EXPLORE APPS AND INTEGRATIONS FOR ARENA

Streamline critical and agile hardware supply chains, enhancing procurement speed and accuracy. Cofactr helps electronics, and other complex manufacturers get what they need when they need it by connecting engineering, procurement, and logistics.

By integrating Cofactr with Arena PLM, product and strategic sourcing teams can overcome supply chain disruptions and accelerate product development. Cofactr is a system of action that enables customers to get a head start on procurement and materials management with the data and tools needed to negotiate for better pricing and on-time delivery. The platform automates purchase orders and provides one-click buying from every supplier through API integrations and AI-assisted PO management.

Benefit from simplified order management with rule-based ordering to structure procurement, from preferred vendors to compliance and authorization requirements. Forward-looking organizations that leverage Cofactr with Arena PLM are ready for supply chain changes and disruptions. They can perform risk, savings, and opportunity assessments within minutes instead of days or months, accelerate data-driven agile development practices, and make fewer, faster product design iterations.

The Arena-Bild connection allows engineering teams to push information from their cloud-based Bild PDM system into Arena. Keep items in your Arena database up-to-date with the latest engineering designs automatically without any manual data transfer. The integration pushes mapped metadata fields, thumbnails, and STEP/PDF exports from Bild to Arena. Easily add design files to change orders inside Arena and synchronize released revisions back into your Bild PDM system. Automatically generate STEPs and PDFs of designs and drawings and view them inside Arena.

Bring Products to Market Faster

Design your products faster with fewer iterations and reduce errors by connecting engineering to the enterprise with an integrated OrCAD® and Arena® PLM design flow.

Successfully designing electronic products requires an array of groups and disciplines to work together across the organization, from engineering and manufacturing to procurement and others. All too often these groups are operating with a set of disconnected data sources resulting in decisions being made in a vacuum without understanding the full impact on the product, its overall time to market, and eventual profitability. Without full access to the requirements of all stakeholders, errors may often go unnoticed until right before the product is ready to ship, resulting in schedule delays and the potential to miss the targeted window entirely.

The Arena-OrCAD Bi-directional Integration provides the ability to connect these various data sources together, giving the entire product team real-time visibility into all of the data required to make informed decisions early in the design cycle. Providing early access to this essential information reduces the potential for errors or miscommunication which greatly enhances the chances your product will ship on-time and on-budget.

Improving quality and increasing yields are essential for electronic OEMs looking to increase margins and accelerate growth. With Arena and Instrumental connected, you can improve yield to increase margins and accelerate growth by eliminating data aggregation and automatically finding root causes. With seamless data flows, you’ll proactively identify novel defects and fast-track issues for resolution.

Arena and Instrumental are currently actively working with joint customers to integrate the platforms. The following use cases have been documented and are collectively being explored for a pilot program. If your company is interested in learning more and participating in the pilot, please reach out to Arena or Instrumental.

• Streamline defect verification with Discover AI-Arena data flow – start a Quality resolution process in Arena after first failure found by Discover AI to enable fast resolution
• Export defective unit data to Arena – quickly create context-rich Corrective Action Requests in Arena from Discover AI
• Enrich Nonconformances with Solve AI correlations – easily attach data correlations from Solve AI to Failure Analysis Correction Actions in Arena
• Track Corrective Actions over time – from Arena Corrective Action, enable real-time monitoring after implementation to track yield on the manufacturing line

For further details on use cases and video walkthroughs, see the blog post here.

Imagine providing instant answers to your team’s questions such as:

• “How do I open an event?”
• “What is the process validation procedure?”
• “What comes first in the order of preparation cycles?”
• “Good cleanroom behavior”
• “When must an event be closed by?”
• “Pest activity sightings in the cleanroom”
• “What is the latest work instruction for assembly XYZ”
• “What is the PCN process for suppliers”
• [Insert your team’s questions here!]

