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Aras Innovator Overview

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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Product Description

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.


Seller Details
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Aras Corp
Company Website
Year Founded
2000
HQ Location
Andover, Massachusetts
Twitter
@aras_plm
3,433 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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646 employees on LinkedIn®
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
Own Your Digital Thread
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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.
Play Aras Innovator Video
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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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

The ability to tweak forms, list values, and the lik, in an Agile environment. This allows changes to occur quickly, while the changes are still relevant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

The inability to have conditional email notifications. We have multiple groups that use the same WF processes, but we either have to configure duplicate branches to support each different group or duplicate the WF route for each group. Either way, there is duplication required in our environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are attempting to implement standard practices across the enterprise so everyone performs similar steps for similar processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JG
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

We work with Aras Innovator through technical implementation engagements with our clients. Our customers and technical team find the platform very powerful and flexible with its open architecture to model business process workflows. We often recommend Aras Innovator as a PLM platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Not much to dislike. PLM projects are complex undertakings. There is a great wealth of expertise in the Aras ecosystem available to help guide and advise on the best approaches and practices for success in PLM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Digital transformation projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris C.
CC
Program Director
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

We selected Aras Innovator as our PLM platform due to its flexibility, open approach to CAD tools, and ease of upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Flexibility and customisation isadoubled edged sword. Allowing heavy customisation can lead to upgrade and total cost of ownership issue down the line. Aras seem to handle this, but it's an ongoing battle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our customers are interested in PLM capability but struggle to apply it to their circumstances. We are working with Aras to solve that challenge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tom V.
TV
Engineering Services Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Configurable upon the company needs with low code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

All is working well. I need to learn more abou Aras to find the downsides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Connecting the engineering data

eBOM and mBOM management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shrey L.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Great experience! Found out how different industries are collaboratively working towards working through it and how uniquely the Aras can function the way they want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

There is nothing, I don't like. Oversized documentation cannot help me go through quickly and API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helped me give access to as many people as I want and also can get all the ciles in one place and would help in making changes to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Geoffrey C.
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Lifecycle Management Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Aras innovator is extremely configurable, meaning that combining with the power AVEVA Design Tools is providing a lot of power and good data for our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

I don't know where to start or what questions to ask, yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ability to bring the data along with engineering deliverables to be able to interrogate it and widen the use of said data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johnny Minor M.
JM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Aras was totally configurable from day 1. That all gave us all the confidence that we would be successful with Aras because we could map the way we work and handle our unique challenges in a way that would work for us and not be a burden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

You need to tailor the system to your specific needs. Once it is done, it works smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Aras Innovator is our single source of truth and go-to system for product document and part material management, including bill of materials (BOM) management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kamran A.
KA
Global PLM Program Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Two things:

1. The simply yet very powerful data mussel that allows you to build anything

2. Ease of development. It's in fact a delight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

Some functionally implemented kinda half way. Or some solutions are too conversations to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Getting spreadsheet data in control

Providing configuration control and global access to data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LL
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

Customer focused. Very flexible and capable software that has enabled not only to solve the simple standard requirements but also the more difficult critical requirements we have as a company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

The flexibility enabled us to create all the solutions that we needed, but the tricky thing was the business alignment and business change management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All the engineering documentation of our product and helping us to drive a digitalization strategy through the company. Moving from documents to data in different areas and domains Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Terry S.
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Student
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Aras Innovator?

I like that Aras is customizable to your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aras Innovator?

I currently have no complaints as I am just beginning to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Aras Innovator is helping my team keep an organized parts inventory and properly keep our documents organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.