PLMConnect Enterprise - An End to End Demonstration

PLMConnect Enterprise - An End to End Demonstration

Extend the digital through CAD, Upchain, Fusion 360 Manage, and enterprise applications such as ERP and ECM. PLMConnect is purpose built to help engineering and manufacturing companies eliminate product information silos by integrating and connecting product data management (PDM) application such as Autodesk Vault and Upchain with product lifecycle management (PLM) applications such as Fusion 360 Manage.

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OpenText Extended ECM for PLM - Teamcenter Demonstration

OpenText Extended ECM for PLM - Teamcenter Demonstration

The vdR Group is the provider of OpenText’s Extended ECM for PLM. Extended ECM for PLM seamlessly and transparently connects leading product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) platforms with OpenText Extended ECM and ultimately helps manufacturers and engineering organizations break down barriers between product information and the enterprise.

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OpenText Extended ECM for PLM - Promotional Video

OpenText Extended ECM for PLM - Promotional Video

Manufacturers rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions to develop their products. PLM environments represent the single source of the truth or the “system of record” for the product definition and orchestrates various disciplines such as computer aided design, simulations, configuration management, change management, quality management, sourcing, and manufacturing planning.

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PLMConnect Solution Overview

PLMConnect Solution Overview

Integrate Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain together, enabling world-class PLM. PLMConnect provides an easy-to-use connection between Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain, to unlock the full potential of your PLM and PDM solutions. By combining the capabilities of both products, companies can improve collaboration, streamline workflows, and reduce costs by eliminating the need for disconnected systems and processes.

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Enterprise Search for Manufacturers - Webinar with vdR and Sinequa, October 2022

Every company is a technology (and information) company now, and the Digital Thread brings all your data, insights, designs, and processes into one location to find the connections that the raw data would have otherwise hidden. A true digital thread provides the means that future-thinking organizations need to succeed in a world where work will never be the same.

One of the buzz-iest concepts in manufacturing, engineering, and knowledge management today is the “digital thread.” The buzz is justified: organizations that turn the digital thread from an idea into reality unlock widespread opportunities to improve performance at every stage of the product lifecycle, from 15-30% labor productivity increases, 10-20% improvements in the cost-of-quality, and 15-20% reductions in inventory-holding costs (McKinsey) for starters.

Every company is a technology (and information) company now, and the Digital Thread brings all your data, insights, designs, and processes into one location to find the connections that the raw data would have otherwise hidden. A true digital thread provides the means that future-thinking organizations need to succeed in a world where work will never be the same.

Are you ready to see transformative changes in the way your organization finds, analyzes, and acts on its data? Join Martin van de Roest, industry leader and Digital Thread expert, and Nick Scholz, product marketer, to learn:

  • Ways the Digital Thread drives innovation, collaboration, and clarity

  • The key components of a true digital thread, and the big impacts on your value chain

  • How the digital thread has helped world-class groups regain time and crush content chaos

Aras Requirements Engineering (RE): How to Connect it to External Authoring Tools

Connecting requirements to system models, design details, simulations, and tests facilitates a traceable validation and verification process. Requirements Engineering (RE) application enables that as part of a digital thread managed by the Aras industrial low-code platform. This demo shows how to expose externally authored requirements in RE using: ReqIF—an industry standard for exchange of requirements; DOORS—a 3rd party requirements authoring tool; Cameo—a 3rd party MBSE systems modeling tool.

Aras Requirements Engineering: Making Requirements Part of the Digital Thread

Having the ability to establish and maintain traceability of requirements to all system, design, testing and manufacturing data throughout the product’s lifecycle is critical to managing Digital Thread and Digital Twin. It is critical to managing ever-increasing product complexity.

Simplify and Streamline the Requirements Breakdown Process

The path from a stakeholder requirement, to implementation specific requirements, is a complex one. It requires an understanding the business objectives, effective reuse of the existing solutions, and design space exploration with system models, simulations, and trade studies. See how Aras Low-Code Platform enables project and engineering teams to manage the this process with formal revision control and configuration management that includes traceability to all intermediate steps and design abstractions.

Aras Innovator Quality Management Demo

The Aras Quality Management System (QMS) applications includes Quality Planning (proactive) and Quality Systems (reactive) to provide organizations with comprehensive quality management capabilities. QMS enables quality professionals to manage product quality throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Quality Planning is composed of features for proactive quality management traditionally done during the product development. Planning features include failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) capabilities to manage risk, improve quality, and attain environmental, regulatory, safety, medical, and other forms of compliance. The capability allows you to use Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) to control risks and mitigate critical product risks, deploy FMEA processes to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements and quality standards including TS/16949, AS9100, FDA QSR, manage libraries of critical characteristics, failure modes, effects, and control mechanisms, utilize ISO-compliant process flows to drive cross-functional collaboration, and create dashboards, scorecards, KPI metrics, and reports to track your project’s status.

Quality Systems addresses the challenge of quickly responding to quality issues and communicating change requirements enterprise-wide. QP includes closed-loop corrective action/preventive action (CAPA) features to accelerate identification, containment, and analysis of issues, and tracking of affected items. Identified issues are analyzed with a variety of Root Cause Analysis tools including fault tree analysis, fishbone analysis, and five whys. To ensure that issues are tracked and your teams are in the loop, QS provides 8D reporting and CAPA metrics (% closed, % due).

Together Quality Planning and Quality Systems constitute Aras Quality Management System, a closed loop, through lifecycle application for quality management professionals. Like all Aras applications, QMS is built on our Open, Flexible, Scalable, and Upgradable PLM Platform allowing organizations to tailor their business processes to their specific requirements with guaranteed confidence. Customer value is enhanced with additional platform capabilities such as quality review through Visual Collaboration, business rules and workflow, and aggregation and packaging of CAP items

CADnection v1.2 - A Search and Insights Solution for Engineering and Manufacturing

CADnection coupled with Sinequa offers a next-generation enterprise search solution for manufacturing and engineering companies. This solution overview and demo highlights CAD search capabilities, native 2D and 3D viewing, where-used and composed-of insights, and property linking to ERP, PLM and other applications.