Aras Simulation Management is a powerful solution that enhances collaboration and decision-making between simulation and other engineering domain experts at every stage of the product lifecycle. Its tool-agnostic data model allows linking SPDM (Simulation Process and Data Management) silos with the overall product's Digital Thread managed by the Aras PLM platform. The resulting traceability provides simulation activities and results with a specific product context at every level of product representation and every step of the product's lifecycle. Traceability includes all digital assets represented in Digital Thread, such as requirements, functions, architecture, variants, implementation domains, and others. This allows for an integrated, traceable, and verifiable approach to simulation, leading to better product performance, reduced risks, and improved decision-making.

Find out how TMC (Toyota Motor Europe) uses Digital Thread managed by the Aras PLM platform to organize basic engineering data in the context of simulation. By leveraging PLM services such as revision control, configuration management, and low-code methods, TMC can automatically generate families of engineering models (geometric and non-geometric) with multiple versions and variants traceable via Digital Thread. This tool-agnostic and enterprise-wide configuration enables cross-domain collaboration using the same definition and understanding of the engineering problem. In the future, these will serve as input to SPDM processes. According to TMC, this approach allows to capture fundamental design issues from the perspective of a problem instead of a solution.