Digital transformation has changed how engineering teams design, manufacture, launch, and service products. Many of these teams build and release products at an unprecedented speed — all while adhering to more stringent requirements and regulations than…

PLM solutions traditionally manage what a product is (aka design data) without much understanding of what the product does (aka design intent). Design data configuration management is critical for keeping track of product variants, releases, changes,…

How can Aerospace and Defense (A&D) companies best meet the needs of product development and manufacturing teams and their unique view of the authoritative source for product information—the bill of materials (BOM)? In other words, how do engineering…

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…

Aras is pleased to announce that it has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave TM : Product Lifecycle Management for Discrete Manufacturers, Q1 2023 evaluation. Aras appeared as a leader based on its current offering, strategy, and market presence…

Is your company CAD-centric? CAD-centric means your focus is on model-based 3D representations of a product. The revision of a part will be the same as the CAD version. Often this practice has been driven using file-based storage in Windows Explorer,…

Systems Thinking and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms – do the two converge on measurable benefits for your engineering teams? We have the answer, and it is a resounding yes! Here is the story.... First, let’s discuss ‘ talking the talk…

Product variability is one of the key strategies used by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and companies that offer configure-to-order products. This helps to decrease costs, minimize Cost of Quality (CoQ), accelerate time-to-market, and quickly…

It used to be that product variant management was done using CPQ tools (Configure, Price, Quote) which allowed users to resolve a product configuration according to a set of rules applied to the product platform’s existing features, options, and usage…

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…

Recently, we hosted the webinar “Digital Twin: How to Build, Manage, and Enable a Powerful User Experience.” During the webinar, we discussed using an upcoming application, Physical Asset Foundation, you can use to create and manage any asset configuration…

The following is a story of an aggressive startup company that was developing, and hoping to move a highly complex, electromechanical product into scale production. From a design engineering standpoint, the Bill of Materials (BOM) was derived from the…

Graphs have been eating the world for the last few year. Every time you start a PLM implementation you will draw a datamodel with nodes (itemtypes) and edges (relationships). A few years ago I made a project to draw the datamodel graph. I was sharing…

The extension of the product lifecycle management footprint to as-delivered, as-serviced, as-maintained configuration requires PLM solutions to be very adaptive to fit the industry evolving needs in terms of process to move from an engineering BOM to…

We're excited to introduce the Aras Innovator Demo Series. This new series takes place once a month and gives you the perfect opportunity to see Aras in action. The 30 minute demos will focus on different aspects of Aras PLM each month. Join us on July…

The Bill of Materials (BOMs) is vital to the functioning of most companies, but time and again I find that businesses often overlook the management of BOMs. Properly managing BOMs is as important as the BOMs themselves, but, unfortunately, even the simplest…

Aras EPLM is built as an extension of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. It expands your SolidWorks CAD BOM into a true Item-based EBOM that's ready for release to manufacturing. And with the familiar look and feel, it's easy to use for SolidWorks users. EPLM…

It's a tedious task to go through a Bill of Materials (BOM) and open each part to get the attached documentation. Thanks to Aras Partner Razorleaf, you don’t have to. Razorleaf created a utility to pull all attached documents from a BOM, making it easy…

Last time Yoann Maingon from Minerva was in town I had the opportunity to chat with him about his recent projects. My favorite one is a quick and efficient solution for ordering parts directly from the BOM, fully integrated with the Approved Manufacturer…

This was the featured solution in July’s Newsletter and is an excellent add-on for companies with large, complex product structures like aircraft, automobiles, ships and other complicated electro-mechanical equipment. The Alternative Structure Browser…