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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.

Arena PLM and QMS Integrations

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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

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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Reviews and Ratings

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December 06, 2021

Potentially powerful system, with a few annoyances

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Medical Device Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This system is useful over a large organization where people might be distributed (different sites, working from home, etc.) It also offers the ability to assign and track training required by Arena PLM and QMS.
November 05, 2021

Arena has it all, or most of it anyway!

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, Arena is a great product to use and has value for all employees (front line with customers, engineering, quality, supply chain management, technical writers, etc.). There is room for improvement with just minor items, like being forced to load a new page when viewing nested items and switching between tabs (such as the specs and BOM tabs).
November 05, 2021

Works for us!

Zachary Meyer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Zachary Meyer
Manufacturing Quality Engineer
T2 Biosystems (Medical Device, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It allowed us to stay in business while while we had issues with the servers. It makes organization easy! It makes communication with team members a breeze. the audit trail is a nice feature which allows you to assess the history of a document and or process. Easy to assign training.
November 05, 2021

Arena Simplifies the Life of a Mechanical Engineer

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena PLM is great for a mixed environment of CAD and non-CAD users across multiple sites. It is not great for an environment where you have infrequent users that require their own login.
November 02, 2021

Good Product, but a little clunky at times

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for a company trying to not dedicate a team towards PLM, Document control coordination, etc. Arena is an excellent platform for getting information between individuals and teams. It appears appropriate for NCR, CAPA, etc., and tracking as well. I'm unsure of less appropriate situations, as our 6 months of using PLM is insufficient to determine this.
November 01, 2021

Arena PLM Review

Verified User
Engineer in Product Management
Medical Device Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenario where Arena is well suited: Any application where all documents must be kept track in exhaustive detail, including the establishment of approvers, revision control, and providing a paper trail.
Scenario where Arena is not suited: Any documents that require an extremely rapid turnaround or approval will likely not benefit from a cumbersome process of requiring change administrators to go through multiple approvals and careful formatting management.
October 19, 2021

The standard for QMS

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Medical Device Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited: Reviewing test procedure. It references CAD models and other use documents with Arena numbers. The current/approved versions of the files can be easily pulled up and referenced.

Less appropriate: New coworker is being introduced to project. Arena is not a good tool to generally learn about projects despite storing many docs that would be useful.
October 18, 2021

Highly recommeneded

Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance
Medical Device Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very useful as a PLM system to host our supplier and part info. It does a very good job of maintaining our Bill of materials for each product line. When it comes to change order management, it makes it very easy to execute it as its streamlines and allows for simple changes in the process flows.
October 14, 2021

Arena PLM and QMS is great!

Verified User
Employee in Customer Service
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
At our company, we use Arena [PLM and QMS] for things like document control, training, complaints, and field actions. For these purposes, Arena [PLM and QMS] has worked quite well in our business setting. I don't actually know of any scenarios at this time where Arena [PLM and QMS] would be less appropriate - at least none that our company currently uses.
October 14, 2021

Review of Arena PLM and QMS

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Appropriate for creating items that require multiple people to do an analysis per their SME, sign off on changes, and document changes. Trackability could be improved, and it feels less appropriate for collaboration, which has to happen offline. There are no tools for synchronous document editing or suggesting.
October 14, 2021

Be a QA gladiator with Arena!

Rafi Weinstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rafi Weinstein
QA Assistant
Accellix (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is a great way to keep track of information. Items, requests, changes, suppliers, files, projects, quality, requirements, tickets, and more. Also great for working with a team. Easy sign-in. Helpful dashboard. User-friendly interface - easy to use for new users. Customizable search. Way to split site by different workspaces - according to your needs.
March 31, 2021

Arena - one of the easiest PLM systems out there!

KK
Kapil Khathuria
NPI Manager
ABB Wireless (Industrial Automation, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Arena is very well suited for Document control in a manufacturing environment and easily integrates with ERP tools such as SAP. The change management (ECO) portion is also very excellent, and is easy to follow and understand for everyone involved with the change. One scenario where it is not as well suited is in cases of project management, which would be a great new way to integrate everything in one place for a NPI manager such as myself.
December 08, 2020

Good but needs improvement !

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As described in the cons section, the organization of the system can be more organized and made more intuitive to fix. Arena is well suited for small organizations to quickly implement quality control and develop flowcharts.
November 24, 2020

A great software solution for multi-level quality system document management

Verified User
Analyst in Quality Assurance
Medical Device Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena has great functionality and is fairly intuitive in use. It is best suited for an organization including multiple users of varying access privileges who need to access and edit several electronic documents. It is also ideal for processing change orders quickly and gathering all appropriate approvals prior to implementing document changes.
Arena isn't as well suited in organizations of advanced/experienced users with equivalent privileges cooperating on document maintenance and changes, as the multiple views and density of information could be cumbersome and unnecessary to some users.
November 19, 2020

Arena Review

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Industrial Automation Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is amazingly well suited for BOM control/managemen and for part creation/part number generation.
I believe it could handle things like costing in a better manner.
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