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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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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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)
Arena PLM and QMS Competitors
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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March 03, 2020
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We at Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. use Arena for product lifecycle purposes to keep track of all the documentation. It also helps us communicate with our manufacturing partners. I personally find it easy to use and had to go through minimal training. Reviewing and creating engineering changes is very convenient. I look forward to learning more about Arena and its usage.
We use Arena as our primary resource for document control. It is very easy to use and adapt to our specific needs. We maintain all of our quality system documents as well as device master records and design history files, There are a lot of features, like BOM, that I use every day and they make my job a lot easier. I have used several PLM systems, and Arena is by far the most user-friendly.
March 03, 2020
Arena - One place to better manage your products
Being an engineering firm for Industrial Automation, we have different departments in the company such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls & Robotics, Manufacturing, Quality, etc., and Arena is used by almost our entire organization. It is very useful and secure for maintaining our document database, change management, and quality management. This tool empowers us to maintain standardization across the company and being user-friendly it is easily accessible--anyone can pull up any documents or necessary information quickly. For a programmer like me, it's very handy to save configs for the drives, servos, scanners, etc. on Arena so that they are easily accessible across the company to anyone who needs to use them.
March 03, 2020
Arena viewed by a programmer
Arena is used by manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and quality insurance. The whole organization uses Arena. It helps centralize everything on our products from engineering, manufacturing, installation and spare parts. This is where we can retrieve all previous and current versions of all subcomponents and a higher-level drawing of our system.
March 03, 2020
Great for engineering and quality processes!
Arena is being used across the whole organization. I mostly use Arena for item creation, bill of material management, and quality processes. The whole organization also uses Arena to sign off on quality training documents.
March 03, 2020
Arena is useful and helps to organize projects.
Arena is being used by my department to help with establishing a location in which multiple users and or departments can store data/ files. It is also being used as an organizational tool to help keep projects on their timelines and priories clear for the individual team members by use of tickets.
March 03, 2020
Fantastic Tool. Couldn't live without it once you try!
The whole organization is using Arena. It addresses document control and change control problems.
March 03, 2020
Looks time consuming and a lot of work
Across the whole organization, Arena allows blocking design in production so every other department can start using them. Purchase, spare part, production. All the information about a part is transfer to Arena. To be in production, all departments have to approve it.
March 03, 2020
Arena is a great tool to keep all your drawings, documentation, and BOMs organized in one centralized location!
Arena is used across the entire division for all documentation, BOMs, and drawings. Arena used as a central repository for all the information and helps ensure there is revision control with all of our documentation. It is also used to track changes to any documents and drawings and record history.
March 03, 2020
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Arena is used as a database as well as a vault. Tasks to do are posted in there, and the material, bill of material, and files.
Arena is being used for Document and version control for all our Major documents such as Business Requirement Document, Engineering Requirement Document, and many more. Arena is also used for our Production Control, where we manage the Complete Life cycle of the product from Production to End Of Life.
It is being used by All departments such as Product Management, Program Management, Engineering, etc.
Arena helped in solving the problem of keeping a track record, which is a challenging task. Also, it helps in knowledge transfer with the right documentation in place. For example, if any important person leaves the organization without knowledge transfer, this tool with the right documentation helps in keeping a record of it and can be used as a source to learn the task which was left by the person leaving. Arena is indeed the best tool for Quality Control, Version Control, and others for Document or Product.
It is being used by All departments such as Product Management, Program Management, Engineering, etc.
Arena helped in solving the problem of keeping a track record, which is a challenging task. Also, it helps in knowledge transfer with the right documentation in place. For example, if any important person leaves the organization without knowledge transfer, this tool with the right documentation helps in keeping a record of it and can be used as a source to learn the task which was left by the person leaving. Arena is indeed the best tool for Quality Control, Version Control, and others for Document or Product.
March 03, 2020
Arena Solutions - a great fit for a startup
Arena is being used across the whole organization for Document Control, Training, Quality Systems, and Manufacturing. The biggest problems addressed are Training Compliance - no more manual tracking of training. The ability to have multiple reviewers look at documents simultaneously when approving documents is a big time saver. The BOM management function is particularly helpful to revision control BOM components without impacting the finished good revision level.
March 02, 2020
Arena is a great and easy to implement PLM system
Arena is used in several of our business units; many with full PLM and integration to Oracle EBS, one business just using Quality. We have three more implementations scheduled for 2020, two in the US integrated with Oracle and one in Germany (med. device) integrated with SAP. Arena solves the issue of data being spread out in several locations, creating one single source of truth. As well as allowing integrated communication with product data and across multiple internal organizations.
March 02, 2020
Its never too late to switch to Arena
It's used for the part list, manufacturing, drawing, and stocking.
March 02, 2020
Good for Product Life cycle Management
Across all the organization to manage product revisions.
We use Arena to manage documentation and sign-off periods such as stage gates.
Arena is used to serve as the engineering library of all parts, software and hardware which we use for every aspect of work.
March 01, 2020
7 year and counting Arena Vet!
We use Arena as our primary PLM system across our entire organization. Arena serves as our single source of truth. Our revision controlled documentation is stored and accessed by all employees across all disciplines. We use SOLIDWORKS as our primary 3D CADD software and the Arena SOLIDWORKS add-in to integrate the two.
February 07, 2020
Area helps speed up the analysis
Arena is used by the Design team and NPI department so it can be deployed and used on the manufacturing site by a few members to consult information.
January 21, 2020
Arena Solutions
I set up Arena so that we have a centralized area to store and control documents for quality documents, drawings, operation documents, and supplier information. It is currently being used across the whole organization (R&D, operations, quality, and supply chain). The business problem that it addresses is keeping documents updated and aligned. There is only 1 current document and approved document. Any other document is not valid unless uploaded and approved in Arena. Also, for supply chain, the item master is very useful in controlling Bill of Materials for each product when set up correctly. Data can easily be exported and reviewed.
December 10, 2019
Stay ahead of your competition with Arena
Arena is currently in use at our organizations' product implementation team to facilitate change management and document control. It's a great tool for version control and is our primary reference tool for our production and service teams.
December 02, 2019
Arena PLM - clean and powerful tool
We currently use Arena across our entire organization. Everyone from our QA, Engineers, NPI, and hardware guy use it. We have all our parts, suppliers, files, products in Arena as well. We store our internal company documents as well as our Work Procedures in Arena so employees can grab any necessary information quickly and efficiently. It helps us track all of our parts and it means no more BOMS in Excel which is great. Tracking ECOs are another benefit of Arena as it empowers us to see a track record of everything.
November 22, 2019
ARENA SOLUTIONS - Product Lifecycle Management
Arena is our organization wide PLM solution. It allows us to manage product data with ease.
November 22, 2019
Arena - Best for the price
Arena is mainly used in the engineering department to store all of our design files to share with our CMs.
November 20, 2019
Vincent - fitbit - Arena Review
Arena is currently deployed across the entire organization for the purpose managing Fitbit's product data.
The product data it allows us to vault and change control are the following:
The product data it allows us to vault and change control are the following:
- Part Numbers/Items
- Item Attributes
- Suppliers / Supplier Items
- Item BOM
- Item Revs
- Item Lifecycles
- Change Orders / Deviations
- Change Requests