NuScale Power is developing a new modular light water reactor to supply reliable and abundant carbon-free nuclear energy. Their groundbreaking small modular reactor (SMR) design features a fully fabricated NuScale Power Module™ capable of generating 60 MW of electricity using a safer, smaller, scalable version of pressurized water reactor technology.

NuScale Power’s Director of Corporate Services, Neil Olivier SRO, MBA, CM2-C , will discuss the need for a resilient digital platform for their clean SMR technology.

Learn how Aras’ single enterprise platform will provide an end to end to solution to support regulatory standards, configuration best practices and maintenance support for decades to come.

When it comes to effective communication, context is key. Many design teams use email or spreadsheets to relay information. Texting, IM, Excel worksheets, and email are pervasive tools but are not traceable to the item (Part, Physical Part, Requirements, Next Generation Design), therefor context is lost, and the Digital Thread is broken. Manual methods are disconnected, error-prone, and take effort to connect the dots leading to product failures and missed deadlines.

Visual Collaboration enables teams to track information around an object inside of the context of that item. This eliminates diverging conversations and ensures everyone is on the same page. This enables effective communication in a secure environment, allowing you to work seamlessly across the Enterprise. Product content, including documents, drawings, 3D models, and images, are easily viewable. Collaboration on this content is also enabled through commenting and markups.

This demonstration will review Visual Collaboration’s capabilities and highlight the effectiveness of clear communication across Aras Innovator. You will learn how to view and add comments in the Discussions Panel in order to gain visibility into all related content and create markups to effectively communicate changes needed. Most importantly, conversations can evolve around parts and products where the design intent naturally resides rather than between individual people in email.

This demo will be presented by, Crystal Brandl, Visual Collaboration Product Manager, dedicated to delivering a purposeful collaboration tool.

If you are trying to address missteps in the product development process with more meetings and emails, there is a better way. Collaborative, end-to-end traceability within your product ecosystem – yes, including suppliers too, is possible with the Digital Thread using Aras Innovator. Learn how to connect, collaborate, and share product information securely to speed up your product delivery cycles.

Many regulated industries need to know their physical asset real-time operation life values. Extending the Digital Twin to update and monitor physical BOM assets life rates as they operate in the field significantly improves operational effectiveness.

Tracking of life parameter data opens up opportunities such as short, medium, and long-term maintenance planning activities for multiple land, air, or marine-based physical assets. Alternatively using the Aras Innovator platform, customers can extend the Digital Twin Core application to support GPS location monitoring or asset operational performance.

In this session, using Digital Twin Core, we will show a step by step approach to introduce life parameters to physical assets supplementing the individual Digital Twin configurations for any asset in any industry. This session will also review how to manage updates to Physical Asset BOM at the time when assets have operated in the field, and how the operational data is input, ensuring the most up to date reflection of what the physical asset is, thereby improving maintenance effectiveness.

Join Graeme Taylor, Aras Product Manager a live demonstration of how the Aras PLM Platform can easily enable Digital Twin life management including:

• Building life parameters and relating these to Digital Twin Physical Parts

• Creating a Powerful user experience with a Digital Twin using Aras Dynamic Product Navigation

• Exploring connections to critical information related to a Digital Twin using Aras Graph Navigation

As the complexity of products increase and customers demand more choices and options, managing product variability gets increasingly more difficult. This makes an effective variability process across design, configure to order, and manufacturing a key business objective and a critical competitive differentiator. Today, many companies manage product variability via spreadsheets and standalone tools without digital traceability to the related design structures. These processes are manual, disconnected, highly susceptible to human error, and difficult to scale.

Aras provides product variant management as part of its Aras Innovator Platform—making it an integral part of the product’s Digital Thread. You can manage and evolve the variability model along with the development of design structures while maintaining digital traceability between the two across the entire product lifecycle. The development and evolution of product variability become a highly efficient process. You can quickly identify errors in the resulting variability when applying it to various representations of the product design.

Join Ayla Singhal, Product Manager at Aras, for a 30-minute demonstration to learn more about Variant Management, including how to:

• Define and manage product variability, using features, options, and rules

• Organize variability into a hierarchical structure so that the variability definition can be managed at each level and then combined/aggregated

• Manage configurable breakdown structures with common and variable content, based on a modular product architecture paradigm

• Apply product variability to the variable content in configurable structures

• Resolve configurable structures to specific product configurations by specifying a set of options

• Trace product variability using Digital Thread navigation

Managing CAD data is an essential task for any company. Leveraging CAD Data and working with multiple PDM systems is a bigger task. Aras Innovator can work with other PDM systems to connect all of your Multi-CAD CAD data to a single enterprise PLM system, all without leaving the SOLIDWORKS environment you are accustomed to. 

