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Receives top scores possible in compliance, sustainability, green PLM support, digital thread, extended BOM, software bill, and variants criteria

Manufacturers can use systems thinking and digital transformation to manage their complex designs, minimize failures, and bring new products to market faster. Learn how you can further your design and manufacturing goals.

Cloud-based solutions are experiencing a growth spurt and becoming a commodity for businesses. It is safe to assume most future system deployments will reside entirely or partly in the cloud. 

In a perfect world, all risk would be avoided with careful assessment and mitigation. In reality, risk management is not a one-time event – it continues throughout the product lifecycle. Find out how implementing a PLM-centered risk management system ensures device safety, leading to more successful products. 

Managing increasing product complexity requires transitioning from BOM-centric to system-centric thinking, and it will have a significant impact on your engineering digital transformation journey. Learn why the vision and strategy to get you there requires careful evaluation of the best practices relevant to your organization.

Creating a digital thread of product design and manufacturing information is critical to enabling an organization’s digital transformation. Consider the following six points as a framework to best create a digital transformation strategy.

Event will explore how technology connects people with trusted information to spark ingenuity

GPDIS and PLM Road Map events to focus on “Data Resilience for Sustainability”

Verdi Ogewell of Engineering.com shares his thoughts about Aras' strategic OEM licensing partnership with AVEVA, saying it is another recognition of the strength of the Aras Innovator platform and the joint venture with AVEVA is a feather in the cap for CEO, Roque Martin.

The Collaboration Will Help Develop a Series of Scalable, Asset Lifecycle Management Solutions to Deliver the Industrial Digital Twin

CIMdata provides a brief overview of Aras' strategic OEM licensing partnership with AVEVA, saying the partnership validates the need to adopt advanced lifecycle management technology within the architecture, engineering and construction, and asset management domains, which are new markets for Aras.

For Kendrion, a move to the cloud meant dynamic scalability and easier integrations resulting in innovative teamwork across the globe. Read about their recent implementation of Aras Enterprise SaaS and how it helped solve their digitalization challenges.

Eliminates silos and prepares for future growth with data transparency and traceability

Jamco increased efficiency and improved quality by creating a digital thread that provides history and context in the design stage while eliminating repeated errors. Read this article to learn more about Jamco as well as the challenges several companies face when they have disconnected data from disparate systems.

Product lifecycle management ensures an efficient, digital R&D workflow

Aras CTO, Rob McAveney shares his thoughts on why companies must have the right framework and tools in place to gain insights and improve operations and why it's critical to have a PLM platform that can work with multiple analytics tools and be able to adapt over time to new technologies and new techniques. 

Part two of Verdi Ogewell's conversation with Roque Martin and Peter Schroer explores the CEO transition, details about our recent Minerva merger, and the future of our platform.

Aras’ founder, Peter Schroer, and CEO, Roque Martin, sat down with Verdi Ogewell of Engineering.com to discuss Aras’ growth among the other vendors in the market, what makes Aras and its platform stand out, and Roque’s mission as CEO.

Provides the global market with a strong, independent source for next generation connectivity technologies

Aras CTO, Rob McAveney shares his thoughts on how the digital thread can be used to optimize additive manufacturing and enable the technology to achieve its full potential. 

CIMdata provides a brief overview of Aras’ investment in XPLM, saying that they are pleased to see that Aras is continuing to invest in openness that benefits the entire PLM economy including end user customers, ISV partners, and competitors alike.

Enables life science industry leader to manage all manufacturing requirements where customizing is the norm

Aras’ CRO, Rob McAveney, explains that if product data is used properly, it can deliver insights that allow businesses to pivot with agility when it needs to adapt to new requirements. 

For Aras, a year that has brought a lot of news has come to an end. New investors have taken over the majority of shares and new managers have joined the team of directors. Is it possible that Aras will become a new heavyweight in the PLM industry in the coming years? The key points in a nutshell and a conversation with the Vice President for Europe, Stéphane Guignard, are covered in this article.

CIMdata provides a brief overview Aras’ merger of Minerva, saying this is a great addition for Aras, offering better support for out-of-the-box implementations within specific industries and helps increase Aras’ top line revenue.

Verdi Ogewell of Engineering.com says Aras’ merger of Minerva will enable the company to position itself to better solve complex digitalization challenges in technology, manufacturing and the supply chain. At the same time, the added expertise in vehicle, aerospace, defense and industrial equipment manufacturing will benefit customers moving forward. 

Accelerates innovation and time-to-value with Aras Innovator 14

Aras DevOps on the Aras Cloud to provide critical capabilities for continuous growth

Seasoned industry veteran Roque Martin joins Aras; Peter Schroer transitions to Aras Board of Directors

Cashman’s growth company leadership experience to support Aras’ rapid expansion

Digital transformation is not an option. As business leaders look ahead to next year and beyond, they are asking how to keep the momentum around digital transformation going. This article explains what’s essential for successful digital transformation today.

Connecting business processes to the right data facilitates better decision making and enhances operational efficiency. This article explains how you can advance your digital transformation strategy by opting for a PLM solution that is agile, resilient, and sustainable.

Business processes will not only change but will do so often, quickly, and without concern for the ability of the systems to change with them. This article explores why taking advantage of a technology designed to adapt is critical for innovation and even more so when pivoting to new business models.

