Arena PLM Review
September 24, 2018
Arena PLM Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Arena
Arena is being used across the entire organization including field operations and select external vendor partners to communicate engineering and documentation changes. Our organization has multiple locations across the country and Arena (as a cloud PLM) provides for an easy and very effective means of communication.
- One of the benefits of using Arena is that it is a cloud based PLM system which allows you to access it from anywhere when needed and is supported by different devices such as an iPhone or iPad.
- Another benefit of using Arena is its ease of use. Arena is intuitive and any new user should be able to learn his/her way around the system after learning some of the basic commands and navigation features.
- Arena is also a flexible system with respect to revision control. The user is able to manage revision control as needed for a part or assembly and is not automatically set as with other PLM systems.
- I have no examples to write about at this time.
- I don't have hard numbers but it is a vast improvement from the previous process which relied on a paper trail and email to manage engineering changes and NPI.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
I think the single most important factor is price. When looking at alternatives my company looked at factors such as payment plan and flexibility with that plan versus what the other PLM vendors offered. Arena offered the best option.
Arena was implemented a year before I started here but from what I understand it was easy to deploy and it implemented on time. We had a very able implementation manager that put in place all the necessary procedures and had all the necessary inputs from the different functional groups within the organization.