Arena - a great resource for document control and quality processes
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What is Arena PLM and QMS?
Arena, a PTC business, helps companies to design, produce, and deliver innovative products with a unified cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena understands modern product companies rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance…
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What is Arena PLM and QMS?
Arena, a PTC business, helps companies to design, produce, and deliver innovative products with a unified cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena understands modern product companies rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance (FDA,…
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What is Arena PLM and QMS?
Arena, a PTC business, helps companies to design, produce, and deliver innovative products with a unified cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena understands modern product companies rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance (FDA, ISO, ITAR, EAR, and environmental compliance), and respond to customer demands.
Arena states that they have more than 1,400 global high-tech electronics and medical device customers. Companies with complex products comprised of electrical, mechanical, and software designs need a single system to collaborate in real-time. Arena enables every participant throughout the entire product lifecycle to work together–increasing visibility and traceability. This helps to accelerate new product development (NPD) and new product introduction (NPI) by streamlining processes, automating review cycles, and reducing errors to increase profitability.
Arena PLM and QMS Features
- Supported: BOM Management
- Supported: Engineering Change Management
- Supported: Supply Chain Collaboration
- Supported: Quality Management
- Supported: Training Management
- Supported: 3D Visualization
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Siemen's Teamcenter (also sold by SAP), Arena PLM & QMS, and OpenBOM are some of the most preferred product lifecycle management tools by users.
Arena PLM and QMS Integrations
- NetSuite ERP
- SAP Business ByDesign
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- QAD Adaptive ERP
- Zendesk Suite
- SOLIDWORKS
- Octopart
- Expandable
- SiliconExpert
- Sage 100
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Altium Designer
- 1Factory
- OrCAD
- Acumatica
- Jira Software
- FlowEQ
- Onshape
- Microsoft Dynamics AX, discontinued
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- CADTALK
- Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
- Razorleaf CLOVER
- Siemens EDA Calibre
- Green Data Exchange (GDX)
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Arena PLM and QMS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM, MasterControl Quality Excellence, and Teamcenter are common alternatives for Arena PLM and QMS.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of Arena PLM and QMS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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February 23, 2024
Arena - a great resource for document control and quality processes
Arena has allowed us to streamline processes related to the QMS to improve turnaround time and visibility across the organization. The most important lesson I've learned is to continue to explore arenas functionalities to integrate more processes or improve existing processes. There are many built in settings that were very useful but were not originally being used.
August 28, 2023
Driving a project with Arena
In the realm of inspections and audits for Medical Devices manufacturers, this remarkable tool proves to be invaluable by enabling a heightened state of reactivity, efficacy, and dependability, particularly essential within the intricate landscape of the Medical Devices sector where uncompromising meticulousness and accuracy in furnishing information and substantiating evidence are rigorously demanded.
August 17, 2023
Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
Introducing new product lines/new business unit integrations. We have had 3 major product integrations in the past 5 years, all of which were different in their challenges and from where we started. Arena was able to analyze our different needs and propose alternate solutions adapted to our needs. Most of these have increase the speed in which we were able to input parts/documents/BOM's and data from different systems and software. In some cases, we even had special tools developed on the fly especially for us which were life savers for us, one experience come to mind when Doug Johnston from Arena, developped a quick dBase tool that permitted us to load new parts and BOM's quickly and efficiently from an Archaic Excel format!
March 22, 2023
Arena PLM & QMS - Stellar Product
Since I had used it in a previous company, I knew its benefits, and was able to communicate them to my peers and get them excited about it as I was. Just dive in, the water's fine!!! Don't be afraid to configure a new path with something, it's all continual improvements!!
July 06, 2022
Arena for Quality System Management
Planning the integration and expansion of new modules is advantageous.
December 08, 2020
Good but needs improvement !
When I started with arena I was new to implementing quality management systems. The customer support and training has been an excellent source to set up your quality systems and helps you along the way. After you get used to as in any QMS Arena is a very straight forward tool for most of our needs.
