Topic: Arena

Arena Solutions, pioneer cloud PLM applications, announced that it has been named one of the 2013 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times.

In today’s global economy, dissemination of critical documents across an increasingly complicated IT network leads to more and more silos of data spread across the enterprise.

When it comes to protecting valuable IP from theft, most manufacturing companies are focused on building a stronger fortress to prevent outside attacks. But the greatest threat to a security breach comes[…]

The Spring ‘13 release of Arena BOMControl is just around the corner, and we’ve got another exciting new feature preview today: the Integrated PDXViewer. As a core part of the Arena Cloud, the Integrated[…]

In preparation for the Spring ‘13 release of Arena BOMControl, we’re highlighting some of the ways that our customer feedback helps us drive product development. Today’s post showcases one of our[…]

As we get ready for the Spring '13 release of Arena BOMControl, we want to share a bit about our own product development processes and how we gather customer feedback to collect and prioritize features and[…]

Did you know? You can use Arena BOMControl on your phone or tablet!

Every inventor hopes their great idea will hit it big, but the path from prototype to mass market is complex, and startup entrepreneurs need tools they can rely on to scale up quickly as their[…]

You can use PartSaver to create an Item, Supplier Items and a source relationship—all in one step!

Companies that manage thousands of user accounts across multiple business systems have embraced Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies to simplify access to key technologies. This significantly reduces the time[…]

Arena’s PartSaver cloud tool rapidly collects data from component source websites to Arena PartsList. I am excited to announce with Arena BOMControl Fall ’12, BOMControl customers can use PartSaver to[…]

We’ve assembled a free back to school kit of the resources we think will be most helpful as engineering students build their skills and networks. If you’re already a working EE, you’ll likely find these[…]

From independent inventors to large established manufacturers, we’re finding that people continue to find new uses for PartsList as they develop products for manufacturing.

When ramping to production, a company often faces a slew of new challenges such as acquiring new hires, learning new systems and mitigating the inevitable hiccups that crop up along the way. Time is of the[…]

Think about the last time you had to gather documentation to round out a design. How many hours did you spend surfing various distributor websites, copying and pasting compliance and datasheet information[…]

We all have our own ideas about what makes a great workplace. Some will tell you it’s about access to a smart and collaborative team and strong motivational leadership, and others will say it’s about ample[…]

When you’re developing new products, branching into two development paths is an important part of your process. You need to be able to work on both designs simultaneously, and you[…]

Prior to Arena and the advent of cloud, PLM was an expensive gamble. PLM solutions took a long time to implement, and implementations frequently failed. Faced with frightening[…]

If you’ve ever designed for parts that are non-compliant or approaching end-of-life, you understand the value of accessible and up-to-date component information. But unless you work for an enterprise with[…]

We know making a product is hard—and that the day-to-day challenges of making hardware products raise a lot of questions. It’s why we’ve dedicated our blog and the resource section of our website to[…]

If you work in a company where document control is responsible for generating and managing internal part numbers, you know it can be a hassle to track down and send over the relevant part documentation[…]

Even when you’re knee-deep in design for one project, you might still run across multiple options for a key component or find candidate parts to compare and contrast for future projects.[…] read more

If you’ve ever designed unavailable or single source parts into your circuit board, you can appreciate the importance of easy access to component information like cost and availability. The last thing you[…]

If you make a change to one of the components on a bill of materials (BOM)—say you’ve found a superior component or your current component is going end-of-life—you need to know with complete confidence[…]

If you’re part of an organization that’s scaling to production, we’ve got you covered with our scalable cloud PLM solution.

But what if you’re just starting out? You need to capture and document parts,[…]

If you’ve ever managed an interdisciplinary manufacturing project, you’ll know what I mean when I say each discipline speaks its own language. When you’re dealing with engineers you’re talking CAD and[…]

We’re offering something new at Arena—single-user, lightweight BOM management. Let me explain. We’ve come a long way since our early days as BOM.com, and today Arena BOMControl is used by thousands of[…]

Although a solid change management process is absolutely necessary, it’s easy to fall into an overly complicated, unnecessary or misunderstood engineering change request (ECR) process—especially if your[…]

This is our last blog post of 2011! Happy (almost) New Year! All I have to say is, where did the time go?

The point of purchasing a PLM or PDM system is to simplify and centralize your BOMs and other product data. But once your BOMs, Items, AMLs and associated content exist in a structured format, you are[…]

Throughout our many years of working with manufacturers and their supply chains, we have developed quite the collection of BOM management resources. Today I wanted to do a bit of a round-up, and share some[…]

If you’re in the process of adopting a PLM system (or an ERP or CRM system for that matter) you may be feeling a mix of excitement and apprehension. Getting people to adopt new systems is notoriously[…]

Recently, we’ve been taking a new approach to product development at Arena. Traditionally, our main goal in developing new product features was to go-live with well-architected, fully-designed and[…]

When it comes to product management, standard processes and theories work 90% of the time, but the last 10% is certainly an art.

I know it’s taken forever, but I finally finished the Arena Solutions Manufacturing Outsourcing Survey report. (Whew!) We talked to 1004 respondents across the high-tech, medical device, consumer products,[…]

As closely as manufacturing and engineering work together, sometimes it feels like they are worlds apart. Engineers are told to design something, manufacturers are told to make something. Engineering opens[…]

Short answer—“no.” As we wrap up analysis of our Manufacturing Outsourcing Trends Survey, it’s becoming clear that although there are some general commonalities, the specific benefits, challenges and[…]

It’s been a satisfying couple of months for the Arena product team. We went live with the Summer ’11 release of our core application. We launched several new applications including Arena PartSaver, Arena[…]

I just read Oleg Shilovitsky’s Beyond PLM article discussing cloud BOM and change management solutions, and whether they will ever be accepted as a safe and reliable choice for manufacturers.  As Vice[…]

One of the best parts of working at Arena is supporting the people who bring some of the world’s most innovative products to market.