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  • Aras Fundamentals: Creating a Custom Permission

    Permissions play a big role in how administrators handle authorization for their users’ access privileges. This includes what items can be updated, deleted, accessed, discovered, etc. In this blog post we will be building from the Aras Fundamentals: Creating…
  • Powered by Aras

    “Powered by Aras” has been making news the past of couple weeks. I’m referring to both the announcement on January 14th: Aras Licenses Platform to ANSYS in Strategic OEM Deal and the one on January 23rd: Aras and Minerva Group Announce Strategic Partnership…
  • The Casual User

    Is the casual or “read-only” user in PLM an outdated concept? From my discussions with industry analysts, the value of a full-blown PLM user is approximately $80 per month, or $960 per year. My experience is that you are being charged significantly…
  • Is your Software Vendor Dictating Your Standards?

    There is a lot of discussion about Engineering Standards lately. The big question is why? Why would the industry want standardization in software? The obvious answer is interoperability between internal systems and the capacity to synchronize easily with…
  • Achieving Sustainable Digital Transformation

    While vacationing in Maine, I learned a saying of theirs: “You can’t get there from here.” This is their way of relaying the impossibility of traveling from point A to point B in a direct path due to various ponds (you might call them lakes), mountains…
  • MBSE 2.0 – what’s that all about?

    I just came back from the INCOSE IS2019 conference and I’m eager to report that the view I expressed in my recent blog on systems engineering was also addressed by David Long of Vitech (congratulations on becoming the latest INCOSE fellow!) in his MBSE…
  • PLM 2030: What the Last 10 Years of PLM Can Teach Us About the Next 10.

    Wish me a happy anniversary: I’ve been writing about the PLM industry for 10 years, with 3 different software vendors (5, counting M&A). But in that decade, I had yet to see the promise of “one platform for the entire product lifecycle” fulfilled. Until…
  • Turn up the PLM at ACE 2017 Nashville

    Join industry leaders, PLM experts, and the Aras Community at ACE 2017 Nashville on March 21 - 23. The event is 3 days chalk full of exciting events, networking sessions and interactive breakouts. ACE 2017 gives attendees the perfect opportunity to connect…