Industrial Factory Automation

Aras has announced that the next international Aras Community Event (Ace) will be held on 10-11 May 2010. Hosted by Motorola at the Motorola Innovation Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, the conference will bring together business and IT professionals from around the world, enabling them to connect and collaborate on the advanced product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions from Aras and the benefits of the enterprise open-source approach. Ace 2010 will feature a range of corporate user presentations, breakout sessions and panel discussions on a variety of topics, including: global product development and collaboration; configuration and change management; business intelligence and product analytics; distributed and replicated architectures; best practices for implementing Aras; the Aras roadmap; and community solutions. This year's Ace 2010 agenda will also include the open-source Community Solution Showcase, which will provide an opportunity for attendees to see and share commu...

Carestream Health has selected the Aras Innovator suite as its enterprise PLM backbone for product level information. Aras Innovator provides Carestream Health with advanced PLM functionality and a modern Microsoft-based platform for global product development and supply-chain integration for improved collaboration. Carestream Health will deploy the Aras enterprise PLM software in a series of phases, providing a product level information backbone for global product-commercialisation processes and supplier collaboration worldwide. Aras will be rolled out in support of global product development to more than 3,000 global users and supporting suppliers in the US, Canada, China, Israel and France. Aras Innovator is based on an enterprise open-source business model and powered by advanced model-based SOA technology. Aras's architectural approach and comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality ensure customers can quickly deploy and iteratively adapt their PLM environment in a fraction o...