Aerospace and Defense

Sandia National Laboratories is taking a different approach to PLM. Join us for this webinar to learn how Sandia uses Aras Innovator to employ a bottom-up, iterative approach to PLM in order to solve some unique business challenges — including many not typically addressed by PLM tools.

Systems Thinking is essential to managing the ever-increasing complexities of today’s and tomorrow’s intelligent and connected products. It is critical to the success of Digital Transformation.

Due to the complexity of modern systems, systems engineers need a federated collection of atomic data elements woven into a tapestry of “authoritative truth”--System models are a key element of this

Global manufacturers need to have a strong foundation for Digital Transformation to transform their projects to the Digital Thread. Learn five steps towards accelerating your Digital Transformation.

Carestream is an international leader in medical imaging systems and healthcare information technology solutions.

Cubic established an ambitious scope for the One Cubic Engineering project implementing functionality to address five global standardized processes, three CAD connectors, two custom ERP integrations.

This case study explores how Dräger, a leading international manufacturer of medical and security technology, employed Aras Innovator as part of their digital transformation efforts. The implementation of the Aras software in the cloud is expected to provide Dräger with more security, easier scalability, higher performance and IT cost savings.

Capturing of a systems model as a structured content that is connected with the rest of the content managed by the Aras Platform. Traceability includes requirements, simulation studies, design details and documents.

Built as a native capability on the Aras Innovator PLM platform, Aras Simulation Management application enables capturing of the simulation process, models, and studies at various levels of fidelity and for a multiplicity of design abstractions and variants. In this presentation, see how the simulation environment is created and reused, how it is related to items managed by Aras Innovator PLM platform, and how that platform’s change and configuration management helps to establish and maintain traceability.

Product development software cannot work in a vacuum. The Aras Platform was built on fundamentally open design principles ensuring that the IT ecosystem will function optimally.

Understand the evolution of Seaspan’s Aras tool from a document management system to the central component of a fully integrated Product Lifecycle Management ecosystem.

Learn how the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Computer Graphics Technology (CGT) Virtual Product Integration (VPI) major has integrated Product Data Management (PDM) into the curriculum by implementing Aras Innovator as a foundation.

One of the most difficult issues facing organizations today is how to minimize business impact when executing system changes. Read about how the Test Automation Framework helps Aras subscribers.

Learn how Parata replaced a system of paper check sheets with an Aras solution that is manageable, scalable, and ultimately improved the quality of their products.

At what point does the speed at which business changes, overheat the technology that supports it? Watch this video to see how building with Aras can accelerate your business transformation today.

Learn how new Aras applications are advancing design and production for companies by incorporating real-time field feedback, operational data, Digital Twin simulation, and multidisciplinary change management.

This CIMdata commentary outlines the results of interviews with Aras subscribers and provides the reader with information they can use to drive their platform strategies forward.

CIMdata presents their findings from interviewing Aras subscribers with the objective of better understand their deployments, benefits achieved, roadblocks, and remedies.

As opportunities arise to manage complex products in the field, organizations are realizing that existing technology is lacking, making it difficult to keep up with the pace of change. Failing to excel is affecting brands, profitability, and business sustainability – this creates the opportunity to digitally transform with the Digital Twin.

CAD data is useful, but without context it can be misleading. Aras’ Dynamic Product Navigation enables users to interrogate lightweight 3D part data within the context of a centralized Enterprise PLM System.

Here from Graeme Taylor, Product Manager, as he demonstrates functionality to improve maintenance effectiveness by building and managing Digital Twin configurations able to access their own critical information–every time the physical asset changes.

In today’s highly competitive landscape, Medical Device companies are striving to be more efficient, bring more products to market faster, while at the same time, reducing costs. Medical Device companies operate in a complex supply chain that requires cooperating with many suppliers and partners. This does not make it easy to achieve the expected results. The challenges in handling products from concept, through launch to retirement are large and involve many processes across business units, extending to supply chain partners. Not only are the processes complex, but they typically involve multiple, isolated, independent databases, spreadsheets, and files.

Aras customers have been using the Aras platform to customize and enhance their applications for years.  Session 3 will focus on our community and how they are leveraging the industrial low-code platform with Aras’ platform services to develop their own innovative solutions. The team will implement a third iteration of improvements to our newly built application.  To conclude the session, we will utilize an Aras Community Project with our new application to expand its scope.  These open source applications and packages enhance functionality, add features, or integrate with Aras Innovator.  The applications are provided by any member of the Aras Community in a public forum. 

