ACCO Brands (NYSE: ABD) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of branded office products with close to $2 billion in annual revenues. World-class brands include Swingline, Kensington, Wilson Jones, Quartet, and Rexel with products marketed in over 100 countries worldwide. The company has achieved market leading growth by consistently beating the competition in the areas of new product innovation and time to market.

Learn about ACCO’s strategic approach to new product development and introduction that incorporates processes, people, and outsourced manufacturing partners, and how the company is expanding global growth using the Aras solution for enterprise PLM.

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) is the world's leading document management technology and services provider with $17 billion in annual sales. Xerox’s product portfolio ranges from industry leading color and black-and-white printing systems, laser and solid ink network printers, copiers, fax machines, and multifunction devices to "book factories" and digital publishing presses. A broad vision for end-to-end enterprise PLM across the lifecycle combined with complex process and integration requirements drives the Xerox strategy while practical realities shaped the systems evaluation approach.

See the Xerox presentation from the 2008 Aras Community Network event about applying best practices with Aras Innovator to achieve business results and move ahead with confidence.

Freudenberg-NOK is a $1 billion tier one automotive supplier and provider of industrial products that is part of the $7 billion Freudenberg group of global companies. A recognized leader for Lean approaches with an emphasis on Six Sigma quality and continuous improvement Freudenberg-NOK embraces innovative business approaches throughout all aspects of the company.

Learn how the company has used the Aras Innovator solution for Advanced Product Quality Planning [APQP] compliance and Lean product development to achieve new product launch success with flawless launch scorecard KPI metrics for customer satisfaction, quality, plant readiness, and profitability.

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is a Fortune 100 company with $36.6 billion in annual revenues that is known around the world for innovation in communications. The company develops technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Motorola’s portfolio includes communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. The company is committed to delivering next-generation communication solutions to people, businesses and governments.


See the Motorola presentation from the 2007 Aras Community Network event hosted at Motorola University about applying Aras Innovator for advanced program management with earn value management, resource management, and schedule & cost performance tracking (SPI/CPI) for better coordination and collaboration.

Ogihara America Corporation is a leading tier 1 supplier of vehicle body parts producing Class A high-quality door, fender, hood, and roof panels for Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, Lincoln, and other major brands. Learn how Ogihara is achieving compliance to the ISO/TS16949 quality systems standard [the automotive industry’s version of ISO9000:2000 with requirements similar to the aerospace industry’s AS9100 and the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 820 Quality System Regulation] to automate strategic corporate quality processes to streamline customer issue management, Corrective Action / Preventive Action (CAPA), Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), nonconformance management, defect tracking, document management & control, and product realization or Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) with Aras Innovator.

Esterline (NYSE: ESL) is a global aerospace and defense company with $1.2 billion in annual revenues and over 10,000 employees around the world. The company’s strategy focuses on high-end industrial markets with growth driven through the acquisition of niche technology leaders. BVR Technologies Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Esterline and an emerging leader in advanced motion control and avionics products for aerospace, medical, and industrial automation applications.


See the Esterline presentation from the 2008 Aras Community Network event about business challenges and enterprise PLM implementation journey at this specialty aerospace provider, and hear how the company managed the transformation process of moving from paper to Aras Innovator and where they are headed next.

Structural Concepts Corporation is a US-based company with over 30 years of expertise designing and building innovative temperature controlled display cases. Structural’s market is highly competitive, and its customers are large companies with stringent demands where 80% of Structural Concepts’ orders require customer-specific custom engineered product requirements. With a motto of “One Part Passion, Two Parts Science”, Structural is obsessive about presenting food and products in a manner that is irresistible to its client’s customers. The company is equally passionate about applying progressive business strategies combined with new technology to deliver innovation in all aspects of the customer experience.


Learn how Structural achieved enterprise PLM success with Aras Innovator by managing new product development and introduction with customer requirements.

The U.S. Army Watervliet Arsenal, WVA, is an integral component of the U.S. Army’s Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), a major command of the Army Materiel Command (AMC). The Arsenal is a billion-dollar manufacturing complex and has long been known as America's "Cannon Factory" and is a critical source of today's high tech, high powered weaponry. WVA is certified to ISO9000 and CP2, the Army's Contractor Performance Certification Program, and is the U.S. Army’s primary gun tube maker with products including cannons for the Army's main battlefield tank, the M1A1 Abrams, as well as precision components for artillery cannons, battleship guns, marine drives, and rocket motors.


Learn how the Army uses Aras Innovator for Manufacturing Process Planning, routings, work instructions, tooling management, preventive maintenance and calibration to support Lean Six Sigma.

MEGA Brands Inc. (MON TOR: MB.TO), formerly known as MEGA Bloks, is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and is a leader in high quality, fun and educational construction toys that inspire children and parents to play together. With over $733M in annual revenues MEGA Brands is one the fastest-growing toy brands in the world and is continually extending into new lines of business with innovative new products.


MEGA Brands develops new products with superior quality within stringent cost targets, and to support continued growth the company improved global coordination and visibility throughout the New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) process with a specific emphasis on quality using Aras Innovator.

GSI is the world's largest manufacturer of galvanized steel storage bins offering over 1,000 models in flat bottom and hopper bottom styles. GSI also manufactures many types of grain drying systems including portable, stacked, tower and process dryers featuring the most technologically advanced, and user-friendly, control systems in the industry. In addition, GSI offers a full line of material handling equipment including augers, bin sweeps, bucket elevators, conveyors, distributors, chain loop systems, and grain spreaders.


Learn how GSI uses Aras Innovator for enterprise PLM with system configuration management, Variants & Options, engineering change workflows, product order configuration for assemble to order / build to order / configure to order systems to support their Lean Enterprise strategy.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (NASDAQ: VSEA) is a $1 billion leader in the design and production of ion implantation equipment used in the manufacturing fabrication of semiconductors. With operations worldwide, the company aggressively develops new product technologies that create ever greater precision for smaller and smaller circuit geometries. The company is committed to industry leadership through a combination of innovative practices and aggressive cost management.


Learn how Aras Innovator provides global product change workflows to manage information stored in Agile PLM, PTC ProjectLink, and SAP.

Fox Electronics is a supplier of the industry's largest range of frequency control products, including quartz crystals, temperature controlled and voltage controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs and VCXOs ), clock oscillators, and monolithic crystal filters, OCXOs and the new XpressO XOs.

Rolls-Royce Naval Marine manufactures variable pitch propellers for naval and commercial ships, and has the capability to design and manufacture state-of-the-art controllable pitch and fixed pitch propeller systems up to the largest sizes and highest power requirements.

Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) is an independent, not-for-profit research and development organization. SRC plays a leadership role in providing solutions to programs of national significance through the innovative application of science, technology, and information. SRC solves next generation challenges for customers in the defense, environment, and intelligence communities.

Uponor offers plumbing, heating and fire safety systems for residential and commercial applications featuring PEX-a tubing — the most flexible and dependable tubing on the market. Uponor also offers snow and ice melting, turf conditioning and permafrost prevention systems. You can find our systems in major ski resorts as well as several NFL stadiums throughout the United States.