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...
Show More Arena PLM addresses modern product development challenges by bringing product information, people, and processes together into a single Cloud system to speed product development and commercialization. Through better visibility and enhanced collaboration, internal product teams...
Show More Arena PLM for AWS GovCloud helps companies that are subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ensure defense-related technologies are controlled, and, if exported, are done so only with proper export licenses.
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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February 23, 2024
Arena - a great resource for document control and quality processes
Our company used Microsoft SharePoint along with a paper-based system for document control and quality processes before we implemented Arena. This system often had failings with incorrect versions of documents being used, printed out papers with signatures getting misplaced, and files getting lost. It was very difficult to track the status of these documents and processes within Sharepoint.
We evaluated Omnify as another option to use instead of Arena. I believe the functionalities are similar but more people at the company had experience with Arena than Omnify. We also evaluated Veeva since we use that for our clinical trials but the pricing and functionality was not the right match for us.
We evaluated Omnify as another option to use instead of Arena. I believe the functionalities are similar but more people at the company had experience with Arena than Omnify. We also evaluated Veeva since we use that for our clinical trials but the pricing and functionality was not the right match for us.
February 20, 2024
Low cost solution but still room for improvents
Agile seems easier to use than Arena.
September 29, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS Review
We selected Arena because one of our suppliers uses it. I would say you are equal.
September 02, 2023
Arena PLM and QMS Superior Document Control
Arena PLM and QMS works as any other document control resource, but is simple enough to pick up and use efficiently
August 25, 2023
Great system for a medium sized company!
- SOLIDWORKS and Teamcenter
Arena seemed the easiest to use and the one that can best be configured to our own ways of working and set up in a way that integrates well with our company
August 17, 2023
Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
I was not involved with SAP when it was evaluated but feedback from others SAP was chosen without full knowledge of ARENA's capabilities in these areas.
March 24, 2023
Arena is easy to use.
Easier to use web interface.
March 22, 2023
Arena PLM & QMS - Stellar Product
I've used SAP, Agile in the past, for PLM, and unless the server is in your office, you cannot configure anything, and should it crash, you as the client are stuck until the issues are resolved. In my 15 plus years using Arena, there has only been one instance where the server was down, and the support team quickly resolved the issue with no loss or data or breach of any kind. Both PLMs are very light on what you can configure for your own company, most of it is out of the box, and you are stuck with it, whereas Arena Solutions gives you much more freedom to really tailor it to your company's specifics and what works for you.
Arena is the first PLM tool I have had direct interaction with. It's been a positive experience for me.
March 14, 2023
Happy to have Arena in our work life!
I've used Soquel, Oracle, custom databases, I like Arena the most.
July 07, 2022
Smart software for a smarter workforce.
July 07, 2022
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July 06, 2022
Arena for Quality System Management
I've used Trackwise and Qualtrax previously, and the direct competitor for Arena originally was Q-Pulse.
December 06, 2021
Potentially powerful system, with a few annoyances
No other electronic Arena PLM and QMS systems [are] used.
November 15, 2021
Usage has been limited, but impressive.
Score 10 out of 10
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Arena is significantly less clunky that its competitors.
November 14, 2021
Arena - Good for small companies
November 13, 2021
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November 05, 2021
Arena Simplifies the Life of a Mechanical Engineer
Oracle Agile was a lot more difficult and expensive to use
November 02, 2021
Good Product, but a little clunky at times
I have only used a paper system with uploads to a shared network. Paper is more time-consuming, but more in our control. It's much easier to search through Arena than a paper system, however, there is still a learning curve to Arena. Once Arena skills and company knowledge are gained, it is quite valuable
November 01, 2021
Arena PLM Review
I have not evaluated other doc control products. Previously, all tracking was done internally via Windows file system.
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.
No other alternatives.
October 18, 2021
Highly recommeneded
I have used SAP in my previous companies, and while it was a good ERP system, it was not [a] very good document management or quality management system. Arena [PLM and QMS] offers more flexibility to host documents and to perform change management. Arena [PLM and QMS] also provides avenues for CAPA and NCMR management which the other product did not.
October 14, 2021
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Agile does not have as clean and user-friendly an interface as Arena.
March 31, 2021
Arena - one of the easiest PLM systems out there!
Arena is much better than QAD in terms of BOMs and ECOs and Revision Control. We use Arena concurrently with SAP and they integrate very well together, which is nice. The integration team was really helpful in making sure that the SAP to Arena functionality runs smoothly, and when there are any issues, they are very responsive to help make changes to fix the problem that might be there.
December 08, 2020
Good but needs improvement !
This is the first time I'm using any quality management system. I had fun setting up Arena with my team and it was a very good learning experience.