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October 2004
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CIMdata in the News: Can Product Life-cycle Management Boast Direct Tie to Lean?
Aras' lean module boasts a dashboard and metrics for improving cycle times, as well as functions for managing method sheets (lean's equivalent of work instructions) and other execution tasks. Release to manufacturing also is a function of the suite, and can define process flows through work cells, and manage a manufacturing bill of material. Concerning design-for-quality issues in the automotive sector, Aras also offers an Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) package.
Ken Amann, research director with analyst firm CIMdata, Ann Arbor, Mich., concurs that Aras has built up more modules for production management than most PLM vendors. But in addition to APQP, several larger vendors including Agile Software and MatrixOne also offer packaged solutions. Says Amann, "Most PLM vendors have that functionality at some level, but now more of them are formalizing those capabilities into modules.
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Product Life-cycle Management Boast Direct Tie to Lean?
(MSI Magazine, October 2004)
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