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 07, 2020
In a changing world
- It is being used across the whole organization.
- The most common problem is that our client gives us access to Arena, but not everyone accesses the same information due to our client policies and system registration date.
March 06, 2020
Using Arena as part of a high demand medical company
In my experience, Arena helps me manage all product documentation, reports, test protocols, design files, etc. This includes an easy to use search tool, as well as revision controls and ECO controls.
Arena is used as a BOM management tool and Change management Tool. Used across the entire organization for storing components, BOMs, design documents, templates, and so forth. Good user interface (nice Winter 2020 update), but slow at times.
March 06, 2020
Arena is a good, solid choice
We use Arena as our configuration management system. It is used heavily by Manufacturing and somewhat by Engineering as a reference tool.
March 06, 2020
Project Managers Dream
We use Arena for a project management tracker and collateral image housing. Arena allows people throughout the company to review content that is being added to the collateral and add comments. This allows our manufacturing plants to view the files of the collateral against what is received in the plants from our suppliers. This also allows us a platform to make any changes to our BOMs. Get all the correct people to check the changes.
March 06, 2020
Gets the job done
Across the whole organization. It is used to implement change orders to release hardware, software, and documentation (both QMS and non-QMS). It is used for other quality processes: reworks, non-conformance reports, CAPAs, etc.
Arena is used to manage engineering changes and archive product-related documents. It is used as a system in the whole company. It addresses issues on the bill of materials management, change management, and documentation management.
We use it to store all of the information for our parts database. It is used across the whole organization (software/hardware). It really helps keep everything synced and tracked. Whenever I need to look up specific information on a particular version of a PCBA, all the information is kept backed up on Arena.
March 06, 2020
Arena - The (not so) Little PLM System that Could!
Arena is used across our organization to support multiple business processes. On the engineering side, it is used to control engineering design and approval from the design stage through to production release, and houses the company's device master record (DMR). The company also uses Arena to capture the device history record (DHR) for each unit built in production. All quality and regulatory information and the design history file (DHF) is stored on Arena. All employees also do any required training through Arena since the system stores all of the company's process maps and training material.
Arena helped the company better organize and manage its engineering, quality and regulatory, manufacturing, project, and training processes.
Arena helped the company better organize and manage its engineering, quality and regulatory, manufacturing, project, and training processes.
Working at a company with multiple world wide design and manufacturing locations has made communication simple and accessible to all. It is being used across the whole organization. Engineering uses it to create and manage our BOMs and have a common location for drawings and other files that are then sent to Suppliers.
March 05, 2020
Amazing Document Control Platform
Arena is used across the whole organization. It is mainly used for document control and revision control. We use it for all official company documents, such as forms, technical specifications, test procedures, schematics, images, drawings, planning documents, proposals, and more. It's really great for keeping track of all of the reference materials and documentation for our products.
March 05, 2020
Great for revision control and product history!
Arena is used exclusively by my department and our suppliers. The main reason we use Arena is to share our PCB fabrication files with suppliers but it has also been very helpful in revision control on PCB designs. We have used Arena for 10+ years and it has done a great job of recording the history and timeline of our various products. We have more recently started to also keep track of BOMs in Arena. We also use Arena to control part number creation and inventory.
March 05, 2020
This is the Arena you want to play in
We have been using Arena to help our company release three generations of a product. With Arena, we have been able to seamlessly store and improve the design while maintaining excellent historical timing and reasoning for changes made both at the generational level but also, more importantly, within a given generation.
We have used Arena for many departments in our organization, including the Safety, Manufacturing, Engineering, Field Operations, and Technical Publications departments. The ability to use cross-functional groups for approvals ensures that all parties are involved and notified when changes are happening anywhere in the organization. This has helped speed up implementation time as well as aiding in incremental improvements.
We have used Arena for many departments in our organization, including the Safety, Manufacturing, Engineering, Field Operations, and Technical Publications departments. The ability to use cross-functional groups for approvals ensures that all parties are involved and notified when changes are happening anywhere in the organization. This has helped speed up implementation time as well as aiding in incremental improvements.
March 05, 2020
Arena Review
Arena is used across the whole organization. It addresses product release and manufacturing stages. It tracks many phases, from product development through product manufacturing.
March 05, 2020
Arena Solutions
My organization uses Arena primarily for product life cycle management. All of our parts and bill of materials for our product are managed in Arena. Engineering, operations, and QA are the primary consumers of these functions. In addition, all of our formal documentation is captured in Arena. The entire organization uses Arena for training. Primarily Arena helps manage our complex product by being able to effectively structure items via the bill of materials, specify suppliers, attach files, track history, and manage change. In addition, we use Arena to manage quality processes like NCRs, CAPAs, reworks, and temporary deviations.
March 04, 2020
Arena: Solid and committed to improvement
PD and Ops teams use Arena to manage BOMs and communicate sourcing/costing of multi-tier supplier items. We use it for version control and approval routings for quality tracking. We also input part qualification requests, actions, and results to implement into change orders for full tracking of why changes are made to products. Our CMs can update implementation data and view the official part spec direct from the source.
March 04, 2020
Arena Review
We use Arena for BOM management, revision control, and document management. We use it across the organization for implementing drawing and document release. Arena is also used to share information such as drawings and part files with suppliers for manufacturing purposes. Arena is used for tractability for our ISO 9001 certification.
Arena is being used across most of our company--from Engineering to Manufacturing and Purchasing. The biggest issues it does address are that before, we used an FTP server and anyone that had access could immediately modify a document without a review process and items would tend to get misplaced or deleted. (We had a review process in place, but items fell through the cracks.) This solution really gave our documentation a process flow to get correct approvals from the correct people.
March 04, 2020
Arena: On track to be the best
Our operations team uses Arena as a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) tool. It is our system where we manage our documents, files, parts, suppliers, quality issues, engineering, and manufacturing changes, etc.
March 04, 2020
Arena--Contract manufacturer's perspective
As a contract manufacturer, we have a seat on our customer's Arena account. This provides our company access to their PLM in order to process changes and review their BOMs, DWGs, and files, so we can manage their production needs. Arena is used by various departments at my company, including program management, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, and quality engineering. Arena addresses the regulatory requirements of change control for medical devices.
March 04, 2020
Honest Review for the Honest Arena
Arena is being used to track engineering change orders and projects within the engineering department. We can also track customer requests and document revision levels. It's also been nice to be able to attach notes and track the status of everything being worked on.
March 04, 2020
Review of Arena from an engineer user perspective
Being used across the whole organization. As an ERP software to manage file revisions and document things permanently. this information is considered validated and used throughout the company. Things must be in Arena in order to be purchased.
Arena is used mainly by engineering.
March 04, 2020
Arena Review
Our company currently uses Arena for BOM management. Prior to Arena, we were using Excel sheets which quickly got out of hand especially as our product got more complicated and we had more frequent changes early on in the design phase. Arena was able to make sure everyone on the team was on the same page via the online revision control and clear BOM management.
March 03, 2020
Arena Review
We use Arena as a PLM software where we have the database of all our parts, from customer off-the-shelf parts to design-owned parts. We keep our design/drawings/important information, etc. We also use Arena for internal processes of approval. For purchasing these parts, we transfer the information to another software. However, Arena is our source of truth.