Several years ago, Aras made the decision to embrace a DevOps culture to meet the challenges of multiple developers in multiple locations globally. This decision has enabled Aras to adopt a rapid, release cadence for Aras Innovator. Aras has now created a turnkey package of the Aras DevOps framework and has made it available to subscribers as part of the Enterprise SaaS offering. Read this case study to see how Aras benefits from the use of this of important product.

“Digital Transformation Driving PLM to the Cloud“ is an informative eBook discussing how innovative Digital Transformation strategies are forcing IT organizations to consider new cloud offerings for PLM systems. James White, VP of Tech-Clarity interviewed several companies to gain perspectives on different types of cloud implementations and discusses how each of these options provide the capabilities needed to move forward.

Managing and communicating change is a core challenge for any company that makes products. It needs to be done in a clear, collaborative, and transparent manner, but, without a pervasive system of record, increasing complexity makes this process exponentially more difficult.
 
Throughout the manufacturing, supply chain, and service organizations, people need to understand the impact of change—what has changed, why it has changed, and make a determination that the product is still fit for service. In this demo we will show how Aras Innovator improves the change process to document the impacts of a proposed change reliably and clearly. We will also show how changes can be traced back from items in the field to reveal the decision-making process that led to those changes.

Secondo il State of Manufacturing Report di Fictiv del 2021, Il 95% dei produttori concorda sul fatto che la trasformazione digitale sia la chiave per il futuro successo della propria azienda

Risulta fondamentale eliminare gli ostacoli alla collaborazione, connettere l'ecosistema industriale e prendere decisioni guidate dai dati con un approccio di piattaforma sostenibile

Scarica questo Executive Summary per scoprire come la tua azienda può accelerare il suo impegno nella trasformazione digitale.

Digitalization of Engineering helps providers of next generation products to control accelerating product complexities. System-centric approach allows to see how sub-systems interact on a functional level which results in faster and less risky insertion of emerging technologies, quicker adoption of latest tools and effective system integration with sub-systems from supply chain. 

Chad Jackson, Chief Analyst and CEO of Process Insights, and Pawel Chadzynski, Senior Director Product Marketing at Aras, discuss the role Systems Thinking and PLM platforms have in managing product complexities.

Engineers waste a lot of time repetitively re-discovering and re-analyzing issues that were already addressed before. And yet resolved system model instances don’t persist as managed configurations. Formal management of system variability is key to tracing of what was done and understanding how it can be reused. 

The Aras low-code industrial platform enables engineers to formally manage system models authored in tools like Cameo without limiting their creative freedom but with an ability to rely on formal configuration management when appropriate.

A digital thread is a critical tool used by many CIOs to both digitalize their organizations and to support their own shift to becoming a transformational CIO. A digital thread is the capability that allows teams across the enterprise to follow a product’s digital history and all its related digital assets—from the initial planning and analysis, through design, manufacturing, testing, and on to final sustainment and disposal phases.

The ever-expanding complexities of systems being designed increases the demand for robust and intelligent simulation that is automated, consistent, repeatable, and traceable. While current simulation algorithms are growing ever more powerful, there is a need to make them ever more pervasive across more teams in cross-disciplinary ways. The goal is to enable more simulation, reduce simulation bottlenecks, enable digital verification, and react quicker to changes in product definitions.

Ever increasing product complexity forces organizations to reimagine their approach to design—including new methodologies, design tools, and configuration management for every step of the lifecycle. This also must include the pivotal role of a PLM platform plays in enabling the system-centric view of a product: traceability of requirements, management of systems models, simulation, and cross-discipline collaboration. 



Prof. Dr.-Ing Martin Eigner (GF), CEO and Senior Consultant at EIGNER Engineering Consult, and Mark Reisig, VP Product Marketing at Aras, discuss the role a PLM platform plays in Digitalization of Engineering.

Seaspan plays a key role in Canada's national shipbuilding strategy, operating three facilities responsible for new construction, repair, and retrofit services for the Canadian Navy and Coast Guard.  Seaspan realized that product lifecycle management was key to modernizing their shipbuilding facility to meet increasing demand. This case study follows Seaspan’s journey as they implemented Aras Innovator and embarked on their digital transformation journey.

Are you able to deliver dynamic business change, at a low cost, in a timely manner?  One of the biggest challenges for IT is keeping pace with changing business requirements. Why? Your existing software probably wasn’t built with flexibility in mind.  This 30-minute demonstration will feature capabilities that allow the IT organization to react quickly to changing business requirements.  From administration functions, changing workflows, updating user interfaces, and building new applications, we will cover it all to show how IT can be that trusted partner to deliver new or updated capabilities to the business on-time, with little development effort.

As an extension of CIMdata’s Cloud-SaaS PLM Adoption survey, executives from Aras and CIMdata joined together to analyze the study’s findings.  Mark Reisig from Aras joined Stan Przybylinski of CIMdata to examine the voice of the customer and add their own insights to the findings of the study.  Don’t miss this informative discussion between these two leading experts in the PLM domain.

Unlock the key to transforming your business and discover how you can accelerate, collaborate, and empower your organization to drive innovation. Hear from CIMdata’s President, Peter Bilello, in this short video. 

Interested in more? Learn how you can Digitally Transform with Aras.

95% of manufactures agree Digital Transformation is key to their companies' success, according to Fictiv's 2021 State of Manufacturing Report. 

Remove obstacles for collaboration, connect the industry ecosystem, and make data-driven decisions with a sustainable platform approach. Download this executive summary to discover how your company can accelerate its Digital Transformation efforts.

Technology professionals often discuss new concepts at a high level that resonate well with executives. As these concepts progress into the world of business processes and software products, the terminology used to describe the concepts can lead to confusion among industry specialists. DevOps is a good example of a concept that is currently confusing many business professionals today. Read this brochure to understand DevOps and how Aras DevOps will help your organization support a DevOps culture.

