collaborative agreement between Aras Shapespace and Aessis

Aras Shapespace and Aessis will integrate the Shapespace Partbrowser Enterprise solution and the Aras Innovator enterprise open source PLM solution, after signing a collaborative agreement.

Both the integration and an advanced text search version of Shapespace Partbrowser will be made freely available as an Aras community solution in December 2009.

There will also be an option to upgrade to the advanced 3D search capabilities of Shapespace Partbrowser.

For the first time, this will put advanced and affordable 3D search capabilities into the hands of organisations, giving them the opportunity to improve part reuse, reduce part number counts, aggregate and consolidate bought-in parts and drastically reduce external spend.

To coincide with the release, Aessis and Shapespace have developed a strategic part communisation and reuse service that reduces material spend at engineering firms.

This service leverages the advanced PLM capabilities of Aras Innovator with 3D geometric search technology from Shapespace that automatically generates ‘geometric signatures’ for 3D CAD models.

The service reduces material spend and a comprehensive parts database of classified components so that, in future, engineers can browse and search by shape or attribute for components and reuse opportunities.

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