Arena PLM + QMS for AWS GovCloud
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Product Lifecycle management across multiple sites around the world
What do you like best about the product?
Arena parts management is very robust. There are quirks for sure, but we haven't come across a single bug yet.
The revision control and Engineering change process is smooth and easy to follow for teams including Engineers, Purchasing, Quality, Compliance and Shop floor.
Arena provides supplier access for major vendors and contract manufacturers to ensure up-to-date information is always available, whether it's approved manufacturer part numbers, latest revision of BOMs or drawings and CAD files.
The revision control and Engineering change process is smooth and easy to follow for teams including Engineers, Purchasing, Quality, Compliance and Shop floor.
Arena provides supplier access for major vendors and contract manufacturers to ensure up-to-date information is always available, whether it's approved manufacturer part numbers, latest revision of BOMs or drawings and CAD files.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very little customization. If you want to export a BOM with particular fields you can, as long as they are the fields that Arena have chosen to let you use (HINT: not all of them).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
BOM management and revision control.
Supplier management.
Spec Sheets, Drawings and CAD files.
Change Requests and Change Orders.
Supplier management.
Spec Sheets, Drawings and CAD files.
Change Requests and Change Orders.
Software tries to do too much, resulting in a complex mess
What do you like best about the product?
The interface for managing training is helpful for managing large amounts of training modules. Document and approval routing is built it, along with repository of documents.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no pre-set approval paths, notifying additional users takes 3-4 clicks, that a simple UI change could improve. The search mechanism is lacking as different areas require different search parameters, you have to know exactly where to do your search to get the right results, this simple fact makes it challenging to find a document you know exists in Arena, but are unsure which category or state it is in.
Training is force refreshed for EVERY update (i.e. forces retraining), no matter how small. Nor does it highlight the changes required to be reviewed.
In the end it's purely a process management tool, but without the correct thought, design and overall guidance, becomes a complicated mess.
Training is force refreshed for EVERY update (i.e. forces retraining), no matter how small. Nor does it highlight the changes required to be reviewed.
In the end it's purely a process management tool, but without the correct thought, design and overall guidance, becomes a complicated mess.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simplifies training management, and tracking. Automatically notifies late assignments and reminders.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Could be useful to use different tools to manage only portions relevant at your scale
Arena successfully captures BOM and revision control in one interface.
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is very user friends and becoming familiar with Arena does not take long.
What do you dislike about the product?
I use two different work spaces in Arena and it would be helpful to be able to reference them both at the same time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena has helped stream line communication with our customer and better grasp ECs and revision changes.
Helps the company run
What do you like best about the product?
The web portal enables us to build BOMs effectively, and quickly look up any information we need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of obvious functionality to expand the use of Arena to control stock and orders without the need for external software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has enabled us to assign part numbers quickly, build a set of BOMs which we are relying on every day to run our business, that we were previously doing through spreadsheets which are not reliable.
modern change and BOM control system
What do you like best about the product?
Arena is a modern way to mantain updated your bill of material. I have been using different system and ARENA is one of the most modern ones. You are able to control the changes and notify all of them in an easy way.
In addition to that, you can create your own export template and download all the information just as you need it. The validation and approval release is also very well implement and all the changes can be easily deployed
In addition to that, you can create your own export template and download all the information just as you need it. The validation and approval release is also very well implement and all the changes can be easily deployed
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no any blocking point to dislike arena. In any case, will be helpful to add some kind of templates to summarize the changes. The notification that you get from the email s quite short and in some cases could be needed to add an additional file to provide clear evidence of the change created in ARENA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customer bill of materials management and release .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very good software to manage your data in a easy and modern way. It s not complex as ther solution in the market
Arena is the best
What do you like best about the product?
I really like Arena PLM's intuitiveness.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like how I can't copy the same BOM specs from one part number to another.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am capable of tracking all of my products through the phases of our design process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should use it.
Great product for document control
What do you like best about the product?
My primary interaction with Arena is for document control. I like the ability to store and retrieve drawings and specifications under one controlled location. As a purchasing manager I use Arena to access our documents before placing PO's. It reduces the risks of having multiple locations and files that are unorganized. Our QC team has better control over documents being up to date and organized.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with Arena is minimal, so I have yet to find a feature that I don't like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena allows our company to organize and share quality documents in one convenient and controlled environment. Our team members can initiate, share and approve DCO's easily. Our quality department also uses Arena to store SOP's and work instructions. They are able to send out training requirements to each employee, who then completes the training and signs off as completed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend using Arena if you are looking for a comprehensive quality software.
I have been using Arena in different companies
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. I learnt without much training
What do you dislike about the product?
I have used many PLM and this is most friendly and easy to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Document Control
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommand Arena. Very friendly and easy to use
Online database is good, filtering/search capabilities need work
What do you like best about the product?
Having an electronic quality management system where our procedures, documents, and drawings can be stored and revised.
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple fields that are all essentially the same thing. Report generation or any kind of filtering (especially in the quality world) is lacking/non-existent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to build out or input a BOM seems like it should be a nice feature to have once we are able to implement it more fully.
Great PLM system for smaller company and the configuration is easy
What do you like best about the product?
As an admin, I like the fact that the configuration is easy. I've used Agile in the past and the configuration was always a long and complicated process. It's nice to be able to see the changes in the Training work space and then implement once the changes have been tested out.
What do you dislike about the product?
The training module is not the best, the reports very basic and can't be tailored to meet the business needs. The access roles are also a bit complicated, it took mt organization a few months to really understand the details and to be able to assign the correct licenses and access roles for the employees.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easier and faster to get documents approved. I like the fact that the documents are automatically released once the last approver signs off on the change order. This makes the approval process more efficient.
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