Botable.ai is a versatile AI-powered solution designed to enhance employee productivity by providing quick and accurate answers to their Quality Management System (QMS) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) questions. It seamlessly integrates with Arena systems, allowing for efficient data exchange and streamlined processes.

With support for over 100 languages, Botable.ai ensures that information is accessible to both local and global workforces. Instead of manually searching through quality documents, Botable.ai brings full-text search capabilities to Arena, ensuring employees can quickly access crucial quality documents such as standard operating procedures and work instructions.

By handling questions like “How do I open an event?” or “What is the process validation procedure?” instantly, Botable.ai allows employees to focus on high-impact tasks rather than time-consuming searches. All while providing insightful analytics to the QA, engineering, and other teams.

The FlowEQ Workflow Acceleration Platform is a no-code workflow automation software solution that helps you build great workflows, ensure high-stake processes are followed every time, and constantly improve your workflows. FlowEQ reads data and can either accelerate your employees through error-proof workflows or automate them behind the scenes.

FlowEQ can be embedded inside your customer service system, your operational system, or run as a browser extension. It comes with integrations with numerous other applications that your teams need to update in the course of completing their recurring work. FlowEQ can automatically pull in the data required from other systems, have specific steps automated to reduce time spent on complex processes, and guide your team through any manual steps to ensure they are done correctly every time.

FlowEQ connects Arena with customer complaint/field service and quality systems, including Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, and other systems your team needs to interact with every day.

The Arena – Tulip Connector provides a streamlined connection between Arena and Tulip, a frontline operations platform and MES. This connector allows seamless data passing between Arena and Tulip so you can bring product information into your frontline operations. The Connector provides a low-code template to connect Arena and Tulip and is found in the Tulip Library along with App examples for various use cases. The Connector is available to all Tulip customers and utilizes an Arena machine user license.

The Arena – Datum Source integration accelerates your time to market by immediately syncing released items to your supply chain team and ensuring procurement can easily understand purchasing requirements, gather purchase approvals, issue purchase orders, and update suppliers in real-time. The integration automates updates from your Arena part library and files to Datum Source based on each organization’s default and custom attributes configuration. The integration also flags open change orders so procurement stays updated with engineering on revision changes and the latest BOM.

How it Works:
Once implemented, the Arena – Datum Source integration automatically creates new part records in Datum Source once the Arena item is initially released into a designated state (e.g. Design). Then, any released change orders trigger updates in Datum Source, with new part revisions created as applicable. The integration utilizes Arena’s low-code Event Engine and Datum Source’s embedded iPaaS for a fast, cost-effective deployment that can be fully implemented and tested in a matter of days.

By integrating Part Analytics with Arena PLM, product and strategic sourcing teams can overcome supply chain disruptions and accelerate new product development. Part Analytics’ AI-powered cloud solution transforms labor-intensive part-by-part activities into a streamlined, efficient workflow. The platform brings information together data from internal sources, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to provide visibility to spend, savings opportunities, and supply risk across the portfolio.

Forward-looking organizations that leverage Part Analytics with Arena PLM are ready for supply chain changes and disruptions. They can perform risk, savings, and opportunity assessments within minutes instead of days or months, accelerate data-driven agile development practices, and make fewer, faster product design iterations.

Part Analytics uses existing APIs and integration connections to seamlessly share and transmit data for a touchless experience. The best part? Implement and integrate Part Analytics in less than a week, with no IT involvement.

The Arena–Priority ERP Integration delivered by SimmBI accelerates new product introduction (NPI) while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.

How it Works
The Arena–Priority ERP Integration transfers the latest product record information upon release, ensuring efficient and accurate production planning and manufacturing processes. Connectivity eliminates duplicate data entry, automating the hand-off from engineering to manufacturing.

SimmBI offers comprehensive integration services that go beyond simple connectivity between Priority ERP to Arena. Our expertise lies in seamlessly connecting and transferring data between disparate systems, ensuring accurate and efficient information exchange across the organization.

