Great system for a medium sized company!
August 25, 2023
Great system for a medium sized company!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Arena PLM and QMS
We use PLM to track BOMs at all levels and handle ECOs with suppliers
We aim to use it for all products we produce
We aim to use it for all products we produce
- Connecting items across BOMs and assemblies
- Sorting items by categories and attributes
- The ability to have different types of requests and change orders based on the needs of the company
- Being able to create design revisions for items already pushed to production, instead of having to create a new item
- Hiding abandoned, obsolete, retired items when adding items to BOMs and assemblies
- Unique revision systems based on item category
- Unknown ROI yet
- Internally, we have gotten good feedback from everyone that has needed to look through BOMs and find connections fast
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Integration with other systems is extremely important. We don't want to force users to use Arena and change their ways of working so by making sure we can integrate to our own systems and APIs then it's easier to ensure that Arena is the source of truth
It took some time, 8+ months to deploy. We needed to rethink how we were handling some article numbers and BOMs. It's worked out well so far but the goal of implementing in 3-4 months was definitely an understatement from our solution expert.
Do you think Arena PLM and QMS delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Arena PLM and QMS's feature set?
Yes
Did Arena PLM and QMS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Arena PLM and QMS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Arena PLM and QMS again?
Yes
- 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