Engineering Design and Manufacturing Digital Thread, Integrating Requirements Management and PLM Process

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.

The purpose of this project is to motivate Digital Twin (DT) / Digital Thread (DTh) concepts from the conceptual design phase in engineering design and manufacturing (EDM) and to promote as a starting point and as an integral part of Product life cycle Management (PLM).

Enabling digital/virtual twin concept in requirements management
Creating a EDM digital thread for data management
Creating a new product lifecycle management approach
Creating a new method for customer participation and collaboration in EDM
Creating a new model for next generation digital processes