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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March 03, 2020
Arena Review
- Generating BOM of assemblies and subassemblies is very easy.
- Easy to access the product history
- Creating engineering changes is very convenient.
- I'd be excited if it were possible to create documents in Arena.
- I would like to see some tutorials on how SOLIDWORKS PDM can be used with Arena.
- I would be excited if calendars could be integrated with Arena.
- Search and Advanced Search
- BOM & Where Used
- Design and Engineering Change process is very easy, user-friendly, and intuitive
- Project Change Management
- I can't think of anything
March 03, 2020
Arena - One place to better manage your products
- Product management
- Project management
- Standardization
- I have struggled sometimes to search for items. Needs to implement better search functionality.
- BOM duplication is allowed which should not be the case as it needs to be handled smartly.
- The UI is sometimes misleading with multiple options. It can be revamped for a simple and better UI.
March 03, 2020
Arena viewed by a programmer
- Approval process.
- Keeping track of everything.
- Centralize all engineering documents and others.
- Source control.
- The interface is ugly. It looks like an 1990 web page.
- The search engine is powerful but complex.
- Program development feature. Programs versions and source control ex: git.
- Being able to compare program versions in text format and highlight changes between previous and latest version release.
March 03, 2020
Great for engineering and quality processes!
- Web-based: It's great being able to access Arena from any device with an internet connection.
- Searching: Searching is powerful and easy. I can find what I'm looking for very quickly.
- Bookmarks: Bookmarks are a great feature that lets you return to any tab with a single click.
- The newest update seems to be slower than before. Pages seem to take longer to load.
- Would love to see a feature where you can copy items from one BOM to another. This would save a lot of time.
March 03, 2020
Arena is useful and helps to organize projects.
- Tickets can be set up in an organized manner and easily found
- Uploading and keeping track of files is easy with the file location and the drop to add box.
- Building a Bill of materials is quickly done.
- It takes a IT person to change specific things
- Some of the drop downs can be confusing
March 03, 2020
Fantastic Tool. Couldn't live without it once you try!
- Information was well organized
- Easy to learn to use even complex processes.
- System up almost 100% of the time
- Speed of operations
- When context-sensitive options are available, show them, and explain why they are not available instead of greying out the possibilities.
- All drag and drop functions.
March 03, 2020
Looks time consuming and a lot of work
- Find a part or assembly related to another that is currently used
- Regroup all the information about a part
- Have a historic of defect part, by the supplier
- Adding file is long
- We have been able to ice revision for a particular project to know exactly what is where at anytime.
- Reviewing ECO is hard; see all the files and find the corresponding top ASSY while navigating in the ECO.
March 03, 2020
Arena is a great tool to keep all your drawings, documentation, and BOMs organized in one centralized location!
- Intuitive
- Easy to Use
- Helps keep information centrally located
- Search can be a bit slow sometimes
March 03, 2020
Review of Arena
- Bill of material
- Links between files and changes
- Access to previous versions of revisions
- It is missing the option to know the inventory
- The new HUD is more struggle than helping
- 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.
- Arena has also helped in achieving ISO certification.
- It is also helpful in updating the BOM easily without much efforts and helps in keeping a track record of any changes made.
- The major disadvantage here is that it requires a lot of time to update the items.
- The DCO submitting process is lengthy and requires a lot of time if there is a minor update. There should be a way to update minor changes without withdrawing the whole change.
March 03, 2020
Arena Solutions - a great fit for a startup
- Training management is excellent - an automated, compliant system that pushes assignments to users is a big time-saver for the quality group.
- BOM management is super simple and allows for revision level control on components to be made easy.
- Compliance in document management is a big win—no more non-compliant server storage for document access.
- In automatically assigning approves, Arena could improve in allowing for some level of secondary selection. Too many people get notified unnecessarily on changes.
- There's no way to complete training outside the system or check off training done in the past.
- There aren't a lot of "If, Then" functionality you can add in (i.e., There's no way to say if the answer to a question is yes, require another question.) Lots of training has to go into system use to make sure it's done right.
March 02, 2020
Arena is a great and easy to implement PLM system
- Links all data together in one central location and software system.
- Very easy to use and learn system and user interface.
- Provides great viability to proposed product changes and pending changes.
- Allows external sources easy and controlled access to needed data.
- True collaboration with external suppliers.
- Arena Administrator is not as user-friendly as the Stander user interface.
- Arena Administrator needs two levels so one level could add users, but not change the configuration.
- The standard PLM functionality, quality, and projects are great. Many of the additional modules need a lot of work to be worth implementing.
