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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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)
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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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November 15, 2021
Usage has been limited, but impressive.
Score 10 out of 10
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The system needs to be dependable and efficient. Arena provides this.
November 14, 2021
Arena - Good for small companies
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Lower cost for [our] company that was small at the time. Now that we have grown, no longer that useful
November 13, 2021
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November 12, 2021
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November 05, 2021
Arena has it all, or most of it anyway!
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Single most important factor was the ease of use for all employees across our organization.
November 05, 2021
Works for us!
- Price
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- Prior Experience with the Product
The price was right when adopting this service to be used at the company. Also, the features that allow for optimal organization makes it easier to manipulate and revise documents and processes without stepping on other people's toes. Our administrator had already used this at a prior company and understood the tangible benefits we'd get by adopting this service.
November 05, 2021
Arena Simplifies the Life of a Mechanical Engineer
- Product Usability
After evaluation other products, it was the platform that was the most intuitive and easiest to learn.
November 02, 2021
Good Product, but a little clunky at times
- Prior Experience with the Product
Quality/Manufacturing Engineer recommended the product from past experience. This was faster to market than hiring document control and building our own PLM system
November 01, 2021
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Note that I did not purchase Arena ALM or QMS.
October 22, 2021
Great Features Set, Lots of Capability!
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The immense product features are most important [and] make Arena PLM [and QMS] usable in many cases.
October 19, 2021
The standard for QMS
- Product Features
While I do not have input on the purchase decision, this is what I value most. Quality is second to none for med device development
October 18, 2021
Highly recommeneded
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I have prior experience using Arena [PLM and QMS] and I was always impressed by the ease of use of the system. This was a major reason for choosing [...] Arena [PLM and QMS]. In addition to the ease of use, there are a lot of features that allow for an easy execution of the quality system.
October 14, 2021
Arena PLM and QMS is great!
I am unsure of this as I was not a part of the business decision to purchase Arena [PLM and QMS].
October 14, 2021
Review of Arena PLM and QMS
- Prior Experience with the Product
I am not the one who makes this decision.
October 14, 2021
Be a QA gladiator with Arena!
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I am just an employee here, so I'm not sure.
July 05, 2021
Intuitive Product Life Cycle Tracking
Already purchased before I joined the company!
June 21, 2021
Arena Provides Effective Product Management Software
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The decision to use Arena at our company came from the need to have specific features available to our organization.
March 31, 2021
Arena - one of the easiest PLM systems out there!
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The web-based Cloud functionality so that anyone can use it from any location is a major benefit. In addition, it seems to be priced fairly competitively. The simple user interface and ease of customization is also a good plus that helps to make our decision. I like how Arena adds updates constantly and is always improving their features. Their customer support is great too, as well as the training class we took originally.
December 08, 2020
Good but needs improvement !
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Prior experience of the product was the most important reason. One of our contract engineering firms was using Arena and we thought it would be good for us to keep it consistent with them because we were just starting to set up quality system for the company. It was very important that we had a smooth transition between the companies.
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The usability was the most critical factor, as this ultimately determines the software's staying power. In trialing the software, users of various levels within the quality organization found the software to be very intuitive and highly capable in completing all necessary functions. Ultimately, this ensured minimal time and cost of training and a unified approach to documentation in the quality management system.
November 19, 2020
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November 14, 2020
An AREnA with no conflict
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Product Features is definitely one of the most important factors. If the product can't do what is needed, there is no reason to purchase the product no matter how good or well-reputed it is.
November 13, 2020
Arena is a great, easy-to-use PLM system.
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I didn’t select the software
November 13, 2020
Arena gets the job done with a nice, new UI
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I did not purchase the product for my company, but I think that the ability to transition from our old system into Arena was essential. The product being usable was significant since everyone would have to get trained in it. Of course, the cost of purchasing seats for the employees was also a factor.
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Price is always important to any business, but the quality needs to be good at that price. Therefore, Arena upgrades continue to make the product even better