Engineering for the future

If you’re at a glob­al com­pa­ny that is com­plete­ly sat­is­fied with your prod­uct life­cy­cle man­age­ment (PLM) sys­tem, you can stop read­ing right now. If you’re still read­ing, it’s prob­a­bly because your PLM expe­ri­ence has been less than promised.

I’ve been in prod­uct devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing for over 30 years, and dur­ing that time I’ve met thou­sands of engi­neers, man­agers and exec­u­tives. If there’s one thing they all have in com­mon, it’s that each one of their com­pa­nies is dif­fer­ent.

We’re all dif­fer­ent because we’re con­stant­ly chang­ing to grow and improve. Being dif­fer­ent is how we com­pete. And it’s why every com­pa­ny has dif­fer­ent prod­ucts and process­es.

Today’s PLM sys­tems were nev­er designed to han­dle this con­stant change. In my opin­ion that’s a seri­ous prob­lem.

Managing complexity

It’s clear that the rate of change is only going to accel­er­ate and that com­plex­i­ty will con­tin­ue to increase with it.

My found­ing vision for Aras came from the fact that every com­pa­ny has unique and com­plex data and process mod­els, and that PLM soft­ware should be adapt­ed to fit those mod­els, rather than the busi­ness com­pro­mised to fit the soft­ware. At Aras every­thing we do builds on this premise.

Most PLM sys­tems were nev­er designed to han­dle con­stant change. That’s why Aras exists

Our PLM plat­form is designed for glob­al com­pa­nies that have com­pli­cat­ed prod­ucts and sys­tems where PLM is a neces­si­ty not an option; for busi­ness­es that must con­stant­ly change to com­pete in tomorrow’s world mar­kets.

We under­stand the com­plex­i­ty of design­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of air­craft, vehi­cles and elec­tron­ics. We know how to assure reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance and pro­tect crit­i­cal intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty. We know how impor­tant PLM per­for­mance is when thou­sands of sup­pli­ers are work­ing in the sys­tem at the same time.

And we know you’re going to need to change every­thing tomor­row.

That’s why we built Aras Inno­va­tor: to pro­vide glob­al com­pa­nies like yours with the advanced tech­nol­o­gy for PLM that will be nec­es­sary for the next ten years of com­plex­i­ty and change. Because you can’t engi­neer the future with yesterday’s PLM.

A different direction

If your com­pa­ny devel­ops prod­ucts on more than three con­ti­nents, if you design sys­tems that inte­grate elec­tron­ics and soft­ware, if your sup­ply chain is tak­ing on greater design author­i­ty, then you’ve got real PLM chal­lenges.

Mov­ing for­ward you’ll need to con­trol MCAD/EDA and ALM [mechan­i­cal com­put­er-aid­ed design/electronic design automa­tion and appli­ca­tion life­cy­cle man­age­ment] process­es, man­age more com­plex bills of mate­r­i­al, bring togeth­er data from numer­ous enter­prise sys­tems, secure­ly enable glob­al sup­ply chain access, pro­vide sys­tems engi­neer­ing func­tion­al­i­ty, make mobile a real­i­ty and prob­a­bly pro­vide some form of cloud or hybrid cloud capa­bil­i­ties.

Find out what Xerox, Motoro­la, Hon­da, Boe­ing and thou­sands of oth­er com­pa­nies around the world already know. Aras is Dif­fer­ent.

We encour­age you to Be Dif­fer­ent.

Dis­cov­er your next gen­er­a­tion PLM at aras.com

Managing complexity

A different direction