This course provides a comprehensive roadmap for establishing a world-class enterprise Digital Thread, emphasizing the critical role of requirements management as the foundation for success. Organizations often struggle to define and maintain the digital architecture necessary to support software, hardware, systems, facilities, and infrastructure throughout the lifecycle. Ineffective management of the Digital Thread results in costly corrective actions at every phase. Through proven principles and techniques, this course addresses the vital connection between requirements and configuration management. Participants will gain a deep understanding of structuring and owning all product, solution, and business requirements, with a focus on the early stages of the Digital Thread, including concept and development phases.

Essential considerations for data management & proper PLM visibility and traceability through dataset standardization. Students will be able to understand these key concepts and more:

• Optimized part naming & numbering standards
• 4-Tier, 8-Step product development process
• The design basis and the use of dynamic digital linkages within a product hierarchy
• Reduce part proliferation, increase searchability and part reuse through standardized attributes and metadata
• Managing product configurations through options & variants
• Robust planning & execution of change throughout the enterprise
• Robust business decisions: Total cost, change ROI, opportunity Cost
• Standardization and business best practices