Register for Femap Symposium 2013

Femap Symposium 2013
Mission Critical Design and Analysis

The leading Siemens PLM software is happy to announce its first Femap Symposium in 2013. Femap Symposium 2013 is organised at the Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter, Covington, Kentucky on June 26-27. The fest is expected to be crowded with thought leaders. In the fest, the experts will explain the various tools and usage of Femap applications. Meet the Femap developers and air your Femap needs in a roundtable discusion.

Topics include:

•     Keynote presentation – Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity - The role that FEA played in  Surviving Entry, Descent and Landing
•     What’s new in Femap/Femap product direction
•     Femap tips and tricks
•     Advanced postprocessing/API
•     Meshing
•     Dynamic response and superelements
•     Nonlinear analysis
•     Developer roundtable

This conference will be of interest to analysts, engineers, team leaders and managers who are responsible for driving engineering excellence and innovation within your organization.

Register today and stay tuned for important event and agenda updates.

Info for Sponsors:  If you are interested in sponsoring this event, contact Mark Burhop at mark.burhop@siemens.com.


 

Panso Solutions Sponsor Aras ACE 2013 Conference

India – 28-03-2013 – Panso Solutions is a new age IT company, offering PLM and Engineering services, today announced that it will sponsor ACE 2013, the annual global event for Aras enterprise open source product lifecycle management (PLM) software corporate community. ACE 2013 takes place April 30 – May 2 in Troy, Michigan, USA. Panso Solutions will feature ‘Bill of Material Custom View’ at the conference.

ACE 2013 - April 30 - May 2 2013
Detroit Marriot Troy - Troy, MI (close to Detroit USA)
Free to Attend - No Fee - Registration Required
Details and Registration: http://www.aras.com/ACE/2013

“ACE brings people together from all over the Aras Corporate Community and all over the world, providing an excellent opportunity to see the latest innovations from partners, talk to users that have achieved PLM success and find out what’s coming next from Aras. Whether you're just forming your PLM strategy or expanding your Aras deployment, you won’t want to miss this year’s ACE conference,” said Peter Schroer, President of Aras.

About ACE 2013

Collaborative innovation is the cornerstone of the Aras Corporate Community, and ACE 2013 is the place where everyone comes together. At ACE 2013, business and technology professionals from around the world will meet to learn about next generation product lifecycle management and collaborate on PLM best practices for addressing complex challenges, from global product development and systems engineering to enterprise quality and supply chain management. To learn more and register, visit http://www.aras.com/ACE/2013

About Aras

Aras is the leading provider of enterprise open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solutions. Freedom from licensing eliminates up-front expenses and per user costs while superior technology makes Aras the most advanced enterprise PLM solution suite available. Customers include Motorola, Freudenberg, GE, Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, Textron and TEVA Pharmaceuticals. Aras is privately held with global headquarters in Andover, Mass. For additional information visit www.aras.com or follow us on Twitter @aras_plm

About Panso Solutions is a new age Global IT Consulting firm that Combines Innovative technologies and Rapid Deployment techniques for Strategic Business Advantage for its customers. Panso thinks outside the box and 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.

Aras Press Contacts:

Aras                               Winkowski Public Relations, LLC
Marc Lind                       Beth Winkowski
[978] 691-8923              [978] 649-7189
mlind@aras.com             bethwinkowski@gmail.com

Aras Ace 2013 Countdown Begins

The countdown has officially begun for the Ace 2013. Aras is the leading provider of enterprise open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solutions. Freedom from licensing eliminates up-front expenses and per user costs while superior technology makes Aras the most advanced enterprise PLM solution suite available.

Collaborative innovation is the cornerstone of the Aras corporate community, and ACE 2013 is the place where everyone comes together. At ACE 2013, business and technology professionals from around the world will meet to learn about next generation product lifecycle management, and collaborate on PLM best practices for dealing with complexity challenges from global product development and systems engineering to enterprise quality and supply chain management.

Whether you're just forming your PLM strategy or expanding your Aras deployment worldwide, you'll get the information and insight needed for success. You’ll hear firsthand how leading global companies have transformed their business and talk with people just like yourself that are working on PLM with Aras to get results.

Sessions are designed to encourage peer-to-peer interaction and networking so you can learn how others are approaching complex PLM challenges, get ideas and benchmark. Business and Technical tracks are complemented by a Getting Started track design specifically for people learning about PLM and Aras.

Topics Include:

• Executive Roundtable Discussions
• Global User Presentations
• Live Solution Demos by End Users
• Requirements Management for Complex Systems
• Enterprise Change Management
• PLM in Manufacturing and Quality
• 3D / 2D Visualization
• Packaged Integrations for CAD, EDA, PDM and ERP
• Optimizing Global Multi-Site Deployments
• Federation for High Performance Integrations
• Best Practices for Agile Deployment Methodology
• Business Intelligence and Reporting
• New Aras Releases and Roadmap
• Cloud, Social, Mobile and more

Date: April 30 – May 2
Location: Detroit Marriot, Troy Michigan
Cost: Free to Attend - No Fee (Space is Limited - Registration Required)
Details and Registration: http://www.aras.com/ACE2013 

ACE 2013: What's In It For YOU?

By now you know that registration is open for ACE 2013. In just a few weeks, people from around the world will come together in Troy Michigan, just outside of Detroit, for several jam packed days of learning, networking and collaboration.

If you haven't attended ACE before, this is your year. Whether your company already uses Aras or is just forming your PLM strategy, there's something for EVERYONE at ACE.

If you're evaluating PLM systems, there's no better place to learn about PLM; meet people just like yourself that are responsible for their global PLM initiative, people that use and support PLM; and you can also talk directly with the Aras employees and partners worldwide that build, implement and integrate it.

If you're just starting out, coming to ACE is the best way to make sure your initiative is on the right track. Dedicated Getting Started sessions ensure that you have all the info you need to set your plan, realize your goals and make Aras work for you.

If you're already using Aras, then you know there's always more you can do with Aras. ACE is the ideal place to benchmark PLM best practices, discover new functionality, meet other users, hear their stories and learn from their experience.

If you're travelling to ACE from outside the U.S. consider pairing your trip with training at our Andover, MA facility, just north of Boston. We have open classes starting Monday, May 6th. See the training calendar and schedule your classes online.

We're bringing together business and technology professionals from around the world to learn and collaborate on PLM with Aras from product development and outsourced manufacturing to enterprise quality and systems engineering.

And our events are designed to give you plenty of time to network so you can find out how others are approaching global PLM challenges and get the insights & information you need to achieve success.

ACE 2013 is April 30 - May 2 at the Detroit Marriott Troy, in Troy, Michigan, U.S. To register and find out more, please visit www.aras.com/ACE2013

Boosting Performance using Next Generation PLM from Aras

In today's complex PLM environments performance is paramount. Yet a lot of global companies with established PLM systems still struggle to achieve acceptable performance in global CAD data management. These days, before you implement a new PLM system you want to know, among other things, that it's going to be faster than your old system. A lot faster. So, as part of their implementation, one of our users recently conducted a whole battery of performance tests on large sets of CAD data to ensure that performance would be acceptable. The testing was conducted on an actual PLM replacement project using the customer's most complex data. This independent report from T-Systems International includes the results from the testing and validates the performance improvements achieved when Aras replaced another leading PLM system. It demonstrates superior scalability, as Aras consistently loaded large CATIA data sets as much as 81% faster than the competition using 1/3 of the server resources - database, server, memory and CPU.

Performance of an enterprise-wide system is a critical aspect of software. Large scale systems may have extensive functionality, however, without sufficient performance those capabilities become unusable. Without a fast and responsive level of performance there is little chance of achieving user acceptance and productivity gains which ultimately undermine the Return On Investment (ROI). Performance in a corporate PLM environment is an all too common challenge that international companies face and are forced to spend significant time and additional unplanned expense to fix.

Many global companies have experience firsthand, the issue of PLM performance is dependent on various factors that are mutually beneficial including – hardware, middle-ware, storage, databases and network configurations, along with the nature of particular customizations within the company’s PLM system itself. Once an existing performance issue has been resolved it is not exceptional for another, different issue to develop. Looking at the peak of the PLM market – a large proportion of global corporations that have embraced a worldwide PLM strategy continue to struggle with PLM performance. These PLM performance issues are specifically acute when the company has knotty procedures and is using the PLM system for CAD Data Management as the total size of Files and Metadata continue to gain exponentially.