As part of an innovation process, it is expected that new ideas will be proposed, and additional user stories created, to fine tune the target application. The ability to dynamically evaluate new proposals and identify the best business cases with the highest return on investment (ROI) is critical. In session 2, we will continue to highlight customer solutions as we build out our custom application. Watch the team add data visualization, content editing, and the ability to respond to user feedback to the MVP built in session 1, to drive incremental value from the application.

The high demand for new application development has surpassed the availability of qualified resources to meet the need. Many companies are turning to flexible, low-code development platforms to provide an alternative to traditional development strategies. In this first session, we will examine specific examples of how organizations leveraged Aras Innovator to create new functionality and met the needs of their users.  You will also experience the rapid development environment as the team constructs an application using Aras Innovator.

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A pervasive systems thinking approach throughout the lifecycle not only considers a complex product and its multidisciplinary subsystems, it also accounts for the larger systems of which it is a part. Users, the environment, other products, and critical processes throughout the lifecycle all impact a product at the systems level, and companies that design with this approach in mind excel in their businesses. Learn how new applications in Aras realize systems architecture, requirements engineering, and multi-fidelity simulation to helps our community advance their products in new and innovative ways.

Product engineering and manufacturing process planning in Aras Innovator are the most widely-used applications across our community. Learn how new Aras applications are advancing design and production for companies by incorporating real-time field feedback, operational data, Digital Twin simulation, and multidisciplinary change management. Tomorrow’s products leverage software, hardware, and electronics, and the Aras community is leading the way to develop these innovative new products first.

Digital transformation relies on access to the right information at the right time for all parties across the lifecycle. Learn how the Aras community is expanding the way their companies can own the lifecycle of product information—including service and operational data—with new Aras capabilities for the Digital Twin. The availability of critical information in the Digital Thread for maintenance users will create opportunities to support new business models, respond to quality issues, and influence next generation product development.

What’s the latest from Aras? Come hear a comprehensive update on all Aras products, including what’s been delivered in the past year and what’s planned in the next year or two. Get the big picture, and start thinking about what you’d like to roll out as part of your PLM implementation or expansion. Maybe you’d like to establish Digital Twins for your products in the field, with 3D navigation and simulation. Or enable a variant-driven systems architecture to drive your new product development. Or set up a Cloud-friendly deployment, either private or hosted by Aras. Or accelerate your DevOps environment using the Test Automation Framework. All of these and more are coming from Aras.

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With customers waiting many years for aircraft, Airbus IT recognized that many applications needed to be modernized, upgraded and, ultimately, integrated in order to gain efficiency, improve performance, and digitally transform the company. Their solution―“greenhouse” for users to tackle their own projects.

Vehicles are more sophisticated than ever, with ever-increasing connectivity. Learn three secrets for competing in this age of rapid innovation and the methods that allow for the development tomorrow’s products today.

Hear from Rob McAveney, CTO at Aras, as he answers frequently asked questions about the Digital Twin, from what it is, building them, the value they create, and how to get started.

The vision of a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is to have an authoritative and traceable source for all artifacts and activities throughout a product’s lifecycle. The promise of reduced costs, higher quality (including tighter adherence to governance and regulations), and improved productivity; drives this digital revolution. 

Learn how the platform approach to system development integrates MBSE, software, requirements management, simulation, and maintenance with examples of how to use the integrated platform to deploy a rapid development greenhouse environment, agile R&D, design space exploration, and supply chain integration.

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Aras’ Visual Collaboration enables effective communication in a secure environment, allowing you to work seamlessly across the Enterprise. Watch this demonstration for a review of Visual Collaboration’s capabilities and highlight the effectiveness of clear communication across Aras Innovator. You will learn how to view and add comments in the discussions panel, leverage the viewers to gain visibility into all related content, and create markups to effectively communicate changes needed.

Automobiles are more sophisticated than ever, incorporating provide connectivity, navigation, entertainment, enhanced safety, and autonomous functionality. To compete in this age of rapid innovation, manufacturers must adopt methods that allow them to develop the products of tomorrow, starting today.

Chad Jackson, Chief Analysts of Lifecycle Insights, discusses the future of building custom applications quickly and strategically giving users the functionality they need.

As business processes evolve rapidly, organizations are discovering that they must find new and better ways to meet the demands of their evolving industries. Those destined to succeed and thrive are preparing to meet challenges that aren’t even envisioned today.

