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How do Digital Threads and Augmented Reality Enable Digital Transformation? | Rockwell Automation's Keith Higgins

IoT For All Podcast · 22 Mar 2021 · 26m

What this episode covers

Keith Higgins, who leads digital transformation marketing at Rockwell Automation, explains how digital threads and augmented reality enable industrial agility and knowledge transfer. He details use cases including intelligent asset optimization, enterprise operational intelligence, and the PTC Creo Plus augmented reality solution for workforce productivity. Higgins highlights how the pandemic accelerated demand for manufacturing agility and safety, driving companies to adopt digital threads that link design, simulation, and production data to optimize lifecycle management.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

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Companies
Rockwell Automation, PTC, ANSYS
Products
Creo Plus, Fix

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