As the saying goes, we don’t always appreciate a relationship until it ends. This is just as true in life as it is in manufacturing—especially when it comes to manufacturer/supplier relationships. While it's important to focus on establishing solid supplier relationships in the first place, you should also be prepared in…

In our recent outsourcing series, we asked our readers a simple question: how much of your production process should you outsource? We shared our thoughts on the subject and presented a variety of options from outsourcing just final assembly to outsourcing all parts of the production process, including…

When we founded Arena in 2000, it was uncommon (unique, even) to deliver PLM, and manufacturing software in general, as a cloud application. In fact, our main integration challenge was configuring our cloud BOM and change management system, Arena BOMControl, to work with the on-premise EDA, MCAD and…