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Arena PLM and QMS

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

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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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration: Utilize the collaboration features to connect different teams and stakeholders involved in product development and quality management. Effective communication and collaboration can streamline processes and reduce errors.Document Management: Pay attention to the document management capabilities of the software. Properly organizing and managing documents, such as design files, specifications, and compliance documents, can help ensure regulatory compliance and smooth product development.
Normand Whitehead | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use and experiment with the advanced Arena filters. These offer a myriad search options using logical operations. One can literally find anything in Arena with 2, 3, or 4 filters...we have in the upwards of 30K different parts and BOM's in ARENA and we use these several time a day to quickly find (in less than 30 seconds) any component, part, document....etc that is part of our ARENA huge database.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Make use of customer service. They are extremely helpful and resourceful if you are trying to switch your QMS to arena. Make sure you play around in the test environment before implementing anything on the production environment. Take your time in transitioning between QMS as it might take a while before you stabilize on a new system.
November 14, 2020

An AREnA with no conflict

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Some tips would be to attend their webinar updates that thoroughly goes over what the update consists of and Q&A available. Use the Training workspace to try everything and anything just to test things out before conducting in Production, it is super helpful because things can go differently than what you had planned. If you aren't asking for the validation paperwork that comes with each update throughout the year, you should--Arena is very thorough with their validations and IOQ that it just makes documentation for users more convenient.
Vincent Fernando Juares | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
- The Change (ECO) redlining feature to see what spec, BOM, or Sourcing updates were made on an ECO, then being able to cycle through them is an awesome time saving feature.
- Being able to see manufacturing pn attachments, below the actual item attachments is also a blessing I haven't seen in other PLM tools.
November 19, 2019

Arena PLM

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Take the time to play with the system. It is very user friendly and can be curtailed to every company with time. It's like a large Myspace platform where the user was able to select things without really having to code very much so anyone can use it.

Knowing the backbone to the system is pivotal is allowing users to understand what options to make and how to make them.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Think about the Item Categories you want to use for organizing components, both logical and physical, for the products to be created. They can be changed over time, but coming as close as possible to the desired categories saves time and helps guide the process.
Also make sure you create process documents for how Arena is to be used in your organization.
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