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 13, 2020
Arena gets the job done with a nice, new UI
Arena is being used at our engineering and manufacturing company as our document control system. We use it to process changes to engineering drawings, manufacturing instructions, etc. It is used across the engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain departments. It provides a central source of truth and space for agreement for everyone in our international offices and our contract manufacturers.
Arena is our PLM system and the single source of truth that controls our revisions. Our whole organization uses Arena to capture all changes and new releases. Sometimes Arena gets slow. Causing ECO's to take longer
November 13, 2020
Good Software for Changes and Quality Management
We use Arena for quality management and lifecycle management.
November 11, 2020
Quick learning curve & easy on-boarding process!
Arena is being used across the whole organization, however it is more specifically used by regulatory, quality, and operations departments. We use Arena as our main document control system for our device, including our Device Master Record and Design History Files, as well as all of our quality system documents. When manufacturing our system, all documents of the latest revision are pulled from Arena prior to the initiation of any stage. Our quality system goes through updates often, and these are documented in Arena after review by the respective team members.
November 10, 2020
Excellent PLM with Excellent Customer Support
We use Arena as our PLM system. It is our QMS repository and all Engineering Change Orders are completed through Arena.
November 10, 2020
ARENA - best PLM system
We use Arena for the whole company. Most everything is now electronic since switching to Arena. BOMs, specs, design history file documents (test reports, software docs, etc.). The entire company has instant access to the documents. We easily provide our vendors with BOMs, etc for purchases. ECO review is seamless, our ECO turn around time has decreased. In addition, our customers want to approve certain documents and we can easily provide them (via license) access to certain documents. We no longer have to put a package together to send via email or have them come into our office for signature (as we used to with the hard copy/manual system).
November 10, 2020
Arena FEEDBACK
Arena is used across the entire organization, internationally. It addresses documentation problems. We now have a standard process to review and approve drawings, documents, procedures, etc.
November 10, 2020
Arena: Complex to use
We use Arena for managing our product changes and BOMs. It is used by the whole engineering division. It addresses the need for change management, revisions, BOMs, and change approvals.
November 10, 2020
Quality
For training purposes and also to create item numbers, we also store most of our SOPs in Arena. The company used Arena daily to complete most tasks within our daily duties.
November 10, 2020
I love Arena!
We are using Arena throughout our entire organization. It helps ensure all of our documentation is in one place and we know what the latest version is of the item that we are viewing.
November 10, 2020
Join the vast world of Arena
Arena is currently being used across our entire organization. All departments touch the system in some aspects. Arena has been used for training, as well as our change control process. Arena has also addressed the Quality issues for our organization. We currently use it for all deviations, nonconformances, corrective/preventive actions, and OOS. Arena has also helped streamline the evaluation of our metrics. Additionally, our project managers have also used Arena to track the lifecycle of a project and assign various tasks. We also use Arena to mirror our ERP system and make sure all the item numbers match up.
November 10, 2020
Excited to Implement
We are a start-up and needed a document repository compliant with the FDA regulations. We also wanted to implement an electronic quality management system that included training management. The entire organization will use Arena.
October 30, 2020
Arena Review in 2020
My whole company uses Arena. We use it for creating all our part numbers, routing all ECO's and CO's, employee training with and without a quiz, supplier approval process, In-coming inspections, CAPA, Complaints and NCMRs.
September 10, 2020
Arena as a true PLM tool
Being utilized by 100 internal users by a hardware department and 150 supplier users.
April 01, 2020
Arena user review summary
Arena is used across the whole organization. Both the US site and the overseas site. Arena addresses the following items: BOM, document control, revision control, engineering changes, link to suppliers and back up of important documents.
March 30, 2020
Arena is the future!
Arena is used in my organization as a quality management system. This is where we store approved documents. Arena is also used in my organization to approve workflows and processes. Some workflows and processes are required to have a review process by multiple employees in my organization. This is all done through Arena.
March 24, 2020
Glad to hop onto Arena!
We are currently using Arena as our quality management system. Currently, our supply chain and quality departments use this system. I have not found any problems with this system.
March 20, 2020
Arena: Highly useful, if somewhat limited
We use Arena for revision control of mechanical parts and assemblies, PCBA hardware versions, various software versions, and manufacturing equipment.
March 12, 2020
Arena from a daily user
Our entire organization uses Arena for product management throughout the lifetime of the device, as well as document control. With Arena, it is easy to manage document revisions, track training, specify critical specifications and implements well with our ERP system. Arena is used daily as a tool for tracking progress in critical project timelines.
Arena is primarily utilized by our supply chain and quality team. The platform was implemented to help store confidential information within the organization as part of being compliant. Arena aids in streamlining communication from various locations to ensure efficiency in supply chain and quality.
March 11, 2020
PLM that you can tackle yourself!
We use Arena for BOM management, engineering change orders, document change orders, workflow management, training controls, and various aspects of our Quality Management System. Arena is used by Engineering, Operations, Support, and Manufacturing departments and has been a big advantage for configuration control, plus communication. Overall, Arena has been a huge helper!
March 08, 2020
For most Quality processes and BOM management, Arena is the best in the arena; very willing to improve where necessary
Arena is used throughout our organization for BOM management (PLM) and for Quality Management.
We are able to collaborate on solving non-conformance reports and complaints as well as share BOMs and specs with suppliers. We are able to demonstrate RoHS compliance with Arena. Every Audit by our Certification body is accompanied throughout the entire audit by Arena, whether by using search results for the particular area under question, or printouts from reports generated.
We are able to collaborate on solving non-conformance reports and complaints as well as share BOMs and specs with suppliers. We are able to demonstrate RoHS compliance with Arena. Every Audit by our Certification body is accompanied throughout the entire audit by Arena, whether by using search results for the particular area under question, or printouts from reports generated.
March 07, 2020
Quick Review
It is used to manage engineering drawings and models for various parts as well as organize our BOM and manage our various releases into production.
March 07, 2020
How I see Arena as an admin..
Arena is being used as the main PLM. Where we kept all of the history and documentation of our products, we use these products across departments, from Marketing to Engineering to Manufacturing. The only obstacle that I have trouble with is Arena does not have many flexibilities for admin. Admin should have more power to edit the change, such as add more items, documents during the transitions.
March 07, 2020
User-Friendly PLM
Arena is used by Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, partially by Manufacturing, Production, and Finance departments to track Engineering Change Requests and orders along with laboratory requests and orders, maintain new item masters and BOM lifecycles.