In this demo, we will dive into how Aras handles workflows, sub-workflows, notifications, and status reporting. You shouldn’t have to change your business to fit your PLM, but it should be easy to change your PLM to meet your unique needs.

Keeping track of changes to complex products is difficult—think Aerospace & Defense equipment, new generations of commercial aircraft, and software-based automobiles. A new way to managing the digital context of the physical product is required and the answer is the Digital Twin.

Learn how Aras Innovator is helping global companies do what they do best.

Read how Aras is disrupting the automotive industry with their resilient platform–designed to adapt to changing business requirements while never locking users into a specific technology.

As companies grapple with legacy processes and systems while they develop and manage complex connected products, digital transformation becomes a priority in order to maintain a competitive edge.

Read how Aras is disrupting the industry with their resilient platform–designed to adapt to changing business requirements while never locking users into a specific technology.

Designing multidisciplinary systems relies on the simulation and testing of rapidly-evolving product definitions from the earliest concept stages through maintenance in the field.

Two major trends—increasing product complexity and the growing role of the supply chain in design and manufacturing― have been playing out in manufacturing companies across all industries. The convergence of these trends has created a significant challenge for design collaboration with outsourced manufacturing partners―impacting productivity and operational excellence every day. 

Businesses will need to invest in upgrading their current technology to meet these new realities. Regardless of the approach, in order to make these investments reflect a positive return on their investment (ROI), the solution will need to consider the business processes, volume and location of users, technical landscape and security of the data. Watch this presentation to learn how you can transform your global supplier collaboration while securing your IP.

Learn more about enabling IP-secure supplier collaboration.

Hear about the Aras vision and plans for future releases. Aras is busier than ever, innovating on technology, PLM processes, and new applications. We’ll share all of our latest crazy ideas and show you how they’ll shape the future of PLM.

With ever increasing product complexity, Requirements Management (RM) is critical to any complex system and/or product design. However, in many cases, requirements management is still done in siloed, standalone RM tools. And, the fact is, many design failures can be traced back to poor requirements management. This eBook explores the current challenges and risks companies face when it comes to requirements management and outlines the solutions and benefits offered by Aras’ Requirements Engineering (RE) application.

Today’s product innovations, and tomorrow’s, rely on simulation. Managing simulation data and results in the Digital Thread with Aras scales the value of simulation to more of the product lifecycle, advancing innovation today and into the future.

Manufacturers need to move quickly to decide whether they are on the right path to avoid disruption from existing and new competition. With this in mind, the path becomes clear – innovate and incorporate the technology that customers are looking for in their next-generation products and implement the Digital Thread.

Whether it has to do with mass property editing, multilingual entry, creating relationships, or keyboard-friendly workflows, let us know how we can make data input faster and more user-friendly for you.

Commercial flying aircraft are either flying or in maintenance at a base or line station. Technicians need the tools and systems to return the aircraft to service as efficiently as possible. Impresa MRO is one of those tools!

The team from Purdue University Polytechnic Institute walk through the challenges and next steps when it comes to introducing PLM into the undergraduate curriculum.

Learn how the Aras Component Engineering Application, as part of the Aras PLM Platform, empowers Component Engineers with a single source of Electronic Component information - enabling them to make informed decisions on appropriate components to select from already purchased components or sourcing new components.

Aras Manufacturing Process Planning gives manufacturing planners access to the Engineering Bills of Materials and the ability to re-structure the EBOM to a Manufacturing BOM - including Phantoms and MBOM only parts. Authoring capabilities are included in MPP to allow creation of rich manufacturing instructions for the shop floor.

With a graphical visualization of filtered search results, you can quickly identify what you are looking for and its relationship within the complex product structure with Graph Navigation. It will not only help you find data but its impact on relationships and other PLM information.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) is in the process of deploying Aras Innovator as the backbone of its new model-based digital thread. As an FFRDC, the laboratory serves a number of sponsors in the aerospace and defense industries, and sits at the very beginning of the R&D process for those organizations.

Aras Innovator 12 introduces an entirely new client experience with intuitive controls and improved navigational architecture to help you get work done faster. Learn about the user input that inspired the design, specific features included in version 12, and the approach Aras is taking to regularly include UX enhancements in future releases.

Learn about new features introduced in the Product Engineering application in Aras Innovator 12, such as effectivity management in BOM structures. We will provide an overview of the product roadmap, a demo of new features, and a preview of what we are building next.

