Infor Cloud PLM for Discrete Manufacturers: What’s under the hood?

Infor is widely known as an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor with its extended portfolio in CRM (customer relationship management), SCM (supply chain management) and other enterprise software products. Over the years, Infor has been expanding its PLM portfolio mostly by acquisition to serve specific industries. It acquired Formation Systems in 2005 that led to its Optiva PLM process solution and Lawson for fashion PLM.

 Last year Infor  announced the partnership with  Aras  for its PLM product specifically for discrete manufacturers. Instead of acquiring or organically building this product, Infor partnered with Aras to rebrand the Aras PLM solution set as Infor PLM Innovator. Aras also announced that Infor has licensed the Aras PLM platform and solution suite.  Infor launched it as "Infor PLM Accelerate". It is available on premise as well as single tenant/private cloud. Infor PLM Discrete focuses on the needs of aerospace and defense, industrial manufacturers and automotive manufacturers.

The ION framework under the Infor’s PLM solution enables integration with core Infor ERP hubs such as LN, SyteLine, M3 and VISUAL. Customers also get social/collaborative support with Social Space and Infor Ming.le. Infor Accelerate from Aras is integrated with ERP and multiple CAD products. Users can expect the CAD integration to have same capabilities as offered by Aras. The ERP-PLM-CAD integration gives customers deep flexibility across engineer-to-order(ETO) and assemble-to-order (ATO) manufacturing. Infor PLM Discrete uses Infor 10x technology to integrate with Infor solutions and third-party applications, including ERP and CAD systems

Infor has taken the right approach to bring the best of its knowledge from ERP and other enterprise manufacturing software supporting experience in its Infor PLM Discrete. By rebranding the core Aras PLM solution set, Infor is bringing the best of discrete manufacturing PLM knowledge from Aras and merging it with Infor’s enterprise software . Users should expect a differentiated offering that is not built just around transactional data required in an enterprise, but that also brings core PLM specific functions required by manufacturers.

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