Why companies are increasingly using low-code platforms like Mendix to build mobile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) apps and web-portals to extend their engineering processes into the field, connect with customers, suppliers, partners and employees on the move and close gaps in their Digital Thread.

If the Digital Twin is an exact digital representation of the asset or the product right now in service, the Digital Thread captures the journey of how we got here.

The inflection point represented by the advent of low-code could provide UK industry with an opportunity to leapfrog a generation of older technologies to close the manufacturing productivity gap.

This paper explores, what defines a low-code approach and why this is often better than what went before.