Managing data across disparate systems and business units is a common challenge to all organizations as they strive to create a single Digital Thread of connected enterprise data. The Aras PLM platform already enables organizations to federate data between Innovator and other systems, but we're striving to make it even easier with Aras Federation Services.

An overview of the role of Aras Innovator in support of digital engineering initiatives at Sandia Labs as well as its envisioned future role as part of a comprehensive PLM vision currently under development.

Definition and management of requirements is going through major methodology changes. Design complexity shifts requirement content from basic formatted text towards XML schema managed complex structures (structured content). This presentation will explore how Aras Requirements Engineering architecture allows to start exploring and implementing various methodologies for requirements modeling, reuse and traceability - approaches not possible previously.

Traditional siloed requirements solutions prevented the management of requirements as an integral part of the product development process and navigation of the underlying digital thread. Aras Requirements Engineering is the next generation of requirement management solutions, built on top of the Aras PLM platform. Basing Requirements Engineering on the Aras Innovator platform, provides the benefit of all the standard PLM services, such as Change and Configuration Management, Versioning, Standardized Workflow, Lifecycle, and Collaboration.

Although it had its roots as a simple, yet powerful graphical query mechanism for constructing custom queries, the Query Builder (and the Query Definitions created by it) has become the core mechanism for defining data structures used in many areas of Aras Innovator, including PLM Visualization and Configuration Tools. Learn about the Query Builder, hear about the enhancements in the past year, and see how it's used for defining Tree Grid and Graph Views, determining access rights, Part Effectivity, data migration, as well as our plans for its use in the near future.

Hear about the Aras vision and plans for future releases. Aras is busier than ever, innovating on technology, PLM processes, and new applications. We’ll share all of our latest crazy ideas and show you how they’ll shape the future of PLM.

In 2016, General Motors embarked on a project to replace the homegrown Change Management System with Aras Innovator. Since then, Aras Innovator has provided enhanced capabilities and a more robust workflow on a supported upgradeable framework. Hear highlights about the Aras and GM journey.

This presentation will quickly cover the basic access control mechanisms - identities and permissions, then move into more advanced topics like the use of teams and roles, and demonstrate the more advanced mechanisms of MAC and DAC. Common scenarios will be used to describe how the techniques may be combined to provide the required access behavior. Finally, the performance implications of using these different techniques will be reviewed.

Aras Innovator is a CAD-agnostic platform that understands how to manage design artifacts from all major CAD systems, providing engineers a single digital location to access and share the latest product information and files in real time.

Aras Impresa MRO is a complete system for aviation maintenance that can support components, complex assemblies and airframe overhaul. From Order entry to Operations, Supply Chain to Finance, Labor Booking to Quoting & Invoicing, Tooling to Global Operations, the application can support your organizations' structure and business processes. This presentation will provide you with a short overview of its capabilities.

The Medical System business unit of Fujifilm serves a global customer base of hospital systems and clinics so that Fujifilm is required to comply multiple international regulations such as the audits of government and certifying body. In this session, Fujifilm will share its challenges and solutions in building more reliable Digital QMS with Aras Innovator for achieving faster and more traceable DHF.

Aras Component Engineering provides access to the 500M+ components available in the IHS Markit CAPS database. This allows subscribers to search and compare components, download part details, compliance information as well as have access to Product Change Notices, End of Life notices and more. This presentation will provide an overview of Component Engineering and cover the latest enhancements.

Aras Technical Documentation (Tech Docs) is a content authoring tool, fully integrated into Aras PLM that collectively provides component content management capability for topics-based, modular documentation. Tech Docs enables users from various disciplines to author, visualize, share, and publish information all within a central, controlled, and collaborative environment. If you're new to the application, discover Tech Docs and learn how this capability might be useful for your technical documentation needs. For those who haven't looked at Tech Docs in a while, see what has changed along with our plans for future enhancements.

This presentation describes the benefits of fully exploiting the Aras Innovator Office Connector to ensure accuracy and trust in our product specifications through automation.

What’s the latest from Aras? A comprehensive update on all Aras products, including what’s been delivered in the past year and what’s planned in the next year or two.

There are a lot of myths when it comes to Digital Transformation and PLM. In this presentation, CEO and Founder Peter Schroer will explore those myths and bust them. Also, get an update on the Aras Community.

What’s the latest from Aras? A comprehensive update on all Aras products, including what’s been delivered in the past year and what’s planned in the next year or two.

