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Digital Thread & SSoT

One digital thread. Single source of truth.

Product data sits in ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document systems, in different models and duplicated across them. It also breaks at every handover, from development to production to operation. CORENATE joins both dimensions on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS): one authoritative record, carried across the whole life of the product.

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Scattered across systems. Broken across stages.

ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document management each hold part of the product, each in its own model, much of it duplicated. Ask a question that crosses two of them and someone reconciles versions by hand.

The same information also breaks along the timeline. What engineering knew rarely reaches service. What production recorded rarely reaches the recycler. Every handover is a fresh start.

 
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Connected, Not Replaced

ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document management, joined on one standardised record. Nothing gets ripped out.
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One Base Serves

From product passports and carbon accounting to engineering, procurement, service, customer portals, and data spaces. All drawing on the same record.
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Per Product, Per Lifetime

Structured once, quality-assured once, versioned continuously. Every system and every stage works from the same version.
Beyond a single requirement

Structure once, use everywhere

Product data is captured and quality-assured once. From then on, the same base serves every team and every requirement that needs it. Four examples, one foundation.

Compliance and reporting

Digital Product Passport, battery passport, carbon footprint, PPWR, CSRD, and ESG reporting, all drawing on the same record rather than six separate projects.

Supply chain and quality

Traceability, quality management, procurement, and supplier management on consistent product and material data.

Engineering and service

Product development, service and maintenance, spare parts, and customer portals working from the same version as everyone else.

Data spaces

Manufacturing-X, Catena-X, and other data space applications, ready because the data is already semantically described.

Beyond a single requirement
 

Three things this base makes possible

One base, many ways of using it. Each solution below is the same platform, configured for a different job.

Meet the next rule faster

New requirements do not start at zero. The product data they ask for is already structured, versioned, and interoperable, so the work is mapping rather than gathering.

Keep the systems you run

CORENATE joins ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document management. Nothing gets replaced. The product record sits above them.

One version, every boundary

Redundancy disappears and consistency improves, because every department and every partner reads the same record instead of their own copy of it.
Technology and interoperability

Built on open standards

CORENATE is built on the Asset Administration Shell, the international Industry 4.0 standard for the digital twin.

Your product data is described with clear semantics and moves automatically between systems, across company boundaries. That is what makes a record usable by a supplier, an auditor, or a data space without translation.

What changes

Structured once, ready for what comes

The digital twin carries the product across its whole life and updates as it goes. It does not fork into departmental copies and it does not restart at each handover.
  • Redundancy avoided, data quality and consistency improved
  • Regulatory and operational requirements met from one record
  • New rules and digital services implemented faster
  • Data structured, versioned, and interoperable from the start

Frequently asked questions about Digital Thread & SSoT

The key questions, answered briefly.
What is the difference between a Digital Thread and a Single Point of Truth?
They are two dimensions of the same record. The Single Point of Truth is vertical: one authoritative version across ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document management. The Digital Thread is horizontal: that same record following the product from development through production, operation, and end of life. One enables the other.
Do we have to replace our PLM or ERP?
No. CORENATE joins the systems you already run. The product record sits above them.
Which systems does it connect?
ERP, PLM, MES, PIM, IoT, and document management systems.
What can we build on it?
Product passports including DPP and the battery passport, carbon footprint, PPWR, CSRD and ESG reporting, traceability, quality management, engineering, procurement, service and spare parts, repair and second-life processes, circular economy management, customer portals, and data space applications.
How is this different from a product passport?
A passport is one application. This is the base underneath it, serving the passport alongside engineering, procurement, service, and everything else that needs the same product data.
What is the Asset Administration Shell?
The international Industry 4.0 standard for the digital twin. It describes product data clearly and makes it exchangeable between systems.
Does it support industrial data spaces?
Yes. Manufacturing-X, Catena-X, and other data space applications draw on the same base.
How do we best get started?
Get in touch and tell us where your product data sits today and what you need it to do. We will take it from there.
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See Digital Thread & SSoT in action

Every requirement asks for the same product data, and every handover asks for it again. Tell us where yours sits today.
  • Built on open Industry 4.0 standards
  • Connects the systems you already run
  • One record for compliance, engineering, and operations