Keeping your PLM solution current empowers your organization to increase collaborative productivity and make better data-driven decisions. This article highlights the importance of executing upgrades at consistent intervals.

Too many companies are entrusting their next-generation business strategies to outdated PLM systems that can’t deliver the flexibility and agility required for digital-era processes. This article explores why PLM modernization is linked to digital transformation success and highlights data from CIMdata’s recent upgrade study that we sponsored.

CIMdata’s recently published PLM upgrade study provided very positive perspectives on how our users benefit from regular, quicker and cheaper platform upgrades—compared to the competition. This article discusses the findings of the study, argues that not all PLM upgrades are equal, and shares several questions that are left to cover on this topic.

How easy it is for you to view simulation data in your PLM system? This article from Lifecycle Insights highlights how Aras Innovator allows engineers to request simulations, view the results, and relate those results to requirements, all within a single platform.

This CIMdata commentary provides an excellent recap of ACE 2021 and highlights some of their key takeaways of the event. 

Learn how Aras believes organizations can tailor their PLM platforms to meet operating model and integration requirements.

Businesses that lack the ability to embrace change will fall behind, while ones that successfully execute digital transformation will win as a team. Learn why organizations often struggle with digital transformation and how they can better approach it to empower their business.

Investment Further Accelerates Low-Code Platform Innovation, Global Expansion, and Customer Success

Together Enterprise SaaS and DevOps deliver the most powerful cloud-first platform with unlimited customization for global businesses

Better Simulation Management enables System Exploration and Verification Across the Lifecycle

New application brings together systems models from multiple tools into overall systems architecture

Find out how Aras is approaching MBSE and reinforcing the value towards effective simulation lifecycle management.

Annual user conference will be all-digital, offer best practices for digital transformation

Implements enterprise digital transformation platform to ensure business sustainability

Global mobility supplier will leverage Aras to improve data visibility across the organization

Partnership provides solution to boost effectiveness and efficiency of advanced manufacturing within the Department of Defense

As simulation-driven design becomes a core pillar of digital product development, a refreshed simulation product data management has come to light. This article highlights Ansys’ use of Aras Innovator to deliver a vendor-neutral and open approach to SPDM.

Low-code software has been around for decades and, with every re-emergence, the expectations are high. This article highlights recent advancement in low-code known as enterprise low-code. Enterprise low-code platforms offer a more strategic approach to application development with a higher level of functionality than traditional low-code solutions.

Seeking single source of truth for product data, Ottobock selects Aras platform to boost future growth

Manufacturers are turning to technology as they navigate the impact of the pandemic. Find out how an enterprise low-code platform enables manufacturers to digitally transform on a digital platform, improving agility and resilience.

With the latest open release of Aras Innovator, Aras provides further capabilities and enhancements to manage complex product digital twins and integrations across the digital thread—boosted with low-code application administration, advanced configurability and custom app development.

Aras platform to be part of new digital transformation initiative at Grammer

Aras is competing for a very specific aspect of a digital twin initiative, a problem that hasn’t gotten much attention to date, but is absolutely critical for proper product operation analysis. Learn why Aras Digital Twin Core is a key differentiator.

Delivers significant updates to streamline organizational performance and enable remote workforce scenarios

Marc is an international executive with a proven record in growing global operations in a results driven environment

Enables organizations to create digital twins for any product or system of assets across any industry

Dynamic Product Navigation is available across the platform to support the entire enterprise beyond product development

The Coronavirus pandemic may have slowed the number of transactions in the PLM industry, but the market hasn’t been brought to a standstill. This article highlights EIZO’s decision to choose Aras Innovator as the backbone of its product development system.

Visual technology provider selects Aras to advance productivity and quality through digital manufacturing

Technology innovations for products and services are advancing rapidly. However, manufacturers increasingly find their product development systems are unable to support what it takes to bring these innovations to market. Here’s a look at the five most common reasons for digital transformation failure and tips on how to avoid them.

The power industry and technology worlds are filled with acronyms. It’s often hard to know what they all mean. This podcast highlights how digital technology is being utilized to bring products to market and track assets throughout their lifecycle.

Conference sessions aimed at showcasing the power of the platform to build enterprise applications

PLM software helps manufacturers manage, shape, guide, and refine new product developments, speeding up the design and production process. Manufacturing users of PLM software are looking for easier-to-use PLM tools, including the latest product data management and CAD/CAM/CAE tools in the age of Industry 4.0.

This article recounts the history of technology in manufacturing and how developments in CAD and PLM operations has propelled the industry to where it is today.

Integrating simulation solutions into PLM platform environments is no longer simply a matter of cutting-edge technology for a handful of specialists. As simulation swells in all directions and overcomes barriers in product realization work, a growing close collaboration is emerging between the PLM platform vendors and independent CAE developers. This article takes a closer look at ANSYS’ partnership with Aras and their decision to build a new software solution on Aras' platform.

The PLM solution, tailored to the needs of midmarket manufacturers, is expected to launch in the spring of 2020

Partnership will enable better processes and data management of simulations for digital thread traceability across the lifecycle

Manufacturers who can successfully launch new customer experiences before their competition will maintain market leadership, ward off new market entrants and earn well-deserved buzz. As we survey the manufacturing industry ahead of the new year, here’s what else we can expect to see in 2020.

A resilient thinker realizes that the need for change will never relent, so the only way to manage the future is to design for it. This way, the business can always adapt to the best solutions available, not to the ones that are the most convenient to implement. This article discusses how you can prepare for a successful digital transformation.

