The Right Tool to Lead the Race

Minerva PLM, powered by Aras and Aras Innovator offer a resilient Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform that tackles the challenges of today’s fast-paced environment in the global automotive industry.

Both, Minerva PLM  and Aras Innovator provide comprehensive PLM functionality in a single solution, enabling automotive companies to connect global product development across mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software disciplines.  

Go beyond classic product document management (PDM) and manage multiple, complex bills of materials, synchronize EBOM’s and MBOM’s, and tackle rule-based variant management, while supporting global manufacturing and supply chains. 

By combining the flexibility and scalable architecture of Aras Innovator and the out-of-the-box industry-specific templates of Minerva PLM, organizations can easily manage increasing customer expectations for new vehicles, with shrinking material availability, while satisfying global market regulations and consumer buying patterns and package options.

Key benefits for the automotive industry 

Minerva PLM and Aras Innovator are easy to use, mobile-enabled, and deploy in your data center or in the cloud with defense-grade security and federated integration capabilities.

Because of their open software platform, companies can integrate cross-discipline design authoring tools directly or via legacy PLM/PDM/ALM systems. Other benefits include:

Work seamlessly together

Link and automate cross-discipline BOM and change management processes to reduce errors and shorten change cycles

Streamlines supply chain collaboration 

Improve product information access for suppliers with packages or direct login to speed time to estimate and reduce product launch cycles

Ensure product quality

Seamless management of processes improves decision making with real-time delivery of the latest product information to enterprise teams

A full suite of solutions for the Automotive industry

A full suite of solutions for the Automotive industry from requirements to variant management, project management, component engineering, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), FMEA, process planning, and technical documentation maximizes value and return under one easy to use interface.

How can Minerva help you generate measurable value?

Our software solutions and approach to digitalization enable automotive companies to identify and address their biggest business challenges. With Minerva PLM out-of-the-box functionalities and Aras Innovator flexible and scalable platform, you have proven industry solutions unlocking financial improvements all around: 

Increase revenue

Increase on-time delivery, reduce scrap and rework to drive customer satisfaction with instant access to key data

Faster time-to-market

Innovate products faster by integrating data, people, processes, and technology across the enterprise

Reduce costs

Manage costs across the value chain through real-time monitoring and connected analytics solutions

How each role benefits from PLM: