Last week Design World ran a story about the Aras deployment at MiTek.  You’ve probably seen their PLM slides from ACE 2010 International conference this spring at Motorola, so thought people might be interested in this.

Here’s an excerpt from the story:

MiTek Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells high performance mobile, residential, marine, and commercial audio products. The company operates three separate R&D division – mechanical, electrical, and acoustical – each focused on a different market. Each operated independently, using their own paper-based, ad-hoc systems to track and manage projects. But there was a problem with communications among groups, and management had no visibility into production, individually or cross-functionally...

Today, two thirds of MiTek’s employees use Aras and the company houses more than 70,000 parts in its database. All R&D engineers across all divisions are trained on the software. They can create their own systems, ISO documents, workflows, and lifecycles. Quality engineers and the material planning group are self-sufficient, too…

The software is integrated into MiTek’s ERP system which helps streamline and automate the design process. Before the company used Aras, R&D teams manually completed numerous paper-based forms, and then duplicated the form for every design evaluation.

You can read the full story at Web-based PLM Software Rings a Bell. There are some cool screenshots as well.