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Xerox (NYSE: XRX) is the world's leading document management technology and services provider with $17 billion in annual sales. Xerox's product portfolio ranges from industry leading color and black-and-white printing systems, laser and solid ink network printers, copiers, fax machines, and multifunction devices to "book factories" and digital publishing presses. A broad vision for end-to-end enterprise PLM across the lifecycle combined with complex process and integration requirements drives the Xerox strategy while practical realities shaped the systems evaluation approach.

Learn how Xerox used Aras's advanced SOA to create "connected" vs. "holistic" solutions that leverage the strengths of each system to provide user friendly processes that are also easy to maintain. Then learn how Xerox used Aras to develop a worldwide unified engineering change process, NPDI Environmental Compliance for RoHS and REACH, Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) critical parameter mgt, SAM early warning system and much more.

Aras PLM & an SOA Approach

Aras PLM & Global Product Development

Xerox Transforms Product Development with Aras PLM

Aras PLM Engineering Change Workflow and Federation

Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA) is a leading global supplier of automotive seating systems and electrical power management systems. In 2009, Lear ranked #195 among the Fortune 500. Lear's world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured by a diverse team of more than 75,000 employees at 202 facilities in 35 countries.

See the Lear presentation from the Aras Community Network and learn how they are aggressively expanding their Aras deployment for preferred components and suppliers, assembly product structures, quality doc mgt, tooling docs, assembly manufacturing process doc mgt, project and deliverables mgt and cross-functional change management.

Aras PLM Global Development

Aras Implementation Highlights

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is a Fortune 100 company with $36.6 billion in annual revenues that is known around the world for innovation in communications. The company develops technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Motorola's portfolio includes communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. The company is committed to delivering next-generation communication solutions to people, businesses and governments.

See the Motorola presentation from the Aras Community Network event hosted at Motorola University about applying Aras Innovator for advanced program management with earn value management, resource management, and schedule & cost performance tracking (SPI/CPI) for better coordination and collaboration.

Aras Enterprise PLM

Carestream Health is an internationally successful company providing medical and dental imaging systems and information technology solutions; molecular imaging systems; and non-destructive testing products to a broad base of customers around the world.

See the Carestream Health presentation at the Aras Community Network event and learn how they defined their global PLM vision, why they needed a new PLM backbone and how they went about evaluating all the latest PLM solutions, ultimately selecting Aras.

Global New Product Development

Enterprise Development and Deployment on Aras Innovator

Aras PLM Selection

60 Seconds: Eliminating Risk with Aras PLM

60 Seconds: Why Aras for Global PLM

Insitu a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, designs, develops and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems for commercial, civil and defense applications. With a focus for both land and sea operations, the company's family of solutions and global mission support serves the needs of worldwide customers. To date, these systems have accumulated more than 550,000 combat flight hours and 61,000 sorties.

Discover how Insitu customized, implemented and rollout Aras for CMII-compliant enterprise change management in under 60 days.

Deploying PLM Software for CMII Configuration & Change with Aras

HAKAMA develops, designs and manufactures a full array of custom housings, assemblies and installation-ready metal components. HAKAMA’s precision products are produced from sheet metal, stainless steel, aluminum and other non-ferrous metals in thicknesses of 0.5 to 5.0 mm, meeting the stringent, precision requirements of their customers.

Learn how HAKAMA moved from PDM to PLM with Aras, selecting Aras for its flexible architecture and ease of expansion across the enterprise and throughout the extended supply chain. HAKAMA was particularly impressed with the ease in which Aras imported all of the data from its PDM system complete with referencing geometry models and total history.

Moving from PDM to PLM With Aras

Freudenberg is a leading global supplier specializing in seals and vibration control technology, nonwovens, filters, lubricants and release agents as well as mechatronic products. The $7 billion company employs 32,000 people in 55 countries. Synonymous with top quality. Freudenberg follows a zero error philosophy at all levels of the supply chain. This strategy is supported by an Advanced Product Quality Planning 2 (APQP2) program, which ensures reliable processes and error-free series production.

Learn how Freudenberg uses Aras Innovator integrated with SAP at more than 20 sites across Europe, in all stages of product development from the initial proposal phase to product recipe management and into production, in a single, standardized process.

Aras Innovator & Freudenberg

GETRAG FORD Transmissions, a joint venture of GETRAG and Ford of Europe, is a full service global automotive supplier specializing in the development and production of systems for motorcycles, passenger cars, SUVs and light commercial vehicles.

Learn how GETRAG FORD Transmissions is using Aras to streamline product design and development functions, increase quality and responsiveness, and gain valuable insight into processes, programs and projects.

More Flexibility Through Enterprise Open Source

AML, Quality and More With Aras

HYDROMETER, part DIEHL Gruppe, provides an extensive range of pioneering meters to meet the high economic and ecological requirements of the third millennium. With the introduction of intelligent "smart meters," the company enables customers to handle natural resources and energy in a highly efficient way while contributing significantly to environmental and other conservation objectives.

Learn how HYDROMETER is using Aras for product and project management, documentation and regulatory compliance across the product lifecycle.

