Training Sessions @ ACE 2023

Take advantage of one of our excellent training opportunities at ACE on either pre conference (Monday) or during the regular conference days (Tuesday and Wednesday).  All Aras training classes are included with your registration fee, and are first come first served for seating.
 
To ensure the success of your Aras Innovator implementation we offer a range of training and educational options for individuals and organizations. Whether you're just starting out or ready to take it to the next level, we have a program that can help you improve productivity, enhance skills and drive business optimization.
 

Not sure if Aras is right for you? Attending a training class is an easy and inexpensive way to learn how Aras Innovator can improve and enhance your company's business processes.

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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Systems Thinking For Dummies: Find Out What The Buzz Is All About In Straightforward and Simple Terms

Systems Thinking is critical to managing today’s complex products because of the increasing software content, pervasive connectivity, customer demand for personalization, and the importance of services delivered via these products. It is about people, processes, data, and tools—in that sequence—and because of that it is central to the long-term success of digital transformation initiatives. It’s scope and impact go well beyond the complex world of systems engineering and their specialized MBSE tools. It is transformational like the Continuous Quality Improvement thinking championed by Edward Deming. While Aras can’t transform how people think in your organization or how you should transform your processes, we will explain through real life examples how PLM platform is instrumental in the data and tools part of this journey. By discussing the basic tenants of Systems Thinking, backing them up with real life examples, and tying it to the digital thread managed by a PLM system we will help you to be better informed on how and why to engage in Systems Thinking at your organization.

Variant Management

Audience: Application Users and Developers

Duration: 90 min

Aras has recently released Aras Innovator Variant Management application. You will gain an in-depth introduction to the new features of this application. Explore the capabilities of the Variant Management solution firsthand during this training session.  Students will learn about Variant Management in Aras Innovator, and directly perform exercises where variability is to be configured against a variable component configuration (I.e., 150% BOM).

In this hands-on session, you will explore:

  • Product Variability using Features, Options and Rules
  • Product Breakdown Structure
  • Configured Product Variant
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Systems Thinking For Dummies: Find Out What The Buzz Is All About In Straightforward and Simple Terms (Continued)

*continued*

Systems Thinking is critical to managing today’s complex products because of the increasing software content, pervasive connectivity, customer demand for personalization, and the importance of services delivered via these products. It is about people, processes, data, and tools—in that sequence—and because of that it is central to the long-term success of digital transformation initiatives. It’s scope and impact go well beyond the complex world of systems engineering and their specialized MBSE tools. It is transformational like the Continuous Quality Improvement thinking championed by Edward Deming. While Aras can’t transform how people think in your organization or how you should transform your processes, we will explain through real life examples how PLM platform is instrumental in the data and tools part of this journey. By discussing the basic tenants of Systems Thinking, backing them up with real life examples, and tying it to the digital thread managed by a PLM system we will help you to be better informed on how and why to engage in Systems Thinking at your organization.

What’s New in Aras Innovator R14-26

Audience: Application Users and System Administrators

Duration: 90 min

Aras Innovator has introduced some updates to released versions of R14-26. You will gain an in-depth introduction to the new UI and improved features of the Aras Innovator enterprise application framework.

In this hands-on session, Users will be introduced to the following new functions:

  • Edit Items in Main Search Grid
  • Configurable Background Page by Identity
  • New TOC Editor including custom TOC buttons, adding single items, view as Identity or localized content
  • Copy Item Keyed Name and Hyperlink from Title Bar
  • Claim Independent of Edit
  • Dashboards with Widgets including reusable widget templates
  • Multiple Named Grid Layouts Included with Favorite Searches
  • Tooltips for Properties in Grids and Forms
  • Set Tabs as Login View
  • Save and name multiple Layouts
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
DevOps Framework – Packaging and Continuous Integration

Audience: DevOps Engineers and Developers

Duration: 90 min

DevOps Framework is a methodology that allows one to do development in Innovator, with Source Control Management (Git), and Automated Building and Testing with Continuous Integration pipelines (Azure DevOps). In this hands-on session you will learn about packaging changes in Innovator, exporting them under source control, and executing the Continuous Integration pipeline:

  • Understand packaging in Aras Innovator
  • Differentiate between packaged changes and instance specific changes
  • Understand packaging in DevOps
  • Understand the Aras CI/CD baseline concept
  • Export changes for DevOps control
  • Understand the impact of changes in working directory vs staged or committed changes
  • Understand the creation of the production instance from source

You will also learn how to use Git Bash, and Git Extensions for basic source control operations.

