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Digital Thread: Implementation

132 calificaciones

University at Buffalo

Digital Thread: Implementation

132 calificaciones

Curso 3 de 9 en SpecializationDigital Manufacturing & Design Technology

There are opportunities throughout the design process of any product to make significant changes, and ultimately impact the future of manufacturing, by embracing the digital thread. In this course, you will dig into the transformation taking place in how products are designed and manufactured throughout the world. It is the second of two courses that focuses on the "digital thread" – the stream that starts at the creation of a product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product life cycle. Hear about the realities of implementing the digital thread, directly from someone responsible for making it happen at a company. Learn how the digital thread can fit into product development processes in an office, on a shop floor, and even across an enterprise. Be prepared to talk about the benefits, and limitations, of enacting it. Main concepts of this course will be delivered through lectures, readings, discussions and various videos. This is the third 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

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Cyberinfrastructure Components of the Digital Thread

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the Information Technology components supporting the digital thread. Details of individual lessons in this module are provided below.

Information Technology Components4:50

Conoce a los instructores

Ken English
Deputy Director
Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies Community of Excellence

[MUSIC]

Welcome to module 2 of implementing the digital thread.

In other courses of the specialization

we learned about the components of the digital thread and how the digital thread

fits into the vision of digital manufacturing and design.

In this module, we'll explore the information technology components that

make the digital thread possible, and ask ourselves the question how do we actually

put all of these digital manufacturing and digital thread concepts into practice?

[MUSIC]

In this lesson, we're going to focus on implementing the digital thread and

accounting for

the realities of the physical equipment necessary to make that thread possible.

Afterwards, you'll be able to state a generic definition of the term

cyberinfrastructure and relate it to other terms like IT and digital thread.

Basically, the goal of this lesson and of the module is to prepare you for

conversations with IT folks about the digital thread.

In computer technologies terms frequently shift, but

they're often being used to describe similar concepts.

Cyberinfastructure was introduced in 2003, so you've likely

already interacted with it in some form, but possibly by another name.

Advances in computing and related technologies like processing speeds,

networking, graphics, and storage have transformed our ability

to respond to complex questions and have changed how we live our lives.

Banking, shopping, and entertainment have all

clearly been impacted by advances in computer performance.

Healthcare and education are now also undergoing this transformation.

Consider this course, for example.

A few years ago it was not possible to offer global open education.

All of these areas have been impacted by changes in technology.

So let's ask ourselves the question why not design and manufacturing?

It's unlikely in our world today that any real task in business

can be accomplished by a single person sitting in a single place.

This is especially true when it comes to design and manufacturing.

For example, if we take a look at product development, is usually a team

effort with multiple people involved in a project passing back and

forth large amounts of data and information.

In order to share this information effectively, it's important that these

people and their information sources are well connected and provided with the right

tools to process large amounts of data quickly, accurately, and efficiently.

Cyberinfrastructure is the technology solution

that makes this connection possible.

In 2003, the National Science Foundation formalized the definition as quote

Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware for computing, data and networks,

digitally enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities, and

an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools, unquote.

I have found it to be a useful label for everything IT related.

How does cyber infrastructure come into play?

We start off with a user community that has a question that needs to be answered.

Consider a scenario in which we want to understand the status of production

across our entire company.

We have multiple sensors in different manufacturing sites

spread across the country, and can capture a large set of data.

This data, once captured, is retained in some storage device for

use in the design process.

Then computing devices come in to play as they convert the data into information.

All of these resources are then connected through some form of networking.

And finally, with visualization,

processed information is strategically presented to enhance usability for

a specific purpose and then presented back to the original community.

So cyber infrastructure is the bridge that brings the process from one step

to the next and ultimately makes the entire cycle possible.

Cyber infrastructure doesn't just apply to large organizations.

It can also benefit smaller firms by connecting results from

instrumented testing facilities right back to the design process,

helping engineers to understand the real world implications of their designs,

like how heat transfer is impacted by design changes.

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