The Arena–First Resonance ION Integration accelerates new product introduction (NPI) and continuous development releases while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market. This integration, co-developed by First Resonance and Arena, connects critical processes between engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing to optimize product production.

How it Works
The Arena–ION Integration transfers the latest product record information upon release, ensuring efficient and accurate production planning and manufacturing processes. The integration utilizes Arena’s low-code Integration Engine and First Resonance’s embedded iPaaS for a fast, cost-effective deployment to immediately change your team’s work quality and efficiency.

The CADTALK ERP Solution

CADTALK ERP is a completely off-the-shelf, intelligent, bidirectional integration between your CAD, PDM, or Arena PLM and ERP.

CADTALK ERP reads data from any CAD, PDM, or PLM application transforming the engineering bill of materials (eBOM) into manufacturing bills of material (MBOM). The CADTALK framework offers standardized, in-depth integrations coupled with expression-based, low-code, configurable intelligence that gives you the power to integrate your systems in hours and days rather than months and years.

CADTALK ERP focuses on the entire engineering to manufacturing hand-off by supporting every aspect of the bill of material from items, BOMs, and routings, to labor calculations, scrap percentages, vendors, manufacturers, and more.

For supported ERP systems, see the current list of systems.

This integration is sold by Arena and delivered by CADTALK, providing you with a streamlined purchase process coupled with the expertise of an Arena development partner. Contact Arena to learn more and begin the purchase process.

Note: Syspro ERP supported but must be purchased directly from Syspro. Please contact Arena or CADTALK to learn more.

The CADTALK CAD <> PLM Solution

Have multiple CAD tools across your engineering teams? You can use CADTALK platform to integrate them to Arena. CADTALK is a middleware automation layer that facilitates data flows between multiple CAD systems and Arena. Systems currently supported include Autodesk® AutoCAD, Autodesk® Fusion 360 CAD, AutoCAD Electric, Fusion 360, Inventor/ Vault, and Revit; PTC Creo; SOLIDWORKS®, Solid Edge®; EPLAN; Microsoft® Excel, and Tekla®. And CADTALK also offers a middleware solution for Arena to select ERP systems, allowing you to integrate both upstream and downstream systems with one platform and one Arena partner.

Connect the Mechanical Design Process to the Full Product Record

Collaborating with today’s dispersed design teams introduces risk when moving from team-level engineering design to the larger released product record and manufacturing. Design teams utilize MCAD work-in-progress (WIP) tools to ensure engineers do not step on each other’s toes during early design. Once the individual designs are mature enough, they need to be incorporated into the full product design with other mechanical, electrical, software, and documentation components. With CADTALK Integration for your MCAD, teams have an automated and easy process that reduces errors and accelerates the NPI process.

How it Works

The CADTALK Integration for MCAD tools provides design teams with the ability to create and publish parts, BOMs, and files from within the MCAD to Arena. MCAD users publish the engineering BOM and configurable file types such as PDF, STEP, or CAD data to Arena. All integration activities can be accessed on demand through the MCAD files both with and without PDM or directly from PDM (if the MCAD has a PDM) with a headless automated service.

Annual Subscriptions, Users, and Recommended Sessions

CADTALK CAD <> PLM is an annual subscription software based on the number of active session licenses needed. CADTALK active sessions indicate the number of manual and scheduled sessions being run simultaneously for data actions between systems.

CADTALK CAD <> Arena is available in three functional packages – Launch, Scale, and Enterprise – and priced per CADTALK active session.

The number of recommended active sessions is based on the size of the mechanical engineering team. Please see the data sheets for recommended sessions.

This integration is sold by Arena and delivered by CADTALK, providing you with a streamlined purchase process coupled with the expertise of an Arena development partner. Contact Arena to learn more and begin the purchase process.

