What to Expect at Aras Connect

Bill Bone — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT

Many organizations continue to struggle with integrating different types of documents, processes, math data (e.g., MCAD, ECAD, simulation), and other content to fulfill their business needs. They are looking for the ability to link these different data types through highly configurable, fully describable relationships within defined, integrated data models. It takes a flexible platform that connects data throughout the entire product lifecycle to achieve such a connection over all areas of valid data models, using various mechanisms, including digital thread technology. If you are not able to achieve this kind of data connection, you have limitations in your overall system capabilities. What do these limitations typically look like?

When one cannot link to data within a bespoke application, release and configuration management does not include those data points unless redundant data is introduced into the release and configuration management process. This is never a good idea.
Because one cannot link previous service records into an upcoming product review that will be conducted using visual collaboration, product managers have limited insight into these service records for the review. To accommodate this need, again, stopgap measures are sometimes introduced to get this insight into these reviews. Again, stopgap measures are never a good idea.
Because one cannot link change management records over a long period of time, compliance with requirement changes over the lifetime of the product is compromised. The loss of configuration control during any phase of product design through delivery, including supply chain information, can create many headaches that require costly, manual resolution when compliance is under scrutiny. In short, loss of data connectivity is expensive and creates unnecessary headaches.

Aras Innovator’s basic architecture separates code and data such that no code development is necessary to connect any of the data that you have in your enterprise provided the data model is valid. This architecture also provides Innovator users with industrial “low-code” capabilities. All of Innovator’s services “Just work” when you connect your data structures, whatever they may be, through our data-modeling engine. This capability elevates Innovator to be the industry benchmark to achieve enterprise flexibility and connectivity for your platform needs.

On Wednesday, October 30th, you’ll have the chance to learn more at Aras Connect, a customer-based sharing event, where Aras Innovator customers will be sharing their experiences regarding the flexibility, scalability, and successes they’ve achieved using the Aras platform―from product planning through to product end of life.

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CAR MBS: Visions of the Road Ahead

Bill Bone — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:00:00 GMT

The Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars (CAR MBS), in Traverse City, MI, continues to be one of the leading automotive leadership events in the world. This year’s event, held August 6-8, 2019, has a lineup of speakers and topics spanning multiple disciplines that are top of mind in today’s automotive environment. This year, we are seeing a strong emphasis on strategies and technologies related to connected and automated vehicles, electrification, automotive industry insight, as well as several keynote presentations from leading industry executives. These complex topics reflect the challenges and subsequent disruptions to the today’s business models that must be understood and overcome in order to remain competitive.

Key to a technology company’s insight into the automotive industry is understanding the complexity of OEM’s new products as well as emerging business models. This subject will be discussed in several briefings this year at CAR MBS. With vehicle electrification, we also see a big reduction in traditional vehicle complexity in the propulsion areas; however, this is offset with the complexity of creating affordable electric propulsion systems, especially the amount of new software that must be developed. Handling this complexity expansion and reduction as well as accommodating millions of lines of new software into the vehicle development process (VDP) is central to a technology company’s solutions in automotive.
Another key challenge in managing next-generation automotive vehicles is how to achieve flexibility in managing future products with the speed of which new capabilities are required. Indeed, vehicle features required for products just a few years out are not known nor defined at this time.

How does one reduce overall vehicle complexity and provide the flexibility to handle future vehicle requirements while providing digital continuity for older vehicles? Adopt a product innovation platform. Aras brings to the table a world-class, low code, highly configurable product innovation platform with a leading-edge business model. Recognized by both Forrester and CIMdata as a leader in this area, Aras continues to invest heavily into processes and systems that improve product lifecycle management capabilities for next-generation automotive. This winning strategy results in quick deployment with minimal impact to the overall OEM’s vehicle development process (VDP).

CAR MBS offers insight into where the automotive industry is going, what challenges must be overcome, how business models are evolving, the emergence of new technologies, and the speed at which these changes are occurring. I urge you to take to opportunity to attend CAR MBS and reconnect with previous participants as well as create new contacts in areas where you share mutual interests.

In the meantime, if you would like to discuss what Forrester and CIMdata say about the Aras platform, email me at bbone@aras.com or call me at +1 248.918.0580.

I hope to see you there!

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What to Expect at Aras Connect

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