Learn how you can benefit from the convergence of the Aras Requirements Engineering application and its PLM platform.

Requirements Management provides powerful capabilities for complex systems engineering planning, development and realization through the creation of a single, multi-discipline requirements hierarchy. Change management workflow assures requirements stay in sync as the system or product evolves over the lifecycle.

There are a lot of myths when it comes to Digital Transformation and PLM. In this presentation, CEO and Founder Peter Schroer will explore those myths and bust them. Also, get an update on the Aras Community.

Driving digital transformation to meet the demands of processes with fast changing requirements is particularly challenging with yesterday’s rigid technology. Forward thinking organizations are looking toward a more modern enterprise architecture that can quickly adapt to unique digital process needs now and into the future. Join CIMdata Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, and Aras SVP Strategy, Marc Lind, as they discuss the platform implications of Digital Transformation in today’s global enterprise.

Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, creates and supports unmanned aerial vehicles and software technology, delivering end-to-end solutions for collecting, processing and understanding sensor data. Insitu knows the importance of keeping Aras Innovator up-to-date and they regularly take advantage of Aras’ upgrade services to make sure they can take advantage of all of the latest features and capabilities. Discover how the Insitu and Aras’ upgrade team worked together to complete a successful upgrade with measurable results.

Your business is predicated on fast turnaround time (TAT), on-time delivery, and increasing volume. If your on-time delivery performance is below 90%, now’s the time to evaluate your MRO processes and capabilities. Turnaround time won’t get any easier as aircraft become more complex.

This webinar will discuss key levers to speed on-time delivery and help you reach the magic 90% metric and will not only provide a proven blueprint to improve your current operations but also strategy to compete for future market share.

Join Gary Wilmot, Aras Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant, for a demonstration of how the Aras PLM Platform enables a true digital thread in areas including:

• Initial product definition
• Design and process quality management
• Change management throughout the complete product lifecycle
• Complete traceability of the entire digital thread

The rapidly growing complexity of products presents a significant challenge for manufacturers that are competing to bring the latest, most sophisticated, and connected products to market. This level of complexity has also introduced the need to take a systems level approach. Collaborating across disciplines—mechanical, electronic, and software—creating systems of systems. This eBook explores five concepts that will help engineering leads develop system-centric design processes, align teams, master product complexity, and drive innovation.

In this demo, you will learn how engineering data is created, viewed, and updated in the Product Engineering application using a controlled change process through automated workflow, to increase productivity and reduce redundant entry, errors, and rework.

The value of managing architectural models in PLM goes well beyond the benefits of Configuration, Change and Lifecycle Management of the model itself. It includes the additional benefits of dynamic interaction, collaboration, reuse, and traceability between SysML and the various data models and structures already managed by PLM. These include, derivation of SysML model from PLM managed architectural structures, dynamic interaction with requirement structures, physical parts and assemblies, dynamic generation of SysML like diagrams in PLM and elements of PLE definitions between SysML and PLM

Watch this presentation to see the value of the integration between PLM and System Model demonstrated using Aras PLM platform and No Magic’s MagicDraw and how this can help you in implementation of a SysML driven MBSE methodology across the entire enterprise.

Join Aras Product Manager David Ewing as he provides a brief demonstration of the capabilities of Aras Innovator's Impact Matrix.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a core requirement for modern product development, particularly as organizations face increasing product complexity and shorter product lifecycles.

PLM is also the key integration point for advanced product development technology such as application lifecycle management (ALM) and Internet of Things (IoT) data, and enables traceability required for Digital Thread and Digital Twin.

An organization’s ability to innovate and pursue Digital Transformation is therefore significantly dictated by the level of PLM functionality and maturity across the organization.

Watch as BAE Systems discusses their Product Long Lifecycle and how Aras Innovator provides the Resilient PLM they need.

Join Aras Product Manager Kevin Richards as he steps through a brief demonstration of Technical Publications with Aras.

Learn how to upload designs and interact directly with those uploaded designs from Altium designer in full synchronization between Aras Innovator and Altium Vault.

Learn how the Aras Quality Management application can help you to reduce risk, simplify quality process compliance, and improve productivity in this tutorial video.

Watch this brief demo as it demonstrates the use of Component Engineering within Aras Innovator 11.

Watch this brief demo as it demonstrates the use of Self-Service Reporting within Aras Innovator 11.

Hear from Airbus as they discuss their PDM light need and what they've done with Aras to successfully achieve that need using Aras Innovator.