Developing a Digital Thread
What Is a Digital Thread?
A digital thread is a communication framework that integrates data across the lifecycle of a product, system, or process to provide a connected, continuous flow of information. It allows stakeholders to trace and access the evolution of a product or system from concept through design, development, manufacturing, and operational stages. The digital thread connects various digital tools, models, and datasets used across different stages, enabling better decision-making, traceability, and collaboration.
Our Approach
We take a unique approach to digital engineering by applying horizontal integration and vertical integration to our process.
Horizontal Integration
The integration of systems engineering and program management. This approach has provided a domain-independent way to optimize cost, schedule, and performance while mitigating risk throughout the product lifecycle for the systems of systems.
Vertical Integration
Our next step in digital engineering provides interoperability from the systems engineering domain to the design engineering domains throughout the lifecycle.
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NASA's Break the Ice Challenge
Our team of systems engineers developed a lunar rover that can break the ice using a digital engineering approach. Using Innoslate as the single source of truth and integrating tools like SpaceClaim, STK, Matlab and GitHub, they built a lunar rover capable of extracting 10,000 kg from regolith in 365 days.
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