Everllence: Whatever We Put into Aras Grows

Introduction

Everllence has built its reputation on complex industrial systems, ranging from marine propulsion technologies to large-scale energy infrastructure. Reflecting its engineering heritage, Everllence’s legacy product lifecycle management (PLM) environment was primarily focused on mechanical engineering, computer-aided design (CAD), and technical product development.

However, as the company accelerated its transformation toward decarbonization and energy-transition technologies, Everllence began to outgrow its existing tools. Product data became valuable far beyond engineering. Service teams, R&D organizations, and operational units needed better access to lifecycle information to support new business models, digital services, and long-term asset management.

To support this shift, Everllence introduced Aras Innovator as a platform for expanding PLM across the enterprise. What began as an additional environment for broader lifecycle collaboration has since evolved into a strategic foundation for enterprise-wide product data management and a catalyst for capabilities the company did not originally anticipate.

About Everllence

Everllence operates in asset-intensive industries, including shipping, energy, and industrial infrastructure. Historically known for its engines and turbomachinery, the company is currently repositioning itself around decarbonization and energy transition technologies under the vision “moving big things to zero.” Its portfolio includes:

• Marine engines and propulsion systems
• Power plant and industrial energy solutions
• Turbomachinery
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
• Hydrogen and alternative fuel technologies
• Large-scale heat pumps and sustainable infrastructure systems

The industries that Everllence serves are characterized by long product lifecycles, global operations, strict regulations, and increasing technical complexity. These factors pose challenges in lifecycle traceability, cross-functional collaboration, and the management of scalable product data.

The strategic shift toward decarbonization, alternative fuels, and energy-transition technologies has significantly increased the importance of connected lifecycle information.

Pain Points

Originally, Everllence’s PLM landscape focused on CAD and technical product development workflows. However, as more business functions began requiring access to product data, service organizations needed lifecycle visibility. Meanwhile, R&D teams wanted to develop additional capabilities based on engineering information.

We realized that many business-critical processes were no longer engineering- or CAD-heavy. We needed a simpler way to interact with product data.

Hans Michael Pedersen, IT manager PLM, Everllence

The challenges became increasingly visible:

• PLM workflows were difficult for non-engineering users to navigate
• Product information remained siloed across systems and departments
• Lifecycle activities relied on disconnected tools, Excel files, or local workflows
• New digital initiatives required broader access to structured product data
• Growing product and service complexity increased pressure on existing processes

To ensure its future potential in the shift toward sustainable technologies, the company needed a PLM environment that could support engineering and the broader enterprise. This environment would integrate commercial and operational departments, facilitating new services and business processes.

PLM Requirements

Everllence did not want to simply replace an existing system. The goal was to expand PLM capabilities into new business domains and establish a stronger digital thread throughout the organization. This required a platform that could:

• Make product data more accessible outside engineering
• Support enterprise-wide collaboration
• Simplify lifecycle workflows for non-technical users
• Enable scalable change management
• Support future digital services and innovation initiatives
• Provide flexibility for rapidly evolving business requirements

Usability became an increasingly important factor. In engineering-heavy PLM environments, users often need to understand complex structures, classifications, and highly specialized workflows just to interact with product data. For Everllence, this had become a limiting factor. The company needed a more intuitive approach that would allow users to focus on the data itself rather than the system’s complexity.

Aras Innovator offered a more accessible user experience than the existing PLM environment. But the real impact went beyond usability. By lowering barriers to product data, Everllence was able to involve new groups of users, connect lifecycle activities across functions, and extend PLM far beyond its traditional engineering audience. Service teams, operational departments, and other non-engineering users could now work directly with product information, workflows, and lifecycle processes. This ease of use played a major role in expanding PLM adoption across the enterprise and encouraging teams to develop new ideas and applications around product data that had never been possible before.

The result was a foundation for rethinking established processes and adopting a more holistic view of the business, one that is no longer confined to a single department or silo.

It’s more than a transformation; it is a growth story for us.

Hans Michael Pedersen

Successes with Aras Innovator

Everllence first introduced Aras Innovator alongside its legacy PLM environment, initially using it to make released engineering data accessible to around 100 users. Gradually, the capabilities and usage expanded considerably, evolving into the primary platform for broader lifecycle collaboration across departments.

What followed was not simply the rollout of another PLM platform. As more business functions gained access to product and lifecycle data, Everllence began to uncover opportunities that had previously gone unnoticed. New use cases emerged, new workflows were developed, and teams began building capabilities that were never part of the original plan. What began as a modernization initiative gradually evolved into a broader transformation of how product knowledge is used across the enterprise.

Today, Aras supports approximately 1,300 users across Everllence, significantly expanding PLM participation beyond traditional engineering teams. More importantly, the platform has enabled new groups of users to engage with product and lifecycle information, extending PLM into areas that had previously operated outside the lifecycle process. And the number keeps growing as the company continues to add new users regularly.

For non-engineering users, it’s a much better way to interact with product data.

Mohammed Minai, IT Product Owner PLM, Everllence

As adoption increased, Everllence began integrating additional lifecycle processes into Aras, including change management, classification, requirements management, and service-oriented PLM workflows. Engineering change management became one of the most important operational use cases. Previously, workflows were fragmented and spread across disconnected tools, Excel files, and local processes. Today, they are integrated into a unified lifecycle process covering:

• Technical approvals
• Cost estimation
• Execution planning
• Coordination of global field activities

This allows Everllence to manage changes across complex, long-lifecycle industrial systems in a more connected and transparent way.

The most significant outcome was not planned from the beginning. As product data became accessible to more users and functions, teams began to identify previously unnoticed opportunities and propose new applications, workflows, and ways of using lifecycle information. New service concepts emerged directly from the business, driven by people who had access to the data for the first time rather than by IT initiatives.

Once people have access to the data, they come up with ideas that we never expected.

Mohammed Minai, IT Product Owner PLM, Everllence

Results

A fundamental change in the way Everllence thinks about product data is evident. Processes that once existed in silos are now managed within a unified lifecycle environment. Functions that previously had little to no access to meaningful product information are now doing far more than simply consuming data. They are building on it, proposing new ideas, and driving initiatives.

This shift is also reflected in the company’s development model. While PLM development was once concentrated in a larger legacy environment, Everllence now maintains a focused, agile team of ten Aras specialists who continuously expand platform capabilities and support a growing number of business initiatives. Consequently, the volume of PLM-related projects has grown significantly, rising from approximately one project per year to multiple.

Most importantly, Everllence has made a strategic decision: all future PLM development will be built on Aras. What started as an additional platform has evolved into the foundation of the company’s future PLM landscape and a key enabler of ongoing digital transformation.

What we put into Aras grows.

Mohammed Minai, IT Product Owner PLM, Everllence

Looking Ahead

The transition at Everllence is not finished. If anything, the pace is accelerating: requirements management, broader lifecycle governance, and service-related PLM capabilities are all on the roadmap. The company is also expanding beyond internal collaboration by transitioning from SharePoint-based data sharing to a connected portal that integrates customers and suppliers directly into the product data environment. As Everllence pushes further into decarbonization technologies, such as hydrogen, carbon capture, and large-scale heat pumps, product and service complexity will only grow. Lifecycle data is becoming more strategic with every step of that journey.

We live off data, not products. Data is our business.

Hans Michael Pedersen