Engineering find number for reference (digital thread)

A digital thread is used to understand any changes that occur in the lifecycle of a product.

An important way to monitor and visualize this is to track changes made to the original revision after derived structures are generated. For example, a derived structure can be a master or production BOM, or a JS BOM that is site-specific by nature.

When a site-specific BOM is created in PLM, any variations made to the original as-designed BOM can be used to track changes from that original. This is a basic step to obtain complete digital wire information at the data level.