Detailed Functionality Matrix by MCAD and CADTALK Functional Package

Supported functionality depends on the MCAD system and the purchased CADTALK functional package (Launch, Scale, Enterprise). The functionality each customer needs will be determined by engineering practices and design to release processes. Please consult this matrix when considering which CADTALK package best meets your needs. 

Boost collaboration between your development teams by providing company-wide access to all product data centrally managed in a cloud-based PLM system, including your Altium BOMs, with an automated integration between Altium and Arena.

Successfully designing electronic products requires an array of groups and disciplines to work together across the organization, from engineering and manufacturing to procurement and others. All too often these groups are operating with a set of disconnected data sources resulting in decisions being made in a vacuum without understanding the full impact on the product, its overall time to market, and eventual profitability. Without full access to the requirements of all stakeholders, errors may often go unnoticed until right before the product is ready to ship, resulting in schedule delays and the potential to miss the targeted window entirely.

The OpenPDM® Connector for Arena and SAP accelerates new product introduction (NPI) while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.

How it Works

ERP Exchange works with the OpenPDM Connector for Arena and SAP to automate the transfer of released product record information from Arena to your SAP system.

• Arena ERP Exchange is configured and scheduled to export product record information (e.g., BOM, change order, item master, and manufacturing part information) when a change order is released
• ERP Exchange packages the affected product record into a PDX package (XML format) and notifies the Arena PLM Integration Monitor that the changed data has been transferred
• The OpenPDM Connector for Arena and SAP receives the PDX package, validates, and updates it in SAP
• Bi-directional from SAP to Arena available as an option, using Arena REST API to update non-revision Item and BOM attributes

Collaborating with today’s dispersed design teams introduces risk when moving from team-level engineering design to the larger released product record and manufacturing. Design teams utilize SOLIDWORKS work-in-progress (WIP) tools to ensure engineers do not step on each other’s toes during early design. Once the individual designs are mature enough, they need to be incorporated into the full product design with other mechanical, electrical, software, and documentation components. With Arena–XPLM Integration for SOLIDWORKS, teams have an automated and easy process that reduces errors and accelerates the NPI process.

The Arena–XPLM Integration for SOLIDWORKS provides design teams with the ability to create and publish parts, BOMs, and files from within SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (PDMP) to Arena. SOLIDWORKS PDM users publish the engineering BOM and configurable file types such as PDF, STEP, or CAD data to Arena. All integration activities can be accessed in SOLIDWORKS PDMP using the workflow, tasks, menus, and data cards.

Expedite the Engineering to Manufacturing Hand-off with Connected Product Lifecycle Management

Acumatica for Arena Native Connector enables manufacturing engineers to design newly manufactured parts and modify existing parts inside Arena. Manage engineering changes for the full product record and engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, software, packaging, and documentation with supply chain collaboration, regulatory compliance, and quality management. Connectivity eliminates duplicate data entry, automating the hand-off from engineering to manufacturing.

For the full Acumatica integration guide, see this PDF on Acumatica’s resource site.

The Arena–Sage 100 Integration, enabled by Millennium’s Sage expertise, ensures a seamless transfer of the critical shared product record elements. Arena manages the creation and updates to the item masters, complex bills of materials (BOMs), and vendor relationships during development processes, and Sage 100 utilizes this same information to procure, manufacture, and ship high-quality products on time and within budget. The Integration provides the automated flow of this product data to Sage 100 after change process approvals in Arena. With easy configuration, these critical business systems are connected, risks reduced, and product information is up to date for all the teams.

The Arena–Sage 100 Integration automates the process of transferring new and updated product record data from Arena to Sage 100, ensuring a single source of product truth across systems and avoiding manual entry risks.

