Be Different With Your PLM Choices.

Whether it's the technology, the way you buy your PLM or the kinds of people you do business with, you’ve got options and you’re in control. And we encourage you not to settle for anything less than a fair solution that addresses your challenges and works in your business. We pride ourselves with Being Different and we invite you learn more about what that means for you.

DIFFERENT IS...
Realizing each company has unique and competitive data and processes.
And developing software that adapts to fit your business, rather than expecting your business to change to fit the software.

DIFFERENT IS...
Accepting that healthy companies change and they should.
In fact, your company should change frequently to grow, compete and improve.
Technology should support real-time change and easy customization that anyone can use.

DIFFERENT IS...
Expecting to try before you buy,
and insisting that your buying decisions are never, ever made based on the word of a software salesman.

DIFFERENT IS...
Giving your company control over its own destiny.
This means you are never locked in to proprietary solutions, restrictive licensing or services.

DIFFERENT IS...
Allowing your company to own its data, with the freedom to access, share and extract it whenever you want, however you need.

DIFFERENT IS...
Never accepting the status quo.

The Benefits of PLM-based CAPA Software

For manufacturers in industries that produce some of the world’s most complex products, effective quality management continues to be a competitive advantage. Whether in automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial equipment, electronics, or medical devices, companies are increasingly moving to a customer-centric model that includes social media monitoring and big data analytics at the point of sale. Even slight quality issues can have a ripple effect felt through the entire organization.

In today’s mobile and always connected environment, it is critical that discrete manufacturing companies can quickly and effectively sense and respond to quality issues originating anywhere in the value chain. This is possible with a holistic approach to quality. However, there is only a small minority of companies that have aligned the necessary leadership, business process, and technology capabilities to start taking an enterprise approach to quality.

This Research Spotlight aims to highlight best practices for managing quality across the enterprise, specifically as it pertains to creating a closed-loop quality management environment with the use of PLM-based corrective and preventive action (CAPA) software. It will touch on the following areas:

• Market drivers pressuring discrete manufacturers to focus on improving the quality of processes and products
• Addressing market drivers by taking a PLM approach to quality software
• A look into the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) companies are using to measure the effectiveness of quality initiatives
• The people, business process, and change management capabilities needed to ensure successful technology deployments
• Actionable recommendations for deploying PLM-based CAPA functionalities

By reading this Research Spotlight, executives on the quality management journey will be able to refine their approach to quality software, enabling communication and collaboration across the value chain. This holistic approach to quality will help create a market-leading customer experience in today’s unforgiving environment.

Luxion and Siemens Introduce New Integration for Solid Edge Users

Luxion, makers of KeyShot® and the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology, recently announced the immediate availability of a custom developed plugin that tightly integrates KeyShot with Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge® software making it a preferred rendering solution for users of Solid Edge. This plugin is available free of charge from the KeyShot website.

With KeyShot, Solid Edge users now have the option to increase the quality of their photorealistic 3D renderings, animations and interactive visuals used in communicating concepts, delivering internal presentations, developing digital prototyping and creating sales or marketing visuals. The integration allows KeyShot to be launched directly from the Solid Edge interface, automatically sending both the design and all the assigned material appearances to KeyShot.

Through the speed of KeyShot’s real-time ray-tracing interface, further refinement of material assignments and lighting is quickly accomplished, and the changes are immediately displayed to the user. The plugin implements LiveLinking™ which allows users to integrate KeyShot deeply into the product development process by pushing any changes to the Solid Edge design directly to KeyShot without losing any of the material assignments, animations, lighting and camera settings. This is the tightest integration of KeyShot available in the 3D CAD software market.  This unprecedented integration enables users to save time and improves the efficiency of designers, engineers and others creating 3D visuals.

The integration with KeyShot also allows users to transfer material assignments over to KeyShot for further development and for the creation of KeyShot animations or KeyShotVR’s, an interactive visual to present models on browsers or mobile devices.

Dan Staples, Director, Solid Edge Product Development, Siemens PLM Software says, ”The integration of KeyShot with Solid Edge is an important step in providing our users with a smooth and effective method for creating high-quality, 3D visuals. Changes in the Solid Edge design can be immediately reflected in the KeyShot environment, allowing high-quality visual communication to become a key part of the design process.”

