• Accelerate Design Reviews with Aras Innovator

    To better compete in quickly advancing industries, companies need to accelerate how products get to market. Offering new technologies first helps companies gain an edge over the competition; and becoming more efficient without sacrificing quality creates…
  • Product Engineering – What Really Changed due to COVID?

    A lot has been written and discussed regarding the effects of the COVID pandemic on how we work. Changing from working in the office to working from home is likely the most discussed topic. Here is a great recent blog on this very subject by Barclay R…
  • Defining a New Effectivity Scope

    In a previous blog post, we demystified the recently released Effectivity Services . That post provides an overview of how to assign Effectivity criteria and how to then use that criteria to resolve your 150% BOMs. An out-of-the-box (OOTB) Aras Innovator…
  • Associating EDRs with ECOs

    I’m working with Innovator 11.0 SP15 and I have installed the Product Engineering 11.0R4 add-on and I’m working with Express ECO and Express EDR items. When I create an EDR, I try to click the ‘Link for ECO’ link to associate an ECO, but it has no effect…
  • Demystifying Effectivity with Aras Innovator Version 12

    Many companies use “150% Bills of Materials”, also called “overloaded BOMs”, to manage multiple part choices in complex products and to handle different product configurations in one place. Effectivity is the condition determining whether to include…
  • Express ECOs - Renumber and Supersede

    When using the express ECO there are 2 actions (Renumber and Supersede) that are either; not working correctly or the documentation is unclear. For renumber and supersede there are no updates to the BOM as the documentation implies. My understanding…