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Arena PLM and QMS

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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

Arena PLM and QMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Arena Bill of Materials (BOM) Management. Indented BOM displaying "in production" item status.Screenshot of Arena Engineering Change Management.  Engineering Change Order (ECO) approval with redlines.Screenshot of Arena Projects. Project schedule with status and progress.Screenshot of Arena Quality. Quality process showing a Corrective Action Report (CAR) with the issue details, affected items, and resolution progress/status.Screenshot of Arena Requirements. Tracks requirements and related product development issues for a complete product picture.

Arena PLM and QMS Videos

Arena’s product-centric quality management system (QMS) software helps medical device manufacturers to deliver safe and compliant products to market faster. By connecting quality management processes to the product record, Arena helps distributed teams improve visibility and t...
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Arena PLM addresses modern product development challenges by bringing product information, people, and processes together into a single Cloud system to speed product development and commercialization. Through better visibility and enhanced collaboration, internal product teams...
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Arena PLM for AWS GovCloud helps companies that are subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ensure defense-related technologies are controlled, and, if exported, are done so only with proper export licenses.
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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena is well suited for document control and quality system processes. It allows for really great traceability of documents and parts and can create easy to read Bill of Materials with important details. The change control process is well defined and has good built in options to notify users when they need to approve a document. Additionally, the quality world allows for easy tracking of the progress of a quality process. Arena also allows linking of items to changes and quality processes so that users always know which file is the most up to date and what issues are associated with any given part.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think it is useful for a large-scale production company where you need to ensure uniformity of content, updates, and procedural data.

In my opinion, it is less useful for rapid changes, ease of use, and limiting frustrations across touchpoints.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM is well suited for part number, BOM and file management. Processing changes (ECNs, ACOs, DCO's, etc.) in Arena is very easy to do and provides great visibility on the status of submitted requests. The ability to communicate with Suppliers and grant them access to files in Arena is extremely helpful.

Arena does not appear to be the best suited system for managing software.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The arena would be well suited for any size company. Many different industries could use Arena, but I think there are several that are not as well suited. An industry that requires heavy regulation and quality assurance documents might be better off with a dedicated QMS system separate from a PLM. For example, a GMP manufacturing facility with many SOPs, policies, and test methods.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The implementation of highly effective quality processes, encompassing a meticulously designed change control process that offers the flexibility of customization, presents an opportunity for the incorporation of a comprehensive task management system that can seamlessly accommodate and enhance all aspects of these processes, extending to the management of tasks within Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), thereby contributing significantly to overall operational efficiency and quality enhancement endeavors.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion, the Document Management capabilities of Arena PLM and QMS need to be enhanced where it becomes a true electronic Document Management System (eDMS) allowing for the maintenance of Templates, the creation of Drafts, and a true document workflow including review, collaboration, and approval.

I also think the Quality Processes created in Arena PLM and QMS need to have the ability to have drop-down attributes created which list other Quality Processes and can update in real-time as those Quality Processes change. For example, when opening a new Complaint using the custom Complaint Handling Quality Process, the created drop-down attribute for the CAPA Quality Process would be updated to reflect the current list of CAPA Quality Processes such that the Complaint may be "linked" to one or more CAPAs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion, Arena PLM and QMS is well suited for products with a limited amount of parts, and making changes were multiple impacted assemblies are made. It is not suited for projects/ changes to be worked on by multiple people at a time, as there is no autosave feature, and one person can work on a page at a time. I think Arena PLM and QMS is well suited for scenarios needing linking multiple quality events together.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is well suited for companies that already have some sort of structure in place, and a clean migration is possible. We came from a merged company who should have really spent a number of months (years, maybe) cleaning up our system before implementation. I believe Arena PLM and QMS is poorly suited for companies that have no structure. Its out of the box solutions are not very well defined and it really takes an on-site power user to define them at a later date when a company would have a better hold on what they need Arena PLM and QMS to do. Integrations is a huge deal for our company, and there isn't as many default options you can select or test run without purchase.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Arena PLM and QMS] ties all the departments you want to be collaborating with together, facilitates information effectively, clearly and quickly. With manufacturing overseas, time factor is imperative, the information is waiting for them when they start their day. If something is not captured and locked in Arena, there is no tie back to trace a problem that may have occurred, it is hearsay, and hard to identify. With Arena, there are no questions, it is locked, communicated and all parties are notified. Arena may not be suited for sensitive items, even though users can be limited for viewing, there could be a potential for missing an item.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My experience using Arena so far to incorporate electrical components and synchronize the component database has been smooth sailing. Being able to automatically sync BOMs from our PCB design tool is a useful feature that also allows easy integration with supply chain and sharing with vendors. It seems the electrical design workflow has different needs from mechanical workflows, for example, where having flexibility with the revision control and numbering scheme becomes very handy (for example, a BOM for a circuit assembly may have components change but not the overall design- getting to name a rev however we want, 1.1, lets say, and not being locked into a fixed number or lettering scheme saves a lot of time and work so we don't have to go back to the design software and recreate the design output files with a whole new rev. This may have something to do with the particular way my organization has Arena set up, but it was nice to be able to find a compromise since mechanical items are not managed in that way.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Arena PLM and QMS] does a great job of allowing me to look up and find linked documents. It is hard for me to say if the system itself is the cause of frustrations or if it is just how our company set it up during the initial launch. In any case, I don't have enough knowledge of the system to personally recommend it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think for companies who are looking to scale and expand their efficiency especially with a large number of suppliers truly can benefit from Arena. I would say small start ups could still use but not gain the same degree of usefulness, especially if they are single source suppliers.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS are particularly well suited to manage the QMS processes as you can create as many templates of processes to the purpose you want. The management of multiple products configuration is easy to do. But, Arena QMS is less appropriate to management trace requirements when the design is not frozen since the mass import of requirements from a file is not possible.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Arena PLM and QMS is ok if you need internet browser-based, login-from anywhere, cloud-backed-up PLM/QMS service for your company, AND you don't mind being locked into a per-user-account (no sharing accounts) subscription service with no commitments to receiving user interface efficiency or bug improvements (that just seems to be the nature of most IT subscription services). Your daily/annual usage needs to justify the subscription price and your willingness to hand over your entire data system handling to a subscription service. It certainly is nice for some companies. If you're a very small company; you might want to go with lower cost, more manually maintained & administrated systems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena is an effective tool for maintaining control of all documents. It's very user-friendly. If I wasn't in a regulated industry that didn't require such strict controls, Arena might be too powerful.
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