The purpose of this research project is to digitise the engineering design and manufacturing process (EDM) completely, integrating the requirement management process (Front-end) into the mainstream of the engineering design definition. Thereby making the process, short, circular and iterative, and transforming the project life-cycle management process. A solution is by first transforming the front-end from the verbal and textual language environment into a graphical and analytical language environment. Therefore, modelling the design process as comprising only graphical and analytical languages.
Second, the digital technology method – the digital thread is applied to the model, creating a circular and iterative process; linking with manufacturing, and bringing digital twin as part of the EDM process.