Arena - One place to better manage your products
March 03, 2020

Arena - One place to better manage your products

DARSHAN DALVI | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Arena

Being an engineering firm for Industrial Automation, we have different departments in the company such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls & Robotics, Manufacturing, Quality, etc., and Arena is used by almost our entire organization. It is very useful and secure for maintaining our document database, change management, and quality management. This tool empowers us to maintain standardization across the company and being user-friendly it is easily accessible--anyone can pull up any documents or necessary information quickly. For a programmer like me, it's very handy to save configs for the drives, servos, scanners, etc. on Arena so that they are easily accessible across the company to anyone who needs to use them.

Pros

  • Product management
  • Project management
  • Standardization

Cons

  • 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.
  • Helping projects to execute faster, hence better customer satisfaction.
  • Due to standardization of processes, manufacturing has been on schedule hence, improvements on lead time.
  • New product development has been fairly easy to manage.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The main reason I personally like Arena is for document management and easy to track change requests.
A very useful tool for manufacturing and designers as well.
Arena gives us the power to locate all of our critical documents at one place for quick access for anyone across the organization. Not sure if there is a mobile app for Arena, but it would be even better to have one.

Comments

  • Alaine Portnoy | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Hello Darshan, thank you for your great review of Arena and sharing how it is being used across so many departments to manage product information. We hope you like the new UI in the latest release. Always feel free to submit your feedback (within Arena or to support) about product ideas and enhancements. We love to get input from customers!

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