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Arena PLM and QMS

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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

Arena PLM and QMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Arena Bill of Materials (BOM) Management. Indented BOM displaying "in production" item status.Screenshot of Arena Engineering Change Management.  Engineering Change Order (ECO) approval with redlines.Screenshot of Arena Projects. Project schedule with status and progress.Screenshot of Arena Quality. Quality process showing a Corrective Action Report (CAR) with the issue details, affected items, and resolution progress/status.Screenshot of Arena Requirements. Tracks requirements and related product development issues for a complete product picture.

Arena PLM and QMS Videos

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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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...
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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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses Arena for document control and for managing quality processes. This includes employee training, change control, NCMR, CAPA, etc. Arena is Part 11 compliant for electronic signatures which allows us to streamline approval processes and cut down time for releasing documents. Our entire organization uses Arena, although some functions utilize it more than others.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Arena PLM in my organization to manage the product part numbers, specifications, BOMs, etc. The implementation of Arena has provided reliable revision control for all documentation, which has been especially important when working with our contract manufacturing and product distribution partners. Arena also provides us with a way to categorize our item numbers by type, which has been very helpful.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Arena for managing our projects between cross-functional groups. It is a useful single source of truth where documents can be housed and any relevant information can be stored. It allows the teams to ensure they are referencing the same version of documents. It is very helpful in showing an audit trail for creation and edits of items.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena offers a highly efficient and expedited means of accessing an extensive array of critical documentation and essential information, encompassing change control, requirements management, and electronic quality management system (eQMS) functionalities, thus significantly streamlining and enhancing operational processes. Notably, the integration of these comprehensive tools into the workflow emerges as a particularly remarkable facet of improvement, with documentation management standing out as a notably prominent area of advancement resultant from the seamless implementation.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a Medical Device manufacturer, [...] is subject to various FDA Regulations and ISO Standards in order to maintain the Certifications necessary to market our medical devices. The PLM module allows [...] to maintain compliance with the Design Controls and Production and Process Controls requirements; the Arena PLM and QMS module supports the [...] Quality Management System (AQMS) which is regularly audited or inspected by the FDA and the Notified Body, the British Standards Institute.

Since the implementation of the Arena PLM and QMS, [...] has realized an 80% reduction in observations or findings during these audits, as well as a 200% increase in efficiency and productively of our quality processes; e.g., Complaint Handling, Non-Conformances (NC), and Corrective Action, Preventive Action (CAPA).

Using Arena PLM and QMS to construct Quality Processes where information is entered into online forms in Arena PLM and QMS, we have reduced the amount of paperwork and MS Word files by 50%, and dramatically decreased errors and omissions.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is used in our organization for documents, design and change control. The BOM features are used for finished goods and all sub-assemblies. Arena PLM and QMS is also used for training plans and control, as well as for tracking approved suppliers and supplier items. All quality processes (CAPAs, NCMRs etc.) are also triggered and controlled throughout Arena PLM and QMS. Biggest business problems that the product addresses is Quality events (complaints etc.) and design changes.
Normand Whitehead | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena is used throughout the company and by most departments and all our divisions, here and abroad. It is also used by our assembly partners for parts selection and supply chain planning. Being a cloud-based solution, Arena permits many gains in time and timeliness of communications while keeping everything available to everyone at anytime anywhere. By communicating designs in real-time, Arena permits us to not only save time but reduce errors and roll out better designs faster. Time to market is key, and Arena has helped us with this. Really appreciate all the help so far, keep up the great work!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is used as the core tool of our QMS. It addresses revision control, training, and tracking of various processes for us. As a start, it brought our company digital. We previously had a number of dusty filing cabinets being controlled by a few select employees with lock and key. Every iteration or Change had to be meticulously tracked and controlled via excel sheets and Data Drive folders with restricted access. Arena PLM and QMS streamlines all of this and keeps changes, and revisions, out in the open so there aren't any questions as to what is the latest and who is responsible for it. Another problem Arena PLM and QMS addresses is files. Purchasing frequently did not have a spec to purchase what amounts to hundreds of small products from various vendors. A clean and tidy file system, complete with approved vendors and PNs, makes this a much simpler issue to tackle. Lastly is training; while Arena PLM and QMS training is pretty rudimentary, at least it is automated and revision controlled. It is pedantic to tie entire groups of employees to an SOP for their review and sign offs where before someone would have to chase them around and get them to wet sign a training log.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is used primarily by the Operations, Engineering, Product Development Teams, along with our CM Partners. Arena ties all of our departments together to ensure everyone is on the same page with our product development, launch to market, and most importantly continual improvements. Without Arena, there would be no control as to how our product is configured and ultimately this could result in severe loss of revenue, lessen our consumer confidence, and our Quality team would find it very difficult, almost impossible, to track potential issues and risks.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Engineering and Supply Chain/Operations use Arena for product lifecycle management down to the component level. Arena allows us to have clear version control and traceability during development and into the production of multiple products and controlled exchange of data with suppliers.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quality Document Management System and component drawing/bill of materials management. [Arena PLM and QMS] keeps track of our changes and manages phase gate approvals. Not all of our business systems are incorporated into arena such as manufacturing metrics and procurement related pricing information and cost management. It does however allow for documentation of supply chain sources.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is used across the whole organization for the development of products and internal projects, the QMS. That includes the training management as well as the management of the evolution of the product through the BOM functionality and the supply of each part. This is very challenging and it addresses the problem of multi versioned products, references, and multi-sourcing as well.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Arena PLM and QMS to manage release & revision control, publishing, and access control for component Item specifications and product assembly Bills Of Materials (BOMs) at all structured levels from raw materials, to various sub-assemblies, all the way to finished & packaged products, beginning from new product design conception through current production. The product addresses information records capture, revision control, sharing access & security, and archiving, but Arena PLM and QMS implementation & use is not without tedious labor, recurring costs, and low time-motion efficiency in the user interface design.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Arena to extract part information from BOMs. It can be scaled to merge into CAD tools to auto-update any revisions made in part files. For eg., every time I make a revision in the length of the dowel pin, the drawing can be auto-updated. Asimilar feature can be used to update material cost and weight in the PLM tool.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Arena PLM and QMS is the sole platform containing all of my organization's Work Instructions and SOPs. It is also how we document training on the documents. I use these documents to carry out my duties testing various products.
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