Having installed several different PLM systems over the years, Parata found themselves “stuck in the mud.” They were anxious not to repeat the current situation that they were in—saddled with an outdated system that was very costly to upgrade, fix bugs, and to align with their current business processes. Being a smaller company, they wanted the ability to configure the solution as their processes evolved and as they progressed in implementation and usage of the system.

Documents such as specifications, assembly instructions, parts lists, training materials, design reviews, and service bulletins all have one thing in common: your product. Managing them outside of PLM means their contents can easily fall behind changes made to the product, incurring significant time, effort, and risk of error when they must be manually updated and revised.

Aras Technical Documentation can structure the creation of many different kinds of product-related documents by connecting with data from all of the applications across the Aras Innovator platform. It automates data creation, pulling the latest product information into the customizable layout your teams need to work in—whatever type of document that is. And, it automates changes: as each linked piece of content is updated, stakeholders are notified and can accept the change or continue evolving the document. This quick and easy notification and synchronization accelerates their work and reduces the risk of inaccuracies.

This case study examines how Freudenberg-NOK, has been able to eliminate redundant systems, gain executive visibility, and improve launch performance by integrating APQP program management and product development.

In this webinar, you will learn why those who are leading product efforts will be on the front lines in the transition to digital. We’ll delve into why innovation cannot fall to individuals but instead requires participation from throughout the enterprise ecosystem. To be successful, this collaboration will need to be efficient— and tap a discrete manufacturer’s often-overlooked precious resource—product information—whether in siloed systems internally, or not yet connected from a customer.

The time for taking hold of information at the enterprise level is upon us and the “shoot from the hip” improvement philosophy of the past will no longer sustain companies as technology rapidly advances and change becomes the norm. PLM can provide the foothold required to transform the entire lifecycle over time and become the basis of continuous operational improvement.

A modern, resilient and flexible Product Lifecycle Management solution is critical to support a manufacturing organization's Digital Transformation, ensuring that it is continually upgraded is a critical to success. This eBook surveys the top four PLM solutions in place at manufacturers today, and shows what's holding them back from continual upgrades to support Digital Transformation.

In this demonstration we cover the latest updates in Aras Innovator 12 to support your Digital Transformation efforts: features that enhance collaboration across the Digital Thread, expand your PLM vision into more of the product’s lifecycle, accelerate the way users view and navigate data, and boost your low-code/no-code application development.

Microsoft's experience with five continuous years of successful upgrades while retaining all business data, configurations, and customizations. We will share lessons learned, the efforts required, how development, testing, and deployment were organized.

In the demonstration Aras shows how maintenance organizations can use the Digital Thread and Digital Twin to support advanced maintenance strategies. With Aras, they have a view into each unique Digital Twin Configuration for assets being managed. They can drill into any asset’s operational status to identify upcoming maintenance requirements before possible unplanned downtime occurs. And they can efficiently predict whether maintenance should occur now or be deferred.

This presentation highlights a philosophy of experimentation as a means of the AF achieving its primary objectives, and will include examples of past and ongoing efforts that utilize flexible technology platforms to address data challenges, culture change, and process reengineering risks.

Caltex Oil Tools is an innovative leader in the energy sector where complex one-off projects require engineering, manufacturing, and maintenance stay in lockstep. They’ve tackled these challenges with Aras’ core PLM capabilities and extended the digital thread into their manufacturing activities with connectivity to Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central (D365).

Designing products differently:  In June 2018 the US DoD published the Digital Engineering Strategy, under authority of the USD(R&E). Since its release, the focus for the Digital Engineering efforts within OUSD(R&E) has shifted to supporting implementation. This discussion will discuss some focused efforts to support and enable the use of digital engineering techniques.

This presentation will review Insitu's journey over the last four years of using the agile scrum methodology and a small team of three to incrementally expand the capability of our Aras instance, with a key focus on improving efficiency within product engineering. Recent projects include: integrations with CAD systems (SolidWorks and Mentor Graphics) and the IHS database (through Aras Component Engineering); and development of multiple change control workflows.

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

With today's rapidly changing requirements and the complexity of enterprise IT environments, manually testing and deploying solutions to business systems just doesn't scale anymore. Relying on individuals to follow a complicated series of steps to deploy your applications results in an increased margin for human error, slower release cycles, and finding more defects in production. Watch this ACE presentation to learn how Aras DevOps can help improve your system development process.

This session will focus on the connection of disparate data and disparate systems in an operations, maintenance, and sustainment environment (OM and S) environment to enable Digital Sustainment and deliver the optimized level of maintenance and maximized availability for an Enterprise.

As connected as we appear to be, most companies continue to struggle with effective collaboration. Decision chains are buried in email, functional silos limit access to data, and the data that defines products is scattered across various systems and hard drives. These disconnected decisions and isolated data make it difficult to trace the information that went into creating a single product. 

In this session, Aras will demonstrate how organizations can use the Aras platform to collaborate in a unified environment. You will see how a single digital thread of product information connects teams across the product lifecycle. While team members use applications purpose-built for their disciplines, these applications are built on a common platform, the data authored there is inherently connected, and can be easily traversed to enhance communication and collaboration as the product is developed.

With a highly customized product line, IWT recognized that it was time to move beyond their legacy PDM system. In this session, you’ll learn how IWT’s customized engineering change order (ECO) process in Aras Innovator has led to significant improvements throughout engineering and production.

Review of Purdue’s classroom implementation of Innovator evolution over the past three years and where it stands today in context of our Virtual Product Integration (VPI) major and implementation within the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Center (IN-MaC) Manufacturing Testbed.

Valley Fine Foods leveraged the adaptability of Aras Innovator to launch new items and easily train new employees, in a year where a lot of the food industry’s general conventions were flipped on its head.

