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,…

Received a DNA kit as a gift. Filled the test tube to the required line, capped it and sent it off for analysis. A couple of weeks later the interesting, mixed results came back. A two-page list of diseases that I might have the variant for or where the…

Received a DNA kit as a gift. Filled the test tube to the required line, capped it and sent it off for analysis. A couple of weeks later the interesting, mixed results came back. A two-page list of diseases that I might have the variant for or where the…

Aras partner AMC Bridge has created a proof of concept (POC) connector to integrate the Onshape cloud-based CAD platform to the Aras PLM Platform.  Onshape is a full-cloud 3D CAD system that is built to democratize CAD.  It empowers everyone on a design…

Historically, the design manager picked the CAD, PDM, and more recently the PLM system. This made sense as the beginnings of PLM came out of engineering and CAD file management. PLM methodology is a process that starts before design, and often the greatest…

Happy Monday! Today is the kick-off of our Product Data Management (PDM) themed week. Now some of you may be scratching your heads right about now and saying, hmmm... isn't Aras a PLM company? Well you are right, but PDM is a big part of what PLM users…

Choosing a Product Data Management (PDM) system to do the work of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution is a surefire way for a project to get stuck. As the name implies, PDM is great for managing engineering product data; however, when it comes…

Once you’ve defined your business objectives, work backwards to identify the related processes that will be involved. For example, if achieving faster time to market is your priority, identify all the things that go into the new product development and…

Recently we introduced a new commercial offering designed specifically for companies that run SolidWorks called Aras EPLM for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM . It's built on top of SolidWorks best selling EPDM system to provide packaged functionality out…

Happy new year to everyone! We’re looking forward to a great 2012, and looking back at 2011 it was another record breaker. In addition to achieving record sales and double digit growth again (that’s 5 years in a row for anyone counting), we increased…

In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users…

A few days ago Jim Brown at Tech-Clarity had posted on “the impact of the economy on the engineering software industry?”… This topic is a bit different than the implications for end user customer companies. The emphasis is on the engineering software…

Over the past couple months Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies has been doing a detailed product review of the Aras PLM software solution suite for the CAD community site ConnectPress. This is a pretty good overview of the solution functionality…