Third-party MROs need to adapt to succeed in a market increasingly dominated by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). They must act and think differently about approaches to MRO to compete today and future-proof their business. This article discusses how you can navigate the changing MRO market.

Aras Community Event to Showcase Innovative Product Lifecycle Management

Thanks to modern consumer expectations and a changing market, manufacturers have become tech companies at heart. That transformation, coupled with a lengthening product lifecycle that now often includes post-production service and maintenance, has made it even more important (and even more possible) that companies truly own their customers’ lifecycle, and choose a technology that will enable them to do so both today and tomorrow.

Taking advantage of the IoT can require product developers to invest in new design methodologies and IT infrastructures, but the potential payoff is huge: better products, improved product development processes, and mutually beneficial customer relationships.

Connector makes data securely accessible to all users with digital thread traceability

Boosted by new, easier to use tools and more readily available compute resources, simulation technology is increasingly used more frequently and earlier in the design process, and by a wider array of professionals. However, the path to truly democratized simulation requires both technological and cultural changes. Digital Engineering spoke with some leading industry organizations about progress toward this democratization, and some of the remaining challenges and opportunities.

Platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams are gaining traction, but some say ad hoc exchanges must be part of the record for the digital thread. Digital Engineering takes a look at the trends in Social PLM and what companies are doing to incorporate it into their technology.

Delivers significant updates to improve workforce productivity

Aras executives, partners and customers to discuss how vendor-agnostic, unified systems enhance enterprise simulation and SPDM

Andersen Windows, Carestream Health, and General Motors set to present

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Schroer says the deepening complexity of these heavily engineered products, from Boeing planes to BMW cars, has ramped up the need to carefully document and plan their development—and put a lot of pressure on companies to reevaluate the capabilities of their current product lifecycle management (PLM) software. “All the sudden this last year, it has become a hot topic: product compliance, complexity, and dealing with [the internet of things], big data. Put all that together and there is a compelling need to put a new PLM system in place,” Schroer argues.

The Goldman Sachs PCI group specializes in growth equity. The group invests directly using Goldman Sachs’ capital. According to Aras, Goldman Sachs focuses on growth companies with significant barriers to entry, breakthrough technology, and experienced management teams. Silver Lake’s inclusion in this D-round shows their continued confidence, especially considering the insight they gained with the board seat they acquired with last year’s investment. CIMdata believes that Goldman Sachs was spot-on in their assessment of Aras.

Silver Lake Kraftwerk to Participate in New Investment Round; Goldman Sachs to Join Aras’ Board of Directors

Aras, the leader in open product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the enterprise, today announced that it has acquired Comet Solutions, Inc., a provider of best-in-class software for simulation process management.

Addition of simulation management to the Aras PLM Platform extends Digital Thread traceability

Open, platform-based approach required to harness simulation, connect Digital Thread, realize Digital Twin

Strategic Cloud-based PLM Initiative a Foundation for Next Stage of Company Growth

Provides Access to System-Level Abstraction for Improved Collaboration and Design Efficiency

Multi-factor approach allows teams to apply custom effectivity criteria, manage instances in a dynamic data structure, and maintain the Digital Thread

KISTERS North America has released version 2018.0 of its 3DViewStation Desktop, a powerful 3D CAD viewer and universal viewer for engineers and designers. The new version features several updates, in the areas of compression, data quality and analysis functions.

Focus PLM, Aras Gold Partner whose mission is providing manufacturing companies with software and services aimed at improving the quality and reducing the cost of their products, and CADENAS – a world leader in strategic part management and electronic catalogues – rolled out the solution they jointly developed to integrate their offers.

Focus PLM, the Aras Gold Partner based in Italy, announced the official release of new version 2018.1 of Direct PLM, their suite of connectors between Aras and the most popular MCAD systems on the market.
The unique architecture of Direct PLM ensures that exactly the same User Interface is provided for every supported CAD.

Automaker to implement the Aras PLM Platform

Other new functionality enhances productivity, collaboration, and team efficiency

Receives top scores possible in the Product Vision, Implementation and sustainability, Configurability and flexibility, and BOM management criteria

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“To power the next wave of global industrial productivity, GE is investing in critical foundational capabilities for the Industrial Internet," Steve Taub, the managing director of advanced manufacturing and enterprise at GE Ventures, said in a statement.

Given the amount invested and the reputation of the investors, CIMdata sees this as well-deserved recognition of Aras’ position in the global PLM industry, as well as their future potential. Their innovative technology and business model are well proven at this point and continue to gain traction in the marketplace.

Aras has managed to produce a solution that effectively covers what tend to be weak spots in large corporation’s PLM environments: supplier collaboration and simplicity to upgrade. Add in the fact that there are no license fees (Aras is free to download) and it becomes obvious that the solution has a couple very hard-to-resist advantages.

“Aras embodies this strategy with a game-changing platform and ‘SaaS Anywhere’ approach that has proven very compelling to customers, and we are excited about Aras’ next stage of growth." -Martin Fichtner, managing director of Silver Lake Kraftwerk.

