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Arena PLM and QMS

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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March 06, 2020

Good, useful tool. Does everything you need it to do, but could do more.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is good for basic BOM management and simple component management. As the business expands, its shortcomings with substitutes, the ability to manage changes, and lack of mass change action (perform a change simultaneously on multiple BOMs) are its downfalls. Sometimes Arena is a great tool, other times it pulls us down and limits our ability to do more and do better.
March 06, 2020

Project Managers Dream

Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We can manage projects with users attached. We can house all of the images for the plant—just an excellent system to hold checks and balances for a life safety device to be reviewed.
March 06, 2020

My opinion on Arena as a 23 year old entry-level electrical engineer!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think that Arena is very well suited for companies who create many prototypes and need to track the changes they make according to the results they find. I think it may be less appropriate for other departments (marketing/finance) to use, but it works great for all departments in the engineering team.
March 06, 2020

Arena - The (not so) Little PLM System that Could!

Verified User
Project Manager in Other
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited to a company that does not want an onsite PLM system and wants to move quickly through implementation and start using the system right away. It is also relatively less expensive than other PLM systems and can grow with your user base.
March 06, 2020

Product designer prefers Arena for BOM management and file sharing

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Consumer Goods Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for good revision control of documents. These documents include drawings, BOMs, artwork files, reference documents, etc.

For those in Purchasing and Sourcing the costing tools are not integrated very well. Our Sourcing teams keep track off all those costs outside of Arena.
March 05, 2020

This is the Arena you want to play in

Verified User
Engineer in Manufacturing
Design Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena would be great for any organization that would like a detailed history of revision tracking, implementation tracking. The historical tracking and being able to see exactly when things were implemented is absolutely a lifesaver when being audited by third-party agencies. This is not a very basic system however, you need buy-in from the entire department or the functionality is lost.
March 05, 2020

Arena Solutions

Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance
Medical Device Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is great for managing complex products with many parts. The "where used" function helps you see how a change in one part affects the rest of the product. In addition, the redline feature allows users to see what changes were made between revisions. The change order history allows users to understand the reasoning behind those changes.
March 04, 2020

Arena Review

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for large organizations that have information to be stored over large geos and different platforms. Arena has limited integration with CAD software, unable to push information onto drawing and cannot store information on a local cache.
March 04, 2020

Arena--Easy to learn, become organized, and get proper approval of documents

Dustin Fickert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dustin Fickert
Mechanical Engineer
Kent Displays (Consumer Electronics, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for document management and building BOMs for products. Organization involvement for approval on certain items is wonderful. It's a lot harder for someone to ignore an approval when an item will actually not get approved vs. just pushing it through to meet a deadline. Forces awareness on reviewers.
Probably not as useful for small companies, or where non-complex products are being organized.
March 04, 2020

Arena: On track to be the best

Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is a one-stop-shop for all the PLM activities. It is easy and offers nice history tracking. It allows us to add suppliers to the project and allows them to be in continuous sync on any changes made.
March 04, 2020

Review of Arena from an engineer user perspective

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Industrial Automation Company, 201-500 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena is well suited for large quantities of items and also where changes can impact many different people or departments. Where parts are more one-off custom, the process can be a little long and time consuming if we only plan on using a part once. It is nice the application is web-based but this makes it quite slow most of the time.
March 04, 2020

Great product for ease of use, learning, and implementation

Verified User
Consultant in Manufacturing
Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I work mainly with small businesses and Arena seems very good for this size business. It's easy to learn and use. The interface to get data from Arena into an ERP system is difficult to automate - so for businesses that require lots of interface between Arena and an ERP system, Arena needs to be looked at more closely for limitations in this area.
March 04, 2020

Arena Review

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Construction Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I'd recommend it to anyone who is currently using Excel/Google sheets to manage BOMs. Arena becomes your one place where not only the BOM resides but also all attached files/drawings/datasheets etc. are. This becomes really useful for the team to keep track of where the files are. However, I took out one point because as always, if you want to be super flexible, then in those cases, working via email + Excel is the way to go as Arena could take some time to set-up.
March 03, 2020

Arena Review

Philippe Ambeault | TrustRadius Reviewer
Philippe Ambeault
Mechanical Design Engineer
Symbotic (Design, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Arena would be well suited for a parts database. If somebody would ask me to choose between Arena and the previous similar programs I used, I would recommend Arena. It is best used for medium-sized companies. It is less appropriate for small companies because it requires too much set-up.
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