

Aras Innovator Version 7 offers engineers quality planning capabilities as well as enhanced program management and product engineering capabilities. Version 7 includes Microsoft reporting services to ensure simple and rapid custom reporting. The software is designed to combine preproduction quality preparation for supply chain readiness with standard product lifecycle management capabilities. Using a process-based approach, the software allows engineers to identify and overcome new product reliability risks and ensure quality during the product development process. Additional features include quality planning functionality for failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), manufacturing process flow diagrams, inspection and test control plans, and graphical scorecard KPI metric customization capabilities. The software uses integrated Web templates and libraries to standardize practices and feed information through the process. A design-to-goal feature defines and tracks target, estimated, and actual values based on dynamically calculated roll-ups. Based on CMII principles for configuration management, the change management workflow function ensures compliance with quality standards. Version 7 incorporates the Project Management Institute's PMI principles for project management and supports both sequentially and concurrent product program phases and scheduling. Built on Microsoft .NET technology, Version 7 includes all product engineering and quality planning deliverables in each ongoing new product program. Thanks to its model-based, service-oriented architecture, the software can be easily tailored to support a company's unique practices. Pricing begins at $50,000.
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