MBE & Digital Thread

MBE & Digital Thread

First-Article Inspection Under AS9102 Is a Recurring Revenue Opportunity Most Solution Providers Undervalue

First-Article Inspection — FAI — is the structured process by which a manufacturer demonstrates that a production process is capable of consistently producing a part that meets design requirements. Under AS9102 (the ANSI/SAE standard governing FAI in aerospace), the documentation requirements are extensive, the data must be traceable to the specific design revision, and the records must be maintained for the life of the production program.

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MBE & Digital Thread

STEP AP242 Is the Standard Your Customer Has Never Heard of but Cannot Afford to Ignore

STEP AP242 — the second edition of ISO 10303’s Application Protocol 242 — is the international standard for exchanging 3D CAD models with embedded Product and Manufacturing Information. In plain terms: it is the file format that makes Model-based Definition work across different software vendors.

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MBE & Digital Thread

The MBE Market in 2026: What Solution Providers Need to Know About Where the Opportunity Is Going

The MBE market is not a single market. It is a collection of adjacent markets — aerospace and defense, medical devices, automotive, industrial machinery, energy — at very different stages of MBE adoption, with different regulatory drivers, different prime contractor dynamics, and different budget cycles.

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What the Digital Thread Actually Means for the Solution Provider Selling Into Manufacturing

Digital thread” has become one of those terms that everyone in industrial manufacturing uses and almost no one defines consistently. Ask ten people at a manufacturing trade show what it means and you will get ten different answers.

That ambiguity is a sales liability. When your messaging uses “digital thread” without defining it, technically literate buyers hear noise — not signal. Here is the precise definition, and more importantly, how to use it as a positioning tool.

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