Arena - a great resource for document control and quality processes
My company uses Arena for document control and for managing quality processes. This includes employee training, change control, NCMR, …
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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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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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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)
Arena PLM and QMS Competitors
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
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
I did not make the purchasing decision for Arena but I think we were swayed because of previous experience with the product and product features.
February 20, 2024
Low cost solution but still room for improvents
- Price
We are a small business, so Arena was attractive since it had a lower cost versus other PLM services.
September 29, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS Review
- Integration with Other Systems
We wanted the same system as our main supplier.
September 20, 2023
My Experience with Arena PLM
- Ease of Use
I was not employed at the company during this time, so I cannot comment, other than to say "ease of use" was certainly a consideration.
September 09, 2023
Review of Arena PLM and QMS.
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Arena needed to be able to integrate with other software tools currently established at the company. It is important for any new software to communicate with existing systems. It has an immediate and lasting effect on business operations and productivity.
September 02, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS Superior Document Control
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
As more and more documents are included on Arena PLM and QMS from our services, it gets harder to parse through. This becomes very simple with Arena PLM and QMS's document control which made it a favorable solution
August 28, 2023
Driving a project with Arena
- Other
The vast array of potential configurations that can be implemented in order to align the Arena with the multifaceted spectrum of activities undertaken by the company, thereby ensuring its adherence and harmonization with the diverse operational aspects and requirements thereof. Quality process can be adapted to an existing Quality Management System.
August 25, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS use for document control
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N/A I don't make the purchase decisions; only authorized for daily use.
August 25, 2023
Great system for a medium sized company!
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Integration with other systems is extremely important. We don't want to force users to use Arena and change their ways of working so by making sure we can integrate to our own systems and APIs then it's easier to ensure that Arena is the source of truth
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Integration with other systems. Currently, Arena PLM and QMS is integrated with Salesforce (via FlowEQ), Solidworks (via CADTALK), Rimsys (natively); this ties nearly all of our PLM and QMS functions together.
August 23, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS in a medical device company
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August 17, 2023
Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
Arena support and help have been tremendous since our partnership began. Doug J. and Joshua R. have been key players with supporting Trilliant and adding value to Arena by providing innovative solutions, tips, and shortcuts and adding tools to improve our efficiency and our ability to harness some of the power that Arena has. This allows us to tap into Arena's powerful features that would otherwise be unknown or would have taken a lot more time to find. They have given us the trust and confidence to reach out and to continue to use Arena more and roll it out through more users at a faster pace and with a better payback to us. It has been and continues to be a WIN-WIN relationship. Many thanks to all Arena support personnel for all their continued help and assistance.
August 17, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS is a purpose-built solution - just make sure you have a purpose before purchase!
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Price drives everything and this is no different. Management chose Arena PLM and QMS because it's price was the most competitive.
March 24, 2023
Arena is easy to use.
I did not purchase Arena for the company. I am only a user.
March 22, 2023
Arena PLM & QMS - Stellar Product
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Myself and my director had used [Arena PLM and QMS] at other companies and were thoroughly impressed. Selecting Arena was like riding a bike again, no learning curve, look and feel was the same, no new training needed. Very easy for users to navigate, and training was a breeze. Same stellar support staff at Arena, questions answered quickly and clearly. Features are not too overwhelming, clearly state what is about to happen,
N/A Arena was in place at my organization before I started this position.
March 17, 2023
Robust system not used to fullest potential
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Although I did not make the decision to move to Arena PLM [and QMS], but the most important factor to me would be usability and functionality of the system to aggregate different documents and processes across the business in one central location. Arena seems to do a good job of this, but our company needs to optimize it.
March 14, 2023
Happy to have Arena in our work life!
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Product features hands down, we needed a dynamic tool and with specific features and ways to handle data.
March 14, 2023
Great Combination of a QMS and PLM solution-in-one
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
The single most important factor in our decision to purchase Arena PLM and QMS is the fact that this solution combines both Quality management and Product Lifecycle management in one which is quite rare in proposed solutions on the market.
Arena PLM and QMS can also integrate several API to work with many ERP, CAD soft, etc
Arena PLM and QMS can also integrate several API to work with many ERP, CAD soft, etc
August 31, 2022
Browser-based login-anywhere PLM very handy, but UI is tedious time-consuming & cumbersome for frequent users
Score 5 out of 10
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- Price
- Product Reputation
There was a close prior business relationship with a key executive of Arena PLM and QMS and our company was offered introductory pricing that was very compelling in comparison to the costs of overhauling our self-evolved database system that was currently in use.
July 07, 2022
Smart software for a smarter workforce.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Industry customer references and product reputation helped drive the decision to purchase.
July 07, 2022
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July 06, 2022
Arena for Quality System Management
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
When we were deciding on software, the validation package and support made the difference between this software and the competitor. Our validation workload were and continue to be minimal.
- Product Features
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- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Usability is the most important factor, as Arena is readily turned to for quick access to documents throughout each business day.
April 29, 2022
Well worth it!
- Product Features
- Product Usability
We simply could not manage anything more with our "manual" tools and after evaluation Arena was considered to be the best option. Integration with other systems (manufacturing, ERP) was very important in our case.