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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…
Low cost solution but still room for improvents
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Arena PLM and QMS Superior Document Control
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Arena PLM and QMS use for document control
Great system for a medium sized company!
We aim to use it for all products we produce
Arena PLM and QMS — a near-perfect choice for Medical Device manufacturers
Arena PLM and QMS in a medical device company
Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
Arena PLM and QMS is a purpose-built solution - just make sure you have a purpose before purchase!
Arena is easy to use.
Arena PLM & QMS - Stellar Product
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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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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 |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-3 of 3)Arena - a great resource for document control and quality processes
- Arena does a great job with creating a Bill of Materials and makes it really easy to access that information. It can be presented in many different ways to highlight critical information.
- Arena makes it easy for users to see outstanding action items and to see the progress of a change order or quality process.
- Arena provides a good user interface for training.
- Arena lacks the capability to edit documents within its interface and requires users to upload new versions of documents when changes are made. This makes it a bit more challenging to collect and implement reviewer feedback
- Arena's requirement tracking world does not have the proper functionality we need and was not useful for us.
- Arena has improved traceability of quality processes and change control signoff status to allow us to better track these processes and improve their timelines.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
We evaluated Omnify as another option to use instead of Arena. I believe the functionalities are similar but more people at the company had experience with Arena than Omnify. We also evaluated Veeva since we use that for our clinical trials but the pricing and functionality was not the right match for us.
- Quality module (NCMRs/CAPA)
- Bill of materials
- ECOs
- Project
- Requirements
Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
- Having partners and suppliers be part of ECOs throughout their lifecycle
- Sharing procedures and documents in real-time anywhere at any time
- Provide a secure area for our documents and designs
- Ease of use and support
- Some mass edit features could be added, such as changing suppliers in sourcing for all affected parts when a semiconductor company acquires another company but keeps the same part numbers...currently parts need to be changed individually.
- It has reduced our New Product Introduction time by releasing BOMs, parts, and documents faster and more efficiently to all our suppliers and partners simultaneously.
- Time to market has been faster and more efficient also; processes and procedures are clear and easy to follow.
- Different suppliers and partners access
- Integration of merger and acquisition entities database into Arena
- Fast and easy roll out of licenses at overseas locations
- Recognition of Arena when applying for ISO certification/renewal
- Use of Arena in conjunction with other software/tools such as SolidWorks, Silicon Expert, etc.
- Implemented in-house
- Training
- Getting used to the environment.
- Online Training
- Searches with Advance fucntion
- BOM Compare
- Redline feature
- Searching for ECO title in an ECO list opened in a screen...ECO title width limited and truncates part of the title
Arena PLM & QMS - Stellar Product
- Extremely easy to configure, not cumbersome or overpowering, big plus with todays technology, meets your individual companies needs
- Onboarding Suppliers and CMs extremely effective ensuring our communication strategy is on track
- Cloud based, portable, access from anywhere, with no constraints
- Communicates in easy to understand nomenclature, straight forward, concise and clear
- Users can easily access information basically at their fingertips, without deep dives to try to find what they need. Tying reference items to each other ensures all the needed documentation is in one place.
- Would be nice to be able to add graphics and images on the change order specification page, for better clarify
- Implementation of a change after it is effective is lacking visibility, and has to be managed manually
- QMS could be a bit more streamlined, so there are not so many steps
- When an upgrade is done, it can change areas where you were not expecting to be changed and it may not be something I wanted changed
- When configuring an advanced supplier to an item, if that supplier is already configured, they should not show up as a new selection
- Duplicating an item, where the same supplier is used has an error when it is selected, few too many steps are added to get the results needed
- When adding users or suppliers to a change, their whole account information takes up a good majority of the screen, this is not needed, only the user name should be visible for easy access
- Approvers or comments only personnel used to be very easy to add, employees and suppliers are now separated, more steps involved, when it used to be simple and consice
- Our overall business objectives have improved ten fold, information has been communicated quickly and most importantly effectively
- Ensuring on time delivery of product to market, coinciding with our announcement of our product launch, no delays
- Quality has important information at their finger tips and can supply to needed departments quickly, and effectively, items are clearly defined and traceable
- Company information is all in once place, not on personal computers, or on a server that only a few people can access, tradeoffs are tremendous to ensure the integrity that the information stored is correct, and easily available
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Dotting t's and crossing i's
- Reviewing the legacy data to ensure it's accuracy
- Not everything was setup as I thought it would be
- Had to do back ground configurating, and some didn't work as I expected
- Online Training
- Item creation, creating new categories, creating new users, creating new approval groups
- I was asked to generate a list of our top level part numbers in Excel, not the BOM, just the part numbers, and after my search, was able to export these found items, and whalah, success!
- Basically exporting a BOM in Excel, pick and choose what I do not want to show, it's great, or if I needed a quick BOM for reference, can create it in PDF form
- Adding suppliers to a change for approval, along with users, too many clicks to get the desired result
- The Reports tab, really hard to get my desired results, so I don't use it
- The quick search bar is gone, lots of wasted space now, where in the past, everything was across the top, now, it's drop down, and not very user friendly
- Compliance, so we don't use it
- None at this time
- Yes, Solidworks
- None that I can think of
- Hoping that some of the feedback I sent will be taken seriously and implemented