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“Digital thread” is probably a term you’ve heard many times, but it’s not always clear what it means, and often has different nuanced definitions depending on the industry. In this quick primer, we’ll define the digital thread and then focus on one way to make your...
In Part 1 of this series, we defined digital models, digital twins, and the process of change management, impact assessment, and requirements management. We also described the challenges that static PDF documents pose to modern engineering workflow, i.e. they don’t...
Our readers have varying degrees of familiarity with the terms “digital models” and “digital twins,” from experts to novices and everything in between. People and companies like to bandy these words about under the general rubric of “digital transformation”, but they...
Public sector suppliers and buyers are being challenged to keep up with inflationary changes. Erv Koehler, Assistant Commissioner of GSA's Office of General Supplies and Services recently announced that it will rely on data from XSB's Price Point tool to support...
The United States Department of Defense manages one of the largest procurement budgets in the world. Of the department’s $700 Billion annual budget, more than $200 billion is spent on goods and services from contractors.1...
A team from XSB including CEO, Rupert Hopkins, board member Bob Solomon, and Andrew Bank won the award for best paper in the 2022 World Standards Day paper competition. Their paper, entitled "The Next Generation of Engineering Standards: A Proposal for Digital...
New Windchill PLM Extension Integrates Critical External Data to Reduce Manual Labor, Accelerate Time-to-Market, and Lower Operational Costs Setauket, NY and Boston, MA. May 4, 2021. XSB, a semantic data science company and member of the PTC Partner Network, today...
The GSA Catalog Management team has shared some exciting updates on the release of the Verified Product Portal (VPP), a key component of GSA’s Catalog Management modernization, which has been under development by XSB since June. The prototype was released in November...
NEW YORK – July 1, 2020 – XSB, Inc. announced today that it has been selected as a program partner to collaborate with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in identifying logistics problems, and developing new capabilities and innovative business practices to support...
The Catalog Management team is sharing some news about a related project, the Verified Product Portal (VPP), which will be a critical piece of the long term Catalog Management solution. The VPP will be a manufacturer and wholesaler facing portal designed to host...
NEW YORK – June 30, 2020 – XSB Inc., a software provider of artificial intelligence solutions in manufacturing, logistics and engineering document automation, announced today the extension of the Company’s current contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to...
XSB founder and CEO Rupert Hopkins recently talked with Stardog's Alison Goodrum to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge graphs are fundamentally changing the way engineers, designers, and project managers interact with complex networks of...
In our last post, we provided an introduction to graph thinking and the concept of nodes (or vertices) and edges (or links) as a way to describe networks. As examples, we pointed to Facebook (a social graph with connections between people and the things that people...
Graph thinking, derived from a branch of mathematics called Graph Theory, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. For instance, in August, Gartner identified knowledge graphs and graph analytics as two of 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with in the next...
XSB, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to research interoperability between SysML and XSB’s SWISS® platform, as part of NASA’s larger Moon to Mars exploration approach. XSB, a first-time NASA...
Bruce Mayer, Manager, Engineering Application Technology and Strategy of Northrop Grumman presented “Integrating “Smart Documents” into PLM and the Digital Thread” at CIMdata’s PLM Road Map™& PDT North America 2019 conference last month. Bruce’s presentation is...
Working with a consortium of industry, Government, and Standard Development Organizations, XSB developed a Model-Based approach to represent concepts buried in unstructured, non-geometric data, such as specifications, drawing notes, work instructions, etc. This...