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How CIOs Can Use PLM to Generate Value From Digital Threads

Analyst(s): Sudip Pattanayak

By 2028, 80% of digital threads will start with PLM, with increased investments to adapt PLM as a digital thread foundation platform, up from 45% today.

Digital threads enable the traceability and digital continuity of a product’s life cycle and yet are perceived as challenging to implement. Manufacturing CIOs can use PLM software to create, connect and govern product data across the value chain and lay the foundation for a digital thread.

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