The Evolution of Standards Development: Digital Threads, Digital Twins, and Generative AI

As industries become more interconnected, complex, and data-driven, the need for modernized approaches to standards development has grown in urgency. Businesses across industries are increasingly sophisticated in the technologies that underpin operations.    Two transformative technologies are emerging as game-changers: digital threads and digital twins. A digital thread serves as a connected data framework that enables the seamless flow of information, insights, and context throughout the entire lifecycle of a system, product, or process – from its initial concept to its implementation and updates.  A digital twin is a dynamic, virtual model of a physical system, product, or process.