The T-Systems International PDM Workbench 5.0 is available and provides a bunch of new and improved functionality. New “Rep Types” can be defined as non-BOM relevant CAD Documents, e.g. “CAD_KIN” for kinematics. All “Rep Types” can be handled easily with the full CATIA-integrated GUI of PDM Workbench. A step to improve usability in large structures like Aerospace is the possibility to load just portions of a structure, but maintaining the geometrical context – hence reducing data traffic and load time in CATIA. Also the handling of configuration information is improved by enabling the handling directly within CATIA. Please visit our homepage to see the full list of new functionality in the release notes.

The T-Systems International PDM Workbench 6.0 is available and provides a bunch of new and improved functionality. Focus with this release was improving download performance by enabling the release cached. Now it is possible to save even more time for the designers. Also options for only loading visualization is available. Please visit our homepage to see the full list of new functionality in the release notes.

“With this latest release of Aras Innovator, we continue to expand the Aras PLM Platform, whether building out the Quality Management System application for the specific needs of quality professionals or extending the platform to connect Engineering, Manufacturing, and Service to enable Digital Thread."

Quality management professionals face the challenge of quickly responding to quality issues and communicating change requirements enterprise-wide. The new Quality Systems (QS) component in Aras QMS connects the proactive and reactive aspects of quality management, and fully integrates quality processes into engineering and manufacturing.

"We are on fire, the company, since about 2013-2014 has been growing,” said Aras CEO Peter Schroer during his ACE 2017 keynote presentation in front of a slide showing a 51% compound annual growth rate. “I gotta say … it’s because of you guys. The community is pushing us to continue to expand the product, build the scalability, build out the partner community so we can cover you everywhere. I would say the switch to open source, the opening up of everything we do — it’s an experiment and it’s played out perfectly.”

Aras Quality Systems enables Closed-loop corrective action/preventive action (CAPA) – accelerates identification, containment, and analysis of issues, and tracking of affected items; Root cause analysis (RCA) – offers a variety of RCA tools; fault tree analysis, fishbone analysis, and five whys; collaboration – supports quality review through Visual Collaboration, business rules and workflow, and aggregation and packaging of CAP items; and Reporting – provides 8D reporting and tracking of CAPA metrics (% closed, % due).

Even more surprising is the announcement from Aras CEO Peter Schroer that the company has appointed Tony Affuso, Siemens PLM's former CEO and a seasoned PLM expert, to its Board of Directors. Tony Affuso was the one responsible for pushing through the deal in which Siemens acquired UGS. This purchase added NX and I-deas (high end CAD), Solid Edge (mainstream CAD), Teamcenter (PDM/PLM), Nastran and Femap (CAE), Tecnomatix and more to the Siemens portfolio.

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. has selected Aras Innovator to standardize management of drawings, data, design and development processes of the company’s wide portfolio of products. After implementation with Aras Certified Partner Hitachi Systems, Aras will standardize processes in engineering data management and workflow management across the company’s main manufacturing plants in Japan, Thailand and China.

The SofTech Group Connector 7.1 release provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator. SofTech Group Connector 7.1 has been validated with Aras Innovator 11.0 SP7-SP9; along with Autodesk AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical (2015, 2016, 2017); Autodesk Inventor (2015, 2016, 2017); and SolidWorks (2015, 2016, 2017). For additional information on the SofTech Group Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softechgroupinc.com/products/softech-group-connectors

Leading product development, IT, and manufacturing teams to exchange best practices for IoT, Digital Thread, and digital transformation in Nashville

Leading Automotive and Industrial Supplier Enables Integration of IoT data and creation of Digital Thread with Aras PLM Platform

Each year, ACE brings together global industry and technology leaders to exchange best practices on managing complex product development and transforming the science of engineering to the business of engineering.

Aras today announced key industry presentations and sessions for ACE 2017, the company’s marquee customer conference taking place on March 21st to 23rd in Nashville, TN. The gathering is the premier event that connects the most innovative product development, IT, and manufacturing teams from Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, High Tech Electronics, and Industrial Manufacturing to shape the future of PLM.

ACE 2017 features business presentations from Huntington Ingalls, Microsoft, Valley Fine Foods, IBM, Akrapovič, Carestream, Sandia, Lord, Pabst, and other industry leaders. In addition, application and demo tracks feature overviews of the latest version of the Aras PLM Platform, including MPP, Tech Docs, and Quality Management, and presentations on PLM implementation strategy.

Former French president Charles de Gaulle once famously complained about the difficulty of governing a country that had 246 different kinds of cheese. In the time since that statement was made, life for both societies and enterprises has become even more complicated, and the hardship of ruling diversity, illustrated by this “cheese analogy,” has grown exponentially

IBM, Aras Corporation and OSI Soft today are launching new IBM Digital Twin capabilities, to create multiple views of products by bringing together various ‘digital threads’ and data streams that can be tailored to the needs of a particular user.

Digital transformation is one of the key issues at Schaeffler. The Engineering Cockpit application is one of the central tools to connect all disciplines and systems. The Engineering Cockpit is a web-based application allowing direct access to development data for a large number of development centers. It supports the company-wide configuration and change management in the initial phase.

Schaeffler´s Engineering Cockpit provides up to 20,000 users with role-based access to information across multiple disciplines, interfaces, systems, and authoring tools to make better decisions. The collaboration with Schaeffler is the first result of the partnership between Aras and IBM that was announced in December last year.

TEC’s principal analyst PJ Jakovljevic what this deal means for the future of product development and what product companies stand to gain in the era of digital transformation.