Over the past decade, advanced  PLM technologies have come to the marketplace which address these PLM performance pain points, yet there has been hesitancy to transmigrate and move away from the superior technologies. People lean to clutch onto preconceived notions from the past regarding systems and database specifically regarding performance in big scale execution scenarios- even though technological advancement is moving so quickly that new, more modern architectures demonstrate verifiable advantages.

How to control Visibility of workflow for certain groups/objects

Restrict the view of workflow to certain Group/Role and object.

Pre-request:

Person should login as DBA.

How to do ?

1. Login as DBA
2. Launch Workflow designer
3. Launch Edit -> Template Filter
4. You will get a dialog box where you can select the group /Role combination , then select the item type for which you want to show what type of workflows.

For Eg: If i want to show certain type of workflow with respect to item & item revision you can do the same with help of this changes and also you can hide certain workflows for particular group and so on.

So if you can see the left side is Assigned process template where you have to move from the right side where you will have list of all workflows created.

Whats best Precise and Imprecise in BOM ?

Precise and Imprecise BOM Structures: Lets research little bit about what is precise and imprecise in BOM and which will suit for Indian Industries.

What is BOM?

BOM (Bill of materials) , It is a list of materials required by a contractor to complete a contract, or by a supplier or vendor to complete an order. Or it is a list of all raw materials, parts, intermediates, sub-assemblies etc. (with their quantities and description) required to construct, overhaul, or repair something. See also bill of quantities. Bill of Materials is commonly known as BOM in Mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile, Construction Industries etc. 

BOM Types: There are several types of BOM around the globe namely SBOM (Service Bill of Materials), MBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Materials), EBOM (Engineering Bill of Materials) etc.

BOM Teamcenter point of view: BOM in Teamcenter refers most of the time to EBOM which is Engineering Bill of materials, where the designer will create list of items required for assembly and defines the quantity of it. Most of the companies has enabled automatic BOM option, which means whenever an assembly saved in UG/related CAD application, the BOM is created according to the assembly and attached to the item revision.

BOM is viewed with a Teamcenter module called PSE or also called as Structure Manager in Teamcenter 8 onwards. There are 2 main differences in BOM structure.
1. Precise BOM
2. Imprecise BOM

What is precise BOM?
Precise BOM is a type of BOM where item revision are linked together which forms a static structure, which will not get updated based on any criteria or also called revision rules.

Revision Rules: Those are rules defined for loading the BOM in desired format based on the rule guidelines set by yourself. E.g.: If I want to see only latest released item revision in the BOM structure you need to set a revision rule and load based on it.

What is Imprecise BOM?
Imprecise BOM is a type of BOM where item are linked together which form a dynamic structure and can be loaded based on the revision rule.

How do I know am i using Precise/Imprecise BOM?
Just add a column called precise, if the assembly is precise you will get ‘y’ in the column

Which BOM is most useful and why?
It all depends on client and situation, for ex: Just guess which BOM structure can be used
1. In case of released item where do you want to freeze the changes in BOM structure.
2. While the assembly undergoes modification continuously and not yet released.
3. The Assembly is need to be reviewed for latest working and released
4. Need to know only released item in the BOM structure. So it all depends on situations, you can also easily toggle between Precise/Imprecise BOM from Edit menu in Teamcenter.

Siemens Teamcenter PLM Insights

Teamcenter is a web-based collaboration utility that allows companies, suppliers, and customers to share information in a secure environment. With over 1.6 million users worldwide, Teamcenter is by far the most popular PLM Solution and Panso Solutions provides you with the best Teamcenter practices and services!

With years of experience in handling PLM projects across the Globe, Panso understands what customers really need to do to sustain and maximize the ROI on their Teamcenter investments. But realizing how crucial it is to understand why implement Teamcenter with Panso is equally important.Teamcenter enables customers to maximize the power of their product knowledge and leverage it to increase the profitability and productivity of every stage in their product lifecycle. Accelerate your manufacturing process, Increase revenue by reducing costs, Create and capture customer requirements, Eliminate re-work, Implement Teamcenter with Panso! Panso, a new age company backed by an in- house PLM Innovation Labs, maintains your TC environment with added intelligence. Panso Solutions has the knowledge, Experience, commitment to ensure you get the highest return on Investment on Teamcenter.

Teamcenter Bill of Materials (BOM) Management

Turning a product into a profitable reality requires sophisticated coordination of bill of materials. The challenge of reconciling multiple BOM representations, synchronizing downstream BOMs, and managing complex products can leave your company struggling to improve quality while reducing development, manufacturing and product lifecycle costs in order to remain competitive.Bill of materials management software is a critical part of the design and manufacture of any product.

Tecnomatix Manufacturing Process Management

Changing product demand, increasing competition from quicker rivals and fewer resources are sending clear signals that you need to change your manufacturing processes.The Tecnomatix Manufacturing Process Management solution gives you the ability to manage a broad spectrum of business processes, from the early stages of design to the actual production launch. This solution utilizes the PLM foundation of Teamcenter® to provide a truly concurrent engineering environment for your product design and manufacturing.

Teamcenter Supports Aircraft Through 50-year

Lifecycle Learn how BAE Systems Military Air Solutions is using Teamcenter throughout the entire product lifecycle from customer requirements to after-sales maintenance. As a result, BAE Systems has shortened lead times, reduced development costs and repositioned the company as a through-life support provider.

PLM Solutions Studio

Inspiration leads to the conception of a grand idea. At Panso Solutions, We have developed a reservoir of such ideas, which is collectively called Panso's Solution Studio!

A studio is an artist's workroom. Metaphorically speaking, our techies are our artists. It is the combined effort of their intellectual properties which led to the birth of this magnificent idea. Our PLM techies have deep expertise in various PLM Technologies and have successfully helped customers in global deployments of Agile, Aras, Teamcenter, Enovia etc in different Industry verticals.

Understanding of the business needs of the customer & the out of the box functionalities is of prime importance to us Pansoites. Hence they are able to develop applications for various PLM solutions to give our customers and partners the technology edge.

But what is the purpose of this Solution Studio?

Listening is the first step to the understanding of a problem. We at Panso have listened, researched, and developed solutions with the sole purpose of making your industrial life easy. Here is a sneak-peek into your industrial comforts.

Product data integrity is highly essential in an organization, We have developed a very efficient Bill of Materials solution which is crucial to optimizing Product data integrity amongst various other advantages.

Originally used internally within a company, the BoM served as a way to track product changes and maintain an accurate list of required components. As manufacturing has become increasingly distributed, however, the BoM has taken on even greater importance. It serves as the primary reference file for product data when transferring product information from the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the electronic manufacturing services (EMS) provider and from the EMS to its vendors and suppliers.

In reality, the components of a Bill of Material undergoes several changes. A component may get deleted or added or even modified. It is critical for your business to keep track of the changes in Bill of material. Panso Solutions has developed the 'Red Line report' for Aras Innovator that helps to keep track of all these changes with a simple click of a button. View this solution in action.

Analytics are an important aspect in any industry, It allows you to understand the past, realize the future and dwell in the present.A successful analytical report is one which is dynamic and interactive. Our solutions provide you with deep insights into PLM data via smart analytics like never before using Google Analytics which ensures you have a report that is easy to create, visually appealing and easily understood.View this solution in action.

Does the integration between PLM & MS Office benefit work?

With the integration of Panso's ARAS PLM with MS Office, The simplicity of updating documents or changes needed to be made within the documents are enhanced. Our team at Panso can ensure that all the requirements of the customer are met by providing a custom-made solution to suite their needs. Seamless integration between PLM & MS Office make work highly productive.

Increasing the productivity of Design engineers to create multiple Bills Of Material at once may lead to several irrevocable errors.The accuracy of BoM is critical in every organization, but during the creation of multiple BoM, some errors occur, which can be broadly classified into, Completeness, Critical pieces of information that are often omitted or incomplete data is the most common defect in BoMs.

