Getting Change Under Control

As product complexity increases and organizations become more reliant on their supply chains, managing the change process and communicating change status across many groups inside the organization and into the supply chain is an increasing challenge.

Ineffective or poorly managed change processes can leave organizations struggling to improve quality, reduce time-to-market and manage costs.

Change Control With Aras

Streamline Your Processes

The change process in Aras Innovator® manages all change requests, assessments, plans, and orders to a product or system. It also ensures users throughout extended supply chain have easy visibility into the engineering change status through the product lifecycle, where change histories are automatically captured and recorded.

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Key Features

  • Standard best practice templates based on CM2 principles
  • Part and document change processes
  • Flexible and adaptable to the needs of your business
  • Automated impact analysis
  • Effectivity and release date
  • Escalation and delegation, group voting, weighted voting, executive veto

Flexible Effectivity at Scale

Whether you're developing individual tail numbers and hull numbers or tracking date and batch, effectivity - when and how engineering change goes into effect - is critical for managing change and configuration to meet customers' requirements.

Aras delivers a flexible, multi-factor approach that enables manufacturers to manage complex effectivity at scale and customize it for their individual business. Aras allows teams to manage all effectivity criteria in a single, dynamic product structure. The result is a massively simplified approach to manage effectivity across large numbers of complex variants and product configurations.

Benefits

  • Improves ECO cycle times
  • Reduces errors, delays, scrap and rework
  • Improves product quality and reduces cost
  • Avoids delays in product launch
  • Faster response to customer requirements
  • Improves customer service

Availability

PLM and PDM capabilities are powered by Aras® applications, which are available on either an open-access or subscription basis.

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Related Capabilities

ALM Integration

Creates complete system view of multidisciplinary products by linking embedded software deliverables into enterprise processes while source code is managed in ALM.

Bill of Materials

Manage complex MBOM and EBOM structures with Aras across mechanical, electronics, and software to assure consistency and control through the product lifecycle.

CAD Integration

Securing CAD data and making it available to other users accelerates development and reduces errors.

Component Engineering

Simplifies selection, approval, sourcing, and compliance for externally sourced electronic components.

Configuration Management

Provides a comprehensive closed-loop system using CMII and CMPIC certified methods for managing the configuration of a product or system throughout its life.

Documents

Provides document management including version and change control for files in multiple formats in a secure, searchable repository.

Manufacturing Process Planning

Provides an integrated approach to managing manufacturing data and processes in PLM, bridging the gap between engineering and manufacturing with a digital thread.

Office Integration

Making Microsoft Office documents secure and easy to find eliminates delays and keeps everyone on track.

Parts

Ensure consistency of information by automatically managing relationships between part items and relevant CAD models, drawings.

PDM/PLM Integration

While Aras provides full PDM capabilities, integration with other PDM environments which manage CAD, parts, BOMs and documents is also available.

Projects

Providing visibility into projects and programs, enabling enterprise organizations to plan and manage resources, mediate risk and maximize profitability.

Quality

The Aras® Quality Management System application provides businesses with advanced product quality planning (APQP) tools to manage risk, improve quality, and attain environmental, regulatory, safety, medical, and other forms of compliance.

Requirements Engineering

Enables the creation of a single, multi-discipline requirements hierarchy, critical for designing complex products which combine hardware and software.

Systems Engineering

Provides management of the lifecycle of complex multi-disciplinary products from requirements, through development, manufacture and support.

Technical Publications

Enables cross-discipline authoring, visualization, sharing and publishing of topics-based, modular documentation within a secure, managed environment.

Vaults

Ensuring that CAD files and documents are secure and quick to access using distributed/replicated vault capabilities and high-speed file transfer.

Visual Collaboration

Enabling all users to view, markup and discuss CAD designs and documents helps teams make better decisions in less time.
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