LORD Corporation, a global manufacturer of adhesives, coating, sensing and motion technologies, selected Aras Innovator® to standardize product development processes at current sites, and to help the company efficiently support emerging businesses. When fully implemented, LORD anticipates more than 1,000 users will access Document Management, Configuration Management, Engineering Change Management, as well as Quality Systems (CAPA) applications as part of the Aras PLM platform.

LORD Corporation is transforming their business of engineering due to the flexibility, scalability, and common architecture offered by Aras PLM. The company is better positioned to easily and quickly integrate new acquisitions, while standardizing current engineering and product development sites onto one common platform.

LORD, a leading global manufacturer of adhesives, coating, sensing and motion technologies, selected Aras Innovator due to a scalable, robust and flexible PLM capabilities to accommodate changing business and market condition, as well as future acquisitions anticipated by the manufacturer, a model-based, service-oriented architecture that delivers low total cost of ownership without reducing the long term vision of the project and more.

The SofTech Group Connector 7.0 release provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator. SofTech Group Connector 7.0 has been validated with Aras Innovator 11.0 SP7-SP8; along with Autodesk AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical (2015, 2016, 2017); Autodesk Inventor (2015, 2016, 2017); and SolidWorks (2015, 2016, 2017). For additional information on the SofTech Group Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softechgroupinc.com/products/softech-group-connectors

IBM and Aras help companies with the collaboration, coordination and compliance necessary to develop tomorrow’s next generation products today.

Medical Equipment Leader to Support the Quality Management System for Regulatory Compliance, Development Time Reductions and Operational Efficiency Improvements

Leading Military Shipbuilder Chooses Flexible, Scalable, Upgradable Product Lifecycle Management Platform

Partnership to Enable a More Holistic Approach to Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration across the Enterprise

Initiative Supports a Systems Engineering Approach by Enabling Interoperability Across Different Life-cycle Domains – Mechanical, Electronics and Software

June 15, 2016 Webinar Offers Real World Scenarios, Cloud PLM Strategies for Today’s Global Enterprise

June 22 – 24, 2016 Event is Region’s Largest Manufacturing Technology Industry Conference

Presentation Part of Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Smart Manufacturing Series on May 24, 2016

Global OEM implements flexible, scalable PLM platform to support global processes all the way from development through manufacture to service

Conference on June 2 is Part of Global Event Series Highlighting Innovations in Global Product Development

Leading machine manufacturer selected Aras for its customization capabilities, web-based global accessibility, and lower total cost of ownership

Leading Pharmacy Automation Equipment Manufacturer Chooses Aras to Optimize Business Processes and Improve Visibility

Award Recognizes Outstanding Technical and Business Leadership in the Industry and Focus and Dedication to the Needs of End Users

Presentation entitled “Beyond ECAD Connectors” Addresses the Model-Based Systems Engineering Challenges Faced in IoT Design Processes

April 19, 2016 event gathers industry, technology leaders to address today’s product development challenges.

Global industrial manufacturer selected Aras for the solution’s flexibility, open architecture and web-based global accessibility

Global Leaders Discuss PLM Strategy at ACE 2016 Conference March 15 – 17 in Detroit, MI

Military Defense and Civil Security Leader to Support Handling of Product Data Related to Gripen Fighter Aircraft

New Connector Enables Global Companies to Leverage CATIA Design Data across the Lifecycle and the Extended Enterprise

Advanced PLM Technology Enables New Approaches to Business Transformation of Systems Engineering, Manufacturing and Compliance Processes

Learn Better Ways to Coordinate Systems Engineering and Development Across Mechanical, Electronics, Software and Firmware

Industry Leaders Converge to Share Best Practices and Learn New Approaches for the Business of Engineering

The SofTech Connector 6.0 release provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator. SofTech Connector 6.0 has been validated with Aras Innovator 10.0 SP4-SP5 and Aras Innovator 11.0 SP0-SP5; along with Autodesk AutoCAD (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016); Autodesk Inventor (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016); CADRA 20; and SolidWorks (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). For additional information on the SofTech Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/softech-connectors

Industry leaders to share PLM Strategy and Best Practices

KISTERS North America, Inc. announced that it has hired James Eardly to manage North American sales and support for its 3DViewStation viewing tool which makes design data visually available for the whole enterprise. Kisters 3DViewStation is Aras Digital Mockup solution.

The SofTech Connector 5.1 release provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator. SofTech Connector 5.1 has been validated with Aras Innovator 10.0 SP4 and Aras Innovator 11.0 SP0; along with Autodesk AutoCAD (2013, 2014, 2015); Autodesk Inventor (2013, 2014, 2015); CADRA 20; and SolidWorks (2013, 2014, 2015). For additional information on the SofTech Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/softech-connectors

NorthRidge Software, LLC has validated support for Aras Innovator 11 on the current Discover Innovator 3.6 release. This extends support for the most intuitive and powerful search solution for Innovator users to Aras 9.3, 9.4, 10 and 11.

