Mobile PLM: How Arena’s Cloud Platform Keeps Product Teams Connected Anywhere
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Access Your Product Development Processes Beyond the Office
Did you know, you can use Arena Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Quality Management System (QMS) applications with any browser on your mobile phone or tablet? Navigating the complexities of today’s global economy and virtual workplace, product development teams are no longer tethered to their office or desktop computer to access critical information.
According to recent studies, the rise of remote and hybrid work models will continue to influence PLM software evolution. The U.S. Department of Labor’s workplace flexibility studies show approximately 65% of engineering and product development teams are expected to operate in hybrid environments by 2028, necessitating more sophisticated cloud-based PLM solutions.1
Enhancing Product Lifecycle Efficiency With Mobile PLM Access
Given the intricacies of product lifecycle processes, viewing information is typically better handled on a full screen or laptop. However, mobile access to PLM/QMS information can be invaluable for quick decision-making in the field or away from the office, especially time sensitive situations.
Mobile PLM access helps break physical barriers, making it easier for product teams to stay connected, responsive, and productive on location.
The benefits of mobile Cloud PLM with mobile access include:
- Notifications, Workflow Approvals, and Engineering Change Signoffs: Users receive mobile alerts for task assignments, respond to engineering change signoffs, or design updates. Accessibility keeps workflows moving without waiting for office logins.
- Field Service, Remote Access: Mobile cloud-native PLM access enables field employees to collect data, view designs or BOMs, and resolve issues before they happen, reducing delays and errors.
- Real-Time Collaboration and Decision-Making: Reduces bottlenecks, creates immediate feedback loops, approvals, and quicker response to changes.
- Improved Shop Floor Efficiency: Stakeholders can access assembly instructions, part specifications, or maintenance procedures directly on mobile devices. Enables reporting or quality checks, often with photo/video uploads.
- Better Traceability and Compliance: For regulated industries such as manufacturing, aerospace, and medical devices, enabling document inspections, generating on-location reviews for nonconformances or changes is vital, especially while maintaining control and traceability.
- Quality Control/Inspections: Generate reports quicker, include defect capture (photos, annotations), trace to design/BOM, helps reduce auditing times.
- Supplier Collaboration: With mobile access, suppliers can upload component data, compliance certificates, etc., to help with sourcing and procurement transparency.
Global Access and Workflow Visibility
Arena’s cloud-native On The Go PLM is not only revolutionizing the way engineers work but the entire organization as well. With Arena, your PLM system can be accessed using any web browser. Secure and controlled, role-based access enables you, your product teams, and supply chain partners to streamline critical collaboration and speed innovation to get your products delivered to market fast.
Whether you’re reviewing, signing off on engineering change orders (ECOs), approving or releasing items, your teams can respond quicker to critical decisions without returning to the office. By breaking free from desktop-bound tools, you unlock agility, speed, and resilience across the entire product lifecycle. It’s not just about where you work, it’s how you work that sets your organization apart from the competition.
Try Arena PLM on your mobile device today and access your work anytime, wherever you are.
Source Cited:
Joseph Prock