At Arena, manufacturing is in our blood.

Here’s our story:

In the 1990s our founders Michael and Eric were running a mid-size manufacturing business. As design cycles sped up and their product portfolio grew, they needed something better than Excel spreadsheet BOMs to manage their product data. They couldn’t find a solution that fit the bill, so (naturally!) they built one themselves. That solution eventually became the prototype for Arena.

By 2000, when Internet technologies had advanced enough to support online tools for business, Michael and Eric formed a new company and built the Arena application (originally known as bom.com) as an on-demand service. Arena has evolved since then, but at its core it’s still a collaborative bill of materials (BOM) and change management tool that gives small and mid-size manufacturers an easy-to-start, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use solution for centralizing product data, controlling the engineering change process and sharing BOMs with suppliers.

Arena bridges gaps for these companies. It sits at the epicenter of the broader product lifecycle management (PLM) landscape, connecting with systems like CAD, EDA, PDM and ERP and linking organizations with their supply chains. With its on-demand, software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, Arena is a low-risk, rapid-return proposition that makes enterprise-class functionality available to companies that would otherwise have to contend with manual, time-consuming and error-prone product data management processes.

New customers get up and running on Arena in less than 5 days at an extremely low upfront cost, and in short order they’re seeing the benefits enjoyed by Arena customers around the world: faster time to market, more consistent product quality and superior profit margins.

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  • Company Overview Datasheet

    Arena Solutions provides on-demand software to help small and mid-size manufacturers manage their complex and constantly changing product record. Learn more in the company overview.

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