As artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines worldwide, it seems that the negative press has overshadowed the potential of AI to make positive impacts across many disciplines. This is nothing new. With any emerging technology, there are bound to…

NuScale's mission is to improve the quality of life for people worldwide by providing scalable advanced nuclear technology for producing electricity, heat, and clean water. NuScale Power is also developing a new modular light water reactor to supply…

Is your digital transformation strategy turning changing business conditions into competitive advantages? In January, we held a webinar to review “ Transformative Business Opportunities During Recessionary Times .” This was an opportunity to set the stage…

I come before you today with troubling news. Research has shown that a vast majority of companies in the manufacturing industries suffer from PLM Legacy Syndrome. But do not be dismayed, I also come to you today with a cure. The symptoms: The first…

Reduce resource management with product lifecycle management Understanding the importance of sustainability in product design is essential to creating the circular economy. According to a study by management consultants Ernst and Young (EY), seven out…

Simplifying and synchronizing the transition from EBOM to MBOM Managing complex business processes globally that extend through product development into manufacturing is effortless with the Aras PLM Platform Application—Aras Manufacturing Process Planning…

“Released to Manufacturing”, “Manufacturing Nonconformances”, “Engineering Change Order”: even in the language we use, manufacturing seems to be the recipient of product development—with engineering happening “to” manufacturing—rather than manufacturing…

Managing the impact of the manufacturing process on the quality of produced parts is critical to producing the high-quality products your teams design. That’s why standard functionality in Aras Innovator connects manufacturing process planning with process…

When you’re transitioning a product from design and development to manufacturing process planning, a lot can change. Aras Innovator helps you manage this complex transformation by providing a robust Manufacturing Process Planning application that is well…

If “Data is the new oil,” then a PLM platform capable of connecting related data across organizational functions, like manufacturing and engineering, is the new pipeline—delivering critical, accurate information where and when it's needed. Better known…

Blasphemy, to some, for sure. But let us step back from our engineering and manufacturing domains for a moment. When we talk about the Business of Engineering at Aras we are talking about creating well received and profitable products.   For a product…

As many engineering and product development teams well know, there is a lack of integration between manufacturing process planning, EBOM, MBOM, and work instructions.  This results in information silos that create gaps in traceability and makes it difficult…

In North America, Manufacturing Day is celebrated the first Friday of October. It's a day set aside to honor those organizations developing new products and manufacturing processes, as well as those unlocking new technologies to grow this important industry…

We can all agree that product complexity has increased exponentially over the past years and managing, not only product development or the science of engineering, but also the business of engineering is becoming more and more difficult. Many of today…

Announced last week at IBM’s InterConnect, Aras and IBM are partnering to create an ALM-PLM integration for continuous engineering. With the emergence of the IoT there’s an accelerating pace of change and an increasing configuration management complexity…

Ready or not, the Internet of Things is coming. In fact, it’s already here. Since 2007 we've had sensors in our car tires telling the central onboard computer when they are low on air. And that’s just beginning. MIT Technology Review’s report on The…

No doubt, there’s a lot of potential in 3D printing, but before we overhaul the manufacturing industry there are questions that need to be considered. Today, we serialize parts for traceability and tracking. This becomes more complicated with 3D printing…

The title immediately caught my attention, " Technology: Augmented Reality on the Plant Floor " and the article got me thinking about all the possibilities the future holds for manufacturing. Imagine this: you're on site doing maintenance on one of…

I love this article by Steve Denning on the future of manufacturing - spoiler alert: it's positive! It really got me excited about the future of our industry and the economy. In the article, The Future Is (Gasp) Manufacturing? , Denning points out the…

According to Industry Week , the next generation of manufacturing includes more reliance on robotics and automation, more software embedded in products, 3-D printing and sensor-enabled machines. As Warren Smith , senior industry consultant and business…