vdR ACE 2021 Presentation - Nexus for Aras Innovator

Missed ACE 2021? That’s okay. Check out our recording of vdR’s presentation on Nexus for Aras.

Extend the reach of Aras Innovator throughout the enterprise with seamless connectivity to PDM, ERP, ECM and other platforms. Nexus for Aras is designed to treat data and processes unique to engineering and manufacturing such as part/BOM release, large file transfers, data synchronization, state-change triggers, and structured data. Preconfigured connectors and transaction templates dramatically accelerate integration implementations and simplify maintenance - all at a lower cost of ownership.

Autodesk Revit Integration with Aras Innovator - Japanese Version

This video presentation provides an overview of vdR’s Integration between Autodesk Revit and Aras Innovator. This Revit to Aras integration highlights the various triggers and transaction templates available in the integration and illustrates the powerful business use case for pursuing tighter BIM and PLM integration.

This presentation has Japanese narration over English slides. A full English language version of the presentation will be available soon.

To learn more about Revit and Autodesk’s Suite of Industry solutions visit: https://www.autodesk.com/industry

New Demo of our Nexus Integration Between Aras and D365

Nexus Demo of a PLM to ERP Integration Between Aras Innovator and Microsoft Dynamics 365

Nexus Integration Profile

Application Connectors

  • Primary - Aras Innovator

  • Secondary - Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)

Transaction Templates

  • Release PLM Part/Assembly to ERP

  • Retrieve ERP Data for a Part in PLM

Nexus Case Study - Driving Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry through Data Cohesion

Nexus is an enterprise connectivity solution that has been designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of companies engaged in engineering and manufacturing. By seamlessly connecting digital assets across disparate silos of data, Nexus has helped Caltex Oil Tools meet delivery commitments, lower the cost of quality, and achieve profit margin goals in the highly competitive oil and gas industry.

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vdR Partners with Sinequa

vdR partners with Sinequa to extend the power of intelligent search, enabling greater efficiency for the engineering and manufacturing industries.

vdR Group is excited to announce that we have partnered with Sinequa, a leader in intelligent search. This partnership will help extend the power of Sinequa’s manufacturing solutions through the integration of vdR Group’s CADnection technology!

The full press release announcing the partnership can be accessed here: https://industrytoday.com/sinequa-partners-with-vdr-group

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Excerpt of Press Release

Srouce: https://www.sinequa.com/press/sinequa-partners-with-leading-manufacturing-technology-provider/

New York, NY and Orange, CA - February 08 2021 - Sinequa, a leader in intelligent search, today announced its partnership with vdR Group, a leading engineering, manufacturing, and AEC solutions provider. With a focus on driving digital transformation, Sinequa has built a robust integration with one of vdR Group’s core solutions, CADnection. The partnership will enhance Sinequa’s powerful intelligent search platform, which is already trusted by some of the world’s largest manufacturers.

Manufacturing mistakes and delays come at a very high cost. Engineers need access to all relevant information to make informed decisions to produce optimal designs from the start. To do this, they spend hours or even days searching across many repositories, references, and systems, only to find partial, obsolete, or even inaccurate information. With Sinequa’s Intelligent Search Platform, employees access mission-critical content – wherever it lives and regardless of format – all in one place. Sinequa drives measurable improvements in efficiency by elevating employee productivity, increasing quality, and minimizing duplicate work.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models are data-rich. They reflect intellectual property, design intent, spatial relationships, purchasing considerations, quality and inspection criteria, manufacturing processes, change history and much more. Sinequa’s integration with CADnection unlocks this information, making it fully usable, on its own or combined with other organizational knowledge.

Sinequa and vdR share the belief that highly complex manufacturing organizations need a highly intelligent search tool and we are excited to partner with them to build on our fast-growing momentum in the manufacturing industry. Sinequa’s platform has created entirely new ways for employees to make better, more informed decisions,” said Xavier Pornain, senior vice president, North America at Sinequa. “Given the complex nature of CAD models, using text to find images is a challenge that CADnection solves. This is a tremendous added value for our customers.

This combined solution has been years in the making,” said Martin van der Roest, president of vdR. “It is the exciting convergence of powerful technologies, including CAD model data extraction and enrichment, browser-based 2D and 3D visualization, search, natural language processing and AI. We are thrilled to be partnering with Sinequa to deliver on the unmet needs sought after by engineering and manufacturing organizations."

About Sinequa.

Sinequa serves both large and complex organizations with the most complete enterprise search, ever. Customers employ our intelligent search platform to connect all content (both text and data), derive meaning, learn from user interactions, and present information in context. This solves content chaos and informs employees through a single, secure interface. They get the knowledge, expertise, and insights needed to make informed decisions and do more, faster. These organizations accelerate innovation, reduce rework, foster collaboration, ensure compliance, and increase productivity. Become Information-Driven™ with Sinequa. For more information visit www.sinequa.com.

About vdR Group.

For 35 years, vdR Group has been at the cutting-edge of enterprise data management solutions for engineering, manufacturing, and owner/operator industries. Solutions include product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise information management (EIM) and application integrations. CADnection is vdR Group’s flagship enablement technology for search-based applications. As a technology provider, vdR’s success is grounded in our partnerships with a select group of industry leading software solution providers. vdR technology has helped 100s of companies ranging from Global Fortune 500 manufactures to cutting-edge start-ups. Today, over 220,000 global users leverage vdR technology. For more information visit www.vdr.com.

