product
lifecycle in smart manufacturing. Linking heterogeneous lifecycle data is critical to maintain …

Smart manufacturing promises to provide significant increases in productivity and
effectiveness of manufacturing systems by better connecting the data from people …

Model-Based Definition (MBD) is being adopted by the manufacturing industry as a single
source for all product information in place of conventional 2D drawings. This paper aims to …

Industry has been chasing the dream of integrating and linking data across the product
lifecycle and enterprises for decades. However, industry has been challenged by the fact …

Innovations in product development and process technologies represent a promising
strategy to face the increasing competitiveness of modern markets in the global economy …

Transforming the manufacturing economy from paper‐based information flows to a
seamless digital thread across geographically distributed supply chains has the potential to …

Recent advances enable data from manufacturing systems to be captured and
contextualised relative to other phases of the product lifecycle, a necessary step toward …