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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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)
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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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November 17, 2019
Analytics and Quality Module has Room to Improve
- For the quality module, we decided not to renew our subscription.
October 14, 2019
Arena Review for a Startup company
- Our market is based off NPD. We are a research team and always look to release new parts/BOMs more frequently. I feel arena is quick solution for this.
- As we use arena to order our parts, having costing associated with the BOMs is really helpful.
- Sourcing and vendor information is helpful.
October 14, 2019
Great for static-engineering/manufacturing processes, not so much for rapidly changing prototype environment.
- Beyond my scope of work, unable to comment
September 20, 2019
Arena experience at EDI
- Improved time to market
- Improved NPD process
- Improved product release to sourcing and manufacturing
- Centralized parts database
August 06, 2019
Things that Arena is the best at: Implementation, Features, Ease of use, and Collaboration
- TTM- 30-50% faster
- NPI - 80% faster
- Documentation safe- 50% faster
June 28, 2019
Arena: An Auditor's Dream
- When introducing new assemblies, this tool allows for fast uploads of BOMs, documentation and change control. This allows us to share that information with our suppliers as they can simply log into Arena and download the data they need to produce the product. With this process in place, we know exactly what the supplier is providing.
- Using Arena as a total solution, we don't have to research, purchase and use other tools that don't integrate with each other. This would be costly and add time for data reviews and audits.
- Love the fact that all the data is stored on servers we don't have to purchase and support and that the data is backed up and retrievable.
- Arena has helped with the integrity of our data and how it is communicated externally and internally (reliability/quality).
- It helps track our build configurations and the progress as we move through NPI.
- It has saved us considerable time in reusing compliance information, which is required at production launch.
October 23, 2018
Arena Review
- Arena has made it easy for manufacturing, supply chain, engineering and quality to locate drawings, BOMs and costs located in a single place.
October 16, 2018
Arena Survey
- Quality has been the biggest [factor] for this system. We now manage all documentation for non-conformities using Arena.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM System Feedback For Perspective Users
- The cost to use and deploy Arena is low cost relative to other PLMS.
- Thus far, Arena gives us the ability to store critical data, track the changes and manage the hardware configuration effectively.
- We have not encountered application down time which is important to our operations.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM Review
- This helped us with the quality of the product by making records convenient for review.
- Arena makes it easier to record feedback from subject matter experts on new proposed product.
- It makes scrubing the BoMs more convenient and lets us find more available/cheaper components.
October 12, 2018
Arena - CM to Grow With
- We implemented Arena as our first CM control system, so the impact is consistent with all of the advantages of CM and revision control where previously there was only user discipline. We tried to use Arena for Project/Program Management but went with another tool for its advanced integration capabilities.
October 12, 2018
Arena implementation better than my expectations!
- We heavily rely on Arena for our NPD. When we participate in our yearly audits, we no longer need to dig through paper files or hard drives to find sign-offs of gate reviews or changes. Everything is electronically captured and the timeline is visible to stakeholders in the NPD process as well as our outside auditors. This saves time during the sign-off process and the audit.
- The quality of the product has seen improvement as well. The latest revision of the BOM is always visible and the user has access to see if there is a working revision and if changes are in progress. If engineering sees there is a working revision, they may add a cost reduction to the next BOM changes, so we can implement all changes at once, instead of multiple changes and releases.
October 11, 2018
Easy to Configure
- Improved quality system to be easier to manage part and document revisions
- Easy to view traceability when looking back on products.
October 09, 2018
Good document control software and excellent validation support
- We meet compliance requirements.
- Documents and records are findable, accessible and backed up.
October 09, 2018
Arena works well enough for a small team.
- There have been fewer mistakes made with vendors making the wrong revision of parts. Saving money and time.
October 08, 2018
Turn key easy to use PLC software
- Low impact, it is a good tool to support NPI and released product but doesn't improve your ROI
October 08, 2018
Good...
- It is reasonable for the cost for the BOM control.
October 08, 2018
Arena has been great fit for our growing company
- Because we can easily share data with our supply base, we are able to more quickly and effectively respond to a customer's RFQ. (this would address "time to market")
- Being able to connect with suppliers around the globe allows us to consider more suppliers, and potentially more cost effective suppliers. This allows us to quote a more competitive price to our customer.
- Use of the PLM, Quality, and Projects tools allows us to more effectively manage projects. We are all working with a "single version of the truth." Our team members do not have to search for data - because it is all located on Arena.
- Our quality has improved greatly since we are able to keep track of the most relevant up-to-date documentation for our products.
- Time to market has improved in so much that we do not have to spend as much time figuring out who has the most relevant version of our documentation.
October 05, 2018
Arena is a powerful tool for our business
- Since we haven't introduced a product, this is a difficult question to answer with a useful number. I can say that Arena has become a tool that everyone in the organization counts on and is the first place to look for anything.
October 05, 2018
Arena is all you need!
- A Product Record for Auditing Purposes
October 05, 2018
Easy to use Bill of Material Control is a snap!
- Very positive impact on bom development and visibility across departments. It saves time.
- It is the go-to for all our our audits, thus it helps keep our company out of trouble with auditors and it makes it easier for them.
- It saves time on finding historical files for new projects or support in an audit.
October 05, 2018
Relatively New Arena User's Experience
- We are still relatively new with using Arena in our business, so it's hard to quantify the impact.
October 03, 2018
Arena user experience
- All level visibility on our production requirement causes the R&D staff to be less bothered with unnecessary questions.