Air International
“Arena PLM provides us with a web-based tool that allows suppliers and employees to have access to the latest part and engineering change information at any time from any place in the world. And the product change management module has streamlined our change process, resulting in change implementation that is also one-third faster—and much more effective.”
Michael Repetto
Director of Program Management
Air International US
“As a provider of a highly commoditized product, we needed a PLM solution that enabled us to have greater control over the quality and price of our product development while allowing us to get products to market faster. Arena PLM meets the complex needs of our global operations, providing us with a single product record across four geographies. It also delivers the customization capabilities and enhanced functionality required to handle the complexities of our business and 800+ supplier relationships, while still allowing us to benefit from the faster time to market and more cost-effective production that only an on-demand service can provide.”
Michael Foreshew
General Manager, Information Technology Services
Air International Thermal
“Choosing Arena PLM was essentially a no-risk proposition. AIUS broke even on its investment in Arena PLM in just two months.”
Michael Repetto
Director of Program Management
Air International US
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Align Technology
“As Align has grown into one of the world's largest mass manufacturers of a highly customized medical product, we've relied strongly on the functionality of Arena PLM. We now have more than 850 users logging in to Arena PLM to access the latest product information and operating procedures. By automating our document control function through Arena PLM, we were able to deal with a larger volume of changes and have reduced our change implementation cycle time without increasing headcount.”
Len Hedge
Vice President of Operations
“Arena's on-demand PLM application has reduced downtime and helped cut Align's design-to-delivery process from twenty-two days to five.”
Meredith Yost
Document Services Manager
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Aperto Networks
“Arena is the only provider with proven on-demand expertise, a true web-native solution and an extensive track record of customer satisfaction. I’ve implemented several PLM solutions in my career and found, following this latest round of reviews, that Arena clearly provides the best solution. Our team was full of PLM enthusiasts, but the rate of adoption for Arena has been incredible. The users love the intuitive interface and the powerful features of the software, and our Arena system administrator enjoys the powerful ECO administration tools.”
Allen Adolph
Vice President of Operations
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Cellnet
“Arena has been an asset to our company. The application is easy to use and requires almost no training. Being able to share data with our external manufacturers is a huge time saver. I also like that we have a good amount of administrative control over users and change management.”
Jim Rey
Project Manager
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Coldwatt
“We appreciate Arena PLM's ease of use and scalability. It's very simple for us, because Arena is on-demand,
to just add people and get them up and running quickly using the tools available to us within the product.
Arena has enabled us to scale what we were doing dramatically without adding any significant level of headcount or operating cost.”
Joe Lamoreux
Chief Executive Officer
“Arena has all the capabilities of other PLM tools, but
a major benefit of the product is having the enhancements, changes and deep support that are built right into the software
as a service and which show up without any action on our part. We do not need our own IT support, which is a benefit for both
small and large companies. I would recommend Arena any day.”
Tracy White
Manager of Program Management
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Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions
“With Arena PLM, we process ECOs 75% faster—and much more accurately, which is critical for a company like ours with extremely aggressive development schedules. Our suppliers are excited that they can be part of the process without buying additional hardware or software. In fact, many of them have said they wish all their customers would use Arena PLM.”
Fritz Morgan
Chief Technology Officer
“As we've grown, our product lifecycle management needs have grown as well, and we certainly could not have scaled as quickly without the powerful and flexible PLM functionality that Arena provided us. It makes communication with our suppliers and contract manufacturers effortless, and helps enable our product innovation. We would not have been able to achieve this level of growth without Arena.”
Fritz Morgan
Chief Technology Officer
“As a long-time user of Arena PLM, I've experienced essentially every upgrade to the application, and what I appreciate most—in addition to the seamless way that upgrades automatically appear—is that new features are designed and integrated in a way that actually works. From what I've seen, Project Collaboration will be no exception. With the ability to tie projects to products—and then have the whole team access that interrelated information—it promises to provide the visibility we need to keep our ever-expanding portfolio of products shipping on time.”
Fritz Morgan
Chief Technology Officer
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Data Domain
“As an emerging company, our success is dependent on our ability to execute on two fronts—rapid product development and cash management. Arena has helped us with both. By providing a single, centralized database for managing product data, all our suppliers access the same up-to-date data in Arena PLM, guaranteeing consistency of information. All changes are put through a review board, so our partners have appropriate visibility to pending changes. In some cases, they have provided feedback that helped us avoid making unnecessary and costly changes.”
David Sangster
Vice President of Operations
“With Arena's pay-per-use subscription model, we have avoided the large cash outlay traditionally associated with client/server software. Because the architecture is Web-based, we also avoid any IT and administrator investment. This has allowed us to maintain a lean organization and focus on what we do best—product development. The ability to include product costs in our BOMs has also sensitized our engineers to the impact of their design choices. We also plan to use Arena PLM as the framework for our ISO certification.”