At Sandia National Labs, the document management process for one of their internal customers requires access control based on metadata values, user role, relationship type, and workflow state. Creation of a custom “Rules Engine” to grant specific permissions.

Denise Fitzgerald who leads the digital transformation efforts for MITLL will present an overview of the labs' Digital Engineering Initiative and the projects that have been implemented. This will be followed by a software demonstration of the digital thread covering the areas of requirements, systems modelling and simulation, and V and V.

With over a dozen engineering offices spread around the world, Nidec needed a solution that would allow all of its engineering users to work with the same PLM system. Aras’ vault replication provides a practical way for distributed teams to use the same PLM system.

Internally built application for equipment management covering instrumentation of all kinds, preventative maintenance and calibrations, check-in/checkout, shipping, software licenses, computers and Chemical Inventory.

NuScale Power’s Director of Corporate Services, Neil Olivier, will discuss the need for a resilient digital platform for their clean Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. Learn how Aras’ single enterprise platform will provide an end to end to solution to support regulatory standards, configuration best practices and maintenance support for decades to come.

Leveraging Aras Innovator’s flexibility and ability to integrate with other systems Cubic provides immediate notification of assigned tasks to individual team members. Cubic integrated Aras Innovator with SAP HANA to present focused, actionable data analytics using Tableau. Enabling the executive steering committee to view metrics on overall ECO cycle times, project team utilization, process bottlenecks, and more and take business critical executive decisions.

Learn how Cubic leveraged Aras Innovator to create Engineering Change Order workflow which enables reviews based on product's design maturity powered by matrixed dynamic workflow assignments. Cubic will also illustrate how data was extracted from Aras Innovator to SAP HANA and presented as dashboards using Tableau.

This presentation will showcase the CAD Data Share and RFQ/Source List applications that have been successfully deployed and adopted within DENSO, as well as a look at some future plans with Aras Innovator.

Market is driving the need for product variability - one size definitely doesn’t fit all. We’ll present how we are using the Aras platform to effectively manage product proliferation and how we’ve digitized the product configuration management.

This 30 minute demonstration applies Systems Thinking to making systems models a central part of the digital thread. It demonstrates a practical approach to establishing a custom digital thread that can expand and morph with the complexities of the products and systems that it represents, across all the above initiatives. The digital thread provides access to, and connects, data authored in best-of-class tools, and automatically exposes functionality appropriate to the task at hand—while maintaining traceability and the history of changes across the entire lifecycle.

With a vision to implement PLM from product information from “need to recycling”, Haulotte developed a PLM solution to "Give all actors the wings to perform the steps of the lifecycle."

The promise of Digital Transformation cannot be fully realized without simulation. As the market leader in simulation technology, Ansys is uniquely positioned to unlock the power of simulation throughout the product development process. Learn how Ansys Minerva, powered by Aras Innovator, provides a simulation platform to enable true Digital Transformation.

The benefit of joining the digital twin to its digital thread is a competitive advantage. This presentation will make the case for how and why the digital twin and its digital thread are in fact inseparable and key to transforming your organization’s future.

An interview with Bill Halliden, Senior Manager, Digitalization and Service Operations, Toyota Europe, on how TME is empowering digital transformation across their digital thread.

In response to the DoD 5000.88 directorate NAVWAR developed over a two year period, the “Master Integrated Technical Integration Suite” or METIS. This session describes this journey and their results.

While financial services may be less tangible than goods manufactured in a factory, they can have just as much complexity in their design. The ARAS platform manages BNP Paribas Securities Services Products catalogue across the 35 countries and 90 markets.

Hear industry experts discuss why a system-centric approach is critical to manage exploding product complexity. We will explore how their organizations are leveraging Systems Thinking to successfully transform data, tools, processes, and the role of a PLM platform to achieve their Digital Transformation objectives.

Grammer will explain how value creation is enabled by strategic company decisions for digitization and what are the key elements in that journey, creating disruptive value to the company while providing continuity to the business users.

This presentation will showcase the value inherent in synchronizing the design intent represented by a systems architecture model with hardware and software planning and execution tools (CAD and Jira). It will also illustrate the advantages of enabling interchange with domain-specific tools (in this case, a logistics analysis support tool).

Using market research data on the implementation and upgrade frequency of leading industrial organizations, CIMdata will provide an overview of the current state of PLM software and its upgradeability in terms of software age, deployment difficulties, and upgrade duration tied to user and company demographics. This webinar will provide the insight for organizations to see where they fit within their peers as to the current state of their PLM implementations, how best to move forward to take advantage of evolving business opportunities, and be more competitive with products services than their peers.

Manufacturers around the world are accelerating their responses to key societal, technological, and customer trends. Customers are demanding products and solutions that are smarter, more connected, more eco-friendly, able to operate autonomously, and are tailored to their unique needs.

This CIMdata eBook details how companies are leveraging the Cloud to accelerate their digital transformations at a time when business complexity is increasing faster than ever before.

Digital transformation is a major industrial trend that old and obsolete software cannot often support. Companies must be able to stay current to have access to the features and security they need to successfully grow their businesses. A recent CIMdata research project found that Aras customers have upgraded more recently than customers of other PLM solutions. Aras’ technology and business approach helps customers configure a solution to their needs and keep it current in order to stay resilient.

The Enterprise Edition for Aras Innovator delivers the most advanced PLM SaaS offering on the market.  In this brochure, learn about Aras’ unique SaaS offering and the all-inclusive subscription details that delivers what you need to start on your PLM journey on the cloud.  Enterprise SaaS provides everything required to solve your most unique business challenges by supporting unlimited customizations using our enterprise low-code environment.

