Arena Solutions Experts Offer Complimentary One-on-One Business Process Improvement Consultations to Attendees at SolidWorks World 2009

Book appointments in advance for free personalized consultations on how to solve pressing product development issues and transform communications among product teams

Foster City, Calif., January 28, 2009 — Arena Solutions, a provider of on-demand software that helps small and mid-size manufacturers manage their complex and constantly changing product record, today announced that along with demonstrating the new Winter ’09 release of Arena software, it will be conducting complimentary one-on-one business process improvement consultations at the Arena Solutions booth (#305) at the 2009 SolidWorks World Conference, February 8-11, in Orlando, Florida. Space is limited and consultation appointments must be booked in advance.

During these 20-minute sessions, operations and engineering professionals can receive personalized advice from Arena experts who have helped hundreds of manufacturers improve the way they bring products to market. Each session will center on the individual’s company’s particular challenges and offer concrete advice about how to solve pressing product development issues and transform internal and external product communications. Specifically, suggestions will be focused on helping companies:

  • Reduce unnecessary administrative tasks for engineers at all stages of the product development process
  • Improve collaboration, automate processes and centralize constantly changing product information, such as bills of materials (BOMs) and engineering changes
  • Gain greater visibility for better cross-functional decision-making and improved innovation
  • Minimize the types of surprises that can cause product delays and redesigns

To request a consultation, email Sheryl Johnson at sjohnson@arenasolutions.com and include your name, title, company name, industry and the product development challenges you wish to discuss. Arena will respond to arrange individual appointment times. For those not attending the conference, Arena will also schedule a limited number of complimentary telephone consultations on a first-come, first-served basis.

“Over the past nine years, our team has worked with hundreds of companies to help them meet and exceed their time, cost and quality objectives when bringing products to market. We look forward to sharing some insight and experience with SolidWorks World attendees so they too can benefit from the practices we have seen lead to true performance improvement,” said Eric Larkin, chief technology officer of Arena Solutions. “I hope that any company that has experienced communication challenges with internal or external product teams, felt the constraints of tight resources or been burdened by the difficulty of manually managing constantly changing product information will sign up for a consultation.”

About Arena Solutions

For over a decade, Arena has been redefining PLM with a suite of cloud applications that enable engineering, manufacturing and their extended supply chains to work better together—from first prototype to full-scale production. Arena helps innovative manufacturers bring better products to market faster with cloud PLM offerings that speed prototyping, reduce scrap and help manufacturers collaborate on product changes with strategic partners across the globe.

Arena cloud PLM products simplify bill of materials (BOM) and change management, and offer manufacturers the right balance of flexibility and control—at every point in the product lifecycle. PartsList and PDXViewer are lightweight single-user applications that allow manufacturers to move quickly and efficiently while designing, documenting and sharing a prototype. When scaling to production and beyond, the Arena core application provides full PLM functionality so manufacturers can control revisions, manage the engineering change process and selectively share accurate, up-to-date BOMs with partners, suppliers and contract manufacturers.

Founded in February 2000, Arena Solutions is headquartered in Foster City, California.

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Contact:

Alex Gammelgard
Arena Solutions
media@arenasolutions.com
1.650.513.3567

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