Unlock The Value of Your CAD Model Data

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Unlock The Value of Your CAD Model Data

Extracting, enhancing, and viewing CAD model data without the need for the original authoring application is now a reality! CADnection is a plug-and-play utility that delivers app-ready data, insights, and viewables derived from your CAD models. As a data-source solution, CADnection can significantly improve the scope and value of your existing search and discovery applications, enterprise data management solutions, and even your custom apps.

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Enabling Digital Transformation for Automotive Suppliers with Next Gen PLM

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Tier One and Two automotive suppliers operate in one of the most challenging and competitive business environments in industry today. Yet, strategies to replace legacy solutions or pursue digital transformation seem abstract and disruptive. vdR's automotive supplier solution provides a clear path forward. Give your sales, engineering, product development, and production teams the tools and agility they need to keep up with shorter lifecycles and increasing complexity.

Automotive Insights Series

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Boosting Competitiveness Starts with Data Visibility
Boosting Competitiveness Starts with Data Visibility
Busting Data Silos for Quote-to-Kickoff Efficiency
Busting Data Silos for Quote-to-Kickoff Efficiency
Reducing APQP Time-to-PPAP
Reducing APQP Time-to-PPAP
Tackling Challenges In the APQP Process - Automotive Insights Series
Tackling Challenges In the APQP Process - Automotive Insights Series

Automotive Supplier Solution Overview

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vdR's Automotive Supplier Solution is supported by a PLM-based foundation that addresses three critical pieces of digital transformation: data cohesion, process repeatability, and platform connectivity. Once in place, this three-part foundation can fuel the innovation and efficiencies needed in this hypercompetitive market. 

Revit Integration Extends Aras Innovator into BIM/AEC Operations

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Revit Integration Extends Aras Innovator into BIM/AEC Operations

The building information management (BIM) and architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries have lagged behind the modern change control and data management practices embraced by the manufacturing and engineering community.

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How CADnection Unlocks CAD Data to Drive Productivity

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How CADnection Unlocks CAD Data to Drive Productivity

CAD models are jam-packed with data. Everything from design intent, engineering details, quality parameters, manufacturing guidelines, and operational instructions can be included. Effectively, these models are mini-databases, vital to engineering, product development, and construction. Almost everything manufactured today is designed with the help of CAD models.

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Achieve Digital Transformation With CADnection

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Achieve Digital Transformation With CADnection

With successful digital transformation comes the need for accurate and reliable content retrieval. Of course, disparate formats make unifying search across file types problematic.

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Liberating CAD Data to Drive Insights and Visibility

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Liberating CAD Data to Drive Insights and Visibility

CAD models possess a richness of data reflecting intellectual property, design intent, spatial modeling, quality parameters, analysis and instructions for applications such as engineering, product development, processes/operations and construction.  Most anything that is manufactured and/or built today is characterized via CAD models.

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Highlighted Demo - Better Understand your PLM Data with Graph Navigation

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Highlighted Demo - Better Understand your PLM Data with Graph Navigation

Graph Navigation is a platform service introduced in Aras Innovator 11.0 SP15 that allows users to quickly visualize and navigate data structures via a node-edge graph. Since Graph Navigation is a service of the Aras Innovator platform and not a feature of a specific application, users can explore data across all applications. Graph views also obey the permissions and access controls defined for your item data.

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Making Sense of Unstructured Data

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Making Sense of Unstructured Data

Over the past several years, vdR has sought to represent the Aras Innovator solution to companies in the engineering, construction and manufacturing space.  Along the way, it is becoming clear that relevant data has settled into three categories … unstructured, legacy applications and database-oriented applications such as home-grown Access apps, PDM and even PLM.  Of course, Aras Innovator offers a breath of fresh air to the weary workers trying to corral the data and establish repeatable processes.

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