The SofTech Connector 5.0 release provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator PLM. SofTech Connector 5.0 has been validated with Aras Innovator 10.0 SP0-SP4, and 9.4 SP0-SP2; along with Autodesk AutoCAD (2013, 2014, 2015); Autodesk Inventor (2013, 2014, 2015); CADRA 20; and SolidWorks (2013, 2014, 2015). For additional information on the SofTech Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/softech-connectors

There have been several enhancements in the area of file formats: support for Catia V5-6 2014 (R24), Creo 3, Inventor 2015 and SolidEdge ST7 has been added. Besides Catia drawings 3DViewStation now support reading of 2D PDF as the general 2D reading strategy. For the special case of PDF 3DViewStation now loads PDF in 2D mode first and after clicking on it will load the 3D object in a separate window for further analysis. 3DViewStation does not only support reading of PMIs and PMI views, but also allows to export PMIs and translates markups and dimensions into PMIs during export. For customer who prefer to use Adobe Reader in some processes, 3DViewStation now offers a new template incl. views carousel and editable form fields, which might get populated via an associated XML during runtime, even in an integrated environment. With PDF the part list item to geometry and PMI to feature associativity will be retained.

SofTech’s Connector 4.5 provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator PLM. Connector 4.5 has been validated with Aras Innovator 10.0 SP0-SP3, 9.4 SP0-SP2, 9.3 SP8 and SP9; along with Autodesk AutoCAD (2012, 2013, 2014); Autodesk Inventor (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014); CADRA 20; and SolidWorks (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). For additional information on SofTech’s Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/connectors-for-aras

After many customer requests Catia 2D drawing support has been added to KISTERS 3DViewStation. This is the beginning of adding more 2D file formats – 2D-PDF will be the next. Drawings as well as 3D parts or assemblies can be printed now, even on large format printing devices, including grid, markups and stamps to i.e. add printing time or document name, if desired. Also frequently asked for has been the undo-function, now allowing to undo selections, color changes, movements, dimensions and more.

SofTech’s Connector 4.4 provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator PLM. Connector 4.4 has been validated with Aras Innovator 10.0 SP0 and SP1, 9.4 SP0 and SP1, 9.3 SP8 and SP9; along with Autodesk AutoCAD (2012, 2013, 2014); Autodesk Inventor (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014); CADRA 20; and SolidWorks (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). For additional information on SofTech’s Connectors including datasheets and videos, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/connectors-for-aras

株式会社ADSは、医療機器メーカー向けソリューション『Medical Device PLM』 の提供を開始しました。 本ソリューションは、米国FDAの規制などのレギュレーション対応としてデンマー クのMinerva社が開発したAras Innovator向けソリューションです。 Minerva社 Medical Device PLM の特徴 　－ 成果物一覧からのDMR、DHRの作成 　－ ルールベースの成果物管理 　－ ダイナミックなDMR,DHF管理 　－ ベースラインの自動生成 ADSでは、今後、本ソリューションの日本語化対応、Aras Innovator CAPAソリューションとの連携を図ることで、日本の医療機器メーカーに求められる品質管理/規制対応要件をトータルでサポート致します。 ご興味のあるお客様は、info@adstr.co.jpまでお問合せください。 また、第25回設計製造ソリューション展にもArasブースにて出展致しますので、ぜひ、ご来場ください。

3DViewStation V2014 ships with a fresh Office 2013 compliant user interface and provides functionality, which can be leveraged by the user quite intuitively. The focus of the latest developments has been set to customization of the user interface and BREP export capabilities.

The KISTERS 3DViewStation now provides several additional ways of UI customization: a pure left mouse button mode has been added to simplify the usage for occasional and also tablet-PC (finger) users. Mouse users now can determine, which functions should be performed when pressing the middle or right mouse button. The quick access toolbar can be customized and is pre-set now, so that frequently used functions are available without accessing the ribbon menu. Also, accelerator keys are defined for several functions and can be customized as per the user’s needs. Finally via XML the complete UI of the KISTERS 3DViewStation can be redefined.

KISTERS has announced the support for mobile users with the need for powerful 3D CAD viewers. The KISTERS 3DViewStation product family is available on many mobile devices and is known for the modern user-interface, high performance 3D-viewing, current and mature CAD-importers plus a reasonable set of functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data.

Kisters presented the upcoming integration into Aras Innovator during ACE Europe last month. Today KISTERS has announced the release 12.03 of the 3DViewStation, known for the modern user-interface, high performance 3D-viewing, current and mature CAD-importers plus a reasonable set of functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data. We presented the upcoming integration into Aras Innovator during ACE Europe last month. The focus of the latest developments has been set to analysis functionality.

Based on Aras Innovator, NTT DATA provides services and solutions for the Aras Community. As an end-to-end IT service provider NTT DATA offers high-end strategy and process consulting, implementation and maintenance for its customers. Focused on the Automotive, Aerospace and Manufacturing Industries, NTT DATA is an extremely experienced partner in data management and migration, project management, product development and collaborative engineering. Our experts have already proven their skills and delivered excellent services in customer-projects. You can get in contact with us personally at ACE Europe 2013 in Bad Soden. We are looking forward to a successful partnership with Aras Corp.

NTT DATA, a Global IT service provider and new Aras partner, is proud to present a new Aras solution at Ace Europe 2013 in Bad Soden.

We have created an easy, extensible, efficient and GEnIUS solution to change the way you work with Aras Innovator. Our solution is the implementation of global customer requirements into a next generation integration platform based on ARAS Innovator project experiences. NTT DATA’s GEnIUS is enabling integration across multiple authoring tools using one common user interface. For example, create your BOMs in MS Excel and save them to Aras Innovator, directly. Add or delete any parts or amounts in Excel and GEnIUS will do the rest on the Aras side – just do it. But Excel is only one of many supported tools. Stay informed, other tools will be named here soon and get in touch with GEnIUS personally at ACE Europe 2013 in Bad Soden.

