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...
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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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March 06, 2020
Project Managers Dream
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Product features with usability. If the product does not fit the needs of our process, it doesn't work for us at all.
March 06, 2020
Gets the job done
I didn't make the decision to purchase Arena.
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A balance between price and product usability will be the essential factor in deciding to use Arena.
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I think the product usability is the most important thing in any application, you want the users to intuitively know where everything is. A well designed application has all the features in all the places you expect them to be.
March 06, 2020
Arena - The (not so) Little PLM System that Could!
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The price point was the most important factor in the company's decision to purchase Arena since after doing a thorough review, it determined that it had the same features and functionality that all other major PLM systems reviewed had. The pricing was flexible and implementation costs were significantly cheaper (and faster!) than other systems.
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March 05, 2020
Great for revision control and product history!
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Continuity in a program is specifically important to my company because turnover can be high, so it is very helpful to have an accurate history of a product lifecycle.
March 05, 2020
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PRODUCT USABILITY
March 05, 2020
Arena Solutions
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For a small company, price is likely the biggest factor when determining which products and platforms to adopt and buy. Along with the price, the product features are also extremely important when determining which products and platforms to adopt and buy. Small companies need the ability to move quickly through rapid change and iteration and also have some level of control over that change.
March 04, 2020
Arena: Solid and committed to improvement
I did not make this decision
March 04, 2020
Arena Review
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I did not make the decision to purchase Arena. It was already implemented when I joined the company.
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I was not the sole voter for the system, but we have a fairly complex structure (from my limited experience) and Arena checked a lot of the boxes others didn't. On top of that, the Sandbox introduction of Arena was wonderful to get the system set up for our exact use before releasing it into the wild. It also got more people familiar with the system before the full release.
March 04, 2020
Arena: On track to be the best
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March 04, 2020
Arena--Contract manufacturer's perspective
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This doesn't match exactly. But my company does not actually purchase Arena. We have a seat on our customer's account--we are their contract manufacturer.
March 04, 2020
Honest Review for the Honest Arena
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I was not the person that made the decision to purchase Arena, but if I was that person in the future I would choose it for it's easy to use interface and ability to access it anywhere. It's been nice to be able to use on the road when traveling to customers and directly add information rather than having to wait to get back to the office or just have notes everywhere in my notebook.
March 04, 2020
Review of Arena from an engineer user perspective
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I am just the end-user, but I imagine that it was mostly purchased for the functionality it had and how it can manage revisions of everything from parts to documents to the software.
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Product usability was very important and Arena is very easy to use and learn.
March 04, 2020
Arena Review
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It was primarily on the features it provided in comparison with Excel. Looking at the list of features apart from it being cloud-based, Arena is a whole package targeted especially at PLM. We have only touched on a small part of the product and it has enough depth to support us as we grow.
March 03, 2020
Arena Review
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The single most significant factor in choosing Arena over the competition would not be the price but the ease of use. Complex programs, even if they have more functionnality, have a much higher risk of making mistakes. Mistakes can be very costly. Also, time lost trying to figure out how to do a certain thing on a complex program can also be very costly. An easy to use program that can be self-taught is the most important deciding factor.
March 03, 2020
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Product features are very important for making decisions that impact the marketing of our product. We value customer satisfaction the most and believe in providing the best service to the customer. We strive to offer the customer something they are not getting in the existing market.
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I was not the person who made the decision to purchase Arena
March 03, 2020
Arena - One place to better manage your products
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The main reason I personally like Arena is for document management and easy to track change requests.
A very useful tool for manufacturing and designers as well.
A very useful tool for manufacturing and designers as well.
March 03, 2020
Arena viewed by a programmer
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Arena allowed Symbotic to centralize and standardize processes in the company. Engineering change request are now tracked with Arena. Being able to centralize the process, BOM, drawings and everything around our system changed the way we did things and we are now more efficient. It helped us ''productize'' our system. We are now able to sell automated cell with a catalog of options. It's been more simple for sales also to present to a customer what we can do and what they can sell without engineering development.
March 03, 2020
Great for engineering and quality processes!
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I was not specifically involved in the decision to purchase Arena, but the document control analyst in our organization had very good things to say about his past usage of the product.
March 03, 2020
Arena is useful and helps to organize projects.
- Product Usability
For our company, we need to have utility.