PDM to PLM Enterprise Open Source

MiTek Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of high performance audio products for mobile, residential, marine and commercial markets with 13 specialized audio companies sold in over 80 different countries worldwide.

Aras Enterprise PLM

Open Source PLM Comes Through Loud and Clear at MiTek

From Realization to Implementation

Aras is More Than Meets the Eye

Beyond PLM: Project Management, Quality, Standards & More

Ogihara America Corporation is a leading tier 1 supplier of vehicle body parts producing Class A high-quality door, fender, hood, and roof panels for Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, Lincoln, and other major brands.

Learn how Ogihara is achieving compliance to the ISO/TS16949 quality systems standard [the automotive industry's version of ISO9000:2000 with requirements similar to the aerospace industry's AS9100 and the FDA's 21 CFR Part 820 Quality System Regulation] to automate strategic corporate quality processes to streamline customer issue management, Corrective Action / Preventive Action (CAPA), Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), nonconformance management, defect tracking, document management & control, and product realization or Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) with Aras Innovator.

Ogihara Achieves Quality Success with Aras

Aras PLM & CAPA

Amtech Electrocircuits is a rapidly growing provider of electronic innovation support and electronics manufacturing services to leading companies in automotive, industrial, high technology, medical devices, and Aerospace and Defense.

Learn how they are using the Aras PLM Solution Suite for APQP, FMEA and other process optimization; integrated PLM, ERP and MRP; and cost and inventory control.

Amtech — Driving Growth with Aras Open Source PLM

Nexteer Automotive, formerly part of Delphi, is a multi-billion dollar global steering and driveline business which focuses on electric and hydraulic steering systems, steering columns and driveline products for OEM vehicle manufacturers. The company has 8,300 employees at 6 engineering centers and 20 manufacturing plants around the world.

Learn how Aras allows them to continually adapt to change while providing comprehensive, functional coverage for global processes.

Realizing an Enterprise-wide PLM Vision

Mastering PLM: Establish Your Vision (1 of 3)

Mastering PLM: The Role of History in a Modern PLM Vision (2 of 3)

Mastering PLM: Strategies for Success (3 of 3)

Advatech Pacific is a provider of advanced modeling, simulation, communications, engineering design and analysis services and solutions for the aerospace industry.

An Aras open user, Advatech takes advantage of the Aras open source business model and does it all on their own, without support from Aras.

Simulation Data Management and Requirements Tracking using Aras and SharePoint

Basic Research develops and distributes some of the best-selling, most sought-after formulations on the market for cosmetics, skin care, anti-aging, weight loss, bodybuilding and numerous other consumer concoctions. Their innovative products can be found at Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Sephora, GNC, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart and over 17,000 individual retail outlets worldwide.

See the Basic Research presentation at the Aras Community Network event and learn how they approached their deployment of Recipe Management, Product Development, Quality Control and other processes.

Aras PLM Recipe for Management

Communicating for User Adoption in 2 Minutes

When Bigger PLM Isn't Better PLM

Deutsche Blisterunion is an association of blister pharmacies, regional operating blister centers and industrial companies providing blister packaging of drugs for the individual patient. Blister Packaging of medications includes the reading, packaging and distribution of pharmaceuticals which reduces dosage and medication errors and provides time savings and other conveniences for consumers, hospitals, retirement homes and other institutions.

Learn how Deutsche Blisterunion eliminates paper and automates product release process with Aras PLM and the Aras Innovator Signature Connector.

Serialized Product Traveability for Quality & Safety

Flexible Data Management & Process Control Without High Initial Investment

Aras Innovator & Deutsche Blisterunion

Esterline (NYSE: ESL) is a global Aerospace and Defense company with $1.2 billion in annual revenues and over 10,000 employees around the world. The company's strategy focuses on high-end industrial markets with growth driven through the acquisition of niche technology leaders. BVR Technologies Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Esterline and an emerging leader in advanced motion control and avionics products for aerospace, medical, and industrial automation applications.

See the Esterline presentation from the Aras Community Network event about business challenges and enterprise PLM implementation journey at this specialty aerospace provider, and hear how the company managed the transformation process of moving from paper to Aras Innovator and where they are headed next.

Aras Enterprise PLM

ACCO Brands (NYSE: ABD) is one of the world's largest suppliers of branded office products with close to $2 billion in annual revenues. World-class brands include Swingline, Kensington, Wilson Jones, Quartet, and Rexel with products marketed in over 100 countries worldwide. The company has achieved market leading growth by consistently beating the competition in the areas of new product innovation and time to market.

Learn about ACCO's strategic approach to new product development and introduction that incorporates processes, people, and outsourced manufacturing partners, and how the company is expanding global growth using the Aras solution for enterprise PLM.

Office Products Maker Boosts Innovation, Collaboration; Cuts Cycle Time in Half

Aras PLM & NPDI

Structural Concepts Corporation is a US-based company with over 30 years of expertise designing and building innovative temperature controlled display cases. Structural's market is highly competitive, and its customers are large companies with stringent demands where 80% of Structural Concepts' orders require customer-specific custom engineered product requirements.