Arena’s ERP Exchange is configured and scheduled to export data upon change release

• When change release occurs, ERP Exchange transfers product data into a PDX (XML format) package
• Millennium’s Sage 100 Adapter receives the PDX package and processes it into Sage 100 after proper translations, validations, and application of business rules

Creating quality products in this fast-paced world isn’t easy. Your product processes involve multiple teams, locations, partners, suppliers, and vendors. These dispersed teams must work from the same design, stay on budget, and respond to customer demands. You want to deliver better products, faster and easier. And you want to create innovative solutions to change the world. Innovative product companies use Arena to drive their product development processes through the entire product lifecycle. And they leverage Expandable® ERP to plan and execute manufacturing processes to deliver innovative products to market. When these systems are integrated, operations can be confident
they are using the latest released bill of materials (BOMs) and item master to procure, manufacture, and ship high quality products to customers. This integration accelerates new product introduction while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.

The Arena–Expandable ERP Integration automates the process of transferring product record information from Arena to Expandable ERP, avoiding errors and ensuring Expandable ERP is up to date.

• Arena ERP Exchange is configured and scheduled to export product record information (BOM, ECO, and item master) when an ECO is released
• ERP Exchange packages the affected product record into a PDX package (XML format)
• The Expandable adapter receives the PDX package, validates, and updates it in Expandable ERP

Innovative product companies use Arena to drive their product development processes through the entire product lifecycle. And they leverage QAD Cloud ERP to plan and execute manufacturing processes to deliver innovative products to market. When these systems are integrated, operations can be confident they are using the latest released bill of materials (BOMs), item master, approved manufacturers list (AML), and supporting documentation to procure, manufacture, and ship high quality products to customers. The Arena–QAD Integration is part of the SIGConnects family of prebuilt solutions from Strategic Information Group. This integration accelerates new product introduction while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.

HOW IT WORKS
The Arena–QAD Integration automates the process of transferring product record information from Arena to QAD, avoiding errors while ensuring that QAD is up to date.

• Arena ERP Exchange is configured and scheduled to export product record information (BOM, ECO, item master, and AML) when an ECO is released
• ERP Exchange transfers the product record into a PDX package (XML format)
• The SIGConnects/Arena adapter receives the PDX package, validates, and updates it in QAD

The Arena–NetSuite ERP Integration delivered by Suite Business Software (SBS) accelerates new product introduction (NPI) while reducing expenses, increasing profitability, and speeding time to market.

How it Works
The Arena–NetSuite ERP Integration transfers the latest product record information upon release,
ensuring efficient and accurate production planning and manufacturing processes. You have the choice of a unidirectional integration of Arena data flows to NetSuite or bidirectional with NetSuite data being shared to Arena.

This integration is sold by Arena and delivered by Suite Business Software, providing you with a streamlined purchase process coupled with the expertise of a certified Netsuite development partner. Contact Arena to learn more and begin the purchase process.

The Microsoft Dynamics® 365 Adapter for Arena by QBD Systems connects engineering and operations, helping you deliver high-quality products to market. This solution automates the process of transferring current product data between Arena and Dynamics, eliminating redundant data entry and ensuring the information in Dynamics is more accurate. This integration keeps key Dynamics 365 users aware of part and structure changes. It also guarantees operations has the latest released bill of materials (BOM), approved manufacturer and part numbers, approved supplier and part numbers, and engineering changes (ECO) from engineering.

How it Works
The Dynamics 365 Adapter for Arena is designed to integrate Arena with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, or legacy Dynamics GP, Dynamics AX, and Dynamics NAV. The product enables Arena users to update their Microsoft ERP solution with part, bill of materials, change order, and manufacturer part information (as supported by your Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Dynamics system).

The Dynamics 365 Adapter for Arena is flexible and extensible. Attribute values in Dynamics are updated with information from Arena along with default values for fields that you wish to initialize but are not revision controlled in Arena. This integration supports user scripting in Visual BASIC.NET so that the value of fields can be determined programmatically.
This flexibility allows you to synchronize your database consistently and to your specificity, minimizing the need for manual “retouching” of your data. This integration also supports custom attributes added to the standard Dynamics 365 tables as well as custom tables.

