Whether your business is big or small, a company's data is always an essential component in operating successfully. In this blog, we will explore how to backup and restore your Aras Innovator databases using Microsoft's SQL Server Management Studio tool.

"According to Accenture Strategy, 85% of executives polled in a recent survey stated that legacy technology hampers their digital transformation efforts." Ponce de Leon may have begun the search for the Fountain of Youth, but who knew it wou...

We've released an Aras Community Project that makes it even quicker and easier to take advantage of the Graph Navigation platform feature. The View Card Editor project on the Aras Labs GitHub page provides a user-friendly editing experience with helpful features like a Quick Start Template, Content Editor, and Embedded Graph Preview. Download the project today to try these features in your environment.

Technical Documentation is one of the most powerful tools available within Aras Innovator. The ability to create your own content generators allows you to customize your documents to better suit your needs. The Custom Tech Docs project contains ...

This infographic offers five reasons that you should consider employing a systems engineering approach to meet the requirements of developing increasingly sophisticated products.  See why employing an open PLM platform to power systems engineeri...

Is “Digital Transformation” a top priority at your company?  Every business I talk with has a Digital Transformation initiative that is critical to their future success: delivering new value to customers, new business models, new op...

The Adaptive Markup Language, sometimes referred to as Aras Markup Language, serves as the backbone of Aras Innovator. Almost every action that a user performs in the client sends an AML request to the Aras Innovator server to process the business lo...

Learn how to style and package your custom graph views in this Aras Labs blog post.

The other night in our recently purchased home, I was explaining to my daughter why there was a connection for a phone line in the corner of the kitchen. Her response was, “Why put a phone on a wall?” I attempted to explain to her what it...

Last week Aras hosted the webcast, “4 Levers to Increase MRO On-Time Delivery Performance.” Presenting in the webcast was Product Marketing Manager, Jason Kasper, VP, MRO Solutions, Suresh Iyer, and Product Manager, Graeme Taylor. During ...

Is your platform customizable and then, once customized, can you upgrade easily and without data loss?A resilient platform has an underlying technology that is flexible, scalable, and upgradable—even when heavily customized. Does ...

Whether it's enabling administrators to create custom Forms or change the default user interface through CUI, Aras Innovator allows for easy configuration of the out-of-the-box client. However, there are still times when a particularly complex UI wil...

Throughout its history, PLM implementations have fallen woefully short of their intended vision. These systems were largely chosen on the basis of their breadth and depth of functionality and were intended to manage an organization’s product th...

In previous blog posts, we've covered how to use CUI to create custom menu buttons. The example covered in that post was for a button that always needed to be available, but there are times when we may want a custom action to be available only under ...

Graph Navigation is a platform service introduced in Aras Innovator 11.0 SP15 that allows users to quickly visualize and navigate data structures via a node-edge graph. Read more to find out how to get started.

Innovation can be defined as the application of better methods, products, or solutions that meet new requirements—in other words, it is change. New requirements generally must be met with new ideas, but where are new ideas most often cooked up?...

We recently released a new Community Project to make developing within Aras Innovator even easier. The Developer Super Package is a combination of useful projects to streamline some of the tasks of Aras Innovator administrators and developers. Here'...

If you are working on multiple aircraft, wide or narrow body, from different manufacturers, servicing avionics, seats, and hydraulic systems—this information is for you.  We are all busy, trying to process maintenance tasks for aircraft fr...

Last year, I posted a blog, Out-of-the-Box is a PLM Fantasy, which apparently struck a nerve. The response to the blog was both overwhelming and positive, but more interesting was its popularity with the other PLM vendors. The simple message was that...

We frequently get asked how to move a customization from one instance of innovator to the other. In this post we’ll go over how to add items to a package, how to export that package, and how to import it into a different instance of Innovator. ...

Update! Tackling Complexity in 2018: PLM Predictions follow up for Manufacturers The major theme in 2018 was how manufacturers of complex products can adapt and differentiate their offerings by creating innovative products and business models that st...

Debuggers are one of the post powerful tools available to developers. Today we'll be going over how you can use your browser and Visual Studio to debug any method code inside of Aras Innovator. Debugging a Client Method JavaScript methods are the...

Be honest—are your users sick of playing PLM games with you? Perhaps this will help. It’s Santa’s PLM Naughty or Nice List, and of course, he checked it twice. Rest assured it’s been validated. Open and published APIs? If y...

Teamcenter Enterprise, or Metaphase as it was known back then, has been around since the mid 1990’s and, and although no longer being developed, still has a significant number of users around the world, particularly in Aerospace and Defense. Ye...

We live in an era where highly connected global markets and technology are transforming our economy. In response, many companies are attempting to digitally transform. IDC Forecasts that worldwide spending on Digital Transformation will reach $1...