(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global product life cycle management consulting and research firm, has announced a free educational webinar, “The What and Why of Digital Threads and Twins—A Report from the Field.” The one-hour webinar will take place Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 11 a.m. Eastern.

Digital threads and digital twins don’t create product data; instead, they serve as frameworks for interrelating and combining product life cycle data to provide valuable insights about a product and how it’s produced, operated, and serviced. The webinar will explore the limitless possibilities that represent both a challenge and an opportunity.

This webinar will also present early findings from an ongoing research project involving several major industry organizations, including the AD PAG, AIAA, OMG, ProStep iViP, and SAE International. These organizations are developing a set of use cases and working with seven digital-thread and digital-twin solution providers to test and evaluate their implementation and performance.

This webinar will help attendees:
• Gain an understanding of the core concepts of digital thread and digital twin.
• Learn about the different product representations relevant to the various creators and consumers along the life cycle.
• Learn the basic guidelines for designing the structure and content of digital threads and digital twins.
• Understand how solution providers implement digital threads and digital twins.
• Gain early exposure to the performance and value achieved from a range of digital thread and digital twin use cases.
• Understand that the structure, content, and relationships between views can be sophisticated or simple, depending on the needs of the business.

James Roche, CIMdata Aerospace & Defense practice director and the host for this webinar, says, “The essential concepts of digital thread and digital twin are foundational to PLM, and examples can be found in industry that go back decades. Today, however, within an enterprise context of digital transformation, there is heightened corporate attention and investment to elevate and extend PLM with digital threads and digital twins that deliver value across all phases of the product life cycle. The methods and tools for implementation are advancing rapidly in response. This is an exciting time of challenge and opportunity.”

Roche has more than 35 years of experience in transformation and the IT enablement of product development and manufacturing processes. Before joining CIMdata, he was a PLM practice manager at CSC Consulting and A.T. Kearney. He was also at EDS, serving as the chief architect for General Motors’ global engineering systems, and the head technical negotiator for strategic supplier contracts.

People from multiple levels of an organization will find the information in this webinar pertinent and valuable. Those with responsibility or interest in product program integration, systems engineering, PLM program planning, or more generally, in product, production, service digitalization, or digital transformation, will benefit from attending.

To find out more, visit https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/educational-webinars/webinar-the-what-and-why-of-digital-threads-and-twins-a-report-from-the-field.

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4903656277095486806.