Aras InnovatorEdge AI: Governed AI Agents for Your Product Data in Aras Innovator

Aras InnovatorEdge AI (Edge AI) is a suite of services from Aras for building, running and governing AI agents on the product data in Aras Innovator. Aras has released a first set of agents that can be configured for your own Aras Innovator environment.

Aras InnovatorEdge AI at a glance

Foundation	The Aras InnovatorEdge cloud service; works with supported Aras Innovator releases, as SaaS or on your own infrastructure
Conversational agents	Used in the Aras AI Assistant inside Aras Innovator: Analytics and Insights, Knowledge Analysis
Task agents	Started by a user or by a defined condition: Requirements Ingestion, Smart Variant, BOM Assistant

Which problem does Edge AI solve?

Challenge: A general-purpose language model or stand-alone chatbot can summarise a document, but it does not know which revision is valid, which configuration a part belongs to or who is allowed to see what. What it does leaves no trace in the product record either.

Solution: Edge AI agents work on the governed product data in Aras Innovator and know product structures, configurations, changes and the lifecycle. That is why they can answer questions and take on tasks that a stand-alone chatbot cannot.

What do the first agents do?

Analytics and Insights: Ask about your product data in plain language, by voice or text, without knowing AML or SQL. The agent builds the query and turns the results into charts and summary figures.
Knowledge Analysis: Searches documents and other unstructured content by meaning and finds relationships that were never modelled, for example between a document and the part numbers it mentions.
Requirements Ingestion: Identifies the requirements in a PDF, Excel or Word specification, turns them into structured requirements in Aras Requirements Engineering and flags duplicates of existing ones.
Smart Variant: Analyses a large set of BOMs together with catalogues and order sheets and derives a variant model with features, options and rules. A route from engineer-to-order to configure-to-order.
BOM Assistant: Interprets the levels and indentation in a supplier’s Excel or PDF BOM and brings it into Aras Innovator as a standard structure, without manual mapping.

How do the agents stay under control?

The agent proposes, a person approves: data and relationships suggested by the task agents are only written to the product record once a user has approved them. Permissions, traceability and IP protection stay intact, and agents are governed, monitored and updated through the Edge AI services.

What is Fulvisol's role?

An agent is only as good as the data it works on. Fulvisol helps you choose the use cases, makes sure the data model and permissions support them, and configures the agents and integrations for your Aras environment. Edge AI is a new service, so we recommend starting with one clearly scoped use case on your own data.

Where Does Product Data Cost You the Most Manual Work?

Capturing requirements, supplier BOMs or managing variants? Tell us about your situation and we will walk through what Edge AI could do there.

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