Aras’ Systems Architecture captures the descriptive part of the systems model—functional and logical breakdown of the product—and connects them with other elements and domains within your Digital Thread. This includes requirements, functions, system elements, parts, and test cases covering the whole of the engineering V-model. These elements and all relationships are subject to comprehensive configuration management throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Aras’ Systems Architecture captures the descriptive part of the systems model—functional and logical breakdown of the product—and connects them with other elements and domains within your Digital Thread. This includes requirements, functions, system elements, parts, and test cases covering the whole of the engineering V-model. These elements and all relationships are subject to comprehensive configuration management throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Using Digital Twin Core, organizations can now not only manage the pace of configuration changes in physical assets digitally, but also add characteristics to specific parts to define when maintenance should occur based on any operational event. This allows organizations adopting Product as a Service strategies for complex assets to craft their maintenance plans to meet regulatory requirements or guarantee uptime based on Service Level Agreements.

Connecting requirements to system models, design details, simulations, and tests facilitates a traceable validation and verification process. Requirements Engineering (RE) application enables that as part of a digital thread managed by the Aras industrial low-code platform. This demo shows how to expose externally authored requirements in RE using: ReqIF—an industry standard for exchange of requirements; DOORS—a 3rd party requirements authoring tool; Cameo—a 3rd party MBSE systems modeling tool.

Kubota, a major industrial machinery manufacturer, has adopted Aras Innovator for the centralized management of technical documentation and to address challenges such as global expansion, market changes, and help capture and transfer technical knowledge to future generations. “Customizability” was an important requirement when choosing Aras as the platform.

Stan Przybylinski from CIMdata and Mark Reisig from Aras discuss the results of the survey and how the trends identified in the research will impact future SaaS PLM offerings. This webinar provides invaluable information to understand how SaaS solutions will enable the future of PLM.

New requirements for more features and connectivity across all product lines are pressuring the outdated enterprise solutions used to support engineering, manufacturing, and quality. These systems were not built to support connectivity with context across the product lifecycle. This is holding back the collaboration required to develop innovative products that can keep pace with customers’ quickly changing needs. The Digital Thread is the answer to ready yourself for the next decade of growth.

Access to 3D product data is critical to all members of a product team from inception to in-service operation.  However, many within this group lack the proper skill set and access to traditional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software used to author this information.  Moreover, without the ability to link this information directly to the entire product lifecycle data, the broader collaboration effort can be hindered when decisions are made out of context. 

Aras’ Dynamic Product Navigation (DPN) enables viewing of lightweight 3D CAD geometry to any team member who has appropriate permissions using only a web browser. These product model views can be linked directly with associated requirements, specs, quality information, manufacturing data, etc. maintained within the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.  DPN also empowers users to view scenes according to specified criteria regardless of the CAD hierarchy, and even supports viewing parts from various assemblies and CAD Systems together.

Effectivity services on the Aras Innovator platform enable managing effectivity on different product structures. Managing effectivity on the part BOM is the most common case, and the product engineering application incorporates effectivity as part of its comprehensive BOM configuration management capabilities. The most effective approach to manage the product data is to have a single, overloaded structure that consolidates the common content and identifies the differences by use of effectivity. Watch this demo to learn about effectivity management in Aras Innovator.

With Digital Transformation initiatives on the horizon, business leaders need to accelerate innovation while managing critical processes like release-to-manufacture and product quality. Effective collaboration is key to doing both well; but it’s even more critical as our workforces have gone largely remote. 

In this eBook, learn how a Digital Thread unlocks productivity gains by promoting efficient, effective collaboration throughout engineering, manufacturing, and quality processes. By linking critical product information with digital assets across the full product lifecycle, a Digital Thread helps companies realize the traceability, visibility, and context necessary to accelerate innovation, connect teams, and improve both today’s processes—and tomorrow’s.

When customers are considering deploying the Aras Innovator platform as part of their own cloud subscription, they have the option of utilizing the Aras Innovator Container Deployment or AICD. Aras has architected its resilient platform to leverage cloud services—delivering the efficiency and value of a cloud environment.

Join Jeff Hojlo from IDC and Mark Reisig from Aras as they discuss how the cloud enables greater resiliency and flexibility across the product lifecycle. Cloud based PLM can be a foundational element of a digital transformation strategy, enabling product, service, and customer lifecycle data to flow freely across a dynamic digital thread. Learn why low-code PLM platforms uniquely deliver the capabilities to customize your solution and support today’s digital transformations.

Engineers always struggle with finding the right information in the context of the task on hand. This can include locating the right versions and configurations of requirements, parameters, systems model elements, simulation results, detailed design parameters, and related documentation of every type. Manufacturers point to the Digital Thread on a PLM platform as the best approach for addressing this issue. Learn how to navigate the most complex Digital Thread structures with ease and efficiency.

Companies today are facing increasingly difficult decisions as they execute their business transformations. Moving to the cloud is no longer an opportunity, it is a necessity. Find out how Aras Cloud delivers the capabilities needed to solve your organization’s specific and unique, challenges with the most advanced cloud offering on the market today.

For Caltex Oil Tools, a change in ownership and corporate leadership led to a strategic shift in focus to highly specialized engineering capabilities and solutions. The team recognized the importance of PLM in developing improved engineering processes—and Aras was the solution to drive their digital transformation.

If you have a need for robust technical illustration capabilities tied to your product data, check out this new showcase demo with Canvas GFX. It shows how Canvas Envision can be used to create advanced illustrations using 3D CAD designs, images, and scanned drawings managed in Aras Innovator, and then insert them into Technical Publications, product manuals and other documentation, with support for version control, digital thread traceability, and more.

A major global semiconductor company with locations in more than 20 countries worldwide, Renesas produces complex and diverse products to meet ever-changing market needs. The company was challenged with issues of system inheritance and data management due to mergers over the years. Learn how Renesas is using Aras Innovator to solve these problems with a cost-competitive integrated management system.