“We are recognizing the momentum of Solid Edge in the industry”, said Thomas Teger, Vice President of Products and Strategy at Luxion. “The Solid Edge user base spans a wide variety of industries where visuals are part of the entire design process. The integration of KeyShot with Solid Edge provides even more flexibility for them as a solution that delivers amazing images of their designs within a matter of minutes.”

Pricing & Availability
The plugin for KeyShot and Solid Edge ST6 will be available free of charge from the KeyShot website at www.keyshot.com/plugins. 

  

Siemens PLM Software Digital Manufacturing Symposium

Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing – Make Smart Decisions and Build Better Products with Tecnomatix Digital Manufacturing Solutions

Siemens PLM Software is pleased to announce that our annual Digital Manufacturing Symposium is back in South America. Located in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil on June 24th, 2013, this event provides an excellent opportunity to hear and learn from leaders in the manufacturing world as they discuss digital manufacturing trends, strategies and successes within their own organizations. Once again, these powerful discussions will be backed by our own Siemens staff, as they demonstrate some of the key capabilities found within the Siemens PLM Software digital manufacturing solution set.

As we learned in our Indianapolis event last year, manufacturing technology consumption continues to increase – so the need to drive manufacturing efficiency and productivity is becoming increasingly more important. Our past Brazil and Indianapolis events each brought together over 200 prospective and experienced digital manufacturing clients, and we are looking forward to an even larger attendance as we make our second visit to South America.

Our agenda is shaping-up as you read this initial information, but here is a preview of what is in store for the Digital Manufacturing Symposium this year:

Leading Siemens PLM Software digital manufacturing customers will give firsthand accounts of their digital manufacturing successes. (More details coming soon.) Senior executives and staff of the Manufacturing Engineering Software segment within Siemens PLM Software will discuss the current state of digital manufacturing tools, as well as the future of digital manufacturing and the role Siemens PLM Software will play in it. The focus of this year’s event is “Smarter Decisions, Better Products.” Check back frequently as we continue to develop our agenda and secure speakers for the event.

Out of the Box PLM. Seriously?

I read the headline and couldn't believe my eyes: "PLM: Are You Ready for Out-of-the-Box?"
I couldn't believe that a fellow PLM provider was touting an "out of the box" solution in 2013. In the age of personalization and mass customization isn't that kind of, um, backwards?

It started out well enough and I agreed with the premise... "Keeping up with constantly changing trends is a significant challenge which requires retailers and brands to stay in touch with consumers' needs and interests. You're trying to accelerate innovation, margins, and speed while still maintaining a competitive advantage."

 
 But it all fell apart right about here... "The concept of an 'out-of-the-box' solution is built on years of proven best practices and provides faster time to value and lower total cost of ownership."
Time out. Who's best practices is this solution built on? Unless it was built on my company's best practices, it's probably not going to work for me "out of the box". And even if it did, by the time it was installed and rolled out, my best practices would likely have changed.

As Aras CEO Peter Schroer recently said about one-size-fits-all change management solutions, "the 'best' really depends on the company, their customers, their product lines, their compliance mandates, etc."
Are the best practices of an aerospace company the same as a high tech electronics manufacturer? And are their best practices the same as a food and beverage company?

What about 2 companies in the same industry? Aren't their unique processes part of their competitive advantage? Is Louis Vuitton's process the same as Calvin Klein's and Armani's? What are companies giving up by adopting the same processes as their competitors?

And then the other shoe dropped... "Focus your team on making a difference for your customers, not on customizing your PLM solution."
How can you make a difference for your customers if you're trying to fit your business into someone else's preconceived idea of how it should work?

Full disclosure, Aras offers a lot - A LOT - of functionality right out of the box. But we don't expect you to use it - well, not without customizing it, which we've made as easy as drag and drop.
I believe out-of-the box PLM is simply bad business. And we at Aras aren't the only ones who think so. Read what Jos Voskuil, Chad Jackson and others had to say in a previous post, OOTB PLM is Hit or Miss.
I'm curious to hear what users think about this. Is OOTB PLM a blessing or a curse?

Source : www.aras.com

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eBOM and mBOM configuration management

Manufacturing bill-of-materials or mBOM is a configuration of the product to show how it will be assembled. On the other hand, engineering bill-of-materials or eBOM is a configuration of the product to show how it is designed. The ability to connect and manage these two structures together so that whenever there are changes made to the product design it triggers a corresponding change in the manufacturing processes is an essential part of any successful PLM implementation. I guess it doesn’t require lots of explanation how a seamless eBOM and mBOM management process can save you a great deal of time and money. Now we need proof that it is indeed possible to manage eBOM and mBOM in a single software system and check impacts of design change on manufacturing processes. 

