Aras Innovator goes mobiles with Jquery !
I apologize for the delay to publish this post which should have been posted a while ago. It was still waiting in my draft post list. Just before last christmas, I’ve got my colleague Anthony Ponceot who was just pushing really hard to get a nice mobile interface working for Aras Innovator. Some of the work was financed by one of [...] Continue Reading…
is PLM the right marketing for Aras Innovator ?
This is a strong question for us. We’ve been working for some years with Aras Innovator and we have some very nice success in Europe, not only for us but mainly our customers increasing their number of users and adding new features almost every month.
Truth would be : Aras can cover for entire PLM
I’ve started working with Aras since [...] Continue Reading…
What are the benefits of running webinars on PLM ?
I’ll be running a new webinar this Thursday about FMEAs and this time is the first time we have more than 50 people registered to attend. I’m thankful to all the people who registered and I hope they’ll have a great time. So far, the feedback have been always pretty good. The only recurring complaint I receive is about sending out the recorded video. Now I send [...] Continue Reading…
ACE 2013 – Vote for the Collaborate & Contribute award
Once again the Aras Community Event announced the Nominees for the Collaborate and Contribute awards. I don’t remember seeing so many projects in the past and I would say that about 80% of the project title will have an impact on what I will be able to deliver when implementing Aras for our customers. This reflects how active is the Aras [...] Continue Reading…
Single point of truth is still a key missing point…
… and spreadsheets are not helping ! It seems like this sentence comes to my mind pretty much everyday. And we don’t have a 100% valid solution today to provide to our customers as they still use Excel files or Access databases spread into their organisations and not connected to each others. As I alread
just integration won’t solve it [...] Continue Reading…
Versionning should be yours
These last weeks were pretty crazy in terms of projects to work on. Travelling from sites to sites and visiting various industries. From tractors production (about 40 to 50 units a day) to navigation systems (few thousands a day and highly automated), it is always good to get back to basics and meet the people who are actually consuming the design [...] Continue Reading…
MAN Diesel & Turbo Selects Aras as Supplementary Platform for Engineering Process Management
Most large companies have already invested in one or more PDM/PLM tools, but we in an increasing degree see that there still are areas of the business which the PDM/PLM or ERP are not supporting optimally.
http://www.aras.com/news/ViewNewsItem.aspx?id=ECE28962BF1348FDB601FEB0DAFA553A
access & permissions as a key asset for PLM
I personally spend a lot of time wondering how we could provide better solutions to our customers and to the industry in general. I look at what we provide and yes there is always something I would like to enhance in the product. The issue is we, at Minerva, are mainly integrator and the best impact we can have on products like Aras [...] Continue Reading…
Should we pull PLM Deployments? a new Lean deployment strategy?
I already wrote about lean strategies related to PLM solution deployment and also the article about not starting a PLM project from Engineering, and I’m apparently not done on that topic based on this new article. Lots of comments were made on me being mad when willing to start PLM out of Engineering and at the same time very [...] Continue Reading…
versionning, different meaning from one activity to another
Versionning is always tricky in organisations and this is true for a lot of different environment. You can either be in sales, logistics, engineering, maintenance, HR,etc. There is also an issue with versionning. And it is strange because best practices have been discussed a lot, but it is sometimes hard for people to have a common way to think about [...] Continue Reading…
New database systems for future of MDM
Happy new year to everyone. I hope the actual economy environnement will convince more people to invest time for helping the product development initiatives by solving Product Lifecycle Management related pending issues. Today’s article is about my thought on why it is always so complicated to move from a PLM solution to another, why are we changing tons of [...] Continue Reading…
Tutorial : How to start an Amazon EC2 cloud server all prepared to install Aras Innovator!
Yes, still for a while, Aras Innovator should not be available on other server platform than Windows Server. Which is of course just a limitation on the server side and not on the client side as Aras is announcing that soon the browser independent UI will be released, replacing all the ActiveX component by the javascript library Dojo. The Aras Innovator install is [...] Continue Reading…
Integration more than solutions for some purpose…it’s still PLM !
I recently visited a company after I received an email from their director with the title “PLM project or not?”. This was an interesting email because this person told me that he had read my blog articles for more than two years and at one point he was wondering how he could make his company become more efficient in [...] Continue Reading…
different marketing strategies and namming in PLM
Seen from the Aras community, I’m must say I’m guilty! I’ve been following a little bit the twitter’s feed of the 3dexperience presentation from Dassault yesterday. Not sure what was the initial reason of this conference so I came back on the website talking about the event and doing a summary of the day. And based and this page [...] Continue Reading…
CAD lifecycle management is not Product Lifecycle Management
I continue to write about the place of engineering in the scope of PLM. Once again I have never said it had to be out of the PLM scope. I just explained that as a project strategy, If the interfaces between departments were well defined, it could be good to start out of engineering for quick improvements in other [...] Continue Reading…
Adding items to a purchase order directly from the BOM
This is a topic I already covered in this blog I think but a video from Aras just came online. This is about a process we’ve implemented in Aras for one of our customers. He needed to help the purchase department to make purchase orders from the BOM as maintained. This company delivers military systems which they maintain. So [...] Continue Reading…
Allow individual initiatives for PLM improvement
PLM is a continuous process and the solution/framework built to support it needs to follow evolutions. This is a simple statement but it sounds already a bit contradictory with the basis of PLM which is developing a system with processes to enhance creativity and support development. Why is it contradictory? Because developing a system to enhance creativity let people think you would have a fixed [...] Continue Reading…
Another Local ACE Event : ACE Copenhagen 2012
Last week with our Minerva team, we organized the Aras Community Event for Northern Europe gathering customers, prospects and other curious around presentation and discussions about Aras Innovator and PLM implementations. This event was hosted by Microsoft facility in Copenhagen as you can see on the map below.
Peter Schroer CEO of Aras corp was here to remind every attendants [...] Continue Reading…
Questions I should have, but never received from prospects… #2 : How much time does it take to change this form?
Second writing of our series of article about questions I feel like I should received more often from prospects. For the first article, I talked about the lack of questions about how PLM solutions can manage evolution this time it brings me back to a presentation I made for a prospect in Electronic and High-tech industry. I was presenting Aras Innovator and [...] Continue Reading…
MVPLMS – Minimum Viable PLM Solution ! what’s yours?
This article is the continuation of the my previous article about lean implementation methodology for PLM. It is ok to present methodolgies that are said to be best for implementing a PLM strategy. It is better to provide examples and solutions on how to start these implementations. When I was reading about lean startup the good thing was that [...] Continue Reading…