Accelerate problem diagnosis and improve product quality with the Digital Thread. See Gary Wilmot, Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant, demonstrate the capture and connection of product data for use cases across the lifecycle.

Ensuring that digital transformation adds measurable benefits quickly and continuously is critical to success. In this presentation, CIMdata will review why the product lifecycle must be a core part of a digital transformation program.

“Digital transformation” is a popular, oft cited term, but one that’s often not 100% understood. In addition, the key role PLM plays is often undervalued.

In this commentary, leading PLM analyst firm, CIMdata, examines the crucial role an open, flexible, scalable, and upgradable digital product innovation platform plays in successful digital transformation.

Cloud based product lifecycle management (PLM) can be a foundational element of a digital transformation strategy, enabling product, service, and customer lifecycle data to flow freely across a dynamic digital thread that a varied, global team can access as needed. Read the IDC Technical Spotlight to learn how the cloud creates resiliency and flexibility across the product lifecycle and how key digital transformation use cases in R & D and engineering are enabled by a cloud-based PLM offering.

Many new technologies are introduced as the “next major driver to change the tech industry,” but in reality, a fair amount of these never achieve the impact of their original hype. The cloud is a game changer. Read the “Aras Cloud and the Future of PLM” eBook to understand why companies are migrating their enterprise applications to the cloud and how the Aras Cloud provides unique benefits only available when combined with the Aras Innovator resilient platform.

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Failure to comply with International Trade and Export Regulatory Requirements can resort in fines in excess of $1 Million and a 20-year prison sentence. The countries you can and cannot export arms and related material is continually changing. So how do you keep track? By deploying an application called Product Export and Classification by Building with Aras.

NuScale Power’s Director of Corporate Services, Neil Olivier SRO, MBA, CM2-C , will discuss the need for a resilient digital platform for their clean SMR technology. Learn how Aras’ single enterprise platform will provide an end to end to solution to support regulatory standards, configuration best practices and maintenance support for decades to come.

Rheem is currently in the process of implementing Aras Innovator at four of their North American divisions. Rheem made the decision not to incorporate an outside PDM software, rather utilize the capability within Aras Innovator.

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. Learn how Aras’ industrial low-code platform, platform services, and open architecture accelerate development time and reduce costs while mitigating risk to your company.

One important component of Digital Transformation is the Digital Thread which is only amplified when put in the context of Systems Thinking. Digital Thread is key to Systems Thinking since it enables traceability of the design intent, design data, and design history across all lifecycle stages. Listen to Ernesto Mottola of Toyota Motor Europe on how they are introducing Systems Thinking through the Digital Thread.

A study revealed that engineers spend 59 working days a year in searching for the right parts and components. How can PLM help you to improve this? Listen to Fouad Houcini and Jessica Grobongo from SAFRAN Seats on how they reduced the time spent on finding the parts & material data by 50 to 70% and at the same time achieved millions saving through inventory reduction and purchasing optimization.

Nidec embarked on a phased implementation of Aras Innovator to remedy the situation and transform their operations. Hear the evolution of Nidec’s PLM implementation plans and learn how Nidec uses Aras Innovator to keep track of over 50,000 different motor designs.

Managing customer requirements, aligning these with internal catalogues and also with vendors becomes very complex for energy sector with offshore units and refineries but it is an important pre-requisite for the Digital Twin. The context makes the difference. Learn from Bruno Barbarin and Gwénaël Le Bruchec from TechnipFMC how they leveraged Aras to improve their Requisition Management.

Listen to BIOTRONIK as they explain the identified need of PLM for the digital transformation, the vision and how Aras could help realizing it.

Also helpful to those who are currently looking for the right technology partner as Biotronik explains the selection criteria they had and how Aras performed there to their satisfaction.

In this presentation SICK discusses their implementation and usage of Aras Innovator.

When it comes to effective communication, context is key. Visual Collaboration enables teams to track information around an object inside of the context of that item.

It seems simple enough, organizations want to continually transform to stay a step ahead of competition and market dynamics. The mantra of solving problems through People, Processes and Technology is repeated ad nauseum, but it’s clearly more than that—otherwise organizations would be well on their way, and already innovating to what’s next.

This eBook addresses the missing links that determine success or failure in Digital Transformation and shows how organizations can build a sustainable path forward, with fewer resources, in less time, and with better outcomes.

There is no anticipating what tomorrow's demands will require. To increase development agility, companies need enterprise software that allows them to pivot quickly to fit increasingly changing needs.

Aras Innovator easily tracks the progression of release status as well as outstanding workflow tasks that provide a high-level view of the development of a product from ideation to release.

Remove unstainable processes and broken connections in the Digital Thread. See David McDonnell, PLM Solutions Consultant demonstrate how your team can increase productivity and accelerate product development.

Systems Thinking is central to the design of complex systems and to the implementation of your long-term Digital Thread strategy. 

This printable hand-out allows to share and promote the core ideas of Systems Thinking with your team.

Tom Turner answers your questions about upgrading Aras Innovator. In this three video series, find out about the types of upgrades, how to request an upgrade and the steps of the upgrade process. Get started today by contacting support@aras.com.

Maxion Wheels started testing laboratory digitalization by creating their “Digital Lab Solution” on their existing ARAS platform. This was designed to manage the physical testing process from Test Request to the automated test result.

Building an effective Digital Thread that represents the specific needs of your enterprise is not easy. Learn how Aras low code platform and Systems Thinking enable building a custom, flexible and extendable Digital Thread that connects requirements, systems model, variability and simulation within a single traceable and reusable environment. This includes traceability across various lifecycle states, configurations and revisions of the underlying engineering design data.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how Ansys Minerva, built on the Aras platform, alleviates many challenges. Such as collaboration, visibility, traceability and business challenges like governance, productivity, reuse and enterprise wide deployment of best practices.

