I was recently lucky enough to attend my first Aras Community Event or ACE. ACE 2024 took place in Fort Worth, Texas, from March 4-7, with a special invite-only event on March 4. The Tech Summit made its return this year after a hiatus since 2019, providing…

Women's History Month and International Women's Day (IWD) are powerful reminders of women's impact on society and the ongoing struggle for gender equality. These celebrations recognize the courage, resilience, and brilliance of women throughout history…

It’s that time of year! We’re just about five weeks away from ACE 2024 , which is taking place in Fort Worth, Texas. This year’s theme is Unlocking Innovation . ACE is the premier Aras community event in 2024 and a chance for us to share our vision for…

This blog will be a quick overview of how you can make your Aras Innovator instance accessible from another machine or configure specific access URLs to your instance. Since Aras Innovator ® now utilizes Oauth 2.0, you might've seen an Invalid Redirect…

With the release of Aras Innovator ® 28, we’re delivering a new Platform Component, Reporting. Reporting allows for an increase in collaboration and traceability throughout the platform. This tool allows you to easily share detail-oriented views, which…

The Event Handling Framework (EHF) is Aras Innovator®’s latest platform component addition to our suite of tools. EHF brings new functionality and features enabling administrators to configure subscriptions describing events and how those events should…

The countdown to ACE 2023 has begun! Aras will host the first in-person Aras Community Event (ACE) in North America in three years in just a few weeks in Orlando, Florida, May 2-3. We are excited to be back and look forward to three days of training,…

We asked our Global Events Manager, Beth Ewing, to interview John Sperling, SVP of Product Management at Aras, about his top three reasons to attend ACE 2023. As you will see, John had a lot more than three reasons you should consider attending! Beth…

This blog is the first in a new series called From The Minvera Vault . These blogs will take some useful how to blogs from the minerva blog and updating and reposting here for ease of access. It is relatively easy to customize your Aras Innovator environment…

Several recent articles highlight Aras’ acquisition of Comet Solutions in the Fall of 2018. They explore how the strengths of the Aras platform—openness, configuration management, flexibility, and scalability—address the challenges companies typically…

Last week, I read an interesting article on Engineering.com by Verdi Ogewell entitled, Telecom Giant Ericsson Halts Its PLM Project with Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE . It reminded me of a quote from science fiction author, Larry Niven: “The dinosaurs became…

“Digital Transformation – it used to be called PLM,” said Aras CEO Peter Schroer, as he opened the conference with some thoughts around attaining sustainable Digital Transformation and owning the lifecycle. Microsoft was the Customer Spotlight this morning…

Most companies spend the vast majority of their IT budgets on sustaining operations—ongoing maintenance and administrative tasks like maintaining systems, availability, applying upgrades, fixes, patches, etc. Just “keeping the lights on” can range from…

It’s that time of year again! No, I don’t mean The Final Four. It’s time to get ready for ACE! ACE, the Aras Community Event, is April 15-18—this year in Phoenix, Arizona. Collaboration is key to successful business transformation and ACE is the best…

The recent Boeing 737 crashes caused me to look up other product failures, a few of which I’ve worked on after-the-fact. Product failures are a regular occurrence, but I think many of us, myself included, are somewhat desensitized to them because we have…

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 engineering allows…

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 operating practices…

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…

In previous releases of Aras Innovator, it was possible to download multiple files to a client machine at one time. However, with the move away from .NET Controls in 11.0 SP9, access to the client's file system became limited. In today's blog post, we…

Today’s PLM systems need to be product innovation platforms that give an organization the ability to achieve their business and digital transformations. Unfortunately, this won’t be achieved if your system is old and can’t easily be upgraded. The root…

I’m always amazed at how old and lethargic some PLM and ERP systems are. I recently worked with a talented group of people to replace a large 30 plus year old Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) system along with a couple of PLM integrations, running…

The late author, Arthur C. Clarke , formulated three adages known as Clarke's Three Laws , of which the third law is the best known: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” As it happens, some in the PLM industry think…

In listening to the  headline presentations at ACE, it struck me there were three shared themes that all talked about.  Perhaps these are lessons learned that can be shared with others on the same journey. Theme 1 : A clear vision aligned with business…

As you may have read in our recent blog post , Aras Labs is participating in Hacktoberfest 2017! The purpose of this post is to cover how exactly you can go about making contributions to Aras Community Projects. Introduction Community Projects are…

We've previously covered how you can utilize CUI to add custom buttons to toolbars . However, you can also take advantage of CUI to add keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. In this blog post, we will cover how to add a shortcut to select all of…