Say Goodbye to Old School CAD File Management

Say the word PLM and CAD users are bound to pop out of the woodwork, ensuring that their complex data is protected, their designs are not accessible before they’re released and all their other needs are met along with the rest of the organization’s. And it’s be expected. After all, PLM was born from PDM – the original CAD file management.

Back in the day, you bought your CAD file management solution from your CAD vendor. It made sense to get your file management solution from the folks who designed your CAD technology. But things have changed. Today, you don’t just have one CAD application. You’ve got at least 2 for MCAD, at least 1 more for ECAD and then there’s CAE, etc. So who do you buy your CAD file management system from? How do you ensure that one system will manage all your CAD files – when they often come from competing vendors – and how do you avoid getting boxed in to one vendor?

The answer is you work with a CAD-neutral vendor that lets you buy only what you need, maintain control of your data and move on whenever you’d like. The answer is you work with Aras. Take a look at the video below to learn about our approach to CAD integration, including the best Multi-CAD solution available today.

Import BOM (Bill of Materials)

Bill of Material is at the core of PLM for most manufacturing companies. Aras Innovator provides user friendly UI for structure browser of an Item up to nth level. However all the information in the BoM structure is visible to all types of users. Many times the Design Engineers want to view only the Engineering Bill of Material (EBoM), Manufacturing Engineers may want to view only the Manufacturing BoM(MBoM), Shipping department may want to see only the Shipping BOM(SBoM) and all of them may want a custom view of the BOM based on the effectivity dates and Revision (CBoM).

Bill of Materials Aggregator

Product Data Files in a BOM Structure is tedious to handle and requires continues monitoring across revisions until released Users download the files and check manually accordingly and sometimes there are 1000's of Components where the files have to be downloaded. What is the solution? Panso's BOM Aggregator!