This recorded webinar describes the practical steps you can take to use a systems thinking approach to manage your product complexity. It describes how you can:

• Achieve faster, product development with full traceability
• Reduce costs and mitigate risk
• Enable your remote workforce and improve team collaboration

In this 20-minute demo, see how Aras Innovator Version 12 manages a digital thread of PLM data: from requirements, systems models, and simulation data; to CAD data management, parts and BOM management, changes and configurations, quality processes, and technical documentation; to manufacturing plans and operational data. See UI support for personalization, flexibility, search, and reporting; along with powerful 3D visualization and secure discussion-style collaboration for the enterprise.

Learn why managing Systems Architecture models in a PLM Platform is critical to the success of your Digital Thread strategy.

Hear from Graeme Taylor, Product Manager, as he demonstrates a step by step approach to introduce life parameters to physical assets for each individual Digital Twin configuration for an asset, in any industry.

Integrating Engineering applications is complex. The Aras platform is uniquely well suited to blend with existing and future applications to create an open, flexible environment.

Engineers by education are trained to be conservative and to implement high safety levels. When it comes to change, especially technology change, engineers are more laggards than others.

Littelfuse is a global manufacturer of technologies in circuit protection, power control, and sensing. Having experienced considerable growth due to acquisitions they were challenged with the management of new product development projects (NPD) specifically related process and technology standardization.

Hear from Rob McAveney, CTO at Aras, discuss Aras’s Open integration philosophy and how Innovator has been open from its inception.

Detailed explanation of Variant Management using a sample application. Define and manage product variability, using features, options, and rules, organize variability into a hierarchical structure so that the variability definition can be managed at each level and then combined/aggregated. Manage configurable breakdown structures with common and variable content, based on a modular product architecture paradigm, and more.

Hear from John Sperling, SVP, Product Management as he reviews What’s New in Aras Innovator 12. This presentation covers all Service Packs leading up to our latest open version – Service Pack 9. You will see features that improve efficiency, new applications to expand your PLM vision, capabilities that accelerate the way users navigate and analyze data, and enhancements to boost your low-code application development.

We’ll cover updates in Aras Innovator 12 to support Digital Transformation: features that enhance efficiency, expand your PLM vision, accelerate the way users navigate and analyze data, and boost your low-code application development.

Systems Thinking is central to the design of complex systems and to the implementation of your long-term Digital Thread strategy.

This Executive Brief describes the risks associated with product complexity and provides you with a practical guide to implement a Systems Thinking approach.

Read how simulation can be implemented across entire product lifecycle using Aras PLM Platform. This allows simulation studies to be part of Digital Thread and span interdisciplinary implementation details.

See how simulation can be implemented across entire product lifecycle using Aras PLM Platform. This allows simulation studies to be part of Digital Thread and span interdisciplinary implementation details.

Aras Innovator can work with other PDM systems to connect all of your Multi-CAD CAD data to a single enterprise PLM system, all without leaving the SOLIDWORKS environment you are accustomed to.

Discover how the Air Force is using a “Digital Greenhouse” in several projects to address challenges with data stuck in silos, defining data requirements, and attaining efficiency in IT environments.

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.

All Digital Transformation initiatives—going from paper documents to well-connected digital models across the entire product lifecycle—recognize the importance of a Digital Thread which is only amplified when put in the context of Systems Thinking. Digital Thread is key to Systems Thinking since it enables traceability of the design intent, design data, and design history across all lifecycle stages.

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.

Continue the discussion on the Aras Community Forum.

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 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.

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.

Traditional PLM systems can’t keep pace with the demands from manufacturers of smart, connected products. Manufacturers must base their PLM applications on a resilient, industrial, low-code platform that adapts and grows with the market.

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.

In this commentary, leading PLM analyst firm, CIMdata, explores how Aras Innovator’s resilient platform architecture makes it ideally suited for companies looking for a long-term strategy for digital transformation. Learn why CIMdata says “The Aras PLM platform belongs on a short list for companies looking for a flexible platform that can meet their current and long-term PLM requirements.”

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.

Simulation has often been disconnected from the rest of the development process, struggling with traceability and the ability to provide meaningful feedback in a timely manner. Watch this demonstration as it shows how Aras Innovator can use simulation to evaluate the performance of a design as it progresses, and how the results of simulations can be tied back to Requirements to do closed-loop Verification and validation at every stage of the product lifecycle.

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

In this webinar you will learn about Dynamic Product Navigation and see the first set of a suite of enhancements to the Aras PLM Platform which provide the ability to configure and display 3D models of your product regardless of the CAD system the data originated from using a simple, intuitive user interface.

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.

With the release of version 12, Aras Innovator continues to disrupt the PLM market with unprecedented usability and adaptability. Watch as Aras Solutions Consultant, Gary Wilmot, demonstrate the latest Aras Innovator capabilities including, Parts and Bills of Materials Creation, Configuration, Effectivity and  Change Management, Quality Management, Manufacturing Process Planning, Technical Documentation, Visual Collaboration and Enterprise Search.

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, managing requirements is critical to any complex system and/or product design. However, in many cases, requirements management is still done in siloed, standalone requirements management 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.

The Aras Community is an open group of developers, analysts, admins, and users that share their PLM and Aras knowledge across industries. To support our community, Aras provides a platform packed with resources and features to empower community members. Watch as Eli Donahue, Aras Labs Lead Engineer, demonstrates what the Aras Community platform has to offer you. He’ll start with a brief overview of the Aras Community site, followed by demos of a few open source projects that community members have shared.

Join Crystal Brandl, Product Manager at Aras, for a first look at the SAFe Portal. This demonstration will highlight many of the common elements of SAFe, including Agile Release Trains, Program Increments, Iterations, Features, Issues, and Tasks.  You will also take a look inside how Agile Teams are managed, and the Kanban boards used to visualize the backlog and work-in-progress.

