Aras Community Event 2026--Rise of the Agents

About this episode

Gary Mintchell summarizes his experience at the Aras community event, discussing advancements in PLM and the use of LLMs in data management.

A first summary of my three days with the Aras community in Miami. These PLM events always return me to the time when I did this sort of work--manually. Then my first taste of computers digitizing the bill of materials as a first step in our data management journey. Unfortunately, that company hit a big bump in the road and I was invited to try other things--at other companies. Aras product managers showed how LLMs trained on the data within the app along with proper governance worked with agents to perform a number of tasks. Tasks in many cases that would require days of pain-staking work from a human. While I heard from an analyst in the market that they thought this was all painfully slow, I'd offer the thought that a company does not want to outpace its customers. Most will not want to jump into the deep end immediately. As always, this podcast was sponsored by Ignition from Inductive Automation.

Topics covered

• PLM
• data management
• LLMs
• automation

Keywords

• Aras
• Miami
• agents
• governance

Sponsors

Ignition from Inductive Automation

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Aras

Places: Miami

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