Implementing the Digital Thread - A Proof-of-Concept

Oroz, Juan; Roohi, Zayn; Abelezele, Sabastian; Fronk, Gabriel; Al Fawares, Ruby; Pinon-Fischer, Olivia; Gharbi, Aroua; Marvis, Dimitri; Petersen, Melissa; Karl, Alexander; Matlik, John; Schwering, Bryan

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Implementing the Digital Thread - A Proof-of-Concept

dc.contributor.author	Oroz, Juan
dc.contributor.author	Roohi, Zayn
dc.contributor.author	Abelezele, Sabastian
dc.contributor.author	Fronk, Gabriel
dc.contributor.author	Al Fawares, Ruby
dc.contributor.author	Pinon-Fischer, Olivia
dc.contributor.author	Gharbi, Aroua
dc.contributor.author	Marvis, Dimitri
dc.contributor.author	Petersen, Melissa
dc.contributor.author	Karl, Alexander
dc.contributor.author	Matlik, John
dc.contributor.author	Schwering, Bryan
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-22T16:39:17Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-22T16:39:17Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-25
dc.description	This paper was presented at the 2023 AIAA SciTech conference at Fort Washington, Maryland, USA.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Current engineering processes are heavily document-centric, which can add time and cost to projects, limit data accessibility, and make it difficult to actively manage models and data consistency throughout the lifecycle of a product. Additionally, traditional data siloes limit data accessibility across departments. Similar issues exist with tools: departments use software with different standards and formats, making it time-consuming and difficult to accurately propagate changes and requirements throughout. Aerospace projects and vehicles are also often a level of magnitude more complex than products developed in other industries, requiring the coupling of multiple disciplines, which intensifies these problems. Digital Engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) provide the context, methodologies and tools to address some of the aforementioned challenges. In particular, this paper presents the development and implementation of a Digital Thread proof-of-concept for a minimum viable product. In doing so this research demonstrates solutions to the challenges of data acquisition and management, model and data connectivity, tool, and platform integration, eventually leading to the realization of an authoritative source of truth across the product’s lifecycle. Additionally, this research highlights some of the key benefits brought about by the Digital Thread, which include increased collaboration and communication, managed consistency across models and data, as well as the ability to conduct model verification, validation, and calibration - an important tenet of MBSE.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/69992
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.original	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
dc.subject	Digital Thread	en_US
dc.subject	Proof-of-concept	en_US
dc.subject	Model center	en_US
dc.subject	Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)	en_US
dc.title	Implementing the Digital Thread - A Proof-of-Concept	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Paper
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local.contributor.corporatename	Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Engineering
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