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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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Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
Arena PLM and QMS is a purpose-built solution - just make sure you have a purpose before purchase!
Arena is easy to use.
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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.
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- 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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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-5 of 5)Arena - More than a supplier-customer relationship!
- Having partners and suppliers be part of ECOs throughout their lifecycle
- Sharing procedures and documents in real-time anywhere at any time
- Provide a secure area for our documents and designs
- Ease of use and support
- Some mass edit features could be added, such as changing suppliers in sourcing for all affected parts when a semiconductor company acquires another company but keeps the same part numbers...currently parts need to be changed individually.
- It has reduced our New Product Introduction time by releasing BOMs, parts, and documents faster and more efficiently to all our suppliers and partners simultaneously.
- Time to market has been faster and more efficient also; processes and procedures are clear and easy to follow.
- Different suppliers and partners access
- Integration of merger and acquisition entities database into Arena
- Fast and easy roll out of licenses at overseas locations
- Recognition of Arena when applying for ISO certification/renewal
- Use of Arena in conjunction with other software/tools such as SolidWorks, Silicon Expert, etc.
- Implemented in-house
- Training
- Getting used to the environment.
- Online Training
- Searches with Advance fucntion
- BOM Compare
- Redline feature
- Searching for ECO title in an ECO list opened in a screen...ECO title width limited and truncates part of the title
ARENA SOLUTIONS - Product Lifecycle Management
- Great tool for engineering change management.
- Insures security/integrity of all product data.
- Excellent implementation of revision control for product data.
- % progress bars for approval of an ECO.
- I don't know the numbers for ROI. However the qualitative benefit is clear to me. Arena is a critical tool for new product development (NPD) and introduction (NPI).
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Generation of Bills of Materials.
- Storage of Controlled Drawing & Documents.
- Engineering Change Management of products.
- Generation of Spares lists as a phantom BOM (Qty of items set to 0).. Elimination of requirement for Spreadsheets
- Use of holding parts numbers (item numbers) as references for sales opportunities.
- Arena integration with Solidworks
- Arena integration with Oracle
Vincent - fitbit - Arena Review
The product data it allows us to vault and change control are the following:
- Part Numbers/Items
- Item Attributes
- Suppliers / Supplier Items
- Item BOM
- Item Revs
- Item Lifecycles
- Change Orders / Deviations
- Change Requests
- It provides a solid PLM tool that is ready and easy to use, without much upfront cost and deployment effort.
- It provides ready to use licenses for outsourced Suppliers to navigate product data Fitbit has granted access to.
- Allows Administrators to quickly deploy new Item & Change types as well as implement new attributes, across the organization.
- Allows users to not only see the files associated with the item, but also any files attached to the supplier item being referenced
- More change control should be implemented to Supplier Items, like lifecycles and change controlled attributes at the supplier item level
- Better traceability and audit trails on any and all objects in Arena that can be easily seen through a history tab
- Better control on user defaulted settings, managed by the administrator.
- I was not around during the ROI analysis, however, I can say for certain that Fitbit has benefited greatly from having deployed Arena during its time of tremendous growth.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Third-party Reviews
- Leadership ability to implement configuration and business processes
- Minimal technical skills in making configuration updates.
- BOM Changes
- Revision Changes
- Communicate Changes to Global Suppliers
- Single Source of Truth for other data objects (not part numbers)
- Sourcing Changes Workflows
- Hiding certain attachments from Suppliers
- Quality Tool
- Training tracking tool
- Ticket tracking tool
- SKU was in Rev A (In Production)
- SKU Category = netsuite
To accomplish this, our team leveraged the Arena APIs and obtained scheduled reports out of Arena when new SKU items met the criteria.
Short and simple.
We also use it extensively as part of our ISO certification, as it allows us to track out entire device history record. This includes customer communications, meeting notes, project schedule, and everything possibly relevant to the project. Having all of that on an online server is invaluable when working remotely.
- Controls documents in a revision-based system.
- Easy to ECO.
- Approvals are documented and dated.
- Better search functionality. Searching partials sometimes doesn't work too well.
- Ability to set all revisions to "unchanged" when doing an ECO, instead of having to manually set each one
- Quality has definitely increased, since process controls are more closely followed. There is no way for production / vendors to access incorrect test forms or drawings.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Our purchasing department use Arena to reference datasheets, quotes, and costing information.
Our production and vendors use Arena to find the latest revisions of drawings, models, and test sheets.
- Revision control. It's invaluable for tracking revision changes, as well as approval dates.
- Drawing and CAD access. Allows production to only access the most recent revisions of an item, thus eliminating possibility of manufacturing incorrect versions.
- Comprehensive storage of device history records in the Projects module.
- We did not expect to make such extensive use of the Scribe function. It's a streamlined way to communicate any issues during the ECO approval process.
- When future budget permits, we'd love to use Solidworks integration for more comprehensive control of models.
But mostly, Arena just works. It's transformed our business into a much more streamlined system, resulting in a massive cost and time savings.
- ECO approvals
- Revision history control
- Costing
- When generating an ECO, all revisions are automatically set to the next revision. If an ECO is merely a correction without revision roll, there's no way to set all of them to "unchanged". You can only set as a specific number/letter. This is cumbersome when an ECO involves 200+ parts at different revisions.
Arena experience at EDI
- BOM building
- Easy item creation
- Revision visibility and access to previous releases
- Easy supplier item creation
- No flexibility in customizing ECO routing, information cannot be updated once initiated
- BOM allows duplicate items instead of combining qty
- No flags for duplicate PN's linking same vendor item
- Changes module is not customizable to add SN or date fields in implementation
- Needs better EPR system tie-in or offer procurement module
- No low-cost read-only access, becomes expensive if used across entire organization
- Improved time to market
- Improved NPD process
- Improved product release to sourcing and manufacturing
- Centralized parts database
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- PLM - design release, revision tracking, approval process
- BOM for manufacturing
- part information - supplier PN, drawings, etc
- tie it to ERP system