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...
View Articledifferent 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...
View ArticleIntegration 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...
View ArticleTutorial : How to start an Amazon EC2 cloud server all prepared to install...
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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View Articleversionning, 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...
View ArticleShould 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...
View Articleaccess & 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...
View ArticleVersionning 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...
View ArticleSingle 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...
View ArticleACE 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View Articleis 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...
View ArticleAras 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...
View Articleback on the PLM limits discussion
This is once again a post about the endless discussion “what is the limit of PLM?” and I don’t think the discussion will end today mainly because I don’t have a scientific formula which would have, as...
View Article3 different approaches for Aras Innovator
Companies have different approaches to Aras Innovator. Most of these companies have found Aras through searches for PLM solution, or even sometimes looking for Open Source PLM, usually for economic...
View ArticleAML studio 2.0 is available !
This one of the best productive tool we use in all our development/reporting work with Aras. AML studio has been developed by Eric Domke after he attend the initial training at Aras with Bob Ellis...
View Article5 most read articles for the first semester 2013
I use to have the tradition with Prodeos to publish every month the top 5 most read articles of the blog. The articles were not necessarily written in the month which was showing sometimes that some...
View ArticleGetting people trained and interested in the solution
This is a recurrent discussion we have at Minerva when we talk about actual and past projects. We discuss the good experience we are having on actual projects and the ones we’ve had on past projects....
View ArticleElement14 API usage with Aras Innovator – Manufacturer Parts up to date in...
This is again a demonstration that PLM can have a very wide coverage of features in a company. In this case it was following an Aras project we’ve implemented for a customer where they needed for their...
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