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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December 06, 2021
Potentially powerful system, with a few annoyances
- Organization of documents and training assignments
- Easily accessible (web client)
- The search function is ABYSMAL. Does not return all items with the entered keyword.
November 15, 2021
Usage has been limited, but impressive.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Workflows are intuitive and easy to use.
- Training is linked to document revs.
- Projects can be used to capture various elements of the QMS in a way that is intelligently linked to other parts of the system.
- Additional training tutorials for users to better understand and utilize everything Arena offers.
November 14, 2021
Arena - Good for small companies
- Easy to use
- Provides excellent Help data and videos
- Search features makes looking up existing changes easy
- ECOs - cannot Edit fields after Submitting for routing.
- Connecting NCRs, ECRs and ECOs is difficult.
- Doesn't allow for up front coolaboration
November 13, 2021
Arena Review
- Allows good control of files.
- Allows good control of items.
- Allows good sourcing.
- Needs improved search engine.
- Needs better report setup.
- Needs better report options.
November 12, 2021
Arena review
- BOM management
- File attachment
- ECO release
- Allow simple file swap without ECO if no vendor download the file yet
- Allow ECO release of BOM even if some of the items are not in released stage
November 05, 2021
Arena has it all, or most of it anyway!
- BOMs are organized
- Exploded diagrams are easy to add and read
- Search functionality could be improved
- The page refreshes between tabs and nested items should be removed
November 05, 2021
Works for us!
- It is easy to update BOMS in Arena
- It is easy to write NCR's and tie them into any other item or process in Arena
- Makes it easy to track level 1 training.
- The Deviation feature is difficult to use. If there is a deviated document, it should be available to grab from the pulldown menu the same way regular revisions are.
- Sometimes the pages reload over and over again
- Sometimes, when I have multiple quality process windows open at once, the page refreshes to display the content of a different NCR than the one I submitted just now.
November 05, 2021
Arena Simplifies the Life of a Mechanical Engineer
- Website loads fast
- Website is readily available across various platforms (computer, phone, tablet)
- Files download/upload fast
- More customization of interface
- Ability to return to location you last left site at
- Improving search capability of recently searched items
November 02, 2021
Good Product, but a little clunky at times
- Provide a platform for design documents
- Allow for communication between departments on quality documents
- Email reminder system
- Consistency of GUI across different portions of the system
- The system is a bit slow at transitions while navigating
- In some cases, the system feels more expansive than is needed
November 01, 2021
Arena PLM Review
- Document tracking
- Approver tracking
- Revision tracking
- Adding approvers when there is a large number of users is difficult.
- We should be able to set autofill of document names.
- Association of change requests to items require a very manual process.
October 22, 2021
Great Features Set, Lots of Capability!
- Handle supply chain issues
- Track "where used" for any part
- Clear revision history
- Complicated UI, lots of buttons
- Not a very natural search function
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.
- Documents are online, which is far superior to retrieving them by going to look for them physically, you could also retrieve older documents, which for some other companies can be a challenge.
- Often times it is challenging to find the documents. [In my experience,] I am certain that very frequent users have no issues. [However, in my opinion,] newbies ARE going to find the process cumbersome, clunky, and counter-intuitive.
- Most places use files or part numbers or title descriptions for finding items. While Arena [PLM and QMS] 'seems' to be able to do this, it is not a quick method [in my opinion]. [In my experience,] I always have to jump through 3 hoops of struggle to get where I want. Please, Please, PLEASE make this more user-friendly!
October 19, 2021
The standard for QMS
- Current status of doc
- Auto reminders for approvers
- Reminders on training tasks
- No built-in doc viewer
- Difficult to compare current revs with previous revs at a glance
- Difficult to find files if doc number is unknown
October 18, 2021
Highly recommeneded
- Change order
- Hosting
- CAPA
- Risk management
- Metrology
October 14, 2021
Arena PLM and QMS is great!
- Visibility/transparency throughout processes
- History/tracking
- Relative simplicity of user interface
- More display options/settings
October 14, 2021
Review of Arena PLM and QMS
- Change Order organization, bringing together crossfunctional people
- Live status updates of changes
- Graphical user interface
- Uniformity in adding files - it is different in a "Item" versus a "change"
- Change Order interface creates long pages, but edit buttons only at top and bottom
- Searching between Items, Changes, Training, etc. is difficult for a new user. Involves knowing what files belong to each type.
