Arena provides a first-of-its-kind, scalable compliance management solution that enables you to attain compliance quickly and easily with existing and future environmental, industry and safety regulations. With Arena, you can define, apply, track, and report on compliance requirements to avoid costly errors, unnecessary time-to-market delays, and lost revenue.
Arena makes all your product information—including your compliance data—available from one centralized location. Material composition, conformance evidence, part compliance status, and any other related attributes are captured, tracked, and versioned from design through production. With the Arena collaborative workspace, component engineers can qualify parts for compliance, manufacturing engineers can verify packing and part marking, buyers can keep track of potential transition part availability—and suppliers can directly upload compliance information to the manufacturer part while contract manufacturers suggest substitute parts.
Why wait to see what a compliance requirement will do to your product? Apply a requirement set to your Arena bill of materials (BOM) and quickly appraise the impact. Dynamically add and remove parts to assess compliance results, and compare BOMs to evaluate your options. With these instant tools at your disposal, design for compliance becomes a reality.
Without complete documentation for external auditing groups, you risk more than just failing certification. Incomplete, late, or inaccurate compliance documentation packages can result in costly fines, slower time to market and lost revenue. Arena compliance reporting tools generate complete technical compliance reports based on both the current version of the product as well as historical versions if needed. With Arena, manufacturers can react quickly to requests for compliance documentation, minimizing delays and maintaining legal compliance records across the lifetime of the product.
When you’re adding and changing parts and processes every day, you need to check your conformity status frequently. With Arena, compliance engineers can manage an unlimited number of requirements, standards, and regulations on the component, assembly, and product levels, and instantly generate conformity assessments.
Transitioning your products into compliance requires clear communication with your suppliers and contract manufacturers in order to minimize excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory. You need to control your BOMs so that you can provide specifics on manufacturer part markings, track compliant part availability, and implement a clear part number change strategy. With Arena, change orders are electronic so your engineering change order (ECO) process is fast and efficient, and your materials disposition is authoritative. And you can invite your suppliers and contract manufacturers to access your ECOs for a fully electronic transition with fewer errors and reduced E&O.
The Arena on demand service means that implementation is fast and straightforward, and incorporating your supply chain into your workspace is safe and easy. You and your suppliers don’t need any additional IT hardware or software to use Arena—just a web browser. You have complete control over access to your product data, both within your organization and the supply chain.
In the era of responsible manufacturing, the entire value chain is accountable for the compliance of parts, assemblies, and products. Arena gives you sophisticated tools to manage your compliance data and the collaborative platform to engage your supply chain partners as part of your product team. When you and your supply chain collaborate to achieve compliance, each member of the team works faster and more efficiently.
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