Engineering Change Management

Speed Approvals With Internal and External Teams

Automated Change Processes Speed Product Launches

Arena Engineering Change Management is a foundational part of our product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management system (QMS) solutions. Internal teams and supply chain partners review and collaborate effectively on formal engineering change requests (ECR) and engineering change order (ECO) processes with automated approvals. No-code Automations initiate subsequent engineering change and quality processes.

With Arena, it’s easy to create, share, review, release, and implement product design changes quickly to shorten review cycles and overall time to market.

Faster Reviews Lead to Product Success

We provide changes connected to items, bill of materials (BOMs), drawings, and SOPs to give teams everything they need to approve new designs or changes to existing products. AI-enabled file summaries and comparisons make reviews even faster and more thorough.

Engineering Teams

gain visibility to ensure interoperability with multidisciplinary engineering designs

Supply Chain Partners

share feedback in real time to ensure design for manufacturability (DFM)

Procurement Teams

avoid purchasing
non-compliant or
difficult-to-source components

Quality Teams

accelerate product quality improvements with changes linked to quality processes

Executive Management Teams

can track product releases more effectively to hit key milestones

Cross-Functional Teams

stay aligned throughout new product development (NPD) and introduction (NPI)

Eliminate Manual Processes and Silos

It’s hard to make great products when your change processes are manual and siloed. Arena’s engineering change management software ensures the latest design revisions are always shared, reviewed, and released so you can deliver innovative products.

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Streamline Release Processes

How Arena Helps You

Automate approval routings based on specified criteria like change types, priorities, and product lines
Analyze and improve ECO cycle time performance across all products

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Improve Visibilty
With Teams

How Arena Helps You

Faster changes with better visibility from proposal through implementation with email notifications and dashboards
Review changes in context with all parts, BOMs, and documents linked to product and quality processes

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Improve
Profitability

How Arena Helps You

Reduce your administrative overhead and product costs related to ineffective or disconnected tools
Accelerated reviews reduce confusion, errors, and delays that increase your profitability

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The Cloud Streamlines Change Management

Arena invented Cloud PLM to change how the world uses software. Arena PLM and QMS solutions deliver streamlined, electronic reviews for ECRs and ECOs—providing better visibility and traceability throughout the product lifecycle. See how the Cloud enhances product development.

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“We use Arena for the whole company. Most everything is now electronic since switching to Arena. The entire company has instant access to documents and our ECO review process cycle time has decreased.”

Kim Khoe Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, Apical Instruments