Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research Aras, which bills itself as the “leader in open product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the enterprise,” announced that Dräger, an international leader in medical and safety technology, selected the Aras PLM Platform as its future PLM system “to enable enterprise-wide visibility of product data.” The new state-of-the-art PLM system […]
Will ALM and PLM Play Nicely Together?
By Jean Thilmany In this age of mechatronics and control systems, design, electric, software, and system engineers need to coordinate efforts and work together much more regularly than in the past. In the future, expect to see more homogeneous teams made up of software and mechanical engineers—as well as the system engineers that oversee their […]
Onshape: Future of CAD—or future of PLM?
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research LLC “Is Onshape intending to develop PLM eventually, or are they going to go the route of partners to provide that?” Thus posted a user in Onshape’s online discussion forum, continuing: “I ask because Onshape is a database system with the correct platform to seemingly handle this functionality.” Lou […]
Video: Data Management Best Practices to Avoid Rework on Shop Floor
Manufacturers are always looking out for ways to work more efficiently, reducing the amount of scrap and rework required to produce products. The reality is that the best way to accomplish these goals starts upstream in the product development process. Caleb Funk, Manufacturing Solutions Team Manager from IMAGINiT Technologies, shares leading data management practices used […]
3D PDFs Provide Easy Way to Share CAD Data
Earlier this week in this blog, I discussed how users can maximize their investments in 3D CAD systems by sharing their CAD data with downstream data consumers, such as documentation, assembly, manufacturing, quality, sales and marketing personnel. Sharing technical data with these people can speed up all of the supporting activities that accompany product development […]
The Benefits of Intelligent Part Numbering
Companies–both large and small–must manage increasingly large amounts of data. Within engineering departments, this might include drawings, part files, and lots of other files that represent products. Keeping track of this data is difficult without some type of file management system in place, however, statistics show that the majority of companies continue to manage their […]
ETRAGE Announces PTC Windchill-SharePoint Integration App
ETRAGE, a systems integration and design process automation company, announced at PTC Live Global that it’s releasing Windchill EasySearch app for PTC Windchill PDMLink for CAD files and documents. A little background on ETRAGE: The company has been building solutions for PTC customers that help automate viewable file creation and management, integrate PTC Windchill with […]
ETRAGE Demonstrates a Better Way to Share Files with SubContractors
ETRAGE LLC, a systems integration software company, will be presenting a solution that will make it easier for companies to provide access to 2D and 3D design files for their subcontractors at this year’s PTC’s Live Global Conference in Boston, June 15-17. The presentation will describe the process of how ETRAGE customer COM DEV Ltd. […]
5 Steps to Better CAD File Management
A problem that plagues most engineering departments is a lack of any type of structured management of CAD files. Individual engineers might deploy what they regard as a very organized way to manage their own files, giving each meaningful file names and storing them on their hard drive. The problems arise, however, when those files […]
Kenesto PLM Platform Re-launched
Yesterday I had to opportunity to be reintroduced to the relaunched Kenesto, the company headed up by Mike Payne, one of the more renowned and revered figures in the CAD world, having started PTC and SolidWorks (then SpaceClaim). Pretty much anything that Mike is involved in draws interest from the industry and Kenesto is no […]
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