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Arena PLM and QMS

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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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Product Details

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

Arena PLM and QMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Arena Bill of Materials (BOM) Management. Indented BOM displaying "in production" item status.Screenshot of Arena Engineering Change Management. Engineering Change Order (ECO) approval with redlines.Screenshot of Arena Projects. Project schedule with status and progress.Screenshot of Arena Quality. Quality process showing a Corrective Action Report (CAR) with the issue details, affected items, and resolution progress/status.Screenshot of Arena Requirements. Tracks requirements and related product development issues for a complete product picture.

Arena PLM and QMS Videos

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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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...
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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.

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Arena PLM and QMS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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 19, 2019

Arena PLM

Verified User
Supervisor in Quality Assurance
Consumer Electronics Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for quality and engineering scenarios. It allows a full range of revision history, ECO/PD approval processes, and all quality related functions, including Failure Analysis.
November 19, 2019

Short and simple.

Lawrence Floresca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lawrence Floresca
Mechanical Engineer
Motion Solutions (Industrial Automation, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any engineering company with design control procedures (which really should be all) could benefit from a PLM like Arena. It's necessary to have established master copies that everyone can access, instead of 5 or 6 different redlines nebulously floating around.
October 14, 2019

Arena Review for a Startup company

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Semiconductors Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

It is pretty well automated. It is very useful for adding parts and creating large assembly mechanical BOMs. Most of our BOMs include both mechanical and electrical assemblies.

Page refreshes could be avoided in certain areas. The only things that I don't like about Arena are the page reloads, which are too frequent or not needed in some areas. Some page reloads are faster and some reloads are not. BUG: I noticed that sometimes that when a reload a BOM page, it does not load up all the parts and displays a page with no parts in the BOM. A refresh of the page solves it but some people ignore the page refresh and claim that there are no parts in the BOM which is annoying.

October 14, 2019

Great for static-engineering/manufacturing processes, not so much for rapidly changing prototype environment.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Semiconductors Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prototype environment not suitable, as changes and navigating Arena requires too many clicks for every action. Very useful for data management and entry for static non-changing manufacturing environments.
September 20, 2019

Arena experience at EDI

Vlad Kalika | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vlad Kalika
Director of Engineering Programs
Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. (Automotive, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good, stable platform, cloud-based PLM system. Not so good if looking for complete business solution with PDM and ERP tie-ins. Needs procurement module to be more useful for companies looking for more rounded system.
June 27, 2019

Arena provides a scalable and customizable PLM experience

JT
Julie Toscano
Process & Configuration Manager
Sonos (Consumer Electronics, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have struggled with cost and have tried to push Arena the best we could for as long as we could using the "quotes" tab in Arena. We have finally reached a point where we had painted ourselves into a corner and now have to back out of that, as Arena is not intended to be used to manage cost. It would be nice, however, since Arena supports "Split," if Arena could also do a blended cost calculation at the item level as well. Arena has been able to support our evolving processes. I have not found a scenario that Arena cannot support our process. It is customizable and tailorable and scalable.
October 16, 2018

Arena PLM System Feedback For Perspective Users

Robert Nguyen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Nguyen
PLM System Business Analyst
Square (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for small and mid-size companies. It is very responsive and requires low maintenance from account administration perspective. An area where Arena needs to improve is the ability to track detail history of all activities (items, requests, changes, quality, comments, communications between users, analysts, admins). This is a critical function needed for a solid PLM system.
October 16, 2018

Arena PLM Review

Verified User
Technician in Quality Assurance
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

I would suggest this product for small to medium size companies that need to use revision control on their products. I would also say that it is well suited for people looking to perform engineering changes because it provides an approval process that is easily traceable.

It is not suitable if you have a lot of people that need to see the info because licenses are expensive. It is also hard to implement a lot of the features if you don't have a higher end license for everyone involved.

October 12, 2018

Arena - CM to Grow With

Troy Taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Troy Taylor
Director Corporate Process and PM
AAMP Global (Automotive, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for CM/Revision control - file attachment capability and Quality record flow/control is above par. Suitable for engineering control of documentation/BOMs and coordination with Suppliers on revisions and ECs. Not so great at integration with older ERP systems but capable using intermediate standardized tools such as XLS import/export.
October 12, 2018

Arena implementation better than my expectations!

Ginger Butz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ginger Butz
Director, Product Lifecycle Management
The Morey Corporation (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I work for a contract manufacture and we use Arena for all changes to BOM. This is helpful for customer owned designs and our in house designs. Any company that needs to keep tight revision control of a product should use Arena. It also gives approved employees access to files and documents important to the product.
October 08, 2018

Arena has been great fit for our growing company

Michael Repetto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Repetto
General Manager
Air International Thermal Systems (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is great for small to middle size companies, especially ones that are growing. It is very easy to roll out to an organization, because it is, and has always been, a cloud-based solution. For larger companies who desire a single system, that starts with native CAD, through PLM, to ERP, there might be a desire to consider alternative systems. With that said, those "single systems" may be very pricey.
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