Handle resources in Aras Project Management possible?
Hi, We have Parts/Products in the PLM, that require additional testing until the product is ready for production. We currently evaluate, what´s the best way to organize these tests. The Aras Project Management feature might be a suitable solution, as it can easily be used to schedule and define certain Activities. In our case, some of the Activities require additional resources to be completed. These can be special measurement equipment or personal to handle the tests. Some of these resources are limited and can not be used more than once at the same time (e.g. heat chamber). I have to admit, that resource planning may not be something, that is typically done by a PLM system. But in our case it would be a helpful feature, as people don´t have to leave the PLM environment for creating and planning new products. Managing tests in the PLM would also help to insure the traceability back to the requirements that are used as basis for the test plans. Is it currently possible to do some basic resource planning in the current Project Management release? Or are there any other options in Aras available that can be used for this task? Thanks again! Angela
Actions menu not working in Project Management
When I hit the Actions button in the Project Tree view, I just get a little dot, which suggests that the menu has opened underneath the search/header bar, making the actions unavailable. Any idea how to fix this? I'm running Version 12.0 SP6 Build: 20133 Thank you!
Inter-Project Connections?
Hello, I'm curious if it's possible to link multiple projects together as one. Background: My team is working on building a racecar from scratch. As such, there are a ton of parts that need to be designed and kept track of. Each of these parts have inter-dependencies and as such a lot of their start dates for certain tasks are actually determined by some other part. Idea: I'd like to have each sub-system/part have it's own project so the individual project managers can easily see what they care about. But, since all the Projects are heavily inter related, I'd also like someway of easily keeping track of the entire car design process without having to jump between different Projects. At a minimum, what I want to do is be able to display the Gantt chart's of all the projects simultaneously together to get a picture of how the entire car design is progressing and show any inter-dependencies between projects. Note the Gantt chart doesn't have to include all the details of each individual group; it can simply show the different phases. What I'd really like to do is be able to have the Projects be able to automatically communicate with each other on start and end dates. For example, if Project A has a phase that can't be considered complete until Project B is completed, I want that relationship to be modeled in each project. I know that Program Items exist built in, but there isn't much documentation about them and it looks to simply be a container of Projects rather than doing anything with those projects together. Is there a built in way to do what I'm asking? If not, does anyone have any ideas as to how to implement this kind of system? Thanks
