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Digital Engineering

Our solutions improve the implementation of digital engineering and a true Authoritative Source of Truth.

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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Horizontal Integration

Vertical Integration

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Product Lifecycle Management

Cradle to Grave

At SPEC Innovations, we approach every project through a full lifecycle lens—from concept to retirement. Our digital engineering consultants work alongside your team to define, model, and manage every phase of the product or system lifecycle using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices. We leverage tools like Innoslate to support data continuity, enable the reuse of system elements, and ensure that decisions made early in design carry through seamlessly to operations and sustainment.

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Requirements Engineering

Seamless Integration

Our consultants help you capture, validate, and manage requirements in a model-centric environment. SPEC Innovations ensures traceability across stakeholder needs, system functions, and test cases, helping reduce risk and improve verification accuracy. Using Innoslate’s integrated features, we simulate processes, generate test plans, and evaluate compliance all within a collaborative digital thread. We bring expertise in structuring requirements for clarity, completeness, and future scalability.
DEVSECOPS

DEVSECOPS

Agile + DevOPs

Digital engineering extends into continuous integration and deployment. We support DevSecOps alignment by connecting your system models to real-world software pipelines. We help clients integrate Innoslate with tools like GitHub and custom APIs, enabling traceability from design artifacts to code, and facilitating secure, automated testing and delivery. Whether you need to map system behavior to software modules or create end-to-end validation loops, we provide the guidance to make it happen.

Used by The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) 

"Innoslate is a useful tool for multiple aspects of test bed and advanced reactor demonstration projects. It integrates requirements management, systems architectures, functional flow diagrams and process simulation, cost and schedule tracking for program management, action item tracking, and risk identification and mitigation. " - ScienceDirect (2023)

 

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NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

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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