What We Do
For 35 years vdR Group has been at the cutting-edge of the engineering, manufacturing, and owner/operator industries with products and solutions focused on data management, integrations, PLM, and PDM. Learn More
No-Code Integrations
Nexus is an enterprise connectivity platform designed for engineering and manufacturing companies. Nexus’ novel approach dramatically simplifies integration deployments, all at a lower cost of ownership. Learn More
Aras Innovator PLM
Aras Innovator is a single platform, loaded with ready to use apps that drive digital transformation across the product lifecycle. Now available with SaaS, on-prem, or hybrid options that are easily upgradeable. Learn More
Featured Products Powered by Nexus
Connecting Fusion 360 Manage with Upchain
PLM Integrations for Oracle NetSuite
Enabling the Digital Thread between PLM and OpenText
Extending Aras’ Enterprise Connectivity
Nexus Simplifies Enterprise Integrations for Engineering and Manufacturing
Featured Product Demos
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.
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.
Graph Navigation is a platform service introduced in Aras Innovator 11.0 SP15 that allows users to quickly visualize and navigate data structures via a node-edge graph. Since Graph Navigation is a service of the Aras Innovator platform and not a feature of a specific application, users can explore data across all applications. Graph views also obey the permissions and access controls defined for your item data.
Events
The ways we design and make have always been connected by purpose. Now, we can connect the people, processes, and data, too. AU is the conference where you can learn how to put the possibilities of Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform to work. Together, we can make anything.
Latest vdR Blogs
Manufacturers depend on PLM as the system of record for released product information, but many downstream teams do not work in PLM. By integrating OpenText Documentum with platforms like Teamcenter and Enovia, organizations can make released product data more accessible, collaborative, and actionable across manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and support.
At its core, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) succeeds or fails based on how well it establishes and governs a critical set of essential capabilities. Over decades of PLM deployments across engineering‑centric organizations, we have come to define these capabilities as the PLM Essential Five. They encompass the treatment of:
If you are responsible for margin, you are responsible for Cost of Quality. It is not a quality metric. It is a financial signal of how well information moves across your manufacturing organization. When engineering data flows cleanly into production, margins expand. When it does not, scrap, rework, and warranty costs quietly drain profit.