MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE “That’s why self-service analytics is here to enforce data


governance at every level of the company, by empower- ing every business user to analyze the different sources of data and perform their own analysis without any kind of IT support,” Green said. “Business users are mainly relying on IT teams to provide new analytics views which make the responsiveness to new information slow and ineffective. In addition, they leverage Excel in order to modify the data and build reports that will provide only one part of the real- ity; there is no single source of truth.” By delivering self-service analytics, users are able to accel- erate the cycle time to create new views, he said, where every business user can drag-and-drop boxes to build new views that are based or directly linked to the information system.


nature are sometimes better and more streamlined than the clunky industrial-style shapes that have prevailed in the past. “This type of ‘generative, functional design’ fuels the Experience Economy and will revolutionize manufacturing, requiring manufacturers to redesign production and process planning and the way material engineering is conducted,” Green said. “Having the capabilities to enable this new way of thinking, from material sciences, through 3D design, simulation, and operating with additive manufacturing, help companies transform their business.”


Integrating PLM in the Process With the emergence of the IIoT, companies with com-


New Manufacturing Process Planning tools from Aras give users PLM solutions designed to integrate with existing ERP, MES and legacy PDM environments, offering new process capabilities on top of existing enterprise systems.


The emergence of new technologies for manufacturing


are leveraging PLM technical advances, especially in the ar- eas of new materials and additive manufacturing processes, Green stated. “The economic gains from additive manu- facturing are dramatic and the changes to design are even more signifi cant,” Green said. “Additive manufacturing allows entirely new types of parts and products to be created. Designers will have blank drawing boards, so to speak, that allow them to ask, ‘In an ideal world, what should this part look like?’ Designers are fi nding that organic shapes found in


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plex products are looking for better ways to integrate their manufacturing operations, noted Doug Macdonald, director of prod- uct marketing, Aras Corp. (Andover, MA), developer of the Aras Innovator PLM platform. But with today’s dis- connected systems, authoring and reconciling MBOMs, process plans and work instructions, and ensuring synchronization with evolving prod- uct designs can be time-consuming and error-prone. Manufacturers can gain a competitive advantage when Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) is integrated and able to seamlessly track manufacturing data and processes, he noted. “The key is to leverage a PLM platform that supports the graphical and concurrent process plan, MBOM [Manufacturing Bill of Materials] and work instructions authoring


plus real-time automatic EBOM/MBOM [Electronic BOM/ MBOM] reconciliation.” Some new capabilities from Aras address these chal- lenges, with new functionality that integrates PLM and MPP. These new features include version-controlled process plans detailing operations, steps, parts con- sumed, resources utilized, skills, documents referenced; concurrent authoring of visually rich electronic work instructions; version-controlled MBOM derived from EBOM using drag-and-drop editing; concurrent process plan and


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