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The PDX standards define an XML encoding scheme that enables supply chain partners to exchange product content, changes and subsequent manufacturing information in a common language. This capability allows companies to exchange information through a single port of the exchange software rather than developing a different solution for each trading partner.

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The vdR Group, business system integration specialists, and Alcove9, developers of open source advanced search technologies such as the a9 Hub, announce their partnership. The partnership improves the productivity of clients' critical business systems by combining the power of custom interoperability with advanced search capabilities. read more

A company implementing PLM faces many challenges. One of the typical challenges is to get data from sources like CAD into the PLM system. Having an automatic integration between the PLM system and CAD is an option, but it is often costly, and for many companies the number of CAD users is too low to justify the investment. Read much more on our web: http://www.minerva-plm.com/aras/minerva-solutions/import-tool.

Plural Technology, the only open source PLM provider for Apparel Industry, announced today the recent signing of an agreement with Estrix Spain, a software reseller and consulting company. Plural’s Flagship product Apparel Innovator is the only open source PLM tool available in the market. Apparel Innovator has various modules like Product development, Sourcing, Project Management, BI Reporting available out of the box. Estrix holds a prominent place in Spain’s Apparel Market as Business Management consulting company. For more information please visit www.pluraltechnology.com

Since 1st of January 2012, DataSquare has merged with its sister company MEAIS GmbH & Co. KG to become DataSquare GmbH. With this step, we can bundle the competencies of both former companies under the roof of our newly created PLM HOUSE, in order to offer our clients even more comprehensive consulting for successful Product Lifecycle Management. Visit the new DataSquare website for further information.

To simplify the process of managing permissions for external partners in Aras Innovator®, Minerva has developed a new add-on solution. The Minerva Permissions Manager makes it possible and easy to give an external party access to certain parts, products or files in the Aras platform.

As the official source of CMII standards in Europe, the German Gesellschaft fuer KonfigurationsManagement mbH (GfKM) maintains the list of certified CMII providers. Due to the commitment to CMII, DataSquare has been awarded the title "Europe Solution Partner", being the fourth consulting firm to gain it. CMII Europe Solution Partner are consulting firms which employ consultants with the status "CMII Professional" and offer support for companies implementing CMII. This includes training, consulting and coaching as well as the execution of assessments.

Minerva has appointed Thomas Skogen as Product Manager to strengthen the development and support of the growing number of Aras add-on solutions from Minerva.

Minerva's Microsoft Office Connector for Aras provides an easy-to-use interface with advanced functionality allowing documents, spreadsheets and presentations to be managed by a robust PLM system. The focus at Minerva is to "Keep it simple". Simple commands like Open, Lock, Save and Unlock allow you to quickly come up to speed. Learn more and download a free 30 day trail of the Microsoft Office Connector for Aras today.

The PDM-Workbench from T-Systems is an extension of CATIA V5 from Dassault Systèmes. With the connector developed by DataSquare, the PDM-Workbench is integrated to Aras Innovator and serves as a CATIA V5 interface. The Aras Innovator PDM-Workbench Connector functions as a connection between the product structure of the PDM-Workbench and the Aras Innovator data model enabling bi-directional data exchange between CATIA V5 and the Aras PLM platform.

Now the Aras Innovator E-mail Connector from DataSquare is also available in an advanced, chargeable version. The release includes a new e-mail management assistant that makes mass processing and distribution of permissions possible. So, even very large quantities of e-mails are assigned quickly and easily to persons and items.

The R2 „Reduced Rework“ Initiative seeks ways to avoid costs by reducing rework and corrective actions within the enterprise. It integrates all activities and strategies on reducing rework offered by "R2 Specialists" and used by "R2 Initiative Members" world-wide. DataSquare supports this initiative as R2 Specialist with consulting and software knowledge. DataSquare’s expertise in the areas of PLM and CMII supports the steps that are necessary to reduce rework significantly. At the same time DataSquare is able to build up an improved business process infrastructure using existing or new PLM software.

A ENGBRAS Softwares e Projetos anuncia parceria com a Aras Corporation, líder no fornecimento de software Open Source do segmento PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). Com seu foco em fornecer soluções que fomentam a Inovação, a ENGBRAS encontrou no produto Aras Innovator da Aras Corporation essas diretrizes.

Aras Innovator OCR Connector enables the automated recognition of text inside typewritten documents that are stored as picture files within Aras Innovator. Based on rules, text is being taken over as property, so that documents can be filed and found automatically. With this capability, Aras Innovator OCR Connector creates the requirement to integrate documents from existing “paper workflows” into PLM processes, easy and fast.

בלוג יולי – הגרסא החדשה של
Aras Innovator

בתחילת החודש (יולי 2011) שוחררה הגרסא החדשה של
גרסא Aras Innovator – 9.3.0
אישית – חיכיתי בכיליון עיניים לגרסא החדשה כיוון שהיא כוללת בתוכה אוסף עצום של יכולות חדשות וחזקות במיוחד.

The ShapeSpace 3D Search tool for Aras extends the searching capabilities of Aras to enable searching by shape. For the first time, this puts advanced and affordable 3D search capabilities into the hands of organizations giving them the opportunity to improve part re-use, reduce the part number counts, aggregate and consolidate bought in parts, and drastically reduce external spend.

I ett telefonsamtal i veckan med Leon Lauritsen på Minerva i Danmark talar vi om att man i varje samtal där begreppet "open source" förekommer, först behöver enas om vad det betyder. Leon är representant för Aras Innovator (PLM) som använder uttrycket Enterprise Open Source om sin produkt. Han säger också att open source-budskapet ibland gör kunderna oroliga. Att köpa eller hyra ett program är liksom enkelt. Men när det handlar om open source så blir affärsmodellen betraktad från alla håll den också, inte bara själva produkten som kan komma att användas. Och det är klart att det inte är så dumt att syna sina affärspartners oavsett om det handlar om ett köp, hyra eller "open source-användning". Men inget säger egentligen att det skulle vara helt tryggt att köpa och hyra eller helt otryggt att ta hem en vara "open source"? Det handlar kanske mera om att vänja sig vid modellen. Det menar i alla fall de som jobbar med "open source".

Imagine an organisation with thousands of products broken down into tens of thousands of parts. Now consider their drawings repository, all tagged with non-uniform descriptions and part numbers, often shared across several departments and offices. What a nightmare! How do they find a specific part in a hurry? Hope the description was entered intuitively? Rely on the accuracy of the part number? What about duplicates – aren’t they costly and confusing? ShapeSpace solves the problem. Shape-Space is a unique 3D search engine which enables you to re-organise, re-catalogue and eradicate duplicates in your massive drawings archive in hours.

Because design engineers often lack browse and search capabilities, the business of finding a part within a large component library can be complex and time consuming, especially when the name or part number is unknown. Naturally, this problem tends to make finding and reusing existing parts extremely difficult. A solution to this problem is available in the form of ShapeSpace, a 3D shape search technology provides engineering companies with a comprehensive 3D CAD search tool.

Control valve manufacturer Bifold wanted to drive changes in their manufacturing processes which would cut costs and deliver measurable improvements in reliability and performance. Using ShapeSpace 3D search technology to search their entire part reference library and identify all parts manufactured from the same raw material, Bifold were very quickly able to consolidate manufacturing processes and improve efficiencies. “As well as being leaner, greener and more efficient, we are able to turn around customer orders in a more reliable timeframe as the majority of parts are always ‘on the shelf’," said Mike Peacock, General Manager at Bifold.