KISTERS has announced the release 12.02 of the 3DViewStation. The KISTERS 3DViewStation is known for the modern user-interface, high performance 3D-viewing, current and mature CAD-importers plus a reasonable set of functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data. The focus of the latest developments has been set to management assembly comparison and analysis functionality.

Please review our BLOG-entries too: http://blog.kisters.de/?p=370 and http://blog.kisters.de/?p=376

KISTERS 3DViewStation V12.0 ships with a fresh Office 2010 compliant user interface and provides a rich functionality, which can be leveraged by the user quite intuitively. The focus of the latest developments has been set to the graphics kernel. 3DViewStation load times are now unparalleled: in the meantime, we were almost unable to find assemblies, which load longer than 1 second, once translated into the internal 3DVS file format.

株式会社ADSは、米国SofTech社と、Aras関連ビジネスにおける日本で最初のテクニカル・パートナーとなりました。

SofTech社は、オープンソースPLMシステム Aras Innovatorの米国パートナーとして、Aras Innovator向けCAD Connectorを開発しています。

• SolidWorks Connector for Aras
• Inventor Connector for Aras
• CADRA Connector for Aras

これらのCADコネクターについて、ご興味のあるお客様は、ADSまでお問い合わせください。

info@adstr.co.jp

The improved express ECO features support for faster and full/partial loading of trees, support for check boxes and list boxes, support for substitutes and multiple row changes, and much, much more.

Connector 3.0 for Aras from SofTech provides you with the ability to manage your critical CAD information, including Documents, Parts and BOMs, while providing direct access to Aras Innovator PLM. Connector 3.0 currently supports Aras Innovator 9.3 along with CADRA 20, Autodesk Inventor (2011, 2012, 2013), and SolidWorks (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).

For additional information on Connector 3.0 including datasheets, videos and upcoming webinars, please visit: http://www.softech.com/products/connectors-for-aras

PDM Workbench (PWB) from T-Systems is an extension of CATIA V5 which provides integration of CAD-specific PDM functionality. PWB, designed as a CATIA V5 workbench, is dedicated to displaying and manipulating PDM data. It combines the control of PDM with the CAD superiority of CATIA V5 in a single user interface. PWB currently supports Aras Innovator 9.3. It enables the designer to take full advantage of PDM capabilities supporting collaborative product development, all within the CATIA V5 environment the designer is familiar with. New functionalities in version 3.3 are: - Basic Drawing Link support - Basic Multi Model Link support - Management of CATIA Templates in Aras Innovator - Enhanced PWB Update dialog: - PDM data management - Highlight of Geometries and PDM info - Aras Innovator Multi-Vault Support - Admin Mode for CATSettings - Replace from PDM - Insert from PDM - Auto name support using Innovator sequence items Additional materials for Download and videos on our website.

The PDX standards define an XML encoding scheme that enables supply chain partners to exchange product content, changes and subsequent manufacturing information in a common language. This capability allows companies to exchange information through a single port of the exchange software rather than developing a different solution for each trading partner.

Download brochure and request a web demo on our website.

PDM-Workbench (PWB) from T-Systems is an extension of CATIA V5 which provides integration of CAD-specific PDM functionality. PWB, designed as a CATIA V5 workbench, is dedicated to displaying and manipulating PDM data. It combines the control of PDM with the CAD superiority of CATIA V5 in a single user interface. PWB currently supports Aras Innovator 9.3. It enables the designer to take full advantage of PDM capabilities supporting collaborative product development, all within the CATIA V5 environment the designer is familiar with.

The vdR Group, business system integration specialists, and Alcove9, developers of open source advanced search technologies such as the a9 Hub, announce their partnership. The partnership improves the productivity of clients' critical business systems by combining the power of custom interoperability with advanced search capabilities. read more

Since 1st of January 2012, DataSquare has merged with its sister company MEAIS GmbH & Co. KG to become DataSquare GmbH. With this step, we can bundle the competencies of both former companies under the roof of our newly created PLM HOUSE, in order to offer our clients even more comprehensive consulting for successful Product Lifecycle Management. Visit the new DataSquare website for further information.

Plural Technology, the only open source PLM provider for Apparel Industry, announced today the recent signing of an agreement with Estrix Spain, a software reseller and consulting company. Plural’s Flagship product Apparel Innovator is the only open source PLM tool available in the market. Apparel Innovator has various modules like Product development, Sourcing, Project Management, BI Reporting available out of the box. Estrix holds a prominent place in Spain’s Apparel Market as Business Management consulting company. For more information please visit www.pluraltechnology.com

A company implementing PLM faces many challenges. One of the typical challenges is to get data from sources like CAD into the PLM system. Having an automatic integration between the PLM system and CAD is an option, but it is often costly, and for many companies the number of CAD users is too low to justify the investment. Read much more on our web: http://www.minerva-plm.com/aras/minerva-solutions/import-tool.

As the official source of CMII standards in Europe, the German Gesellschaft fuer KonfigurationsManagement mbH (GfKM) maintains the list of certified CMII providers. Due to the commitment to CMII, DataSquare has been awarded the title "Europe Solution Partner", being the fourth consulting firm to gain it. CMII Europe Solution Partner are consulting firms which employ consultants with the status "CMII Professional" and offer support for companies implementing CMII. This includes training, consulting and coaching as well as the execution of assessments.