October 14, 2021
Be a QA gladiator with Arena!
- Requirement managements
- Reworks and NCRs
- Tracking changes
- Integration with other sites
- More APIs
- Cheaper accounts for companies with many employees
July 05, 2021
Intuitive Product Life Cycle Tracking
- Very robust in creating and maintaining Bills of Materials (BOM).
- Intuitive and easy to use ECO & ECR functions.
- Can keep all the necessary files for an item, including drawings, purchase specs, quotes, etc. in one place.
- The new version is slow in some browsers (I have tested in Opera, and the speed has decreased with the new update).
- There could be an option to review a 3D model inside Arena, instead of having to save a 3D model files and open it in CAD software.
- The interface could be more modern.
June 21, 2021
Arena Provides Effective Product Management Software
- Engineering change orders.
- Bill of materials.
- Deviations.
- Help functions aren't the best.
- Difficult to track change requests.
- Exporting BOMs is un-intuitive.
March 31, 2021
Arena - one of the easiest PLM systems out there!
- Revision Control - keeps things in check to ensure that right files are always being used.
- Easy User Interface - anyone can use it, even from a non-technical background.
- User Access control - easy to segregate between types of users to allow access to certain things.
- Workflow - would be nice to have an automated workflow to remind people to approve things or enter decisions (e.g. in ECOs and Requests)
- More customization - some templates are locked down and have to use certain fields, without the ability to change or remove them when making templates (e.g. in the Quality world when making a RMA template)
December 08, 2020
Good but needs improvement !
- Ease of customization and to establish a Quality system
- Excellent customer support
- Easy formatting
- Auto-generate numbers in a pattern
- Templates for BOM creation
- Integration with companies with different Quality system
- Enforcing functional approval to permanent changes to Quality System controlled documents. All affected personnel need to give timely notification and approval for document changes.
- Expediting the progression of a Change Order to a process document change. In the healthcare industry, it is imperative for the time between decisions and changes to be minimized, and Arena accomplishes this well.
- Requiring electronic signatures for submitting and approving changes. Tracking of user changes is important for both the internal record and external auditing purposes.
- The use of multiple workspaces can be more seamless. Sometimes related documents are in different workspaces, and so one must toggle between workspaces to cross-reference documents.
- Navigation of a Change Order can be difficult when saturated with information in Summary, Item, Files, Approvals>Decisions, and History>Status view. A single view can be dense with information and attribute options.
- By default, Notices at the top are enabled and can be distracting or unnecessary after one gets accustomed to the software. Perhaps a simplified view layout could be an option to more experienced users.
November 19, 2020
Arena Review
- BOM management
- File legacy and revision management
- Product sourcing
- Costing
- More streamlined copying of BOMs.
- Improved linking of sourced components.
November 14, 2020
An AREnA with no conflict
- T process of creating items and change orders, it is easy to use and very clear.
- Training Videos are very helpful, the help tab is very useful.
- The interface is very clean and easy on the eyes.
- Advanced search is very helpful.
- Drag-and-drop files directly into items.
- When I try to upload a file into an item and press cancel, then try again to add a different file in that same box and press done, the upload is not successful...I would need to delete that box in order for a the upload to work.
November 13, 2020
Arena is a great, easy-to-use PLM system.
- Mostly intuitive menu-driven structure.
- Ability to save a lot of information in a central location.
- Flexibility on how to organize information.
- Sometimes the menu-driven structure requires too many steps and layers, making data entry time consuming or hard to find.
- Customer service could be better. Last time we requested tech support, our sales representative seemed somewhat impatient and uncooperative. Afterwards, we have been avoiding customer support.
- Training workspace should have a large watermark on the screen or something else that makes it evident that you are not working in the official work space. On a few occasions, colleagues, including myself, accidentally signed into training work space without realizing it. I was afraid we lost months of important data.
- An internal,network backup. The cloud based system is usually nice, but we lose access to important i nformation during internet outages. We lose internet about 2 hours a week.