Quality goes beyond compliance. Product safety, customer satisfaction, and design innovations all rely on well-integrated processes and technologies for quality planning, quality management, and product development. In this guide, see how Aras helps OEMs transform their approach to quality.

It is no secret that companies are grappling with threats to their intellectual property (IP) data on a daily basis. Predictably, governments are creating new regulations and guidelines to respond to these risks.

Watch the demo and see how the Aras Platform helps formalize the release of fabrication and assembly data from Altium Designer to external vendors. By placing manufacturing data in PLM, the enterprise benefits from a uniform release to a manufacturing process that is subject to formal permissions and flows. These processes are independent of the Altium design activities that may be occurring in parallel.

Aras Innovator Version 12 introduces an entirely new client experience to help every Aras user get their work done faster. The navigational architecture of the client has been redesigned to enable users to find the content they need with fewer steps, interfaces have been simplified to clearly identify data and commands that are relevant, and the process of editing data has been updated to be more intuitive for users both experienced and new. Watch this short demonstration on how Aras Innovator Version 12 improves productivity and ease of use.

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.

In this demo, you’ll see how easy it is for engineering teams throughout the product’s lifecycle to access the simulation data, processes, and results they need to develop high-performing products, faster. Aras Comet SPDM captures and automates repeatable, best-practice simulations for use – and reuse – by engineering teams to ensure better accuracy and faster turnaround times.

Watch the demo to learn how easy it is to create additional effectivity variables and manage your scope, how to set effectivity expressions – as simple or complex as your business requires, and how to resolve structures fully or partially given the effectivity resolution criteria.

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.

Watch this demonstration on how the Microsoft Office Connector for Aras Innovator improves personal productivity while driving standardization, consistency and compliance throughout the enterprise by showing capabilities in the areas of search, linking, revision and version control, enterprise change management and security and compliance.

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.

See how Aras Innovator can seamlessly integrate with your existing SolidWorks PDM integration to take advantage of the power of an enterprise PLM as the backbone for change management, while fostering collaboration throughout the entire organization and lifecycle in managing CAD related data from concept to release.

Watch this video for a quick look at how Aras Comet SPDM automates engineering simulation.

In this webinar you will learn to configure a Graph View, customize it to your business needs, and attach it to any type of item in your system. 

Learn about the flexibility and configurability of the Aras Innovator platform to support your company's product development and product realization needs.  
 
During the demonstration we cover:

• Creating and working with sequences and lists
• Working with workflows and lifecycles
• Modifying/updating existing business items with new properties
• Working with permissions
• How to create a new item type and forms

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

Industrial manufacturers face the ongoing challenges of increased product complexity and global competition—key factors in the drive for digital transformation. Successful digital transformation requires a modern enterprise architecture that creates a digital thread that properly manages digital twin configurations across the full lifecycle. Learn why leading PLM analyst firm, CIMdata, says that Aras Innovator provides a strong foundation for digital transformation.

Join Lisa Costa, Technical Solutions Manager at Aras, to discover how Aras Innovator provides a fully integrated change management solution, tightly tying together product design and change management.

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.

The Aras PLM Platform already enables organizations to federate data between Aras Innovator and other systems, but we're striving to make it even easier with Aras Federation Services. This groundbreaking prototype brings together the strengths of the Aras Platform with a three-pronged approach, Modeling, Services and Extensibility. Join Eli Donahue, Aras Labs Lead Engineer, for a 30-minute demonstration of a Jira integration using Aras Federation Services.

Watch the demo and see how requirement content is created, how it is related to items managed by PLM, and how PLM change and configuration management helps to establish traceability.

During this 30-minute demonstration, you will see how technical documents are authored manually and automatically by direct reference to revision controlled data in the Aras PLM Platform; how Engineering changes trigger updates to associated technical content; and how data is published for use throughout your organization in XML, HTML and PDF formats.

In this seminar you will 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.

The Impresa MRO application can support many different maintenance management requirements regardless of if you are an OEM, Owner/Operator, or 3rd Party Depot. In this webinar we will show how Aras Impresa MRO resolves these underlying issues by displaying the end clients usage of a specific component, its own maintenance history and its current configuration.

In this webinar, attendees will learn how Query and Tree Grid View Definitions can be built using a graphical interface to identify the specific elements of their data model and configure how this information is displayed to their end users.

Download this eBook to gain understanding and explore the Digital Thread. You’ll get actionable ideas for making incremental changes—resulting in big impacts to help your organization compete in the digital era.

In this session, we will show you how to collaborate and manage your CAD data from concept to release. Watch this demonstration as we walk through and demonstrate how Aras integrates directly with your CAD tool.

In this demo series you will see how easy it is to support maintenance activities from components to complete assets by using inspections, scheduling work, the right resources, work instructions, and enabling traceability for complex regulatory requirements.

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

This demonstration will review Program Management’s capabilities and highlight data integration throughout the web client. You will learn how to create a project from a template, assign tasks, calculate the critical path, and execute a project based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge principles.

In this demo series you will see how easy it is to add fields to a form, modify a workflow, make a minor change to the OOTB data model by creating a new relationship between existing ItemTypes, and also make a more significant change to the data model by creating a new ItemType with associated forms, lifecycles, etc.

Learn about the mechanisms in the Aras PLM Platform that drive multi language behavior through installation of a language pack, starting the Aras client with new language, seeing what browser settings you need to switch to for different languages and how to enter multi-language text into text fields.

Join Lopa Subramanian, Director of Product Management at Aras, for a demonstration to learn more about Configurator Services, including how to define and manage variability, distinguish variable from static content such as parts or technical documentation within configurable structures and more.

