Governed AI agents for product lifecycle management on Aras — an open, upgrade-safe PLM platform with an AI-ready digital thread. Sovereign by design, vendor-neutral, and run by your AI Center of Excellence.
Most AI in engineering is sold on what the software does. These are the three things that actually change — for your engineering team, for the numbers already in your development scorecard, and for the orders you can take.
Can your engineering and design staff supervise agentic change workflows — reviewing an AI-drafted change order or impact assessment, and rejecting one that misses a downstream manufacturing constraint the model cannot see? Counting AI-generated documents tells you nothing about design quality.
The measures engineering already owns: engineering change order cycle time, design cycle time and time-to-market, first-pass design yield, BOM accuracy, and the number of prototype iterations. These already sit in your development scorecard — that is where AI's contribution has to appear.
An upgrade-safe open digital thread makes configure-to-order and engineered-to-order variants economic at volumes that previously only justified standard products — so you can quote customers who needed bespoke and could not be served profitably. That's a new order type, not a faster version of the one you run now.
Levels 1 and 2 tell you the platform is working. Level 3 is the reason it was worth the investment.
PLM capabilities delivered as governed agents on an open Aras core — the work engineering teams actually do, automated with a human in the loop
Rapid application development with enterprise-class DevOps and CI/CD — customisations that stay upgrade-safe, never locking you out of the next release.
An extensible digital thread that serves as the governed data backbone for digital engineering and broader enterprise AI initiatives.
A unified platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering collaboration and integration.
Dynamic BOM resolution with advanced variability management and program-specific configuration control.
Comprehensive change control with impact analysis and agent-driven workflows — human approval at the gates, full audit trail underneath.
Multi-language support and distributed development capabilities for global product development teams.
A governed agentic layer on an open PLM core — Aras open architecture → upgrade-safe customisations → AI-ready digital thread → governed agents
Built on open APIs and standards on the Aras platform — no proprietary lock-in, so the digital thread connects to the CAD, ERP, and MES systems you already run.
Customisations are modelled in low-code and carried forward on every release — you stay current without re-implementing, never frozen on an old version.
An extensible, connected product-data backbone — the governed foundation that agents and analytics read from, with lineage end to end.
Agents act on the digital thread with a human in the loop and full audit trails — orchestrated across your tools, never a black box.
The security, sovereignty, and governance posture an engineering and risk team needs to see
Status is indicative and confirmed per engagement. This is an Aras-based open PLM; we are vendor-neutral and not an SAP partner. Certification letters available under NDA.
The outcomes engineering teams target — each tied to a real workflow. Figures are targets confirmed against your baseline, not guarantees.
Low-code build and a connected digital thread compress development cycles.
Lower total cost of ownership through efficient resource use and upgrade-safe customisation.
Agent-assisted workflows and intelligent process optimisation lift day-to-day efficiency.
Stay current regardless of customisation level — upgrades carry your work forward.
Enterprise-grade scale for global operations and large product-data estates.
A phased deployment that lands value early and keeps customisations upgrade-safe — not a big-bang rebuild
Weeks 1-3: analysis of PLM requirements, open-architecture design, and integration planning.
Weeks 4-6: core platform setup, low-code environment configuration, and initial application development.
Weeks 7-9: legacy data migration, CAD integration setup, and enterprise system connectivity.
Weeks 10-12: custom application and agent build, comprehensive testing, and user acceptance validation.
Weeks 13-15: comprehensive user training, production deployment, and go-live support.
Ongoing: continuous optimisation, new agent use-cases, and managed upgrade services.
Built first for the Australian enterprises where governance and sovereignty matter most
Australian manufacturers who need a connected, AI-ready digital thread with data and agents that stay onshore — sovereignty the global SIs underserve.
Teams running or moving to an open PLM platform who want low-code, upgrade-safe customisations and governed agents — never frozen on an old version.
Risk-sensitive enterprises that need Australian data residency, audit trails on every agent, and vendor-neutral, open-standards architecture from day one.
Aligned to Australia's Whole-of-Government Cloud posture and Hosting Certification Framework for sovereign workloads.
This platform runs on five CoE capabilities — strategy, people, agents, data, and governance. We design, deploy, and govern a clean-core-safe agentic layer that keeps your data sovereign in Australia and every agent auditable and cost-controlled.
Book a walkthrough with a PLM specialist — we'll map your engineering and change workflows and show where governed agents act on an open, upgrade-safe digital thread.