In this 30-minute session, we will show how Aras Innovator can seamlessly integrate with your existing SOLIDWORKS PDM integration to take advantage of the power of an enterprise PLM as the backbone for change management, while fostering collaboration throughout the entire organization and managing CAD related data from concept to release. We will walk through and demonstrate how Aras integrates directly with your existing SolidWorks and SOLIDWORKS PDM Implementation to leverage the data from your CAD and PDM for the entire organization. 

Join Raul Rosa, Aras Product Manager with focus on MCAD for a live demonstration of how the Aras PLM Platform can easily integrate with your existing platform.

Cubic is a market-leading, technology provider of integrated solutions that increase situational understanding for transportation, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and training customers worldwide to decrease urban congestion and improve the militaries’ effectiveness and operational readiness.

In November 2016, Cubic established One Cubic Engineering strategic goals focusing on unifying engineering across the enterprise. Goals included reducing time-to-market and production cost, enforcing structured, cross functional design reviews and aligning engineering tools used for design and product data management. PLM was envisioned to be a key enabler in achieving these goals. Cubic evaluated several PLM applications and in early 2018, selected Aras as the PLM platform offering both flexibility and adaptability in the implementation of a common solution to be deployed across a diverse group of business units. As PLM brought an application which was "brand-new" to their engineering community, Cubic partnered with Aras Professional Services to assist with process improvement and standardization, system configuration and customization, data migration, system integration, training, system deployment and HyperCare.

Cubic established an ambitious scope for initial deployment, implementing functionality to address five global standardized processes, three CAD connectors, two custom ERP integrations, as well as multi-faceted access control capabilities. Approximately fifteen (15) months after project kick off, Cubic deployed a common instance of Aras PLM on 1 July 2019 to hardware engineering and manufacturing users at its US-based defense business units; six months later, PLM deployment was expanded to include Cubic's transportation business units (US & Int'l users) and defense business units (Int'l users).

As products and systems reach ever higher levels of complexities organizations embrace new methodologies and tools to manage it. Systems models are at the heart of this development and are the primary focus of the Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach. Systems models, when connected to requirements, simulation and physical design implementations, serve as a connective tissue between the design intent and the design data. They allow engineers to study emergent system behaviors (positive and negative) before they become part of the subsequent detailed mechanical, electronic and software implementations.

Built as a native capability of the Aras PLM platform, Aras Systems Architecture application enables capturing of a systems model as a structured content that is fully connected with the rest of the content managed by the Aras PLM platform. This traceability extends to requirements, simulation studies, implementation details and all associated documents. Systems model structures can be configuration managed with the rest of the content providing Digital Thread across the entire product lifecycle.

During this 30-minute presentation, you will see how systems model content is created, how it is related to items managed by Aras PLM platform, and how that platform’s change and configuration management helps to establish and maintain traceability.

Please join Michael Pfenning, Aras Product Manager and Systems Engineering expert, to learn how the Aras Systems Architecture application and the underlying PLM Platform enables your organization to integrate systems models with the rest of the design structures.

Managing new product development projects and programs is increasingly complex and challenging. The Aras Platform simplifies product development by enabling organizations to link new product development, design and delivery processes in a safe and secure collaborative manner.

By connecting deliverables to project tasks, project management significantly improves completion status and control. As a result, organizations achieve greater success through the combination of proven project-management Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) approaches, stage-gate methods and comprehensive risk management.

Join Gary Wilmot, Solutions Consultant at Aras, to discover how managing tasks and deliverable in a single environment simplifies processes and improves adoption, enhanced schedule visibility can optimize use of resources, reduce project costs and increases profit margins, and improved task accountability can shorten product development cycles and help manage and mitigate risk.

Also learn about key features including:

• Project templates based on PMI principles provide best practices

• Stage-gate processes

• Project collaboration workspaces

• Forward, backward and milestone scheduling

• Interactive dashboard summarizes entire project portfolio

• Gantt charts

Aras Technical Documentation (Tech Docs) is a content authoring tool that is fully integrated into Aras PLM and that collectively provides component content management capability for topics-based, modular documentation. Tech Docs leverages Innovator’s core PLM functionality (Access Control, Workflow/Lifecycle, Change Notification, etc.) enabling users of various disciplines to author, visualize, share, and publish information all within a central, controlled, and collaborative environment.

If you're new to the application, come discover Tech Docs and learn how this capability might be useful for your technical documentation needs. For those who haven't looked at Tech Docs in a while, come see what has changed along with our plans for future enhancements.

Join Mr. Kevin Richard, Product Manager with 25 years of experience in software engineering, logistics, 3D visualization, simulation, and information architecture.