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.
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University at Buffalo
The State University of New York

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Try Coursera for BusinessSyllabus - What you will learn from this course
5 hours to complete
Digital Thread Defined
5 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 23 min), 6 readings, 6 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Data Storage in the Digital Thread
4 hours to complete
4 videos (Total 25 min), 4 readings, 5 quizzes
5 hours to complete
Data Sharing and The Digital Thread
5 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 28 min), 8 readings, 5 quizzes
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- 5 stars70.46%
- 4 stars23.01%
- 3 stars5.11%
- 2 stars0.63%
- 1 star0.76%
TOP REVIEWS FROM DIGITAL THREAD: COMPONENTS
by SIAug 22, 2020
Very systematically organized, could have been a few minutes longer for each session.
by OMDec 30, 2017
It is an educative, interesting, and informative course session. I really learnt a lot, especially when it comes to data capture, storage, singularity etc
by TCJan 14, 2019
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by TSMay 1, 2020
it is an amazing course for new aspirants to enhance their knowledge in the field of data sharing and data transferring.
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