Arena PLM + QMS
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Straight forward usage
What do you like best about the product?
Track progress and stay up to date for any projects
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes hard to navigate and find documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly using it to get approvals routed for documents,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get trained well so that you can use it.
Arena QMS
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand interface and easily accessible files.
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit confusing to access certain QMS documents without proper knowledge. No clear path to some files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving business QMS issues. Benefits are that it is much easier to use than previous software/methods.
HP Arena Review
What do you like best about the product?
Simple GUI and User Friendly. No complex features. I like the report tool which is easy to handle compared to other PLM tool in the market. I like the feature to add additional attributes for each company users. I like the update and training that Arena gurus are scheduling quarterly. Help tool within the Arena is helping us to train other people and videos and screenshots used under that help is great. I like the file feature which is supporting lots of file format. I found Administrators have good right and very easy to operate in work space setting. Linkage between all worlds to ECO which is great feature compared to other PLM tools available in the market. Supply chain department is happy to see the amount of information that Arena allows to add for supplier creation and supplier items which is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more simple Disposition of parts. I would like to see more integration to current ERP tools available in the market. Not having this feature sometime creating integration problems and customer has to spend more money to buy additional software so PLM and ERP can talk to each other. I would like to see the more powerful Integration between CAD tools and Arena PLM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Arena PLM for change management and data management. The most important benefit is easy admin rules and few click to get results and multiple way to get results.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend Arena to others. I have extensive experience on Enovia, SAP, Oracle 11i and other PLM platform. I like Arena the most because of ease of use and simplicity.
Solid PLM System with Constant Evolution and Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
Arena has a clean UI with a solid backbone that enforces change management rules at a fundamental level. Every part of Arena was designed around proper change management practices and it reflects very well to easy to follow changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The overall system can be rather slow, with me waiting to click on the next item before the screen has finished loading. This is not just in large queries, but also just in item creation, supplier item creation, and swapping tabs within Arena. Additionally, there are some automation features to speed up change management, like routing lists, yet there are no systems for adding lists of people to be notified or lists to add supplier access to the change, which can become sluggish when there are 30 members from my CM that need access to each change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like with any PLM and QMS system, benefits include better quality and control of BOMs, components, and changes. As stated in what I like about Arena, the change management process and UI make it intuitive and easy to get through the system and constantly push out new changes.
Review, approve documents, conduct training in Arena
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Friendly interface. Full QMS workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to login due to server not responding
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Document control. QMS workflow.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good QMS tool
A must have tool for medical device companies
What do you like best about the product?
It keeps all our documents e.g. BOMs, drawings, and work instructions organised simply.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be more user friendly and smooth (in terms of their servers and UX).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena saves you a great deal of money certainly, however you do not realise this until your audit comes up.
Arena PLM system helps to manage all BOM and product ongoing changes to our vendors and CMS
What do you like best about the product?
Very good customer interface, very user friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to improve Supplier management and interface
improve change implementation management
improve change implementation management
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing product configuration and change management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to integrate with other IS
Mechanical Engineer, using Arena for 1 year
What do you like best about the product?
Having all quality documents stored in the cloud is extremely helpful, especially in these times of working from home. Document revision flow is fairly intuitive and streamlined. Eliminates the need to follow a paper trail every time a change is made to a document. Improves company workflow. Encourages continuous improvement of all documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are certain irrelevant features / fields that detract from the workflow. The user must be trained on which menu items are relevant and rely on their own checklist for how/what to complete. It would be nice if there was some kind of internal step-by-step template for a document revision. An online document viewer would reduce the amount of time spent downloading and opening documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena eliminates the need for physical interaction to manage documents within the quality system. Not only is this essential in the time of a health crisis, it simply speeds up document revision process by allowing everyone access to view and edit documents in real time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Trim down the features / GUI to what your company absolutely needs. This will eliminate confusion and lower the learning curve. Really emphasize training to ensure the entire organization is equally competent in the utilization of Arena.
Overall Good PLM Software
What do you like best about the product?
Good place to manage BOM including: parts, SKU, assemblies, etc.
Improvements around creating ECRs and ECOs make it much easier.
Manage release with ECR, ECO, SCAR, PRCR, PRCN.
Easy to search and manage electrical and mechanical parts.
Way to manage part datasheet and RoHS on a per part basis.
Easy tab system for Items, Requests, Changes, Suppliers, Supplier Items, Files and Reports.
Improvements around creating ECRs and ECOs make it much easier.
Manage release with ECR, ECO, SCAR, PRCR, PRCN.
Easy to search and manage electrical and mechanical parts.
Way to manage part datasheet and RoHS on a per part basis.
Easy tab system for Items, Requests, Changes, Suppliers, Supplier Items, Files and Reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be difficult when first learning structure and Rev Control.
Need an easy way to incorporate Items in Request or Change into Details part of the Change or Request.
Not always obvious Supplier access was missed.
Need some sort of checker with parameters when releasing request and changes to verify certain parameters are completed. For Example supplier access on Change or Request. Notifications are setup to notify the correct group, supplier or people.
Need an easy way to duplicated many of a similar part where most attributes are the same. Duplication is only to duplicate a single part.
When adding existing file and it does not exist there should be an option in that same box to upload a new file. Many times you search for a file and if it is not there you have to close the window then go to Add New File.
I have had problems where using Chrome where the screen is blank when I haven't work on the screen for 10+ minutes.
Need an easy way to incorporate Items in Request or Change into Details part of the Change or Request.
Not always obvious Supplier access was missed.
Need some sort of checker with parameters when releasing request and changes to verify certain parameters are completed. For Example supplier access on Change or Request. Notifications are setup to notify the correct group, supplier or people.
Need an easy way to duplicated many of a similar part where most attributes are the same. Duplication is only to duplicate a single part.
When adding existing file and it does not exist there should be an option in that same box to upload a new file. Many times you search for a file and if it is not there you have to close the window then go to Add New File.
I have had problems where using Chrome where the screen is blank when I haven't work on the screen for 10+ minutes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization of BOM, parts, assemblies, etc.
Release in organized manner to vendors.
Manage release with ECR, ECO, SCAR, PRCR, PRCN.
Release in organized manner to vendors.
Manage release with ECR, ECO, SCAR, PRCR, PRCN.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Works well for BOM and part management and release to vendors
CAD/PLM Admin
What do you like best about the product?
BOM views and mass exports are generally pretty reasonable.
What do you dislike about the product?
No future changes. awful interface. Slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A PLM system is a basic requirement for a hardware producing complex products with a lifecycle (not just one-offs).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't. There are other better PLM systems that are cost competitive.
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