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Digital Thread: Components

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There are 3 modules in this course

This course will help you recognize how the "digital thread" is the backbone of the digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) transformation, turning manufacturing processes from paper-based to digital-based. You will have a working understanding of the digital thread – the stream that starts at product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product’s life cycle – and identify opportunities to leverage it.

Gain an understanding of how "the right information, in the right place, at the right time" should flow. This is one of the keys to unlocking the potential of a digital design process. Acknowledging this will enable you to be more involved in a product’s development cycle, and to help a company become more flexible. Main concepts of this course will be delivered through lectures, readings, discussions and various videos. This is the second course in the Digital Manufacturing & Design Technology specialization that explores the many facets of manufacturing’s “Fourth Revolution,” aka Industry 4.0, and features a culminating project involving creation of a roadmap to achieve a self-established DMD-related professional goal. To learn more about the Digital Manufacturing and Design Technology specialization, please watch the overview video by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser: https://youtu.be/wETK1O9c-CA

The purpose of this module is to introduce learners to the context and definition of the digital thread. Details of individual lessons in this module are provided below.

What's included

6 videos6 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt

6 videos•Total 23 minutes
  • Introduction to Digital Thread: Components•3 minutes
  • The Vision of Digital Manufacturing and Design•3 minutes
  • The Diffusion of Innovation•3 minutes
  • Motivating Factors•6 minutes
  • Digital Thread•5 minutes
  • Business Systems•3 minutes
6 readings•Total 85 minutes
  • Acknowledgements•10 minutes
  • Resources: Staying Relevant; Being a Player in DMD•20 minutes
  • Resources: Diffusion of Innovation•10 minutes
  • Resources: Why Digital Thread?•15 minutes
  • Resources: Digital Thread Defined•20 minutes
  • Resources: Business Systems and the Digital Thread•10 minutes
6 assignments•Total 180 minutes
  • Digital Thread: Components. Week 1 Quiz•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Why Digital Thread?•10 minutes

The purpose of this module is to explore the different strategies and components affecting data storage in the enterprise. Building on effective information technology practices, the module will develop learners' knowledge of well developed data storage strategies. Upon completion, students will be able to analyze an organization’s data storage strategy and make recommendations for improvement in performance and robustness. Details of individual lessons in this module are provided below.

What's included

4 videos4 readings5 assignments

4 videos•Total 25 minutes
  • Data Storage•8 minutes
  • Data Singularity•4 minutes
  • Version Control•5 minutes
  • Data Security and Disaster Recovery•8 minutes
4 readings•Total 95 minutes
  • Resources: Data Storage•45 minutes
  • Resources: Data Singularity•10 minutes
  • Resources: Dealing with Constant Change•10 minutes
  • Resources: Data Security and Disaster Recovery•30 minutes
5 assignments•Total 126 minutes
  • Digital Thread: Components. Week 2 Quiz•30 minutes
  • Self-check•6 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes

The purpose of this module is to explain factors impacting the ability of organizations to share data (internally and externally). Upon completion of the module, learners will be able to evaluate data sharing strategies and point out potential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Details of individual lessons in this module are provided below

What's included

5 videos8 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt

5 videos•Total 28 minutes
  • Data Sharing•10 minutes
  • Interoperability•6 minutes
  • Semantic Data•5 minutes
  • Technical Data Packages•5 minutes
  • Your 4.0 Roadmap to Success•3 minutes
8 readings•Total 120 minutes
  • Resources: Data Sharing Strategies, Benefits, and Consequences•30 minutes
  • Resources: Interoperability and Data Formats•10 minutes
  • Resources: Semantic Data•10 minutes
  • Resources: Technical Data Packages•10 minutes
  • Your 4.0 Roadmap to Success-- Resources•10 minutes
  • Your Roadmap Project: Step 2•30 minutes
  • Digital Thread: Components -- Key Takeaways•10 minutes
  • Digital Thread: Components -- Course References•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 150 minutes
  • Digital Thread: Components. Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
  • Self-check•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Your 4.0 Roadmap to Success in Digital Manufacturing and Design Technology•10 minutes

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MS
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Reviewed on Aug 22, 2020

Very systematically organized, could have been a few minutes longer for each session.

MN
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Reviewed on Nov 5, 2017

The course gives a good overview about the digital thread components and supports learning with real life examples

IV
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Reviewed on Dec 14, 2025

It does help to get to know a lot about digital thread but it will be nice if the components are more explain in the videos

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