Managing Complexity

Against a background of evolving requirements, unforeseen technology challenges and pressure to control costs and timescales, managing new product development projects and programs can be very challenging. Leading organizations achieve success by combining proven project management approaches, stage-gate methods and comprehensive risk management.

Managing Complexity with Aras PLM

Complexity, Simplified

Project Management enables organizations to manage new product development and engineer-to-order processes for complex projects that require global collaboration. By linking deliverables to project tasks, completion status and control are significantly enhanced.

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Key Features

  • Project templates based on PMI principles provide best practices
  • Stage-gate processes
  • Project collaboration workspaces
  • Forward, backward and milestone scheduling
  • Interactive dashboard summarizes entire project portfolio
  • Intuitive, easy-to-use scorecards, KPI metrics and reports
  • Gantt charts

Benefits

  • Managing tasks and deliverables in a single environment simplifies processes and improves adoption
  • Enhanced schedule visibility can optimize use of resources, reduce project costs and increases profit margins
  • Improved task accountability can shorten product development cycles and help manage and mitigate risk

Availability

PLM and PDM capabilities are powered by Aras® Applications which are available on either an Open or Subscription basis.

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Program Management

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

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Component Engineering

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Configuration Management

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

Quality Management

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.

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