With a motto of "One Part Passion, Two Parts Science", Structural is obsessive about presenting food and products in a manner that is irresistible to its client's customers. The company is equally passionate about applying progressive business strategies combined with new technology to deliver innovation in all aspects of the customer experience.

Learn how Structural achieved enterprise PLM success with Aras Innovator by managing new product development and introduction with customer requirements.

Structural Concepts Corporation Achieves Enterprise PLM Success

Spartan Motors is a leader in the design, engineering and manufacturing of custom chassis and vehicles for the emergency-rescue, recreational vehicle and specialty vehicle markets. The company maintains a customer-centric methodology that fosters innovation, speed and agility, and a commitment to Lean continuous process improvement and Green business practices in the production of custom firefighting and military armored vehicles, Utilimaster delivery vans for UPS and FedEx, and custom chassis for class A motorhomes.

Learn how Spartan implemented Aras and standardized processes, and improved quality, productivity and response time, while managing more than 300,000 parts, 1.8 million BOM lines and 500 ECOs a month

Spartan Motors Fuels Innovation, Productivity & Quality with Aras Enterprise PLM

Ubidyne GmbH is the global leader in digital antenna embedded radio technology for wireless communications. Ubidyne's standards-agnostic micro-radio technology is integrated with wireless antennas and revolutionizes the economics of mobile communications.

Learn how Ubidyne is using Aras to accelerate product development, simplify product management and increase product quality.

Enterprise Open Source - The Better Choice

Ubidyne GmbH Drives Quality Product Development with Aras PLM

Freudenberg-NOK is a $1 billion tier one automotive supplier and provider of industrial products that is part of the $7 billion Freudenberg group of global companies. A recognized leader for Lean approaches with an emphasis on Six Sigma quality and continuous improvement Freudenberg-NOK embraces innovative business approaches throughout all aspects of the company.

Learn how the company has used the Aras Innovator solution for Advanced Product Quality Planning [APQP] compliance and Lean product development to achieve new product launch success with flawless launch scorecard KPI metrics for customer satisfaction, quality, plant readiness, and profitability.

Aras PLM & APQP

APQP Success

The U.S. Army Watervliet Arsenal, WVA, is an integral component of the U.S. Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), a major command of the Army Materiel Command (AMC). The Arsenal is a billion-dollar manufacturing complex and has long been known as America's "Cannon Factory" and is a critical source of today's high tech, high powered weaponry.

WVA is certified to ISO9000 and CP2, the Army's Contractor Performance Certification Program, and is the U.S. Army's primary gun tube maker with products including cannons for the Army's main battlefield tank, the M1A1 Abrams, as well as precision components for artillery cannons, battleship guns, marine drives, and rocket motors.

U.S. Army Attains Lean Six Sigma Agility with Enterprise PLM for MBOM

MEGA Brands Inc. (MON TOR: MB.TO), formerly known as MEGA Bloks, is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and is a leader in high quality, fun and educational construction toys that inspire children and parents to play together. With over $733M in annual revenues MEGA Brands is one the fastest-growing toy brands in the world and is continually extending into new lines of business with innovative new products.

MEGA Brands develops new products with superior quality within stringent cost targets, and to support continued growth the company improved global coordination and visibility throughout the New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) process with a specific emphasis on quality using Aras Innovator.

MEGA Brands Achieves New Product Development & Introduction Success

GSI is the world's largest manufacturer of galvanized steel storage bins offering over 1,000 models in flat bottom and hopper bottom styles. GSI also manufactures many types of grain drying systems including portable, stacked, tower and process dryers featuring the most technologically advanced, and user-friendly, control systems in the industry. In addition, GSI offers a full line of material handling equipment including augers, bin sweeps, bucket elevators, conveyors, distributors, chain loop systems, and grain spreaders

GSI Variants and Options with Aras

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (NASDAQ: VSEA) is a $1 billion leader in the design and production of ion implantation equipment used in the manufacturing fabrication of semiconductors. With operations worldwide, the company aggressively develops new product technologies that create ever greater precision for smaller and smaller circuit geometries. The company is committed to industry leadership through a combination of innovative practices and aggressive cost management.

Varian Semiconductor Attains Product Change Performance Excellence

Fox Electronics is a supplier of the industry's largest range of frequency control products, including quartz crystals, temperature controlled and voltage controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs and VCXOs ), clock oscillators, and monolithic crystal filters, OCXOs and the new XpressO XOs.

Learn how Fox is leveraging Aras Enterprise-wide, for New Product Concept and Development through Quality Management and International Distribution

Aras PLM Enables Fox Electronics to Speed Time to Market

Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) is an independent, not-for-profit research and development organization. SRC plays a leadership role in providing solutions to programs of national significance through the innovative application of science, technology, and information. SRC solves next generation challenges for customers in the defense, environment, and intelligence communities.

Uponor offers plumbing, heating and fire safety systems for residential and commercial applications featuring PEX-a tubing — the most flexible and dependable tubing on the market. Uponor also offers snow and ice melting, turf conditioning and permafrost prevention systems. You can find our systems in major ski resorts as well as several NFL stadiums throughout the United States.