Arena PLM

About Arena PLM
Creating quality products in a fast-paced world isn’t easy. Your product processes involve multiple teams, locations, partners, suppliers, and vendors. These dispersed teams must work from the same design, ensure compliance (FDA, ISO, ITAR, EAR, and environmental regulations), stay on budget, and respond to customer demands.
You want to deliver better products, faster and easier. And you want to create innovative solutions to change the world. Every decision we make, every product we develop, and every service we offer helps you do that. With Arena’s proven cloud-native PLM solution, your internal teams and external partners can leverage the most comprehensive product development platform to accelerate new product development while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.
Arena PLM eliminates infrastructure barriers for sharing product information, exchanging ideas, and implementing changes throughout the entire product lifecycle. Arena provides the most comprehensive approach for teams to introduce new products to market with fewer errors, through better visibility and enhanced collaboration. This leads to better business decisions as you design and release new products.
We are vested in our customers’ success and are driven to earn our customers’ business every year. Companies of all sizes from startups to large global enterprises leverage Arena’s product development platform to bring together all of the teams responsible for designing, sourcing, and delivering products throughout the product lifecycle.
Our configurable cloud solutions and proven, best-practice implementations eliminate risky science projects and costly coding to provide the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Plus, with our multilayered security model, you can be sure that your intellectual property (IP) is always safe and protected.
Arena PLM connects with the solutions you use every day to maximize your results and get products to market even faster. With Arena API, you can build your own integrations or contract with one of our trusted partners. To browse our full suite of integrations, please visit www.arenasolutions.com/solutions/marketplace/.
Key benefits of Arena PLM
Increase your competitive advantage with a comprehensive cloud-native platform that controls product development information and quality activities in a single source of truth. Arena PLM links new product development, quality activities, and change processes to the complete product record. With Arena PLM, your entire team and supply chain partners can collaborate on everything product from design to sustaining activities anytime and anywhere.
- Streamlining development
- Improving quality
- Driving innovation
So, if you want to get innovative products to market faster, with fewer quality issues, and increase profitability–check out why Arena leads the cloud PLM market.
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- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
It needs some efforts to start with it, but it worth it.
Reviewed on 2018/01/12
Good product organization, and control of the history of all revisions for all components, even...
Good product organization, and control of the history of all revisions for all components, even their end of life.
Suppliers use it as well.
Pros
THat after you add your products, then easily you can find each detail in it and the history review.
Cons
The time it needed to learn the process, and start to implement it. but it is like that when you start to learn a new process.
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Arena PLM and E-QMS
Reviewed on 2024/09/19
Gain of time and reliability of information, especially during audits.
Gain of time and reliability of information, especially during audits.
Pros
The centralisation of all documentation, quality and development processes, and the ease with which they can be monitored.
Cons
BOM Management. It is not possible to freeze a BOM with defined revisions. When a children Item is updated, it is automatically pushed in BOM.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great tool for control revision and change management. Easy to manage.
Reviewed on 2023/06/29
Pros
Arena Exchange, share data with contract manufactures and Supplier
Cons
We need workflow staging task for implementation.
Response from Arena, a PTC Business
Hi Marta,
Thank you for leaving us a review! We're pleased to hear Arena PLM has been helpful for control revision and change management.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2024/09/18
It has been a good one, their support team responds in a timely manner and takes action to address...
It has been a good one, their support team responds in a timely manner and takes action to address issues.
Pros
I like how user friendly is their application. Very easy to navigate and configure different settings. It has useful tabs/fields which can be all very customizable.
Cons
Some fields limitations and customizations, like defining minimum/maximum number of characters for each field.
Response from Arena, a PTC Business
Hi Ingrid, thank you for leaving us a review! We're glad you've had a positive experience with our platform and support team. We appreciate your input about fields and customizations and will consider this for future enhancements.
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
a good tool for document management
Reviewed on 2024/09/12
I consider that Arena is a very good tool for document management and will highly recommend to use
I consider that Arena is a very good tool for document management and will highly recommend to use
Pros
Easy access to the system, good management on modifications as requested.
Cons
It could be more visual to the users so it can be harder to perform some mistakes and the capability to delete items/changes that will not be used.
Response from Arena, a PTC Business
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, Cesar. We're happy you find it easy to access and helpful for document management. We appreciate your feedback and will share your thoughts with the internal team for consideration for future improvements.
Arena PLM FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Arena PLM.Q. What type of pricing plans does Arena PLM offer?
Arena PLM offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Please contact Arena Solutions directly for pricing details
Q. Who are the typical users of Arena PLM?
Arena PLM has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Arena PLM support?
Arena PLM supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Spanish
Q. Does Arena PLM support mobile devices?
Arena PLM supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Arena PLM integrate with?
Arena PLM integrates with the following applications:
Acumatica Cloud ERP, Altium Designer, CADTALK, Expandable ERP, FlowEQ, Jira, Onshape, Sage 100
Q. What level of support does Arena PLM offer?
Arena PLM offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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