The Engineering Digital Data Thread challenge: No Product Data, no thread, no traceability
Most high-tech and semiconductor companies are running product development on a foundation that was never designed to hold it. The high tech products large engineering companies build today: lithography systems, microscopes, industrial robots, advanced packaging equipment, radar and defense systems, medical imaging equipment, high-precision systems, are among the most complex engineered objects ever existed. An unimaginable complexity, number of parts, and supply chains crossing multiple continents are part of these engineering marvels. But underneath these machines sit a digital data layer that was assembled incrementally. Bit by bit, system by system, over several decades. Never designed as a whole.
