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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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...
Show More 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...
Show More 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 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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October 14, 2019
Great for static-engineering/manufacturing processes, not so much for rapidly changing prototype environment.
Was not responsible for purchase, user only.
September 20, 2019
Arena experience at EDI
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Easy to implement PLM system
August 06, 2019
Things that Arena is the best at: Implementation, Features, Ease of use, and Collaboration
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- Product Usability
Ease of use for users
Implementation Process
Implementation Process
June 28, 2019
Arena: An Auditor's Dream
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- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
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- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Prior experience with the product was the single most important deciding factor in the purchase and use of Arena. I've used Arena for 17+ years and I've experienced all of the improvements and new product features Arena has made over the years. I like the fact that they reach out to the users and ask for input. I like that they implement enhancements at least a couple of times a year. Their support team is the best, very responsive and helpful. I've used other PLM solutions and I've heard of others where the administrator of those systems have issues that they would not have using Arena.
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My company had Arena when I joined.
October 23, 2018
Arena Review
- Product Usability
Arena has made it easy for manufacturing, supply chain, engineering and quality to locate drawings, BoM's and costs located in a single place.
October 16, 2018
Arena Survey
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Katerra is a new company and because of this we needed a system that allowed us to stablish quality processes while being cost effective.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM System Feedback For Perspective Users
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Arena has a diversified list of rich features needed for a good PLM system: quality, product collaboration, file sharing, etc. Price is also an attractive factor. It allows us to remain cost effective, while developing scalable processes as we grow.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM Review
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We were looking for a way to track product revisions and engineering changes. I think the product usability was the most important. This is a relatively easy system to implement and it provided what we essentially needed for moving the Business forward. Most of the people that need to use the system were trained quickly.
October 12, 2018
Arena - CM to Grow With
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Price and functionality were our key decision drivers. Pricing was okay, and Arena has capabilities that will allow us to expand our processes within the tool as we mature in this area.
October 12, 2018
Arena implementation better than my expectations!
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- Product Usability
I have been involved in multiple implementations of PLM tools. The product usability and the customization of the tool that can be completed by the customer is key. I did not have to pay a consultant to make the changes I needed to use Arena. I was trained to make the changes myself and I can continue to modify and improve the product as I see fit, and not have to hire a contractor to come in and make the modifications for me.
October 11, 2018
Easy to Configure
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Much cheaper than other systems out there.
October 09, 2018
Good document control software and excellent validation support
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- Prior Experience with the Product
I was not the one to decide to buy the software. The person who decided had used it before and wanted to use it for documents, BOMs, and training.
October 09, 2018
Arena works well enough for a small team.
I was not involved in the purchase decision. Guessing usability was high on list.
October 08, 2018
Turn key easy to use PLC software
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- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
1) Basic requirement for PLC software
2) Able to be easily customized
3) Positive relationship and support since I have been using Arena since my last job
2) Able to be easily customized
3) Positive relationship and support since I have been using Arena since my last job
October 08, 2018
Good...
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October 08, 2018
Arena has been great fit for our growing company
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When we signed on with Arena in 2002, clearly cost was the single most important factor - especially for our company size of approximately 20 at the time. Arena has grown with us since then... to more sites... with many additional product features as well.
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At the time, Arena provided the most features with the best price. Since the time we've migrated to Arena, the feature set has only increased and improved.
October 05, 2018
Arena is a powerful tool for our business
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It was really a combination of Cost and Functonality. Half the Engineering team had experience with Agile and the other half with Parts & Vendors. We needed to be able to access the Agile data as there were 8 years of information and designs in it. Agile was too expensive. Arena hit the sweet spot for us. I am much happier with Arena and the control we have than I was with Agile.
October 05, 2018
Arena is all you need!
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Arena is run by many former Agile employees...which used to be the de-facto standard in the PLM Market. These people know what is needed by the marketplace and their customers.
October 05, 2018
Easy to use Bill of Material Control is a snap!
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I was not involved in the purchase of this product.
October 05, 2018
Relatively New Arena User's Experience
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October 03, 2018
Arena user experience
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The mother company advised us to use this tool. It was more or less obligatory to use the same tool.
October 03, 2018
Arena... 6 months on.
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Features is number 1, with usability classified as a feature. We wanted an easy-to-use system for all our engineering data to be stored and controlled, that could expand with a fast-growing business.
October 03, 2018
Wonderful
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The single most important factor in the decision with using Arena is the traceability factor given the regulations associated with the medical device industry. Documentation is often lost if managed via hard copy and with the ability to manage quality records electronically via Arena, it takes a great burden off internal and external audits.