 

Learn More About CADnection

CADnection is a plug-and-play utility that delivers app-ready data, insights, and viewables derived from your CAD models. As a data-source solution, CADnection can significantly improve the scope and value of your existing search and discovery apps, enterprise data management solutions, and even your own custom apps. CADnection is a vdR Group technology


Unleash Your CAD Data (Sinequa Blog Post Shoutout)

Designing and engineering a new part is costly. Doing so impacts downstream activities such as purchasing, sourcing, and inventory management. Errors and redundant work are often due to the inability to access the latest version of a CAD model.

These CAD models are self-contained databases that need to be easily accessible. There are hundreds of attribute tags and values (metadata) such as model name, author, and title. Yet finding CAD models based on this data can be impossible. How can an engineer find a part that has already been designed and developed? How does a shop-floor worker retrieve the latest version that specifies certain tooling? Or how can a purchasing agent understand the impact of replacing a part on other products? And even if the CAD model is found, how can it be viewed without licensed viewers or tools?


About Sinequa

Sinequa serves both large and complex organizations with the most complete enterprise search, ever. Customers employ our intelligent search platform to connect all content (both text and data), derive meaning, learn from user interactions, and present information in context. This solves content chaos and informs employees through a single, secure interface. They get the knowledge, expertise, and insights needed to make informed decisions and do more, faster. These organizations accelerate innovation, reduce rework, foster collaboration, ensure compliance, and increase productivity. Become Information-Driven™ with Sinequa. For more information visit www.sinequa.com.

About vdR Group

For 35 years, vdR Group has been at the cutting-edge of enterprise data management solutions for engineering, manufacturing, and owner/operator industries. Solutions include product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise information management (EIM) and application integrations. CADnection is vdR Group’s flagship enablement technology for search-based applications. As a technology provider, vdR’s success is grounded in our partnerships with a select group of industry leading software solution providers. vdR technology has helped 100s of companies ranging from Global Fortune 500 manufactures to cutting-edge start-ups. Today, over 220,000 global users leverage vdR technology. For more information visit www.vdr.com.

Case Study - Innovation Through Connectivity in the Energy Industry

Company Background

Caltex Oil Tools is a product and services company with over 30 years of experience in the on-shore and offshore oil and gas industry. Recently, however, the company underwent an ownership and leadership change that led to a strategic shift toward a focus on highly specialized engineering capabilities and solutions—specifically on equipment used between the water line and mud line in the deep-water space. A typical engagement might involve oil well ‘production enhancement,’ where specialized equipment is used to make a well more productive. This involves developing machinery that gives the field team access to the well bore to deliver chemical packages that increase oil production.

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Boosting Competitiveness Starts with Data Visibility

Automotive Insights Series

Join Lloyd Rogers, Automotive Practice Leader at the vdR Group in the Automotive Insights Series as he address many of the challenges facing the automotive and supplier spaces.

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Busting Data Silos for Quote-to-Kickoff Efficiency

The Automotive Insights Series

Join Lloyd Rogers, Automotive Practice Leader at the vdR Group in the Automotive Insights Series as he address many of the challenges facing the automotive and supplier spaces.

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Video Transcript

This week, I examine how silos of data are created when transitioning from quote team, to launch team, and how we should be leveraging information from the quote process.

 First, I think we all agree that change management is a vital part of having a successful program launch.  I would also suggest… the initial quote files are not only for reference, but the starting point on a project.  Think about it …  every company discipline was involved in the quote phase… and these same people will potentially be part of the change process post release.  Once the project has been won, the launch team takes over the quote team files, and hopefully, they are not copying data.  You have to understand this point!  Last week I stated… disconnected silos are the bane of business!  You are adding risk to meet delivery schedules, keep timing in check, and achieve margins, let alone the difficulty with data traceability...  These silos are all direct hits to the bottom line.  For those of you running programs … you know exactly what I mean.  Think about this exchange…  if your launch team is setting up folders in SharePoint, copying data onto their hard drives…  this is the beginning of creating silo’s…  you have now broken the digital thread.  This does not resemble a repeatable process, and significantly impairs productive practices and generates poor collaboration within your own team.  Your team is now in search mode during the APQP process, versus having real time visible information for getting work done.

 I’ll give you an example:

The project engineer is working with the customer to change testing criteria on the Test Plan… the Program Manager timeline was created based on the original test plan.  If the engineer has the new approved Plan on his laptop, the PM will not have access to the new requirements. This is just one example of hundreds of conversations that go on by the launch team during the APQP process, and why information should not be kept on a laptop.

 The launch team should instead be verifying the quote versus the contractual agreement, in the same system as the quote team provided.  If the quote does not match the PO, then the change process is initiated.  Does your company have a consistent process to verify the quote matches the PO, and is there any team member accountable to verify what you actually won?  Because, if you miss a scope change or changes from quote to PO, then it is like a waterfall, the change can affect timing, piece cost, capital, and tooling. Your design may already be going in the wrong direction.  I think you get my point.

 It’s not only about information reuse, but also eliminating the creation of these team member generated silos.  Next week…  I will provide examples on how these silo’s cost your company money and potentially damage your brand image.

 Give me a call and we can discuss your challenges and share what we have done to help other suppliers. Contact me at … Lloyd@vdr.com or our website… vdR.com.