Watch as Aras Solutions Consultant, Karsten Lies, shows how the Aras Product Innovation Platform weaves a digital thread through your Business of Engineering.

Murata, a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of ceramic-based electronic components and solutions, chose Aras to streamline collaboration for global design and manufacturing and to support its continuous expansion through both organic growth and mergers and acquisitions.

Learn how the platform provides the ability to create and manage Extended Classification Trees as well as Extended Classes and Properties along with the search of Extended Properties and the new Property Columns Panel that controls Property visibility in the Item Grid.

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 this video as Aras customers discuss the flexibility of Aras Innovator.

Watch as Aras VP of Product Management, John Sperling, and Aras Community Technical Manager, Lisa Costa, discusses how the Aras PLM Platform can weave a digital thread through your Business of Engineering. The demo illustrates how Aras' digital thread connects Systems Engineering, mechanical, electronic, and software designs, Manufacturing, and Quality.

Hear from Aras Solution Consultant Gary Wilmot and Product Manager Kevin Richard as they demonstrate how to close the loop on Quality Management of Complex Products using the Aras PLM Platform.

You will learn how to manage your product innovation platform in PLM, initiate new system models from PLM data, dynamic interactions with PLM data within a SysML model, bi-directional synchronization and inclusion of sysML data in a PLM generated technical data package.

In this demonstration you will get an overview on end to end compliance documentation with Aras Innovator, providing complete traceability and accountability on all parts for compliance and regulation.

Watch as Dave Ewing from Product Marketing and Eli Donahue of Aras Labs give a demonstration of the flexibility in modeling custom forms within Aras Innovator.

Watch as Dave Ewing from Product Marketing and Lisa Costa, Community Technical Manager, give a demonstration of Quality Management System with Aras Innovator. In this demonstration topics and features such as Audit Findings, NCRs, PRs, Hold Notices, Purge Notices, Stop Ship Notices, Root Cause Analyses, Deviations, Rework Orders, Waivers, ECOs and more are explored and explained using Aras Innovator.

Hear from Leonardo as they discuss configuring EBOMs, integrating CATIA files, creating ECOs, comparing EBOMs and viewing a variety of documents and specifications within Aras Innovator.

With their knowledge at risk, no overview over compliance and raw material and their need for a PLM platform that can handle their future needs, hear from Romerlabs as they discuss what their PLM pain points are and what they want and value out of a PLM platform like Aras Innovator.

Hear from Aeronamic as they discuss using Aras Innovator as they invest in designs of the future with improved tractability, support company processes and remain in control of all of their data as the company scales up by using Process Plans and MPP.

Watch this presentation to hear from Nidec on their PLM initiative and how they moved through the selection process, reasons for choosing Aras, phase 1 of implementation and how they plan on moving onto phase 2 in the future.

Watch this demonstration as David Ewing from Product Marketing and John Sperling, VP of Product Management demonstrate Aras Flow with a real life use case.

Watch this brief demonstration as it moves through some of the highlights of Aras Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP).

Learn more on Requirements Management, how to create a requirement, use the Visual Collaboration capability to make notes without modifying the requirement, the process of uploading a document as well as creating a classification and working with part requirement items.

Learn how Kawasaki Heavy Industries approaches improved collaboration across engineering disciplines and greater efficiencies in product development.

Watch this video for a quick look at how Document Management works with the Aras Office Connector.

Hear from an Aras user as he explains how Aras "actually do[es] what they say they are going to do."

Aras provides a platform, examples, templates and re-aligns standards to start then asks the question, what do you want next?

Watch as Aras CEO Peter Schroer and Chief Architect Rob McAveney answer the question, who owns the data in a complex ecosystem?

Learn about the Altium Vault Connector, a system that supports the development approach to product engineering, the management of BOM variants and differences within and between releases and the improvement of collaboration between electrical, mechanical, and software engineers.

Hear from Autronica as they explain what they wanted out of a PLM solution and how they decided to go with Aras Innovator after evaluating 5 PLM prospects.

Aras in conjunction with IHS has taken a new and better approach to the management of component engineering data and processes. Read what independent consultants CIMdata think.

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 as Akrapovič explains how Aras provides a manageable and well connected IT system with their SAP ERP IT system.

Learn how ECCO used their mission, vision and selection criteria to find a flexible system that could adapt to their business needs, what their selection criteria was in choosing Aras and how Aras is interlinked within their processes.

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

Take control with product development and gain the flexibility to create tomorrow's products today with Aras Innovator on Microsoft Azure.

Discover how Aras CAD Data Management provides full CAD IP management within a PLM context, across a wide range of popular authoring tools, enabling companies to use their vital product information in a safe, secure environment.

With Aras PLM’s market-leading flexibility coupled with the responsiveness of Agile deployment methods your PLM project will achieve greater success in a shorter timeframe. With active engagement, everyone from stakeholders to team members and end users are on the same page.

Discover how Aeronamic successfully develops, manufactures, tests and maintains complete high-speed rotating systems, using Aras as their PLM system to manage all manufacturing data.

Learn how Alessi used Aras PLM to achieve a robust, integrated infrastructure with enterprise project management, part management, real-time reporting and full visibility into project status.

Learn how Amtech Electrocircuits is using Aras PLM to optimize processes, reduce costs and take their business to the next level.

Learn how Aras addresses the challenges Medical Device companies face, optimizing the product lifecycle from product concept to retirement.

Find out how Aras Innovator's security model is proven in mission-critical operation by multiple branches of the U.S. armed forces, numerous defense contractors, life sciences firms and other organizations subject to security compliance requirements.

CIMdata, a leading PLM analyst firm, recently took a close look at what makes Aras so different. Find out what they learned and how it can help you Be Different too.

Learn why AIPC chose Aras to manage formulas, recipes, packaging specifications, suppliers and more.