2:35 PM - 3:20 PM
DevOps Framework – Packaging and Continuous Integration

Audience: DevOps Engineers and Developers

Duration: 90 min

DevOps Framework is a methodology that allows one to do development in Innovator, with Source Control Management (Git), and Automated Building and Testing with Continuous Integration pipelines (Azure DevOps). In this hands-on session you will learn about packaging changes in Innovator, exporting them under source control, and executing the Continuous Integration pipeline:

  • Understand packaging in Aras Innovator
  • Differentiate between packaged changes and instance specific changes
  • Understand packaging in DevOps
  • Understand the Aras CI/CD baseline concept
  • Export changes for DevOps control
  • Understand the impact of changes in working directory vs staged or committed changes
  • Understand the creation of the production instance from source

You will also learn how to use Git Bash, and Git Extensions for basic source control operations.

3:25 PM - 4:10 PM
DevOps Framework – Packaging and Continuous Integration (Continued)

*continued*

Audience: DevOps Engineers and Developers

Duration: 90 min

DevOps Framework is a methodology that allows one to do development in Innovator, with Source Control Management (Git), and Automated Building and Testing with Continuous Integration pipelines (Azure DevOps). In this hands-on session you will learn about packaging changes in Innovator, exporting them under source control, and executing the Continuous Integration pipeline:

  • Understand packaging in Aras Innovator
  • Differentiate between packaged changes and instance specific changes
  • Understand packaging in DevOps
  • Understand the Aras CI/CD baseline concept
  • Export changes for DevOps control
  • Understand the impact of changes in working directory vs staged or committed changes
  • Understand the creation of the production instance from source

You will also learn how to use Git Bash, and Git Extensions for basic source control operations.

4:40 PM - 5:25 PM
Variant Management

Audience: Application Users, System Administrators, and Developers

Duration: 45 min

Following a review of the key features of the recently released Variant Management application participants will directly perform exercises Features, Options and Rules are configured against a variable configuration to resolve to a specific variant (E.g., 150% ->100% BOM) on the provided Aras Innovator environments.

During this hands-on session, you will explore:

  • Introduction to Variant Management application’s key features and Data Model
  • Demonstrate Product Variability using Features, Options and Rules
  • Resolve and Inspect a Configured Product Variant
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
3D Visualization

Audience: Application Users

Duration: 45 min

Aras 3D Visualization (3DV) is a business-ready solution for converting and visualizing native 3D computer-aided design (CAD) files in Aras Innovator. Users upload 3D models from a CAD authoring tool into Aras Innovator as native 3D CAD files. The system automatically converts the uploaded native files into Stream Cache Single (SCS), 3D PDF viewable files, and other optional output formats. The users can view, manipulate, manage, and visually collaborate on the 3D models from the viewable files.

Each assembly 3D model contains a complex product structure that consists of multiple parts. The parts are also represented in the 3D models containing a viewable.

  • Learn to navigate the hierarchy of the model browser section
  • Become familiar with the 3DV toolbars for adding markup and navigating through the model
  • Understand the functionality of the model viewing mode
  • Zoom into child parts and make decisions to isolate of hide other components for easier visibility
  • Make selections to view as a wireframe, hide lines, or shade selected surfaces
  • Use the measure toolbar to add dimensions to include with markup
  • Capture markup and engage with visual collaboration and discussion threads
  • Create Saved Views
2:05 PM - 2:50 PM
Defining User Access with MAC Policies

Audience: System Administrator

Duration: 90 min

Mandatory Access Control (MAC) Policies are designed to allow you to create a set of rules to further control access to user information. These policies allow for dynamic control when determining item permissions based upon the properties of the current user and the item being affected

In this hands-on session, you will learn how to create a MAC Policy and define the logic used in a policy rule. Several use cases will be examined including defining access rights to an Item based on a user's geographic location. In addition, an Aras User Visibility policy will be created and activated to restrict a user from seeing information about other Identities associated with an item.

2:55 PM - 3:40 PM
Defining User Access with MAC Policies (Continued)

*continued*

Audience: System Administrator

Duration: 90 min

Mandatory Access Control (MAC) Policies are designed to allow you to create a set of rules to further control access to user information. These policies allow for dynamic control when determining item permissions based upon the properties of the current user and the item being affected

In this hands-on session, you will learn how to create a MAC Policy and define the logic used in a policy rule. Several use cases will be examined including defining access rights to an Item based on a user's geographic location. In addition, an Aras User Visibility policy will be created and activated to restrict a user from seeing information about other Identities associated with an item.

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