Correctness, Common errors include invalid manufacturer or supplier information, obsolete data and incorrect part numbers which pose a serious problem to the accuracy in BoMs.
Consistency, Information in the BoM sometimes conflicts with information provided in engineering drawings and design files. Panso's BOM Structure cloning increases the productivity of Design engineers which enables them to create multiple Bills Of Material at once with additional business logic and greater accuracy.View this solution in action.

How can you achieve optimal data security and integrity?

Panso's work-flow solutions empowers you to increase the data security and integrity as the solutions are built with Added Intelligence and Compliance to every stage of PLM Work Flow that helps industries with very sensitive product data. This ensures that the data is protected to the most miniscule details.

By visiting our Solution Studio, you can view our solutions in action at the comfort of your desk or home and plan your PLM road-map.While they are on display, conceptualize your own utilities and Panso Solutions will be happy to develop it for you.Visit Panso's Solution studio today!!

Implementing Solid Edge with Panso Solution

Panso Solutions is a one among the best CAD solution providers with the prime motto of delivering efficiency and enhancing capability to your industry's doorstep.

Lets first state the obvious, Why to implement a CAD software?

The winning answer is, Implementing CAD software enhances precision, Provides detailed drawing, reduces file size,scalable computerized model with easier characteristic visibility and so forth. But the key advantage of implementing CAD software is you can see the image in animation so you can get the feeling of it without having to build it. Solid Edge, A cutting edge CAD system, is easily the most complete hybrid 2D/3D CAD system. Now, Lets realize the benefits accompanied by implementing Solid Edge with Panso, Or,

Why would your company optimize on the designing and manufacturing by implementing Panso's Solid Edge system?

Because, your company will be equipped with a system that uses synchronous technology for accelerated design, faster change,and improved imported reuse. With superior part and assembly modeling, drafting, transparent data management, and built-in finite element analysis, Solid Edge eases the growing complexity of product design. To put it across simply, Your company will be better off with Solid Edge in its armoury!

What is synchronous technology?

It is the first-ever history-free, feature-based modeling technology that provides users with up to a 100 times faster design experience. Synchronous technology provides the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling. Synchronous technology comes with Solid Edge and it represents a breakthrough capability, which is demonstrated with a video. Watch Video!!

3rd Industrial Revolution

A revolution called PLM

In today's world you will see fewer and fewer people on factory floors. This development is due to armies of intelligent machines and robots forcing people to jump ship and dominating the manufacturing landscape. Jobs that were once available have disappeared forever. These evidences are conclusive enough to believe that, We are bearing witness to what may indeed be another industrial revolution, where jobs, industries, and products are never going to be the same again.

But, This does not mean that you have to feel puckered out, This doesn't necessarily mean the end of manufacturing dominance, This means be with the change.

Many of those who have lost their jobs on traditional manufacturing lines could be easily retrained to support innovation and creativity early in the design process. This would provide a greater emphasis on those tasks that require users or customers to first interact with the virtual product and with early virtual prototypes. Early iterations in the design process usually results in more and more creative and innovative products, combined with higher quality, ensuring that it gets to market faster.

Today, It make sense to put more emphasis on innovation and creativity. Machines and robots can manufacture products with automated directions, but they cannot be innovative, nor can they utilize their imagination to build new and creative products. Putting more people at the front end of the design process makes sense because that is where innovation happens. PLM manages the virtual product and supports innovation by automating manufacturing processes without sacrificing on creativity. The future holds the new in high esteem, so transform yourself, build with creativity and innovation and induce a new wave of comfort and discipline by implementing PLM .

How IT helps your business?

What makes your business incredible and unique. Obviously its your service, product quality, time and fame. In the global market everything must be clean and clear. The company must aware about their USP (Unique selling proposition), New technologies, customer expectations, competitors etc to survive in the global market. Being a company do you follow the recent trends of your domain? Do you feel you can do better than what you are doing? Sometime you will have great idea which looks better than your competitors, but you might fail to implement it. Prediction and prejudice may affect your implementations.

What should you do to improve your business. Its simple, adapt IT for your business. In the global market, Information Technology (IT) plays an important role in delivering the business services. IT department takes lesser time to understand you business, it is the only department that can help your business. You might be thinking how IT can help my business, if so this article gives you the detailed information.