To simplify the process of managing permissions for external partners in Aras Innovator®, Minerva has developed a new add-on solution. The Minerva Permissions Manager makes it possible and easy to give an external party access to certain parts, products or files in the Aras platform.

Minerva has appointed Thomas Skogen as Product Manager to strengthen the development and support of the growing number of Aras add-on solutions from Minerva.

Minerva's Microsoft Office Connector for Aras provides an easy-to-use interface with advanced functionality allowing documents, spreadsheets and presentations to be managed by a robust PLM system. The focus at Minerva is to "Keep it simple". Simple commands like Open, Lock, Save and Unlock allow you to quickly come up to speed. Learn more and download a free 30 day trail of the Microsoft Office Connector for Aras today.

The PDM-Workbench from T-Systems is an extension of CATIA V5 from Dassault Systèmes. With the connector developed by DataSquare, the PDM-Workbench is integrated to Aras Innovator and serves as a CATIA V5 interface. The Aras Innovator PDM-Workbench Connector functions as a connection between the product structure of the PDM-Workbench and the Aras Innovator data model enabling bi-directional data exchange between CATIA V5 and the Aras PLM platform.

Now the Aras Innovator E-mail Connector from DataSquare is also available in an advanced, chargeable version. The release includes a new e-mail management assistant that makes mass processing and distribution of permissions possible. So, even very large quantities of e-mails are assigned quickly and easily to persons and items.

The R2 „Reduced Rework“ Initiative seeks ways to avoid costs by reducing rework and corrective actions within the enterprise. It integrates all activities and strategies on reducing rework offered by "R2 Specialists" and used by "R2 Initiative Members" world-wide. DataSquare supports this initiative as R2 Specialist with consulting and software knowledge. DataSquare’s expertise in the areas of PLM and CMII supports the steps that are necessary to reduce rework significantly. At the same time DataSquare is able to build up an improved business process infrastructure using existing or new PLM software.

Aras Innovator OCR Connector enables the automated recognition of text inside typewritten documents that are stored as picture files within Aras Innovator. Based on rules, text is being taken over as property, so that documents can be filed and found automatically. With this capability, Aras Innovator OCR Connector creates the requirement to integrate documents from existing “paper workflows” into PLM processes, easy and fast.

בלוג יולי – הגרסא החדשה של
Aras Innovator

בתחילת החודש (יולי 2011) שוחררה הגרסא החדשה של
גרסא Aras Innovator – 9.3.0
אישית – חיכיתי בכיליון עיניים לגרסא החדשה כיוון שהיא כוללת בתוכה אוסף עצום של יכולות חדשות וחזקות במיוחד.

The ShapeSpace 3D Search tool for Aras extends the searching capabilities of Aras to enable searching by shape. For the first time, this puts advanced and affordable 3D search capabilities into the hands of organizations giving them the opportunity to improve part re-use, reduce the part number counts, aggregate and consolidate bought in parts, and drastically reduce external spend.

Imagine an organisation with thousands of products broken down into tens of thousands of parts. Now consider their drawings repository, all tagged with non-uniform descriptions and part numbers, often shared across several departments and offices. What a nightmare! How do they find a specific part in a hurry? Hope the description was entered intuitively? Rely on the accuracy of the part number? What about duplicates – aren’t they costly and confusing? ShapeSpace solves the problem. Shape-Space is a unique 3D search engine which enables you to re-organise, re-catalogue and eradicate duplicates in your massive drawings archive in hours.

I ett telefonsamtal i veckan med Leon Lauritsen på Minerva i Danmark talar vi om att man i varje samtal där begreppet "open source" förekommer, först behöver enas om vad det betyder. Leon är representant för Aras Innovator (PLM) som använder uttrycket Enterprise Open Source om sin produkt. Han säger också att open source-budskapet ibland gör kunderna oroliga. Att köpa eller hyra ett program är liksom enkelt. Men när det handlar om open source så blir affärsmodellen betraktad från alla håll den också, inte bara själva produkten som kan komma att användas. Och det är klart att det inte är så dumt att syna sina affärspartners oavsett om det handlar om ett köp, hyra eller "open source-användning". Men inget säger egentligen att det skulle vara helt tryggt att köpa och hyra eller helt otryggt att ta hem en vara "open source"? Det handlar kanske mera om att vänja sig vid modellen. Det menar i alla fall de som jobbar med "open source".

Because design engineers often lack browse and search capabilities, the business of finding a part within a large component library can be complex and time consuming, especially when the name or part number is unknown. Naturally, this problem tends to make finding and reusing existing parts extremely difficult. A solution to this problem is available in the form of ShapeSpace, a 3D shape search technology provides engineering companies with a comprehensive 3D CAD search tool.

Control valve manufacturer Bifold wanted to drive changes in their manufacturing processes which would cut costs and deliver measurable improvements in reliability and performance. Using ShapeSpace 3D search technology to search their entire part reference library and identify all parts manufactured from the same raw material, Bifold were very quickly able to consolidate manufacturing processes and improve efficiencies. “As well as being leaner, greener and more efficient, we are able to turn around customer orders in a more reliable timeframe as the majority of parts are always ‘on the shelf’," said Mike Peacock, General Manager at Bifold.