David Sangster
Vice President of Operations
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Dayang OMS
“Arena PLM has helped Dayang manage customers' new product introductions more efficiently, reducing time to ramp and providing a business process framework around customers' product data. Using Arena PLM gives us a strong competitive edge in the market and helps us land new business.”
Ian Harper
General Manager—Operations
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Deep Sea Power & Light
“Unlike ERP and MRP systems, there is almost no learning curve with Arena PLM. Now Arena PLM is where our employees go when they need to find parts, see where those parts are used and review the related sourcing data. By giving us quick, easy access to information we use everyday, Arena PLM minimizes the friction inherent in any collaborative product development process.”
Mark Olsson
Chief Executive Officer
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Dust Networks
“Arena provided us with all the functionality we needed at a fraction of the cost we expected. We turned it on and were using it the next day with no issues and zero learning curve. Arena's solution is perfect for early stage, rapid growth companies who want stable, high quality controls without a massive up-front investment.”
Tod Dykstra
Vice President of Operations
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First Alert
“With better insight into our change request management processes, we have visibility into potential issues that could affect time to market. With Arena PLM, we're also able to streamline the introduction of product enhancements and better manage our packaging artwork. Arena Solutions is constantly innovating on its PLM offering, and it listens to its customers when developing new features. When new capabilities and functionality are made available, they're features that we need and that fit into our business processes.”
Mark Devine
Vice President of Engineering
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Foundry Networks
“Given our prior experience implementing traditional client/server PLM solutions, we have been very impressed with Arena PLM. Arena's on-demand model liberates us from maintaining costly IT infrastructure and allows us to focus on what we do best—developing innovative networking products.”
Richard Bridges
Vice President of Manufacturing
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Hammerhead Systems
“Arena PLM satisfies our need for a full–featured tool set and a pay–as–you–go on–demand service model. Effective PLM capability was one of my most critical ‘first investments’ in building and solidifying our operations. The feature set, reliability, usability and customer support provided by Arena were instrumental in driving our deployment of their PLM product. We consider variable cost model resource investments wherever we can, in order to control expenditure while maximizing productivity. Arena PLM is a great example of that. I brought up our PLM capability at one–fifth the cost of other non–hosted PLM products—and in a very short timeframe.”
Russ Woodmansee
Director of Operations
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Infinera
“What Infinera does for optical networks—simplifying engineering, accelerating revenue and enabling maximum flexibility—Arena does for us. We deployed Arena PLM instantly with no hardware or software issues, and were impressed by the ease-of-use and consistent expertise we experience with Arena as we've expanded our user base within Infinera and with our contract manufacturers.”
Tom Fallon
VP of Operations
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Intuit
“Intuit needed a system that could support thousands of components and products on-demand. Arena PLM lets us replace manual product data management systems with an integrated and automated solution that supports versioning, change control and secure collaboration with our fulfillment houses.”
Carl Rendell
Director of Supply Chain Technology
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IronPort Systems Inc.
“With version control in Arena PLM, I’m confident that I know the status of any product data I'm viewing or sharing—that’s especially useful for collaboration with the supply chain. Our machine shop knows never to start a new order for us without first checking Arena PLM to make sure they’ve got the latest information.”
Adam McGinty
Director of Hardware
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L3 SafeView
“Arena PLM is ideal for supporting an outsourced model while its on–demand delivery meant we could start immediately, pay as we went, and scale as needed—all of which dovetailed with our compressed time—cycle requirements and limited funding.”
Karen Meyer
Vice President of Operations
“Deploying Arena PLM at the inception of our business two years ago was core to our success as a virtual manufacturer. We couldn't afford the risk of a traditional enterprise solution and needed to make sure that we could securely collaborate with design partners, suppliers, and our contract manufacturer to protect our intellectual property. Without Arena PLM we couldn't have provided our external partners visibility into the entire development process, and it would not have been possible for us to deliver our product to market in such a short time. And by using Arena PLM, we've also been able to have visibility into our costs to meet our design targets.”
Karen Meyer
Vice President of Operations
“As a security solutions company whose products are used in homeland defense initiatives, we need to have the most secure means of protecting our intellectual property. Arena has invested millions to ensure that all of the data associated with our product record is completely protected and can be securely shared with outsourced partners. Our data security profile rivals that of the largest Fortune 500 companies.”
Karen Meyer
Vice President of Operations
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Netstreams
“Project Collaboration in Arena PLM makes it easy to involve NetStreams' product marketing and offshore design partners in our hardware development process. With project information linked to the product definition, NetStreams and our international partners all have access to the data needed to make decisions, and we can better coordinate deliverables to ensure timely product launches.”
