Introducing Nexus

An Applications Integration Platform for Engineering and Manufacturing Environments

Disconnected silos of data are the bane of business.  The more silos there are, the more work required to meet delivery schedules, keep the cost of quality in check, and achieve profitability.  These are all direct hits to the bottom line.

 What if you could establish an environment whereby standalone applications work together to look and behave as one integrated solution?  Parts, bills of materials, their documents and drawings could be automatically shared and/or exchanged at the right time to ensure everyone is on the same page, users wouldn’t be required to switch between applications to get the information, solutions could be left as-is, and there would be no need to “rip and replace” nor go through data warehousing or data lakes implementation exercises.

 Seamlessly connecting disparate silos of data is what Nexus achieves. The vdR Group is excited to officially introduce Nexus. 

 What is Nexus?

 Nexus is an enterprise connectivity solution that has been designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of companies engaged in engineering and manufacturing.  By facilitating the digital thread across disparate silos of data, Nexus ultimately helps organizations meet delivery commitments, lower the cost of quality, and achieve margin goals.

The illustration below highlights Nexus working with a myriad of application categories common to the product lifecycle of activities.

The categories represented in this figure include enterprise information management (EIM), building information management (BIM), product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), product data management (PDM), and manufacturing execution systems (MES).  Of course, there are others.  Each of these play a role and support and contribute to the product lifecycle.

 Simplify Enterprise Integrations

Nexus represents the next generation in application integration technology.  By combining application-ready connectors, workflow concepts, and preconfigured transaction templates, connecting various applications has never been easier.

Faster Time-to-Value

As noted in Figure 1 above, product lifecycle activities involve a broad spectrum of applications.  Nexus has anticipated their operational characteristics, infrastructure conditions, and access considerations to aid in significantly accelerating integration deployments.

Lower Cost of Ownership

 By adhering to the industry-standard REST (REpresentational State Transfer) application programming interface (API) conventions, Nexus ensures organizations can quickly adjust yet remain resilient to the inevitable downstream changes in technology trends and business climates.

 Stay Tuned! This is the first installment of an 8-part weekly series, exploring the Nexus enterprise application integration platform for engineering and manufacturing.