Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
software, today announced that the Japan Steel Works, Ltd. (JSW), a global
industrial machinery manufacturer, selected the Aras Innovator® platform to
improve product data management. JSW will better manage 3D product data to
ensure interoperability and efficiency for the engineering and
manufacturing of plastic production and processing machinery as the
mainline of their industrial machinery products.

JSW selected Aras Innovator to achieve the following:

  • Ensure that accurate, up-to-date information can be viewed by all usersduring design reviews, engineering changes, defect investigations, andother processes.
  • Provide integrated access to product data.
  • Better control costs due to availability of the platform viasubscription pricing.

The Aras PLM Platform will be implemented as an iCAD data management system
to streamline the design and improve the quality of data management and
will replace previous use of Windows folders for data management.

JSW initially worked with DIGITAL PROCESS LTD. (DIPRO) to assess the most
effective approach to manage iCAD data. DIPRO applied their expertise in
engineering to the project, drawing on their knowledge of technologies
related to PDM/PLM.

“The Aras platform offers JSW powerful data management capabilities to
ensure that engineers are accessing the correct information, helping to
avoid errors and eliminate delays,” says Peter Schroer, Founder and CEO of
Aras. “Japan Steel Works has made an important step in improving the
overall effectiveness of their product development process.”

About the Japan Steel Works, Ltd.


The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.

(JSW) is a global corporation carrying out steel and energy products
business, with products in electric power, oil, natural gas, and other
energy fields, as well as industrial machinery products business with a
broad lineup centering on equipment for plastics processing and products
employing lasers. Since its founding in 1907, JSW is contributing to the
further development of society by meeting its needs with the technologies
and skills amassed during long history spanning more than a century, as
well as with new technological development.

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