Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" Methods and systems for generating digital threads that connect models and software tools for an interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem are provided. In one embodiment, a process for generating a software-code-defined digital thread includes receiving a first model representation of a first engineering model, a second model representation of a second engineering model, and an intent input. Determining, using a machine learning (ML) model, one or more model endpoints in the first and the second model representations. Generating, using a script-generating ML model, a platform orchestration script that accomplishes the intent input by connecting the first model representation and the second model representation, using the one or more model endpoints. Finally, storing the platform orchestration script as the software-code-defined digital thread. The digital threading of digital engineering models, with and without AI assistance, leads to exponential increases in efficiency of designing, testing, certifying, manufacturing, and operating physical products, allowing physical products to be made at digital speeds.