Canvas GFX, Razorleaf Partner for PLM-Integrated Visualization Solutions

Canvas GFX, a provider of interactive digital work instructions solutions, and Razorleaf, a global systems integrator and consulting services provider specializing in PLM, announced a partnership to deliver advanced, PLM-integrated digital work instructions and 3D visualization to manufacturing organizations.

The collaboration initiates an integration between the Canvas Envision digital work instruction solution and the Aras Innovator PLM platform. This integration will provide manufacturers with customizable instructional content based on current PLM product data for shop floor and MRO teams.

Razorleaf's CLOVER data integration platform will power the integrations, ensuring PLM data is connected and flowing into Canvas GFX's visualization and interactive content platform. This connection will allow aligning operations with changing design engineering data.

Eric Doubell, CEO at Razorleaf commented: “Partnering with Canvas GFX opens the door for a sustained, technical relationship enabling manufacturers to transform training and instructional experiences using advanced visualization and interactive content. This content leverages critical engineering data managed within PLM to support the creation and usage of instructional and interactive content on the shop floor. Connectivity powered by our CLOVER data integration platform allows Canvas Envision to be integrated within existing development and manufacturing workflows, ensuring that data is always current, learning always accurate, and rapid transfer of essential tribal knowledge guaranteed.”

“How manufacturers train and guide the new manufacturing workforce to operate effectively is critical to success,” commented Patricia Hume, CEO of Canvas GFX. “This cannot happen in isolation from rapidly evolving product data, and that requires that the creation and consumption of instructional content which is directly linked to the PLM as the source of product truth. We are delighted to partner with the experts at Razorleaf to make this happen and thrilled that an integration with Aras Innovator is how we are marking the launch of this new relationship.”