Spencer Kendall
Director of Operations
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Novera Optics
“The on-demand Arena PLM service was an obvious choice for Novera. With a client/server solution we would have had to worry about IT costs and headaches at every offsite location, not to mention here at home. Instead with Arena, we get hassle-free global access, ease of use and full-featured PLM functionality at a truly affordable price.”
Isaac Ohel
Vice President of Operations
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Opnext
“Instead of trying to accommodate our need for comprehensive change management within the limitations of the MRP system, I knew we needed a real Product Lifecycle Management solution to front the MRP system.”
Calvin Chou
Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer
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Pay By Touch
“Throughout my manufacturing and operations career I have been acutely aware of the importance of effective product life cycle management and the need to communicate engineering changes to an increasingly outsourced supply base. To this end, I have directed the selection and implementation of Arena PLM twice following two Agile implementations. Arena wins, hands down. No contest.”
Gabe Hebert
Vice President of Supply Chain
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Radio Systems
“With two development sites, five contract manufacturers, and a large number of suppliers, we needed a global system to keep everyone synchronized in real time and to grow our business. We went with Arena PLM because it helped us get our products to market faster by managing complex bills of materials (BOMs) and reducing mistakes. We used to use a homegrown database to manage BOMs, but the IT support to manage the system had become disproportionate to its benefits. With the company growing, the complexity of our new products increasing and more people getting involved in development and operations, I needed to institute a better system quickly. Arena PLM has all the functionality we need, is a fully hosted, zero-IT solution and is very intuitive to learn. Arena PLM was the right solution for us.”
Chris Mainini
Vice President of Product Development
“Prior to Arena PLM, we managed bills of materials on a homegrown system. It was laborious and inaccessible outside of our corporate office, and we knew it wouldn't scale as our business grew. We needed a system that was easy for our engineers, planners and offshore partners to use anywhere in the world. We evaluated three systems and chose Arena PLM. It had all the functionality we needed and offered the best economic value. Within the first month, our offshore partners were on the system and we saw a return on our investment.”
Sandy Hughes
Director of Information Technology
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Segway
“In Arena we’ve found a partner that values innovation and security as much Segway does. Arena has helped us focus on the job of new product development instead of configuration management and document control.”
Doug Field
Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Design & Engineering
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Sierra Wireless
“Arena PLM has shortened the time to merge our two engineering departments. It provides the freedom to do things that cannot be done with other traditional systems, and we were up and running within five days. Engineers from both sites have access to the combined product database in real time. In parallel, we can share product data and start building products with suppliers from our combined supplier base. With Arena PLM, it is easy to track product changes, and the amount of work we are able to accomplish is unbelievable.”
Christian Garrett
Configuration Manager
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Strida
“I wish we had known about Arena PLM months ago when we were still in the development phase; the hand-off to production would have been much smoother. There is simply not another product on the market that combines the user-friendliness, functionality, stability and ease of implementation of Arena PLM. We'll never look back.”
Steedman Bass
Managing Director
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Strix Systems
“We were spending a great deal of time managing our product information in Excel, and still didn’t have real-time visibility into the true status of our products. With Arena PLM, we have a centralized system of record for our product data that helps us manage changes more efficiently, especially when we’re working with contract manufacturers and other outsourced partners.”
Brian Ronald
Director of Operations
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Wave 7 Optics
“With Arena PLM, our supply chain partners have instantaneous access to product data: BOMs, specifications, ECOs, documentation, effectivities, material disposition, everything. We chose Arena PLM because it offered the best solution to our needs and also provided seamless integration to our ERP system, which contributed to our achieving ISO certification in 50% less time than it had taken before.”
Hans Hartmann
Vice President of Operations
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Zassi Medical Evolutions
“Using Arena’s Validation Kit saved us thousands of dollars and at least a month of work. We were able to map our quality operating procedures and user requirements to Arena’s validation protocol templates and run the entire validation in less than a week. In order to remain competitive and profitable as a virtual manufacturer we have to minimize overhead while maintaining document controls without sacrificing compliance to any regulatory requirements. Arena PLM really works far better than our older internal server-based application.”
Dave Sapuppo
Vice President of Manufacturing
“Zassi switched from Agile to Arena PLM primarily because Agile became more expensive while performance depended more and more on in-house IT expertise. We experienced difficulties sharing real-time product data with our extended team, regardless of where they were. To beat the competition we must remain a lean organization focused on our core business. By using Arena PLM we were able to move critical resources from the IT budget to product development and sales without sacrificing compliance to regulatory agency requirements.”
Dave Sapuppo
Vice President of Manufacturing
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