Aras 2024 AI Blog Roundup

It’s that time of year! As you enjoy your holidays and time off, we invite you to dive into the Aras AI Blog Roundup—a curated collection of our most-read AI blogs of 2024. One theme connects these posts: AI is revolutionizing how organizations streamline collaboration and decision-making across the product lifecycle. By applying the power of AI, businesses can enhance connectivity throughout the wider digital enterprise, ensuring a more agile and data-driven approach.

Here are our top six AI blogs of 2024 – let us know your favorite!

1. Rethinking Your Digital Engineering Strategy Leveraging the Power of Generative AI
   This blog looks at the current state of AI in PLM, in which AI use includes machine learning, Generative or GenAI, large language models (LLMs), and conversation “pilots,” or “agents,” like ChatGPT.
2. The Future of Product Innovation and PLM – Abstraction, Digital Threads, and Artificial Intelligence
   Traditional PLM systems focus on managing what a product is—tracking design data, configurations, and BOM transformations. But what if PLM could use AI to understand why a product exists and how it fulfills its purpose?
3. The Upside of AI – A Use Case for the PLM World
   As AI continues to make headlines, much of the focus has been on its potential risks, overshadowing the significant positive impacts it can bring across disciplines. This duality is common with emerging technologies—while concerns about misuse are valid, the true potential of AI lies in its ability to drive meaningful advancements.
4. 4 Tips for Meeting Compliance Challenges with Data and AI
   This blog addresses the question: How do manufacturers keep up with a constantly changing “tsunami” of regulatory requirements? In a recent installment of our Pulling the Digital Thread series, experts from different industries discussed their tactics for responding to the many complex and country-specific regulations they must apply throughout their product lifecycles.
5. Upskilling Today’s Workforce to Use AI Effectively
   AI generates incredible excitement, but are today’s digital engineering tools, business processes, and workforce prepared to integrate this new technology? In this blog, we explore companies’ challenges when implementing AI and discuss why achieving real value often requires rethinking how today’s workforce leverages AI.
6. Navigating the Future of Manufacturing with the Digital Thread
   In today’s fast-paced environment, teams face mounting pressure to make quick, informed decisions that may require a complete rethink of outdated systems and processes. While the path to digital transformation isn’t without challenges, the rewards—faster production cycles, improved product quality, and seamless collaboration—are undeniable.

We hope this list sparks your curiosity, inspires new ideas, and supports your journey toward advancing digital engineering. To wrap up 2024, we’re including two more posts. One, just for fun, to a blog by Rodrigo Britto Maria, PLM Tales in Space: Aras Innovator and the Digital Thread, which we think you’ll enjoy. The other, our 2024 Summer Reading list, includes a selection of blogs focused on the digital thread.

In the comments, please let us know what you think of our selection and what topics you would like to hear more about in 2025!

Happy New Year from the Aras blog team.