Arena PLM enables product companies and their partners to collaboratively define, maintain, and securely share product and compliance information from concept to end-of-life. Our innovative on-demand technology enables extended product teams to interact transparently with each other regardless of geographic or organizational boundaries. Other than a commercial web browser and an Internet connection, Arena PLM requires no software or IT infrastructure. It is a ready-to-use application delivered as a service over the web.

Arena PLM is a complete product lifecycle management solution that centralizes product information, automates key collaboration processes like change and request management, and provides analytical tools for instant visibility into product, project, and compliance status. Combined with leading functionality, our proven integrations, drag-and-drop customization, and financial-grade security have made Arena the fastest growing PLM company in the industry.

The secret to our success is simple—we provide customers a single version of the product record—no matter how complex or dynamic it might be.

 

Central Product Record
Arena PLM enables even the most highly distributed organizations to ensure all product team members have access to current product information by providing persistent access to a single, revision-controlled product record containing all items, BOMs, files, costs/quotes, and sourcing relationships, (i.e., AVL / AML). Once invited to participate, authorized users have access according to role-based privileges that allow them to view, update or add to the product record. You can associate a virtually unlimited number of documents in any file format with an item and import or export information in multiple formats. Throughout the entire product lifecycle, Arena tracks complete change and revision history, and allows you to subscribe to automatic notifications associated with your items, so you always know when changes occur, and it’s always easy to identify the latest, most current version of the product record.

 

Product Management
With Arena PLM you quickly and easily invite an unlimited number of suppliers, partners and contract manufacturers into your collaboration workspace without the headaches typically associated with behind-the-firewall applications. Regardless of organizational boundaries, Arena PLM provides consistent support for collaborative request and change processes through centrally managed, user-defined workflow automation that supports the way your company does business. Arena’s closed-loop framework allows requests to be escalated or grouped into change orders, preserving collaboration history and context for future use. You can define unlimited tracking codes and specify flexible evaluation and review groups for the routing of workflow notices. Out of the box, Arena provides common-sense rules to mitigate blind revisioning and ensure staged routing, so lower-level approvals must be obtained before routing to the next stage.

 

Product Analytics
Arena PLM provides instant visibility into product, project and compliance status and enables you to quickly investigate issues and analyze problems by drilling into Arena’s central product information repository at any assembly level, project step, or via compliance views tailored to individual reporting requirements. By providing users anywhere in the world a common framework and analytic toolkit, Arena PLM enables you to drive accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across product management processes – even if your product definition is highly dynamic.

Using Arena PLM, you can track product development and new product introduction projects in real-time with instant reporting on items, costs, requests, and change orders providing an accurate, up-to-date view of progress to plan. You can also track thousands of detailed tasks or just a few critical project activities required to advance your products from one development phase to the next, and quickly identify and address chokepoints at any step in the project. For companies with compliance management needs, Arena allows you to track multiple environmental, industry and safety compliance requirements, document conformity assessments with evidence files, and provide instant compliance reporting. By using a convenient BOM view and optional interface to Avnet Prómiere reference content, you can evaluate dynamic compliance and obsolescence data in the context of your assembly at any stage in the lifecycle.

 

Customization
With Arena PLM, you can capture and organize information according to your needs, and then configure the way users view information and interact with each other. Best of all, Arena allows non-technical users the ability to do this in minutes without the headaches of writing code or hiring costly consultants. Using highly flexible and powerful categorization you can standardize information on items, files, and request and change processes. Define and enforce numbering conventions that have as much intelligence as required by the business. Collaborative workflow processes are entirely under your control. You determine the users, roles, routing sequence, and approval requirements for the various types of requests and changes you need. Regardless of how you customize Arena—whether you utilize “Smart Layouts” default views, add categorization and custom attributes, or leverage drag-and-drop customization tools—your changes will be preserved in future Arena upgrades.

 

Integration
Arena PLM’s sophisticated, flexible integration tools put you in control of when and how your data is reconciled with your enterprise systems, so it’s easy for you to maintain a “single version of the truth” across your enterprise. Arena PLM tracks the items and BOMs you select, and a monitoring feature indicates when those they change. You can manage your own reconciliation process, or select one of our automated integration solutions for synchronization with leading CAD, EDA, and ERP systems. Arena also offers comprehensive custom integration services to assist with project management, data mapping or testing to support your own unique requirements.

 

Security
Arena has created an ultra-high security infrastructure by assembling leading technologies proven to be the most secure for each function. All firewalls and encryption devices are sourced from leading Internet security providers, configured by expert professionals, and tested rigorously before being placed into production. Our single-instance, multi-tenant architecture extends these benefits to all customers, protecting intellectual property and securing information from inappropriate access far more effectively than even the best on-premise deployments. Arena’s extensive investment in a high-grade production networking system also provides near continuous system availability and fault tolerance.

 

On-Demand
Arena’s single-instance, multi-tenant application provides a fundamentally superior way to deliver enterprise software that is always current with the latest functionality and without the IT overhead of traditional systems. Arena PLM provides a quick and easy way for you to connect your product team members anytime, anywhere so you can rapidly take advantage of new business opportunities wherever and whenever they arise. This is why thousands of users every day rely on Arena’s guaranteed 99.5% system availability, and flawless security track record to run their business. To realize the same benefits of PLM without the large upfront charges and long deployment cycles of traditional systems, you simply start with the number of users you need and add more as your business grows. You’ll be up and running in days and can focus on developing better products, not administrating IT systems and training users.