ACE2011 Germany is less than 2 weeks away.  Hosted at the Ramada Hotel, Bad Soden, this free, day-long PLM event features a variety of Global Corporations speaking on everything from process improvement to PLM solution selection, and solvin...

This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity” which explains the benefits for companies and the implications for the PLM market that are resulting from ...

There are a lot of different devices on the market these days and large companies are dealing with proliferation of different mobile platforms, tablets, PCs and other electronics. One common theme with all these different devices is that people want …

Aras Innovator is not your typical PLM. With out of the box, business ready solutions and comprehensive functionality Aras stands apart from legacy PLM products. Aras’s Web-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables users to access business-cr…

This was the featured solution in July’s Newsletter and is an excellent add-on for companies with large, complex product structures like aircraft, automobiles, ships and other complicated electro-mechanical equipment. The Alternative Structure Brows…

Earlier in the year, there was an ACE session in Seoul, South Korea that was organized by Aras partner Zionex. It was the second event in Korea and we had a really great turnout and heard from some excellent speakers. Andreas joined everyone there fo…

Download Slides >>> ZIP of ALL SLIDES (warning, it's 52 Meg) ACE 2011 International was in Dearborn, Michigan this year, and our theme was the “World of the Possible”. It was the best ACE to date and the agenda was packed with overviews of

Another community solution added for open download to the community projects site by T-Systems! This new solution "Converter Framework" adds basic functionality to batch-mode file conversions.  The most common use case is to convert a Word document

Following SolidWorks World 2011, lots of people have been writing about the cool stuff they saw on the show floor and in the sessions, myself included. Today, I am not going to talk about cool.  I am going to talk about impressive.  And wha...

Understanding the economic advantages & financial benefits of the enterprise open source format in PLM is important when building a corporate business case for a PLM strategy. There are a number of factors that your team will want to consider wh…

By every measure 2010 was another record year here at Aras. Here’s a quick summary in case you missed some of the details along the way, as well as, some highlights that you won’t find anywhere else. This year it became undeniably clear t...

If you choose to take advantage of some of the more advanced customization capabilities in Aras Innovator, then you’re probably going to get into writing custom scripts / methods. Doing this is very powerful and really fits well with the Agile Devel…

In case you missed it, earlier this week ShapeSpace released a connector for their 3D Geometric Search to Aras. This brings a powerful new ability to visually search and select parts using a graphical interface instead of your typical list metaphor. …

A recent Prodeos blog post shows how easy it is to integrate Google Charts features directly into Aras Innovator... with only 20 lines of source and in 15 minutes or less. They're using the QR-code as an example, and have included links to everything…

Saw the recent article on the Zero Wait-State PLM Blog, How to Export the Agile PLM Database. This is something Oracle-Agile PLM users ask about fairly frequently.  Thought it would be good to post. We are asked quite a bit how to export and move t

Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) PLM solutions are great in concept. The reality, however, is not so rosy or promising. A while back, Chad Jackson did a post on his blog, Engineering Matters, called My Points in the ‘Why Hasn’t PLM Taken Over the Wo...…

In August there was a post by Michael Fauscette, IDC’s group vice president for software business solutions, that touched on some interesting concepts I think directly relate to what we are doing here at Aras. Mike’s post was called Maybe…

Everyone knows that Aras Innovator has a powerful workflow service/engine under the covers for complex business process management like enterprise engineering change, supplier corrective actions and other complicated processes. What people sometime …

Earlier this month you may have seen the news on our strategy for the Cloud. CIMdata, a leading PLM industry analyst & consulting firm, published our release in Aras Explains Cloud Strategy. The initial phase of the strategy is very simple. Lead …

An article was forwarded to me recently and I can see why. It’s a commentary by Eric Gries at Network World about a recent interview with Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst. Eric’s commentary is titled The Widening Value Gap Between Open Source …

Last week we did an interview with Peter for the Siemens PLM Community online magazine titled PLM Doesn’t Have to Weigh You Down along with our own blog post titled Frustrated by a Stuck PLM Project? Then, yesterday I saw that Ol...

Every day I talk to people who are frustrated with their PLM system, implementation, progress, deployment, whatever…  The fact is, lots of PLM projects get stuck (well, not Aras projects) and some never get off the ground. I sat down with...

If you haven’t seen the PLM Internationalization capabilities in Aras yet, then you might want to check out these demo videos by Aras Japan http://www.aras.jp/ It always surprises me that people don’t realize that Aras has the most robust Internatio…

Download >>> ALL SLIDES Last week the ACE Germany conference was hosted by the Freudenberg in Weinheim. I went over to participate, and it was great to see such a diverse combination of people collaborating on best practices with the Aras s…

Heard about this ultra-short video by Prodeos which answers the age old question "What is PLM?" ... in 3 minutes or less. Really thought it was great. Check it out. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRSwPxP5c0