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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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November 13, 2020

Arena gets the job done with a nice, new UI

Verified User
Engineer in Manufacturing
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for engineering organizations that need strong document control. It seems like it would work well with integrating with Supply Chain. However, implementing Arena for our international contract manufacturer has been a challenge. There are a lot of small fonts, and some information is hidden or hard to find since each change or request has many tabs and subtabs. This is not ideal for working with a team that doesn't have English as their first language. Some of the process flows can become convoluted because of this.
November 13, 2020

Arena is a great PLM system that continues to improve with each upgrade.

CK
Carolyn Kelley
Documentation Control Administrator
Symbotic (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 501-1000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is a great tool and tends to get better with each upgrade. I would be helpful if it was a little better user friendly (example - when trying to create searches or reports and also in the administrative workspace to create attributes etc.)
November 13, 2020

Good Software for Changes and Quality Management

Mitesh Bhalani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mitesh Bhalani
Engineer
VoluMetrix (Medical Device, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is good for managing change processes and quality processes. We've been using this software for almost a year and had few issues. Some of the navigation can be clunky at times, but the search is strong and almost always gives me the results I need. The newest UI changes are a welcome refresh and have not made it more difficult to use.
November 11, 2020

Quick learning curve & easy on-boarding process!

Verified User
Analyst in Quality Assurance
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Arena is good for use in our quality system, in terms of managing specific documents. The update and revision of documents is straightforward, and the ECO process is easy to understand.

In terms of our device master record, including all part drawings and work instructions that are pulled from these, it doesn't work as well. A more visual layout of products/ BOM's/ parts that go into a system and documents/work instructions that provide support to this would appeal to me.
November 10, 2020

Arena FEEDBACK

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Utilities Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Well suited: Engineering and manufacturing companies were drawings, and documents need to be controlled.
  • Less appropriate: Companies that do not need to have strict documentation.
November 10, 2020

Quality

Verified User
Professional in Other
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very user-friendly, we have a lot of data saved on there for our companies SOPs and documents that are needed. It's a great platform compared to our prior one.
November 10, 2020

Join the vast world of Arena

Verified User
Manager in Quality Assurance
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for an organization that has many processes and wants to house it all in one place. If you need a versatile system, Arena is beneficial. There are a lot of great functions that our organization hasn't taken advantage of but is looking to use next (i.e., the Supplier functions). However, with Arena being so powerful and having so many features, the learning curve can be rather large. It would be great to have at least two people well trained in using and teaching the organization about Arena. It could take a couple of months to implement and use across the organization entirely.
November 10, 2020

Excited to Implement

Verified User
Director in Quality Assurance
Medical Device Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think there are other software suppliers that have more suitable software for small companies like ours. There are too many configurations that I wasn't prepared to think about or even wanted to have to think about. Arena is well suited for a company that doesn't have a system in place.
October 30, 2020

Arena Review in 2020

Sarah Gallion | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sarah Gallion
Document Control / Quality Specialist
Perosphere Technologies (Medical Device, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Arena is a great tool for any quality system. I like how there are several video's that help when you get stuck in a area that you need to figure out. Customer Service is really quick to respond to all questions and is there to help, that is a big help for us.

I don't understand how a training license isn't added when other licenses are purchased.
March 30, 2020

Arena is the future!

Verified User
Supervisor in Finance and Accounting
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is perfect for companies that have certain approval processes and workflows. New workflows and processes go through an extensive review process on Arena before they can be approved and added to our standard operating procedures. By adding this process in Arena, it ensures our company is following strict guidelines.
March 20, 2020

Arena: Highly useful, if somewhat limited

Verified User
Engineer in Manufacturing
Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering Company, 51-200 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is very competent software for revision control of hardware products. I would recommend it for small companies looking to begin cataloging. Unfortunately, it's not highly standardized in terms of submitting changes and reviewing, as these require some attention to detail to make sure everything is filled out properly, and it gives a few automated errors if things are filled out incorrectly.
March 12, 2020

Arena from a daily user

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Medical Device Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is great for small businesses and has an easy start-up. I was up and running in Arena within a week after only a few training videos and getting help from fellow employees. Being well suited in using Arena is such an asset to your company. Time is money and being good with Arena will really excel your position in the workplace.
March 11, 2020

PLM that you can tackle yourself!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena works very well in highly configuration controlled environment and manufacturing business. It is not a PDM system, so any vaulting, etc. will need to be outside, or choose a higher-end PLM solution that offers combined PLM/PDM tools. But as a sole PLM, it's quite good. It does take a fair amount of configuration, but you get the value you put into it. So plan accordingly!
March 08, 2020

For most Quality processes and BOM management, Arena is the best in the arena; very willing to improve where necessary

Avraham Harris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Avraham Harris
Director QA&RA
Accellix (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have not been able to find a good way to utilize Arena for SW testing. We also have not been able to find a good way to do supplier evaluation using the suppliers world, since it has only two categories of approval and we have more.
We HAVE been able to track and report most of our quality processes on Arena and gain from the collaborative abilities of the Platform.
March 07, 2020

Quick Review

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
While creating an ECO, I find it easy to add and remove items and keep track of what has changed to that part. It tells you if files were added as well as what's in it's BOM without having to bring it up in a separate tab.
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