MESA Smart Manufacturing Community: Digital Thread/Digital Twin

Description

Come share your experiences, stories, questions, and what you have learned in a safe, non-commercial environment. We seek to understand the state-of-the market, understand what companies have done that has or has not worked, documenting questions that MESA and the community can help answer. Overall, the goal is to accelerate each participant’s learning and progress toward Smart Manufacturing. 

Topic: Can Advanced Analytics and AI Enhance Digital Twin and Thread?

The integration of Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the capabilities of Digital Twin and Digital Thread solutions, enabling more intelligent, responsive, and predictive systems across the manufacturing and industrial landscape. By leveraging real-time data streams and machine learning algorithms, these technologies empower Digital Twins to go beyond simulation and monitoring—enabling dynamic optimization, anomaly detection, and prescriptive decision-making. Simultaneously, Digital Threads benefit from enhanced data lineage, context-aware insights, and improved traceability across the product lifecycle. This convergence creates a powerful foundation for Industry 4.0, accelerating innovation, reducing operational risks, and unlocking new levels of efficiency and agility.

Learn from each other as we discuss:

1. How can AI-driven Digital Twins move beyond real-time monitoring to support autonomous decision-making in complex manufacturing systems?
2. What role do data quality and governance play in ensuring the effectiveness of Digital Threads enhanced by advanced analytics?
3. How can organizations balance the need for predictive accuracy with the explainability of AI models in mission-critical industrial applications?
4. In what ways might the integration of AI and analytics into Digital Twin ecosystems redefine roles and responsibilities across the workforce?
5. What are the cybersecurity and ethical implications of increasingly intelligent and interconnected Digital Twin / Digital Thread infrastructures?

Agenda: 

• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Facilitator introduction 
• Community & Group overview – why participate and what to expect 
• Smart Manufacturing Paradigm 
• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Summary of last meeting 
• Today's subject 
• Wrap up 
• Next meeting 
• How to keep the conversation going 
• Thanks

The Community meets every two weeks via virtual facilitated meetings. The Community is a benefit of MESA membership. Members automatically receive the Zoom link/invitation. Not a member? Join today! 

Learn more about MESA's Smart Manufacturing Community Groups.

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