Panso Solutions to Sponsor PLM World® Detroit Regional Users 2013 Conference

Regional Conference Provides Opportunity to Learn About Latest Innovations and Collaborate on Best Practices for the Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Suite.

India – 18-10-2013 - Panso solutions a new age PLM, IT and Engineering solutions and services firm today announced that it will sponsor Detroit Regional Users Group 2013 conference which takes place on 5th November , in Troy, Michigan.

Detroit Regional Users Group 2013 Conference – 5th November, 2013
Troy Marriot - Troy, MI
Details and Registration: http://www.plmworld.org/detroitrugevent

Sriram Chitlur, CEO of Panso Solutions, said, “Panso Solutions is excited and honored to sponsor and participate the PLM World ® Detroit Regional Users Group 2013 Conference. It’s an excellent forum and brings people together from all over the Siemens Corporate Community and all over the world, providing an excellent opportunity to interact, learn and listen to the voice of users, understanding their challenges and provide solutions for their business problems.”

The Detroit Regional Users Group conference of PLM World is the local voice for the users of the Siemens product suites of PLM tools in SE Michigan. The event provides an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest innovations, talk to users that have achieved PLM success and find out what’s coming next in the future from partners and collaborate on best practices within Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Suite.

About PLM World ®
PLM World ® is an independent, not-for profit organization. Their mission is to be the Voice of the User in providing an open forum for the exchange of ideas within the Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software product environment. Through networking, these users share best practices and technical techniques for implementing and using the software more effectively. For user-to-Siemens PLM Software interaction, they helped Siemens create the Customer Involvement Process, which allows the user community to play a key role in the future development of Siemens PLM Software products. Through Enhancement Request voting and discussion during special sessions at annual conferences, users directly affect future product direction. To learn more, please visit the PLM World ® website at http://www.plmworld.org

About Panso Solutions:
Panso Solutions is a company focused on providing high value and fierce competitive advantage to its customers in the areas of Product Lifecycle Management, Engineering Service and Procurement & Sourcing. Panso develops solutions for its customers that enable faster product launches, strategic sourcing and better business intelligence that are absolutely critical in today's global markets. We use the latest, most innovative, open source and cloud-based technologies and deliver our products and services in a cost efficient business model. Visit http://www.panso.in/ for further information.

5 Things You Need To Know About IHS & Aras

Aras recently announced their partnership with IHS to connect the IHS cloud-based CAPS Universe Electronic Component Data into their PLM platform for component engineering of new products and systems. What does this mean for you? It means you can quickly find the right parts, compare electronic details, part availability and more right from within your PLM environment. Here’s what you need to know:

1. IHS CAPS Universe is the leading electronic component database containing part-attribute data and documentation on hundreds of millions of parts from more than 2000 manufacturers worldwide.
2. You will be able to seamlessly and securely access IHS CAPS Universe data with powerful analytics from within Aras. 
3. With up-to-date information you will be able to make better decisions from initial design through production and beyond. 
4. Improved innovation, productivity and compliance with component information integrated directly into the PLM workflow. 
5. You will reduce risk and improve component lifecycle planning with automatic product change notices, counterfeit alerts, end-of-life forecasts and more.

Change Management: One Size Will Never Fit All

Change management is the toughest thing inside of PLM. It's also the most important. How important? It's about the patient not dying, the plane not crashing, the missile landing where it is supposed to. You get the idea.

Take safety out of the equation, and enterprise change management is where companies can lose all their profit margin. It's as simple as ordering a truck load of the wrong parts, choosing a "fix" that isn't cost-effective, taking too long to make a change, or making a change that engineering wanted but didn't make sense to manufacturing and/or the customer.

Real change management goes beyond the instruction to make the change and answers the questions: Who ran the cost numbers on the change? Who validated the change? Approved it? Does the customer agree with the change? If you're regulated, how about the FDA?

If all you're managing is MCAD files, you've got things like tooling and fixtures with a slow steady rate of change. You'd be hard pressed to manage all that manually, but you might be able to get by with a PDM system.

Add in electronics and the rate of change quickens. There's no tooling, so you can send a circuit board change to your contract manufacturer today and tomorrow your circuit boards are coming out different.

Now add software, where you have firmware changes happening daily, even hourly, and they're being cut into the units on the shop floor on the fly. You literally have continuous change.

How do you harmonize that into your build process for real products?

There are quite a few PDM / PLM companies that would like there to be one standard out of the box change process. Not because it's good for their customers, but because it makes their lives as software developers easier. It's infinitely harder to create a system that implements the customer's change process correctly and fast.

Many of these providers offer only linear workflows. The problem is I've never seen a company with a linear workflow. They're always branching, looping and doubling back on themselves. That's a real customer process for getting a change validated and then communicated out to the organization. It's not simple. It's probably the hardest thing to get right in PLM.

These vendors will tell you their systems are based on "industry best practices". The fact is there is no such thing as the best change process. The "best" really depends on the company, their customers, their product lines, their compliance mandates, etc.

Aras is the first PLM solution with a whole series of out of the box options for change management. We're also the first PLM company honest enough to tell you that there's no silver bullet and you shouldn't expect to use any of them without optimizing for your specific process requirements.

They're not hard coded system solutions, they're application templates. We've captured change processes from different industry standards - aerospace, automotive, high tech, consumer products, FDA, etc. We have 3 that come in the initial Aras install today. We might have 5 or 10 a year from now. It's a matter of creating accelerators to help companies with specific practices.

What makes Aras unique is that we've taken the business rule behaviors of change workflows and driven them down into the core of our platform so you can implement a secure, validated, very fast change process that is unique for your business then, typical Aras, we ensure that it is upgradeable and we do the upgrades for you.

In the real world, a company may be running 3 different change management processes under a single umbrella. The software guys may be operating at an entirely different pace than the team working on hardware, with their own rules and different workflow. With Aras, there's one system level change process that incorporates everything and keeps the configurations correct.

Get to Know Your Change Management Options

Change. It's inevitable. Products across all industries undergo change for a variety of reasons, everything from product improvement, to compliance and changes in customer requirements.

So what's the big deal about change? Well, if it's not managed properly it can lead to longer development cycles, miscommunication which leads to inaccuracies in production, higher costs and more. And with today's increasingly complex products, change is almost continuous.

That's where Product Change Management comes in.

At Aras, we start you off with three out-of-the-box change management templates: Simple ECO, CMII Change and Express ECO. All are easily configurable to better fit your needs. And if none of them work for you, don't worry, you can create a custom change process.

To figure out which change management option is right for you, watch this video where Rob McAveney, Director of Product Management, goes into the business reasons behind choosing simple and CMII change.

And to learn more about your out of the box change management options.