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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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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 03, 2018
Arena - a hassle free database and workflow tool
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- Prior Experience with the Product
The single most important factor in choosing Arena was its usability. After all, if a tool such as Arena is not pleasant or effective, then it's not worth the time and monetary investment. Arena has shown itself to be a powerful tool with a great track record that worked well with minimal customization.
October 03, 2018
Arena fan
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
BoM control was a huge issue in our first choice (it was terrible). We had met with Arena before making the first choice and when we met with them again after our first implementation they had already delivered on a lot of features that had been future capabilities at our first meeting. We also hired a new NPI manager who had used Arena and was very enthusiastic about it.
October 02, 2018
Great PLM system
- Price
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Prior experience is huge as it limits downtime to start up.
October 02, 2018
Arena, it does more than I need.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
October 02, 2018
Arena Basics
- Price
- Product Features
- Third-party Reviews
It was highly recommended by a third party as about the only solution to get data out of Agile and into a usable format.
October 02, 2018
Helped us Improve our Change Control processes tremendously!
- Product Features
- Product Usability
I was not involved in the selection decision. I was hired at company 2 months after it was implemented
October 02, 2018
My review of Arena
- Product Features
Arena was purchased prior to my joining the company so I had no input into the recommendation to purchase Arena. From my understanding, though, Arena was purchased because it provided what the company thought they needed at the time of purchase. However, Arena seems to be continually updated with better and better features.
October 02, 2018
Arena Rocks!!!
- Price
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
My previous experience with Nathan Martin and Doug Johnston were key in swaying our decision to choose Arena for change management.
October 01, 2018
Review of Arena in a Tech Design to Manufacturer Environment
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
The critical factor in our decision was can it do what we need it to do nearly out of the box within budget.
October 01, 2018
Arena solutions to business system management
- Product Features
The features are nice when set up correctly. The BOM structure and item categories makes it easy to navigate.
October 01, 2018
Still not implemented in Year 2
- Product Features
We needed a system that would be compatible with our MAS500 system. It did not work as well as we had hoped, so we still do not have it implemented in year 2.
October 01, 2018
Arena PLM is da BOM
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Third-party Reviews
We had a business need for a PLM system, and after review of multiple vendors we found that Arena would provide the needed functionality at a cost we were able to justify to upper management.
October 01, 2018
Arena, The Essential Electronic Design Assistant
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- Product Reputation
- Third-party Reviews
Arena has the capability to interface with our electronic CAD that enables maintaining our electronic component database and generate accurate BOMs. To help showcasing this feature, we owe it to the Arena application engineer by the name of Doug Johnson who instrumentally assisted us with the implementation of the Arena/CAD integration and bringing up our component database. With that initial support, we were convinced that Arena capable features are what we needed and moved forwards with the purchase.
October 01, 2018
Easy Peasy
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
Product Usablity
September 24, 2018
Small company review of Arena
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Third-party Reviews
We had an executive manager who had had prior experience with Arena and spoke well of its usability. With PLM systems, this is key because we had no idea what we needed and how to build one that would work for our business.
September 24, 2018
Great Product - Needs Polishing
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
As stated previously we are a startup so price had a lot to do with which system we choose. Arena won out for three reasons: First, Price. Next, one of our OPs contractors had experience with Arena and thus recommended and arranged a discount. Lastly, the introductory training provided by Arena was very attractive.
September 24, 2018
Arena PLM Review
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
I think the single most important factor is price. When looking at alternatives my company looked at factors such as payment plan and flexibility with that plan versus what the other PLM vendors offered. Arena offered the best option.
September 24, 2018
Arena for Now
- Price
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- Product Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
I wasn't involved in the decision making process.
September 24, 2018
Arena - a pretty good tool.
Not my decision. This tool was being used when I got here. But when we were evaluating Arena in my previous company, the nature of medical device manufacturing and the needs for regulatory compliance were not met by Arena. The new module may make a big difference for the med device companies evaluating Arena going forward.
September 24, 2018
Arena Sets Me Free!
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Product features and flexibilty were important in my decision to recommend Arena to my management. Previous product life management applications were both inefficient and inflexible plus I believe other suppliers we investigated did have the ease of use and pricepoint.
September 21, 2018
Arena admin review
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Cost and ready to use solution.
September 21, 2018
Arena Rocks
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Combination of features and cost.
September 21, 2018
Good for a permanent solution
- Price
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- Product Usability
- Third-party Reviews
Price was the most important factor. Other solutions were reviewed and the company went with the least expensive solution that would meet the minimum requirements.
September 21, 2018
Arena Solutions, A Great PLM
- Price
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- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Honestly, just the great usability of the product itself. We've been able to refine our development process and traceability since using Arena. We've greatly reduced our time to market thus saving us lots of money in the process. The greatest thing is the use capacity of Arena, you can do so much.
September 21, 2018
Seamless and helpful
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor