Seaspan Shipyards , located on the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, provides a complete range of shipyard services to build, repair, and maintain naval, research, and commercial vessels. Its shipyard operations include Vancouver Shipyards, Vancouver…
Examples and key metrics to transform your product lifecycle
What is digital transformation?
Digital Transformation is the integration of digital technologies into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how that business operates and delivers…
Engaging users is vital to successful business transformation
Today, the pace of change in virtually every industry is at an all-time high. The traditional 5-year or even 3-year plan is inadequate to keep up with the competition. Companies that previously…
A while ago, I wrote a blog on why Variant Management needs to be considered way before 150% BOM (Bill of Materials) is reached for an already-designed product that becomes available. The key to that is the reuse of the variant logic on distinctive design…
Tampere-based Finnish company Tamturbo has revolutionized the compressed air systems industry with its high-speed turbo compressors. With Aras Innovator, the company has completely changed the way they work with all product data.
This blog reveals the…
The need for speed
The products we design, make, and operate continue to grow in terms of complexity and connectivity with many operating in a platform-as-a-service model; but this only part of the equation.
Today, over half of a company’s revenue…
By now, everyone is aware that the cloud has become the dominant approach to deploying applications across almost every enterprise domain. Companies have progressed from viewing the cloud as an opportunity, to establishing it as their de-facto deployment…
If you haven’t noticed, the nature of change management in PLM is, well, changing due to exploding product complexities. It used to be that PLM was focused on changes to physical parts or physical assemblies (BOM). That was because PLM solutions and configuration…
Ask three product development teams from three different companies how they handle product lifecycle management and you’re likely get three distinct answers.
So that’s why when it comes to selecting a PLM or PDM system, powerful, out-of-the-box capabilities…
Earlier today I got my hands on the release package for the upgrades to our Express Change package. This is included in the PE11R2 package (Service Pack 3 required). This new capability adds to our already well known and used Express Change tools -…
We recently announced a strategic partner agreement with Airbus to use the Aras Innovator platform and solution suite for engineering business processes across the enterprise for up to 30,000 users. Airbus evaluated several different PLM platforms for…
By Peter Schroer, President of Aras
Change management is the toughest thing inside of PLM. It's also the most important.
How important? It's about the patient not dying, the plane not crashing, the missile landing where it is supposed to. You get…
Change. It's inevitable. Products across all industries undergo change for a variety of reasons, everything from product improvement, to compliance and changes in customer requirements. So what's the big deal about change? Well, if it's not managed properly…
Last night I had the pleasure of dining with a group of Aras enthusiasts – partners and users – visiting Aras HQ for a training class. Located on the Merrimack River, the dinner conversation naturally focused on the area’s rich industrial past and before…