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What is Aras Innovator?

Aras Innovator is a flexible and scalable Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform designed to help organizations manage complex product data, processes, and digital threads across the enterprise. Unlike traditional PLM systems, Aras Innovator is built on a resilient, low-code architecture that enables rapid customization and continuous upgrades without disruption. This ensures businesses can adapt to evolving requirements while maintaining a single source of truth for product information. With Aras Innovator, companies can manage the entire product lifecycle—from concept and design to manufacturing, service, and beyond. It supports advanced configuration management, change control, requirements engineering, and simulation management, making it ideal for industries with highly complex products, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial manufacturing. A key differentiator of Aras Innovator is its support for the Digital Thread, connecting critical data across disciplines and throughout the lifecycle. This connectivity enhances traceability, collaboration, and decision-making, ensuring teams can access up-to-date, accurate information in real time. Unlike legacy PLM solutions with rigid licensing models, Aras Innovator uses an enterprise subscription model with unlimited user access, enabling seamless collaboration across global teams. Organizations benefit from continuous innovation, regular updates, and expert support without the risk of version lock-in. Available in both cloud and on-premises deployments, Aras Innovator empowers organizations to transform product development, improve efficiency, and drive innovation. By eliminating barriers to scalability and flexibility, it serves as a future-ready foundation for managing the complexities of modern engineering and manufacturing.

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PLM Solutions.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Aras positions itself as a modern, flexible alternative to legacy PLM systems like PTC Windchill, Siemens Teamcenter, and Dassault Enovia by offering an open, scalable, and upgradeable platform. Unlike competitors that rely on rigid, siloed applications, Aras Innovator provides a single, unified platform with an enterprise subscription model that allows unlimited users, eliminating costly per-seat licensing.

A key differentiator is Aras’ low-code architecture, enabling organizations to rapidly customize and extend the platform without compromising future upgrades. In contrast, competitors often require complex, costly customizations that lead to version lock-in.

Additionally, Aras delivers true Digital Thread enablement, ensuring seamless integration across engineering, manufacturing, and service disciplines. With a focus on resilient, future-ready PLM, Aras Innovator supports industries with high complexity, such as aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturing, offering a flexible, user-centric alternative to outdated, monolithic PLM solutions that struggle to adapt to modern digital transformation demands.

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Aras Corp
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Year Founded
2000
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Andover, Massachusetts
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Description

Aras is a leading provider of product lifecycle management and digital thread solutions. Its technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible solutions built on a powerful digital thread backbone and a low-code development platform. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain.

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Aras Innovator Media

Aras Innovator Demo - Portfolio Dashboard
Project collaboration portfolio dashboard provides secure online access for team members and executive visibility
Aras Innovator Demo - Visual Collaboration
With Visual Collaboration, teams from engineering, operations, quality and the supply chain can communicate about products more effectively, make decisions quickly and solve problems faster.
Aras Innovator Demo - Component Engineering
Aras Component Engineering makes it easy to select and source the electronic components that best meet your requirements for performance, compliance, availability and lowest risk.
Aras Innovator Demo - Multi-CAD Integrations
Extensive CAD integrations for CATIA, SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, AutoCAD, NX, Solid Edge, ECAD, and more
Aras Innovator Demo - ECR Workflow
Enterprise Engineering Change Workflow [ ECR ] certified CMII 4 star rating
Aras Innovator Demo - Product Data Management
Complex Bill of Materials, product structure and configuration management
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Own Your Digital Thread
The Aras Innovator platform enables teams to visualize a digital thread of product design across its lifecycle. CTO Rob McAveney showcases key features that enhance connectivity, collaboration, in a single platform interface.
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The Aras Innovator platform enables teams to visualize a digital thread of product design across its lifecycle. CTO Rob McAveney showcases key features that enhance connectivity, collaboration, in a single platform interface.
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Aras Innovator is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and has a great support structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Aras Innovator can be troublesome to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Aras Innovator manages the manufacturing engineering design of products with configuration change control including MBOM, routing, work instructions, processes, and tooling. It also provides material composition management with roll-up for products with mixed material information for varying regulations, capturing chemical makeup for RoHS and Reach. Finally, Aras Innovator manages the tracking of all items that are under regulatory control and provides rules to automatically control the access and distribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Aras is VERY configurable. It's a highly extensible platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Difficult to use out of thr box. Need knowledgeable resources in the organization to code configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using to create a digital thread by authoring and aggregating data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Aras Innovator is a strong set of tools to manage our PLM program, and it is flexible enough to allow customization leading to further improvements and efficiencies in our particular environments and use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Aras sometimes takes too long before responding to help and support items. Once they engage the issue, they are very helpful and knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cohesive TDP and Configuration Management of complex systems across multiple Engineering, Maintenance, and Supply Management units. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

The company and people who you work with you clearly care about your product and success. They endeavor to make sure the system is best for you and your needs. Actively working to ensure that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

The product can be rough around the edges and the sheer amount of customization it offers can make it very difficult to maintain. It essentially requires you to have a dedicated team/resource at all times to constantly update the system to match your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides us with an effective way to manage our PLM and designs. It's enabled us to have custom process that we require to succeed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Customization and integration between other applications. Linking between parts and drawings and workflows. Complete digital thread from Requirements to Design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Self service reports for finding connected relationships. The 3d visualization is slow for massive blocks. Could use part 3d and add spotlight radius. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lifecycle management solutions for shipyards who currently have lots of in-house and older applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Love how user friendly it is and great CM tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

We have issues with Aras locking up due to my inbasket tasks. Also, report generation requires IT to run reports at night. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

We don't have the latest version of aras, so I'm interested in seeing what's next for Aras. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Customization and scaleable within the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Logging inside the system can be hard to find and straining on system to turn on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Having all DE in one platform and easy deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Customization is really good and you can potentially change it to your business process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Performance can be a little annoying especially with dpn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Change management, BOM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Great potential with customization. Platform always iterating. Great engaged community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Support experience could be improved. Lot of internal changing of responsibilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aras Innovator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Change MGMT, product engineering, quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Extendable, flexible, scalable and easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Most builtin apps in Aras need customisations to work with actual use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Process management and PDM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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