Closed Loop Quality
Enterprise Change Management
Concurrent Manufacturing
Paperless Shop Floor
Service Optimization
Production Innovation
Suppliers & Supplier Management
Customer Operations
field Service
Sales & Marketing
quality
manufacturing
product management
Engineering
Connects historically disparate data sources in a single location to enable a holistic view of product quality including data from the field.
in action:
Key Outcomes:
Real-World Impact:
With a digital thread powered by PTC and Microsoft, gain the data-sharing capabilities and collaboration across your extended value chain to advance the speed and scale your digital transformation.
Ongoing disruption, rapid-fire market changes, increasing competition, and evolving customer expectations—business conditions like these have long indicated the critical need of digital transformation for manufacturers. To address these challenges head-on and fortify their businesses, more manufacturers are prioritizing investments in digital transformation—yet ROI remains elusive.
The digital thread connects product information across the entire value chain. It brings together functions, divisions, external partners, and the customer to deliver up-to-date product and process information, capture IoT insights, and enable closed-loop feedback and continuous improvement.
Accelerate time to market and better anticipate quality issues
Optimize inspections for quality and field maintenance
Accelerate corrective and preventative actions
40%
decrease in the cost of non-quality deliverables
50%
reduction in training time
50%
reduction in response times
reduction in rework
16%
faster time to implement a change
28%
Real-World Impact:
Accelerate go-to-market for new products
Cut the costs of poor quality
Enable collaboration among globally dispersed teams
Key Outcomes:
Ensure access to up-to-date engineering data across the value chain.
in action:
reduced CoPQ related to ramp up
30%
reduction in time to industrialization
50%
Real-World Impact:
Avoid costly rework
Enable traceability for the digital product
Validate products and processes
Key Outcomes:
Creating traceability and connectivity in engineering data to streamline product development and optimize the handoff of information manufacturing.
in action:
reduction in scrap and safety risks
3-25%
reduction in training time
30-65%
increase in worker productivity
10-40%
Real-World Impact:
Increase worker productivity
Improve safety and training
Capture execution data to support
closed-loop feedback with engineering
Key Outcomes:
Connects engineering data with the shop floor to deliver up-to-date digital and augmented work instructions, rich PLM data, and integrated machine data.
in action:
service cost reduction**
4%
service cost savings*
$40M
Real-World Impact:
Enable remote diagnostics
and troubleshooting
Empower customers with self-service capabilities
Accelerate productivity and efficiency of service technicians
Key Outcomes:
Optimize service delivery by connecting products, employees, and the customer to accurate information about products and procedures.
in action:
Incremental revenue growth*
10%
planned incremental revenue*
$57M
Real-World Impact:
Optimize product designs
Drive revenue growth
Develop and deliver new business models
Key Outcomes:
Connects products in the field with enterprise functions that can leverage the power of customer usage data to drive revenue growth.
in action:
improvement in first pass yields
53%
Explore key use cases to see how the digital thread creates a closed loop between the physical and digital worlds to optimize products, people, processes, and places.
Six Key Digital Thread Use Cases Across the Enterprise
The cause? The continued focus on optimizing individual functions, without considering the entire value chain, ultimately limits data flow and collaboration. So how can manufacturers break down these silos to unlock meaningful value from digital transformation? The key is a digital thread that powers cross-functional transformation.
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*Based on $1.4B service division with 1,000 field technicians
**Based on World Economic Forum, McKinsey, industry analysts reports, and PTC customers’ experience
*Based on World Economic Forum, IoT Analytics, McKinsey, industry analysts reports, and PTC customers’ experience
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