IT department gives you the business solutions, plans, updates, recent trends, Innovative Ideas, market research details, software solutions, product designs etc. It will give you all the details before executing the plan. IT department will have innovative thoughts on various subjects. If you are not satisfied, they will give various insights to survive you business.

Benefits of IT

• It takes less time to implement your ideas!
• IT will be inexpensive!
• Adds quality to your business!
• Gives you satisfaction!
• Helps you to generate revenue!
• Helps your business to become popular in global market!.

Panso's ARAS Innovator PLM INSIGHTS

Panso develops Production-Part-Approval process in ARAS

Panso's PPAP may be required for all components and materials incorporated in the finished product, and may also be required if components are processed by external sub-contractors. This process helps the Automotive Industry supply chain to establish confidence in component suppliers and their production processes.

Suppliers are required to obtain PPAP approval from the vehicle manufacturers whenever a new or modified component is introduced to production, or the manufacturing process is changed. Obtaining approval requires the supplier to provide sample parts and documentary evidence showing that:

• The clients requirements have been understood
• The product supplied meets those requirements
• The process (including sub suppliers) is capable of producing conforming product
• The production control plan and quality management system will prevent non-conforming product reaching the client

Panso's PPAP package is a series of documents which are formally approved by the supplier and customer. Also, Panso's PPAP package is closely related to the Advanced Product Quality Planning Process(APQP) used during the design and development of new vehicles to reduce the risk of unexpected failure.

View our solutions in action at the comfort of your desk or home and plan your PLM roadmap. While they are on display, conceptualize your own utilities and Panso Solutions will be happy to develop it for you.The above image is a snapshot of a video which shows how dynamic charts can be used for reporting on the Aras part forms itself. This solution is one among the foremost solutions which never ceases to excite out clients.

Aras Solutions Risk Management

Aras risk management enables enterprise organizations to capture, manage, report and mitigate risks throughout the product lifecycle.With risk management, control plans map systems engineering requirements directly to FMEA results and Process Flow Diagrams, reducing risk and costs while increasing compliance. Using closed-loop workflow and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) system it creates dashboards, scorecards, KPI Metrics & reports.

Aras Solutions Mechatronics

Aras Mechatronics combines complete multi-CAD management, including electronic, electrical and mechanical, with software product development in a single, advanced PLM environment. Aras Mechatronics provides an integrated view of the product with BOM, change management and tracking capabilities that enables businesses to improve cross-functional global collaboration, drive innovation, reduce costs and meet customer demand for increasingly complex, higher functioning products.

Aras Solutions Fashion & Apparel

In today's highly competitive fashion industry, successful companies are the ones that get up-to-the-minute styles in stores at the right price. Aras Fashion & Apparel is a commercial solution that enables footwear, apparel and other fashion-based providers to synchronize the entire product lifecycle, manage complex resources and interdependent relationships, incorporate global supply chain partners into critical processes, and more, in a single, web based collaborative system. With Aras for Fashion & Apparel, businesses get higher quality, on-target products to market faster, at a lower cost.

What is PLM?

"PLM ( Product Lifecycle Management) is a strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product and plant definition information across the extended enterprise from concept to end of life-integrating people, processes, business systems, and information. PLM creates and manages the digital product or plant and provides an information backbone for a company and its extended enterprise."

It is not very difficult to understand PLM. As the name itself says, its all about the lifecycle of a product. PLM is like a book which consists the story of a product's life to death information. In an industry it is the process of supervising the entire lifecyle of a product from its abstract idea, design, production, and service to disposal.

How does the PLM work and what are its major benefits?

It is like a company which gives a 'Head Line' and the techies will develop a 'Story' for it. In the same way if a company gives a concept of a product and the PLM team works on it, they research, they advise, they design the product, they prepare modules, they help you debug errors and they also help you dispose the product.

As far as the benefits of the PLM are concerned,

• It saves Time
• Cost of production is cheap.
• PLM Enures Product Quality
• Satisfaction
• Generates Revenue
  
  
  To know more about PLM visit Panso.