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)
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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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December 06, 2021
Potentially powerful system, with a few annoyances
Arena PLM and QMS is our official document repository for our entire company (a subsidiary of [a] much larger company).
November 15, 2021
Usage has been limited, but impressive.
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Arena is utilized across the entire company as a tool for housing, approving, and organizing documents. The platform is also used as the training platform at SomaLogic. This serves to capture business needs related to QMS per standards and guidances.
November 14, 2021
Arena - Good for small companies
Arena is used company-wide for ECOs, ECRs, purchasing, and inventory
November 13, 2021
Arena Review
Itis being used by the whole company to manage our change management system. It allows us to have complete control of our concept and design system.
November 12, 2021
Arena review
Used mostly to release BOM and ECO release. Use by both operation and engineering teams. Vendors also use Arena to access our BOMs and design files to fabricate the parts. Also being used to submit deviation for manufacturing. Our products are very complex and Arena helps to manage all BOMs and engineering drawings.
November 05, 2021
Arena has it all, or most of it anyway!
We use it primarily for the bill of materials associated with exploded diagrams of our products. It is implemented for use starting with our front line agents communicating with customers to our quality, engineering, and supply line teams.
November 05, 2021
Works for us!
It helps with BOMs and change orders. Keeps everything nice and organized. I am able to easily reference quality documents and processes, link part numbers and suppliers, train to updated procedures and work instructions, and create easy to navigate change requests and change orders. It really helps to use this product when lots of projects are ongoing simultaneously.
November 05, 2021
Arena Simplifies the Life of a Mechanical Engineer
We use it for document control and sharing PDF/CAD models with non-CAD Users
November 02, 2021
Good Product, but a little clunky at times
Some departments use it, others do not. We use this system to work towards ISO 13485 compliance, tracking lots, P/Ns, Design Documents, etc. It helps us to get information out to the entire team so that it is readily available. It also helps to reduce overall required resources for maintaining documentation processes.
November 01, 2021
Arena PLM Review
It is being used by the whole organization to ensure document control is tracked for FDA reviews. Specifically, any document that is generated in the process of medical device development must be archived, with a clear paper trail of approvers. Any revisions to such documents must also be archived. Arena serves these purposes well.
October 22, 2021
Great Features Set, Lots of Capability!
[It is] used to track BOMs, suppliers, and ECOs. [It is] used across the R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain groups. The contract manufacturer has access to view ECOs, build documents, and all other necessary information. Arena PLM is especially useful in handling part and component supply chain issues by easily allowing us to add alternate suppliers.
October 21, 2021
[In My Opinion:] Do you enjoy solving challenges? If yes, then [I believe] you will love solving the issues that Arena [PLM and QMS] introduces.
The whole business uses Arena [PLM and QMS]. It is the platform for all of our schematics and documentation.
October 19, 2021
The standard for QMS
Standard QMS for med device in production and in development. The top-level problem it addresses is document traceability. In detail, it helps with various nuances in up rev of docs, getting approval/auto reminders to approvers, etc. Version control is also good.
October 18, 2021
Highly recommeneded
We use Arena [PLM and QMS] as our document management system and as a place to store our Bill of materials, supplier information, sourcing information, etc. We also use Arena [PLM and QMS] for our nonconformance and CAPA system. It does a wonderful job [of managing] the change orders that are implemented in the system every day and allows for flexibility when it comes to updating the process flows.
October 14, 2021
Arena PLM and QMS is great!
Arena [PLM and QMS] is being used as QMS across the whole organization. We utilize it for document control, training, and managing quality processes such as complaints and field actions. It addresses many business problems that were present in our previous manual system and has allowed not only greater control but also increased visibility for all users throughout the entire process in question.
October 14, 2021
Review of Arena PLM and QMS
Across the whole organization as a form of document control to support the QMS of the company. Used by R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Sales, and Executive Team.
October 14, 2021
Be a QA gladiator with Arena!
We use Arena around the clock to keep track of many items, requirements, documents, etc. What would we do without it? It is also super helpful to use as part of a large team, using scribe to contact other team members across the company about specific items. I love how there are many ways to customize how you view and edit data.
July 05, 2021
Intuitive Product Life Cycle Tracking
Our organization uses Arena all across different departments, from Design & Engineering to purchasing, manufacturing, and quality.
June 21, 2021
Arena Provides Effective Product Management Software
Arena is being used across our entire organization to manage and track product-related documentation including drawings, BOMs, and change orders. The ease of use and accessibility it offers has given our company the ability to make innovative changes to our product quickly and efficiently over our various offices around the world.
March 31, 2021
Arena - one of the easiest PLM systems out there!
We currently use many different functions of Arena. Primarily as our main PLM to manage BOMs and ECOs and components. We also use the Quality Module for RMA and Failure Analysis tracking. The primary departments that use it are Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Product Management, and Finance - so a good chunk of the organization. In addition to our group, we have proposed to use Arena in other groups among ABB as well. The business problems that it addresses are that it easily puts all the information in a centralized location for users from different groups to gain access. The management of BOMs, ECOs, parts and the revision control really helps to keep things in line.
December 08, 2020
Good but needs improvement !
We use Arena for quality control and is used across the whole organization. It helps us maintain our revision control and change control for effective backtracking of root cause and design verification and validation. It also helps us to keep check of equipment calibration and keep track of decisions pending approvals and helps maintain change control flow.
Arena is currently only being used by one of the operating companies within my greater organization. It is used in the Quality Assurance department to manage Quality Systems including the document control process. Arena is a controlled database and does a great job of enforcing specific privileges when creating or editing electronic records. Quality records and documents often contain sensitive information that only specific personnel should access to read or edit, and Arena aids in solving that administrative problem with relative ease and usability.
November 19, 2020
Arena Review
Arena is primarily being used by our entire company as a way to manage BOMs, parts, assemblies, and product sourcing. For us, it allows us to better track components and assemblies throughout the life of a project. It also allows us to manage our sourcing for purchased components.
November 14, 2020
An AREnA with no conflict
It is being used across the whole organization (Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Sales, Finance, and Quality Control) as a document management system. It addresses the use of using outdated standard operating procedures and labels.
November 13, 2020
Arena is a great, easy-to-use PLM system.
Being used as a PLM system, mostly for engineering and operations. It's setup for the entire organization but few outside of engineering or operations use the system. Arena helps organize the release and change of our products, which are comprised of over 700 parts.