Watch the below video and check how Teamcenter can help in bridging the gap between eBOM and mBOM

Aras PLM Surface App - Puts the Information You Need at Your Fingertips

Bring your PLM software with you on the shop floor, manufacturing sites and everywhere you go with your Microsoft Surface. In an instant you can see all your assigned activities with the In Basket app. And you can act upon them right then and there. And with tasks listed for each activity, the attached items and more, you're sure to have all the information you need.

Watch as Nate Brown, Director of Product Management, shows you this app in action!

Solid Edge Design and Drafting

Solid Edge Design and Drafting

Solid Edge Design and Drafting is a base package including: synchronous technology for accelerated design, faster change, and improved imported reuse, basic part design for parametric feature-based solid modeling of holes, cutouts, protrusions, rounds, thin-wall features, and draft angles (no rapid blue, sheet metal or simulation). Part geometry can be modified using dimensions and a built-in variable table. Assembly tools that make it practical to work with large assemblies, but does not include advanced assembly tools such as Simulation Express, Engineers Reference, Weldments or Frames. Automated assembly and part drawing with exploded view creation, ballooning, parts lists, and automatic Bills of Material. Drawing layout, detailing, and dimensioning controls that automatically comply with ISO, ANSI, BSI, UNI, DIN, ESKDand JIS. Translators for: AutoCAD (DWG and DXF), Microstation DGN, 2D IGES, 3D IGES, STEP, ACIS, Parasolid. The included application program interface (API) allows modification and enhancements to standard drafting commands using standard Windows programming languages.

Solid Edge Foundation

Solid Edge Foundation is a hybrid 2D/3D CAD system that uses synchronous technology for accelerated design, faster change, and improved imported reuse, Rapid Blue - a series of unique capabilities for robust complex shape creation, a user interface that makes Solid Edge the easiest to adopt of all mechanical CAD products. Fully integrated design management with Insight, using standard Windows technology. Embedded assembly and BOM management, revisioning, release processes, and collaboration tools. Also includes process specific workflows for sheet metal, frames, plastic and cast parts. Assembly tools that make it practical to work with large assemblies. Advanced tools for 2D drawing creation, including workflows to transition smoothly from 2D to 3D, detailing and automatic dimensioning controls that comply with ISO, ANSI, BSI, UNI, DIN, ESKD and JIS. Translators for: DXF, DWG, DGN, SAT, IGES, STEP, SLDPRT (3D), NX, EMS, MDS, STL and XML. Also data migration tools for Pro-E, Inventor, I-DEAS and Mechanical Desk Top where a donor system license exists). Solid Edge

Foundation is a SUBSET of Solid Edge Classic and does not include the following:
- Machinery Library
- Piping Library
- Simulation Express
- Engineering Reference
- Advanced Rendering and Animation
- Insight (Add-on)

NOTE: This product is available on Windows Intel/AMD 64-bit. 64 bit is recommended for customers currently exceeding 4 GB RAM limit of 32 bit Solid Edge. Both 32 and 64 bit versions are delivered to customers. The following are not supported on the 64-bit edition.
- Access TDM.
- Web Publisher.
- Sheet Metal Sensor.
- EMS/MDS Translator.

 

Key Benefits of NX 8.5 include

Key benefits of NX 8.5 include:

•     More productive product development
•     Better product quality, faster development, lower costs
•     Faster, more efficient modeling
•     Better compliance with standards and product requirements
•     More clearly understand finite element model context
•     Faster design-analysis iterations
•     Improve product durability
•     Speed simulation time up to 25 percent
•     Faster NC programming and machining of parts
•     Save on cutting tool costs

For more detailed information on all the new functionality in NX 8.5, please visit www.siemens.com/plm/nx85

Tecnomatix Releases DPV Lite for SMB Manufacturers

It doesn’t matter if you’re a small manufacturer with one plant or a large multinational with factories around the world; consistently delivering products that meet quality requirements is one of the best business strategies for long-term profitability and growth.

