Basics of Aras Mark-up Language and NASH

Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH.  Continue Reading

Automating Transfer of SmarTeam Vault Data

With every upgrade to ENOVIA SmarTeam (not to mention upgrades to CAD, Office and database platforms) there’s no question about the benefits of building a test environment for validation prior to a production roll-out.  An important piece of building a test environment is a properly configured test vault.  Quite often, a successful test doesn’t require a complete copy of the entire production vault, so let’s take a look at a simple process to copy specific files from a production system to a test environment on demand.  Continue Reading

Preparing Your Design Automation for PDM

The purpose of Design Automation (DA) is to more quickly and easily generate the vast amount of outputs that are derived from design data like drawings, models, quotes, proposals, calculation sheets, etc. Of course, it should all be managed; preferably in a Product Data Management (PDM) system. However you choose to manage your data, whether with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, ENOVIA SmarTeam, SolidWorks Workgroup PDM, or Skippy the Intern, you need a plan. And you need your Design Automation implementation to be designed with PDM in mind. Continue Reading

PLM-ERP Communication with ENOVIA SmarTeam

The automated exchange of data between a PLM system and an ERP system is a goal many organizations spend a considerable amount of effort trying to achieve.  Most of the time, there are significant customizations involved with this effort.  ENOVIA SmarTeam’s Engineering Express (SNE) solution provides provides some out-of-the-box tools to help you achieve PLM-ERP communication with very little (if any) customization.

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64-bit Oracle Support for ENOVIA SmarTeam

The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 SP1.  However, saying that a client-server application supports 64-bit machines can mean a number of different things.  Let’s take a closer look at how 64-bit Oracle is supported in an ENOVIA SmarTeam environment.  Continue Reading

ARAS Innovator 9.1 SP6 Compatibility

Early in January 2010, ARAS released Service Pack 6 for version 9.1 of their Innovator product, making it available to subscription holders.  In addition to resolving a number of issues, Service Pack 6 added support for Windows 7 clients to their compatibility list.  Continue Reading

Action-Packed SolidWorks World 2010

For those of you not able to attend SolidWorks World 2010 in Anaheim, CA earlier this year, let us recap some of the most significant events related to the show.  As usual, SolidWorks lined up a number of interesting and motivational speakers (James Cameron, James McLurkin, Jeff Ray, and Bernard Charles).  There were also a handful of product and technology announcements related to PDM and Design Automation that made this year particularly interesting.  Continue Reading