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 19, 2019
PLM Manager
We use it to manage product items, BOMs, AVL/AML, and contract manufacturing. We also use it in change order control and change requests, and adjusting file attachments with version control. It helps with Rohs and Compliance certifications and integration to go to ERP.
November 19, 2019
Arena PLM
Arena is our PLM with our customer. It is used across the entire organization, and allows us clear visibility with our customer to determine what processes/procedures aren't in place and allows us to implement them.
November 19, 2019
Short and simple.
Across the whole organization. Engineering uses it for doc control purposes. The official release drawings go to production for fabrication. Official release BOMs authorize the purchase of components.
We also use it extensively as part of our ISO certification, as it allows us to track out entire device history record. This includes customer communications, meeting notes, project schedule, and everything possibly relevant to the project. Having all of that on an online server is invaluable when working remotely.
We also use it extensively as part of our ISO certification, as it allows us to track out entire device history record. This includes customer communications, meeting notes, project schedule, and everything possibly relevant to the project. Having all of that on an online server is invaluable when working remotely.
November 19, 2019
Arena in a small company environment
We use Arena everyday for managing our product manufacturing and release process. It is used across most of the company, though it is used most by the engineering dept. It helps us keep track of the state for the multiple products in the manufacturing pipeline, allows us to communicate changes to our manufacturing partners, and access the information on currently released products.
November 19, 2019
Straightforward PLM software
Arena is being used company-wide but mainly by the Hardware and Design department for tracking products, BOMs as well as NPI projects. It's a good tool for keeping track of any changes made during a product life cycle as well as sharing product/project information with customers and suppliers.
November 17, 2019
Analytics and Quality Module has Room to Improve
[Arena is] Used by the hardware department for product lifecycle (ECO and BOM) management. Had been used for quality corrective actions for 1 year but found not cost effective.
October 14, 2019
Arena Review for a Startup company
We use Arena for our mechanical, electrical departments to fill up BOMs and issue releases of our finished and released BOMs. Once the BOMs are released we use it as our primary source to order the BOMs as well.
October 14, 2019
Great for static-engineering/manufacturing processes, not so much for rapidly changing prototype environment.
Used by Engineering and Manufacturing teams to create and maintain BOMs. Additionally purchasing can access the saved BOMs for ordering.
September 20, 2019
Arena experience at EDI
Arena is used across entire organization at EDI. It is used for PN generation, storing design files, sourcing specification, building product BOM, ECO change management. It is our PLM system.
August 06, 2019
Things that Arena is the best at: Implementation, Features, Ease of use, and Collaboration
Arena is being used by Marketing, Sales, Support, S/W, Engineering, Manufacturing. We integrated all releases and documentation, across all departments. We can access the information remotely also with our EMS (Outsourcing Manufacturing).
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June 28, 2019
Arena: An Auditor's Dream
Arena is used in our organization as a bundled solution for tracking change management, our QMS solutions, and training and compliance.
It is used for:
It is used for:
- All item (component level up to the SKU level) documentation (phase, revision and change control)
- QMS from our documented procedures and processes to utilization of the Arena Quality Module for several quality templates. The out of the box templates are easy to edit and others are easy to create.
- Supplier management allows for rating, supplier-specific audit traceability, and quality tracking.
- Training is a one-stop shop that records and provides a historical record for each employee. I like that this tool allows quizzes to be added which holds the employee accountable for actually reading and understanding the material content.
Arena is used across our organization to store our configuration data and to communicate to our internal and external customers.
October 23, 2018
Arena Review
We have all of our drawings, bill of materials with cost, supplier information and ECNs. Information is shared with production, supply chain, customer service, and quality.
October 16, 2018
Arena Survey
Arena is used as our document control database. All our controlled procedures and records are kept in Arena for everyone in the company to see.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM System Feedback For Perspective Users
Arena is currently used as hardware product lifecycle management tracking system. We use Arena to track hardware design, development, manufacturing builds, tests and monitor quality processes. Arena allow us to collaborate with suppliers and vendors to manage material. We also use it to manage products' certifications/compliance documentation.
October 16, 2018
Arena PLM Review
We use Arena throughout the company and also are working on getting our suppliers to use it. It has helped us address a lot of our product life management issues. It makes it easier to reference different revisions of our products for troubleshooting purposes. It also gives us an easily referable change process.
October 12, 2018
Arena - CM to Grow With
Arena is used across our entire company for engineering and product documentation CM control and supplier revision control coordination.
October 12, 2018
Arena implementation better than my expectations!
We use Arena for all of our BOM management. It is used across the entire organization. All part numbers, bill of material revision control and engineering change orders are managed using Arena. Using Arena allows us to give all our employees visibility to changes and ensures all employees are using the latest revision of the files associated with any part number.
October 11, 2018
Easy to Configure
We are using it for document control, BOM's, Design History Files, quality management system, and limited inventory control. Also training record maintenance.
October 09, 2018
Good document control software and excellent validation support
We use it for approval and distribution of quality system documents and DMRs. We also used it to store scanned quality records for archiving. It is used by employees in the quality system. It addresses Document Control requirements for an IVD design and manufacturing company.
October 09, 2018
Arena works well enough for a small team.
We use Arena to control mechanical and electrical design documentation for major releases into production. And then tracking ECOs. This is a lot better than using manual tracking with spreadsheets. Arena handles revision control, archiving, and cross functional communication.
October 08, 2018
Turn key easy to use PLC software
Arena is used in the Hardware department and it is used as documentation control system for parts and assembly as well as Quality and Compliance Documentation System. The main usage of Arena is documentation control system for products and Quality System documentation as well as quality related documents (SCAR, First Article, SPCR, supplier Audit, supplier AVL documentation,, etc.)
October 08, 2018
Making it work with Arena
Arena is a used departmentally throughout our engineering groups. It addresses electrical, mechanical, marketing and operations.
October 08, 2018
Good...
Yes, we are using Arena to organize our department and we are using it across other departments too. It addresses issues of BOM global control.
October 08, 2018
Arena has been great fit for our growing company
We have used Arena since 2002... first in the US. It is now used in multiple sites round the globe... in the US, Mexico, China, Thailand, India, UK, Slovakia, Czech, etc. It is our primary tool to manage PLM, engineering changes, sharing of data with our suppliers, quality, and program management.