AI & Digital Manufacturing Analytics worked example

Digital Thread Completeness Throughput at 99% data-link efficiency: a worked example

Push data-link efficiency up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. an MES or digital thread owner needs to measure how fast complete traceability records are created

The inputs for this scenario

  • Complete digital thread records: 14,500 records (unchanged)
  • Traceability runtime: 24 hr (unchanged)
  • Data-link efficiency: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 91)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Raw record throughput = complete digital thread records รท traceability runtime) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 598 records/hr for effective digital thread throughput, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 604 records/hr for raw record throughput.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 99 % for data-link efficiency.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 24 hr for traceability runtime.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where data-link efficiency sits at 91% and the headline result is 550 records/hr, this scenario comes in 8.79% above the baseline at 598 records/hr.
  • It computes the effective number of complete, fully traceable digital thread records produced per hour after applying data-link efficiency to the raw record rate. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Effective digital thread throughput: 598 records/hr (headline result)
  • Raw record throughput: 604 records/hr
  • Data-link efficiency: 99 %
  • Traceability runtime: 24 hr

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Digital Thread Completeness Throughput calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.