March 02, 2020
Its never too late to switch to Arena
- Arena supports me in terms of referring to the drawing as per the project. Since we are dealing with multiple projects, it's good to have Arena to organize the drawings as per the project list.
- Not enough filtering.
- Couldn't sort it out using custom controls.
March 02, 2020
Good for Product Life cycle Management
- Link different product life-cycle management together.
- Keep documentation updated, helps manage drawing revisions.
- Managing tasks and approvals, provide visibility of who needs to take action and when.
- Helps document quality issues and link them to suppliers, part numbers, revisions, and changes.
- For ECOs linked to parts, it is not possible to print or download all related files at once. It is necessary to open one by one, not possible to do it in batches.
- When upgrading, a new revision does not keep user preferences and they have to be reconfigured (for example, view preferences).
- Store documents
- Authorizations
- Revision control
- Difficult for collab
- Expensive
- Offer CAD previews
- Serve as a Library store of information
- Upload files and forget they are there
- Search through super complex terminology as if it were 1993 on an old Windows 3.1 interface
- Search is so awful I prefer Excite, Web Crawler, or Yahoo from 1994.
- Finding anything requires a degree in Arena search terminology.
- Attaching a file is not simply add a file, it's a group of dropdown menus. Why has any person use this? This is only for paid Arena search specialists.
March 01, 2020
7 year and counting Arena Vet!
- Arena is relatively simple to use and understand.
- Arena has extensive capabilities and is enhanced and improved over time.
- Arena is web based so there is nothing to install or maintain.
- Our company has noticed that over our six years of use the performance has slowed dramatically.
- The newly revised user interface is plain and requires more mouse clicks. There is too much white space. Blinding on large monitors for us CAD users. Dark mode helps but has its own quirks.
- Imports that go wrong or do not complete can hang up imports for the entire company.
February 07, 2020
Area helps speed up the analysis
- Very good link between the BOM and supporting documents.
- Keep all information in only one database.
- Redundancies of where to access documents.
- Assign approvals to specific users.
January 21, 2020
Arena Solutions
- BOM control
- Controlling approved documents to make sure everyone uses the most current approved file.
- Quality control
- Data Export
- Takes a long time to set up.
- Must enter BOM in 1 item at a time.
- Don't have full control. Must use Arena support to control back end.
December 10, 2019
Stay ahead of your competition with Arena
- Strong version control tools.
- Robust document control.
- Few, if any integration plug-ins.
- Inflexible reporting tools.
December 02, 2019
Arena PLM - clean and powerful tool
- Tracking Changes is extremely easy and looking back at past changes and which items were affected is great.
- The overall basic UX of Arena is simple enough to grasp and a lot of the different views are conveniently within grasp.
- Storing all different kinds of file types is useful. From Software data, to powerpoints, to pdfs. Arena handles it all very well and being able to grab the data with one search is extremely effective.
- Arena Analytics provides a good foundation for reporting throughout the system
- Limiting users from viewing only Approved Suppliers is not an option unless you implement Access Policies. Since Access Policies is additive in nature we have to think backwards when implementing. This occurs with several other views that we want to block so to get around this we created a rule but then we don't enable it in order for us to block that view from being seen.
- Training Plans can be viewed by everyone even if they are not assigned to that training plan. This can be an issue because employees can view WIs that they are not assigned to. There should be a feature that we can use to limit users to only viewing training plans that they are assigned to.
- If Arena was able to tailor the Quality module so users can have sign off steps and steps with attributes combined that would be helpful.
November 22, 2019
ARENA SOLUTIONS - Product Lifecycle Management
- Great tool for engineering change management.
- Insures security/integrity of all product data.
- Excellent implementation of revision control for product data.
- % progress bars for approval of an ECO.
November 22, 2019
Arena - Best for the price
- Easy sharing and compartmentalizing components and assemblies with CMs
- Building and releasing ECOs
- Tracking ECO process
- The UI is confusing in some places where there are multiple menus that seem to do the same thing but actually do not
- When releasing ECOs it is hard to understand what is "shared" with vendors without looking at each component
November 20, 2019
Vincent - fitbit - Arena Review
- It provides a solid PLM tool that is ready and easy to use, without much upfront cost and deployment effort.
- It provides ready to use licenses for outsourced Suppliers to navigate product data Fitbit has granted access to.
- Allows Administrators to quickly deploy new Item & Change types as well as implement new attributes, across the organization.
- Allows users to not only see the files associated with the item, but also any files attached to the supplier item being referenced
- More change control should be implemented to Supplier Items, like lifecycles and change controlled attributes at the supplier item level
- Better traceability and audit trails on any and all objects in Arena that can be easily seen through a history tab
- Better control on user defaulted settings, managed by the administrator.