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Beyond BOM 101: Next Generation Bill of Materials Management
Beyond BOM 101: Next Generation Bill of Materials Management
In the world of hardware development and manufacturing, the bill of materials (BOM) is a critical product information record for both the engineering and manufacturing teams. Learn how modern bill of materials (BOM) solutions can help companies effectively manage and communicate product information and succeed in highly competitive environments.
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3 Tips for Effective Product Revision Control and Communication
In this whitepaper we describe how controlling product data, ensuring all changes are documented and communicate the correct product data to internal and external partners, and having an effective system in place for revision control helps companies bring new products to market without missed ship dates and cost targets.
3 Essential Tips for BOM Control
Getting a product built right the first time so you can ship on time and within budget is no small feat. But, by establishing and maintaining control over your bill of materials you can ensure that you’ll meet your product cost and delivery targets — every time. We’ll show you how in this whitepaper.
3 Essential Tips for Effective Change Management
Controlling changes to your product data is essential to preventing manufacturing disasters like scrap, rework and product recalls. Using spreadsheets, email and other ad-hoc methods to control product changes exposes your product and your company to significant risk. This whitepaper describes how you can control product changes cost effectively to avoid embarrassing and expensive manufacturing disasters.
Product Change Management: Three Challenges, Five Fixes
Product Change Management: Three Challenges, Five Fixes
There’s no need to settle for inefficient, frustrating product change management. This whitepaper outlines three product change management realities you need to understand, five fixes to rescue your change process and one strong solution.
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Pass Your Audit with Confidence: Five Tips from Medical Device Startups that Managed Their First Audit Successfully
We interviewed three Class II medical device startup companies who recently passed FDA and ISO inspection audits and gathered their audit preparation tips. Learn how these companies addressed the challenges they encountered while preparing for and going through an audit.
Upgrading to Electronic Records Management: Four Ways Medical Device Companies can Implement a System Smoothly
This whitepaper outlines how an electronic records management system can help medical device companies manage their design history files, device master records, test reports, and more. It continues with key steps companies must take as they select and put an electronics records management system in place.
New Product Introduction Challenges & Solutions
New Product Introduction Challenges & Solutions
In today’s competitive global market, innovative products are not enough. Companies must radically rethink the way new product introductions are managed in order to accelerate time to market, reduce product cost, and adhere to increasingly stringent environmental and regulatory requirements.
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Moving From Paper to Electronic Change Management: Five Key Issues to Consider as Your Company Addresses 21 CFR Part 11
It is possible to achieve 21 CFR Part 11 compliance while quickly and easily implementing an electronic change management system. This whitepaper from Arena Solutions provides guidelines for meeting FDA regulations as you move from a paper based system to an electronic system.
5 Steps to Scaling Your Business When Your Competition Stumbles
What you know about your business today will help you get ahead, but what you don’t know can cost you time, money and market share. Arena has written a whitepaper to help manufacturing leaders determine how well they and their organization know the condition of their products and business.
Three Steps to Cost Control: Addressing the Root Cause of Unexpected Product Costs
Many companies continue to rely on outdated processes and “free” tools like spreadsheets to manage their product information. These may seem like money-saving shortcuts but often end up being costly and time-consuming. The paper explains how a dedicated bill of materials (BOM) management system can help prevent unexpected costs and provides 3 essential steps to get your processes and systems in order.
Beyond Colored Folders and Spreadsheets: Maintaining the Device Master Record
Medical device manufacturers face unique obstacles in effectively managing and securely sharing their product information. This whitepaper gives insight into how automated, electronic solutions can help medical device companies better manage their device master record (DMR), design history file (DHF) and change orders.
Turning Great Designs Into Great Products: The Changing World of Mechanical Design
Arena Solutions has worked with companies across diverse industries to improve their product development and manufacturing processes. Through years of working with customers, Arena understands the daily challenges companies face in effectively turning designs to products. In this paper we hope to shed some light on this very important topic.
Estimating Product Costs During Development
Accurate whole-product cost information during development is critical for effective product planning, yet many organizations struggle with outdated tools that fail to provide timely cost estimates. This paper evaluates current solutions for managing cost data and compares them across several quantitative and qualitative criteria.
The Arena Guide to Outsourcing: Removing Barriers, Maintaining Boundaries
The Arena Guide to Outsourcing describes a new solution for outsourcing that lets you focus on your product development and work seamlessly with outsourced manufacturers and vendors.
Manufacturing Outsourcing: 7 Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Through our years of experience in working with electronics OEMs and CMs, we have observed 7 common pitfalls that impact manufacturing outsourcing success. In this whitepaper, we will offer insight on these 7 common mistakes and steps that can be taken to address them.
Manufacturing Outsourcing for Small and Mid-Size Companies: 10 Key Challenges and How to Address Them
Small and mid-size companies must pursue outsourcing with more planning, preparation, analysis, and due diligence than larger companies. This whitepaper examines 10 key challenges that smaller companies may face when outsourcing their manufacturing — and potential solutions for how to successfully address those challenges.
Collaborative Tools for Product Development: A New Approach
Collaboration is promised as a benefit of many product development tools, but most fall short. This Arena whitepaper, Collaborative Tools for Product Development: A New Approach, defines a vision for collaboration in product development and explains how Arena fulfills it.
Transition to RoHS: The Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Transition to RoHS: The Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid
When it comes to the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Directive, good things do not come to those who wait. This directive, which severely limits the use of six hazardous substances — most notably, lead (Pb) — in products shipped to the European Union (EU), is set to take effect in July 2006. Similar requirements will take shape in China, Taiwan, Japan, and other countries in the near future.
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Documenting RoHS Compliance: 7 Tips from the Field
Documenting RoHS Compliance: 7 Tips from the Field
With the European Union’s (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive set to take effect on July 1, 2006, manufacturers (or “producers”) who ship to Europe must ensure their products are fully RoHS-compliant-that is, that they don’t exceed maximum concentration levels of certain hazardous substances.
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