As a result, each manufacturer carries a cost of quality on their balance sheet.  Some invest heavily to effectively mitigate quality issues through rigorous preventative practices, but all carry the cost of appraisal (inspection, testing, etc.).  This means that even the SMB manufacturer can have the same challenges as their larger counterparts:

1. Differing metrology equipment, software and data configurations
2. Inefficient use of equipment and inspection operation bottlenecks
3. Excessive time and effort to translate and consolidate results
4. Ineffective or delayed root cause identification

In every case, these challenges reduce productivity, add to the overall cost of quality and can impact profitability in a significant way.

This is why Siemens PLM Software has developed DPV Lite, a right-sized solution that specifically addresses how well you leverage your appraisal cost investments while delivering unmatched technology to help mitigate the ugly side of the cost of quality equation; failure.

 Want to know more?  Watch this video:

Visual Collaboration with Aras PLM

Aras Visual Collaboration takes the data you manage in Aras to a whole new level.
Watch as Aras's John Sperling explains our visualization strategy, from the many benefits of the new 3D PDF converter, to why we chose the PDF format and where we're taking it in the future. You'll also get an understanding of our secure social strategy and what it can do for you.



Check it out and find out what can happen when everyone throughout your extended enterprise can securely visualize everything in a highly precise and accurate format with software they've already got.
 

Top 10 Reasons Why Multi-CAD File Management Fails

It’s no secret that despite good intentions, best efforts and lots of hard work, most multi-CAD file management systems don’t deliver. Changing market conditions, global product development complexity, system deployment challenges and a series of other complications can all add up to unforeseen risks that can derail your project. In this live webcast, we dig into the leading causes of failure, and offer practical solutions for achieving multi-CAD success.

Why You Will Find This Interesting:

•     Find out how to get consistent results across MCAD / ECAD / EDA mechatronic environments
•     Learn how to meet the needs of all your users - from Design to Manufacturing, Purchasing and the extended Supply Chain
•     Get strategies to deal with vendor games, personal agendas and corporate politics
•     See how to fully leverage your PDM / PLM investment

Teamcenter on the cloud

Teamcenter® software is built on an open, future-proof architecture that gives you the flexibility to use your preferred technology platform and provider. Now you have the choice to implement Teamcenter on the cloud, using an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, which moves some or all of your PLM computing infrastructure to a 3rd party cloud service provider. This approach is part of the trend of avoiding the capital intensive practice of owning your own hardware while providing you with implementation flexibility with certified cloud IaaS partners.

Faster time-to-value
With Teamcenter on the cloud through IaaS partners, you need only to perform configuration and user validation in order to implement PLM. Using virtual machine image templates, Siemens PLM Software or partners can rapidly deploy Teamcenter allowing you to start using your Teamcenter environment without delay.

Lower cost of ownership
Using Teamcenter on the cloud gives you fast and flexible deployment of Teamcenter environments, as well as the ability to dynamically scale infrastructure up and down based on your project needs. You can use the service to instantly engage infrastructure resources without heavy upfront investments.

Benefits

• Fast deployment – quickly and flexibly deploy integrated virtual Teamcenter environments
• Dynamically scale infrastructure as project needs change – instantly turn on infrastructure versus lengthy procurement cycles
• Enables IT to shift focus to application management versus infrastructure management
• Built-in redundancy for business continuity
• Cost effective enterprise IT grade infrastructure with a low IT capital investment
• Quickly and efficiently stand up virtual Teamcenter test environments.
• Faster time to value with “instant on” deployments facilitated by standardized base environments
• Maximize the value of your
• IT staff by leveraging centralized PLM administration
• Geographic footprint of certified cloud providers enables greater application and service reach with
• lower latency

Sriram Chitlur to speak on BOM Custom Views at ACE 2013

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).



With a quest to make the Aras users more productive, efficient with overall better user experience, Panso has developed  ‘BoM Custom View’ utility that helps in following ways-

a) ‘EBoM View’ – Will help Design Engineers to view all the parts that are designed in-house with the right BoM structure
b) ‘MBoM View’ – will help Manufacturing/production engineers to view all the parts that are required in the Assembly Line
c) ‘SBoM view’ – will help the dispatch/shipping department to view all the parts that are required to be shipped
d) ‘CBoM View’ – will help Aras users in general to get a custom view of the BoM for a effectivity date range or based on the revision. In fact CBoM can be applied on EBoM, MBoM & SBoM for further convenience. Register for Ace 2013 to know more about 'BOM Custom Views'.
Panso Solutions Sponsor Aras ACE 2013 Conference

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.