November 14, 2020
An AREnA with no conflict
I've used Arena to successfully route change orders to back up personnel for different departments when the primary approver is out of office or unavailable at the moment. This option helps in tight situations to meet deadlines and provides less of a hassle to depend on only one approver for each change. Auditors are also very accepting of Arena's thorough validation documentation that captures system updates and changes throughout the year.
Most important lessons include taking the time to set up the correct categories and types of changes in Arena so that it is easy to understand and use for all change initiators and Arena users. Set up a numbering system that you can be consistent with. Attend the webinars that Arena hosts to go over system updates--you can also ask questions about updates, they are very informative.
Most important lessons include taking the time to set up the correct categories and types of changes in Arena so that it is easy to understand and use for all change initiators and Arena users. Set up a numbering system that you can be consistent with. Attend the webinars that Arena hosts to go over system updates--you can also ask questions about updates, they are very informative.
November 13, 2020
Good Software for Changes and Quality Management
Arena has been great for streamlining the engineering change approval process. It has made it so that everyone can review these changes on their own time and make an informed decision about whether or not to approve the change. One tip I have learned is to search with the * wildcard.
For example, if I'm looking for our AC Power Adapter but I can't remember if it's logged as "AC Power Adapter" or just "AC adapter" I can search AC*adapter and find it
For example, if I'm looking for our AC Power Adapter but I can't remember if it's logged as "AC Power Adapter" or just "AC adapter" I can search AC*adapter and find it
November 10, 2020
Excellent PLM with Excellent Customer Support
Successfully implemented change orders. It's a good bare-bones option, no frills.
November 10, 2020
I love Arena!
Arena has made it easy to search and retrieve documents. It allows us to track revisions and keep track of approvals. The biggest lesson was to have flexibility when setting up systems to make them work the best for the application.
November 22, 2019
Arena - Best for the price
Arena Plays a role in ensuring you are building what you think you are building. To ensure the system is used properly you need to set expectations across the organization on how it should be used and ensure these guidelines are followed.
November 20, 2019
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Arena has provided our organization with a robust and easy to use PLM solution. It provides system administrators tools for quick configuration updates with low overhead. I have however, learned that Arena's simplicity also hinders its scaling capabilities and needs a major revamping of its architecture to provide modern integration capabilities with other systems. I will say this though, seems like the company has been redefining their product roadmap, and consequently have been putting great effort in making small but impactful changes to the product on regular scheduled updates.
November 19, 2019
Arena PLM
We were able to introduce an entire QMS within Arena, and incorporate nonconformances, auditing, CAPA (8D and 5D), as well as create numerous metric tables for our organization to use.
The hardest part was having to architect everything from scratch, but Arena was great with support. You are limited by certain factors (i.e. lack of deliverables) if Arena doesn't have it on their platform. They can create it, but it does take time.
The hardest part was having to architect everything from scratch, but Arena was great with support. You are limited by certain factors (i.e. lack of deliverables) if Arena doesn't have it on their platform. They can create it, but it does take time.
November 19, 2019
Short and simple.
We've successfully used Arena to achieve compliance with our medical customers' requirements for device history records. Arena allows us to store the entire revision history of an assembly, as well as related requirements, test documents, procedures, meeting notes, and customer communications via the Project module. This is also invaluable, as it satisfies numerous requirements for ISO 9001 certification.
November 19, 2019
Arena in a small company environment
Yes, Arena has been helpful in helping us keep track of our products.
The most important lesson learned is that it is very important to have good processes in place that integrate Arena use. Without defined processes Arena is just another database, though Arena does help guide those processes.
The most important lesson learned is that it is very important to have good processes in place that integrate Arena use. Without defined processes Arena is just another database, though Arena does help guide those processes.
November 19, 2019
Straightforward PLM software
1. Setting a solid process from the get go (use of projects/quality/training, deciding on milestones, product revision)
2. Ensuring to hire a professional to perform the integration with the ERP, consultants who have deep knowledge of the NPI, PLM process rather than technical knowledge of the software.
2. Ensuring to hire a professional to perform the integration with the ERP, consultants who have deep knowledge of the NPI, PLM process rather than technical knowledge of the software.