Aras Innovator Features
What are the features of Aras Innovator?
Collaboration
- Communication
- Development
- Document Management
New Product Introduction
- Ideation
- Time-to-market
- Cost estimating
- Product approval
CAD
- CAD Models
Product Data Management
- Product Metadata
- Data Quality
- Version Control
Bill of Materials
- BOM management
- BOM Types
- BOM visualization
Integration
- ERP
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Metadata
Repository | Based on 14 Aras Innovator reviews. Maintain a single repository for all product data and manage access rights | 87% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Taxonomy | Based on 13 Aras Innovator reviews. Define product taxonomies, categories, and other types of classification | 76% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Types | Based on 16 Aras Innovator reviews. Manage multiple kinds of product metadata such as descriptive, administrative, and rights management | 90% (Based on 16 reviews) |
Data Management
Version Control | Based on 15 Aras Innovator reviews. Tracks versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out | 93% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Alignment | Aligns product data from various sources such as ERP and PLM This feature was mentioned in 13 Aras Innovator reviews. | 81% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Workflows | Based on 15 Aras Innovator reviews. Include workflows and approvals to define who is responsible for which type of data | 91% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Lifecycle | Manages product data across its lifecycle phases such as as-designed, as-planned, and as-built 15 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 92% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Document Identification | Allows for easy document identification using a unique document number, version reference or other features. 11 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 82% (Based on 11 reviews) | |
Workflows | As reported in 12 Aras Innovator reviews. Includes workflows and defines the roles of users who need to create, review and approve each type of documents. | 88% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Version Control | Based on 12 Aras Innovator reviews. Tracks versions and changes in a project, stores, and monitors those online. | 92% (Based on 12 reviews) |
Dashboards
Resource-based Reports | Generates resource-based reports on planned and actual time spend on documents to highlight inconsistencies. | Not enough data | |
Data Visualization and Analysis | As reported in 10 Aras Innovator reviews. Allows data visualization and analysis capabilities | 80% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Quality-Based Reports | Generates quality-based reports on the documents to diagnose issues, take remedial action, and/or avoid future complications | Not enough data | |
Automated Dashboards | Generates automated dashboards and reports on the document information and workflow progress | Not enough data |
Collaboration
Change Tracking | As reported in 12 Aras Innovator reviews. Provides an audit log of changes and enables users to revert to a specific version | 69% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Simultaneous Access | Based on 11 Aras Innovator reviews. Allows users to work simultaneously on files. | 86% (Based on 11 reviews) | |
File Sharing | Allows users to share individual files/folders to persons outside or inside the organization in a secure manner | Not enough data | |
Commenting on Documents | As reported in 10 Aras Innovator reviews. Allows addition of comments digitally to the document and facilitates maintenance of a comment audit trail in the system | 77% (Based on 10 reviews) | |
Supplier alignment | Based on 19 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects | 69% (Based on 19 reviews) | |
Communication | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate | 75% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Development | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities | 79% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Document Management | Based on 22 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files | 82% (Based on 22 reviews) |
Security
Authorization | Controls information access by only allowing authorized users to search, view and retrieve engineering documents 11 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 11 reviews) | |
QR Code | Facilitates verification of document authenticity via QR code scanning feature | Not enough data | |
Updates on Files | Generates automated notifications to inform users during specified events, potential issues, or upon nearing the auto-escalation dates and times. This feature was mentioned in 11 Aras Innovator reviews. | 85% (Based on 11 reviews) |
New Product Introduction
Ideation | Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements 21 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 73% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Time-to-market | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products | 78% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Cost estimating | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements | 70% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Product approval | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features | 75% (Based on 21 reviews) |
CAD
CAD Models | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems | 79% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
CAD Options | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE) | 79% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Conversion | Based on 20 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM) | 73% (Based on 20 reviews) |
Product Data Management
Product Metadata | Based on 23 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company | 80% (Based on 23 reviews) | |
Data Quality | Based on 22 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date | 79% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
Version Control | Based on 23 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out | 83% (Based on 23 reviews) |
Bill of Materials
BOM management | Based on 22 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order | 86% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
Multi-level BOM | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs | 83% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
BOM Types | Based on 22 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM) | 82% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
BOM visualization | As reported in 22 Aras Innovator reviews. Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment. | 80% (Based on 22 reviews) |
Engineering Change Management
ECR Workflows | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR) | 77% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Change Management | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle. | 78% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
ECO Management | Based on 19 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch | 77% (Based on 19 reviews) |
Simulation
Virtual Testing | Based on 20 Aras Innovator reviews. Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics | 69% (Based on 20 reviews) | |
Analysis | Based on 18 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses | 65% (Based on 18 reviews) | |
Optimization | Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development 19 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 68% (Based on 19 reviews) |
Analytics
Reporting | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle. | 71% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Costing | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities | 69% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Product Intelligence | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources | 71% (Based on 21 reviews) |
Quality management
Quality planning | Based on 19 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle | 70% (Based on 19 reviews) | |
Traceability | Based on 21 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes | 73% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Compliance | Based on 19 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications | 68% (Based on 19 reviews) |
Integration
ERP | Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions 21 reviewers of Aras Innovator have provided feedback on this feature. | 66% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
MES | Based on 18 Aras Innovator reviews. Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) | 60% (Based on 18 reviews) | |
PIM | Based on 20 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software | 64% (Based on 20 reviews) | |
Maintenance | Based on 20 Aras Innovator reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM) | 70% (Based on 20 reviews) |
Generative AI
AI Text Summarization | Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. This feature was mentioned in 13 Aras Innovator reviews. | 56% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
AI Text Summarization | Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. | Not enough data |