The Dynamics 365 Adapter for Arena Profile Utility is used to configure all aspects of your integration including mapping information, error conditions, user scripts, value translation, activity notifications, etc. The “Inbox” is the user interface for the runtime module which performs database updates. The runtime module can be run on-demand or it can be scheduled with Windows Task Scheduler.

The Arena PLM – Oracle ERP Integration powered by Triniti’s Oracle expertise, along with Triniti’s inventive approach to application data management (ADM), reduces risk and ensures seamless integration. Additionally, Arena ERP Exchange coupled with Triniti’s ADM methodology facilitates easy configuration between Arena PLM and Oracle EBS. This feature ensures an automated flow of critical product record information (e.g., parts, BOMs, AML/AVL data) between the two systems. When companies move from development to production, the Arena change approval process triggers an automated transfer of product data to Oracle EBS in real-time.

How it Works
The Arena PLM – Oracle ERP Integration automates the process of transferring new and updated product record data from Arena PLM to Oracle EBS, ensuring Oracle production information is always up to date.

• Arena’s ERP exchange solution is configured and scheduled to export data upon the change release.
• Upon release, ERP Exchange transfers product data into a PDX package (XML format).
• Triniti’s Oracle adapter receives the XML file and processes it into Oracle ERP after proper translations, validations, and applications of the customer’s business rules.

Bidirectional with data from Oracle back to Arena is supported as an add-on to the standard integration.

PROSTEP AG’s Arena-Jira integration accelerates collaboration between your PLM and ALM teams. It also ensures the consistency and quality of change information and the availability of up-to-date information in both PTC Arena and Atlassian Jira. The integration is based on the proven OpenPDM integration platform from PROSTEP AG, Germany. The use case offered here synchronizes change requests between the systems. A typical trigger for automatic synchronization is the approval of an engineering change, ensuring an efficient and consistent flow of information between the systems.

Solution Features

• Synchronize Changes, Requests and Tickets between Arena and Jira
• Handling metadata and attachments from multiple document formats
• Customizable mapping configuration
• Automatically triggered e.g., status changes, new objects or updates
• Runs continuously to synchronize up-to-date information
• Hosted by PROSTEP AG, Germany in the OpenPDM SaaS Cloud based on AWS

Q Point Green Data Exchange (GDX) integrated with Arena automates and simplifies product compliance with regulations. GDX provides you a large repository of existing compliance information. In addition, it helps you connect directly with your suppliers to obtain real-time compliance information. GDX automates the full spectrum of the process. It identifies the appropriate contact at suppliers, allowing them to respond with information in a consistent, ready-to-use format. And it provides the tools to analyze data in real time and as often as your product changes. GDX can be configured to automatically provide compliance status and evidence to supplier parts in Arena.

How it Works

In Arena, create supplier parts with supplier name and number, as well as compliance requirements (e.g., REACH, RoHS, Conflict Minerals, and Full Material Disclosures). Your supplier parts will be automatically synchronized with GDX. GDX not only provides access to existing compliance data, it provides a comprehensive method to request compliance data from your suppliers when needed. With Arena and GDX, you have better compliance visibility around your entire product. In Arena, select a BOM, export it, and then import it into GDX to view compliance status. Drill down to analyze details. Search and filter parts in GDX to conduct analysis or identify parts requiring compliance information. View detailed information on any supplier part. In GDX, easily send an information request to a supplier for compliance information and/or supporting documentation. Utilize the GDX management dashboard to track the status of open requests. Finally, generate a product-level certificate of compliance (CoC) to share with a customer and record in Arena PLM.

To stay competitive, manufacturers need to continuously innovate their products to meet market demands. As a result, product operations require innovative designs and eective part introduction and change management processes to deliver quality products in time to meet customer demands. With IntegrateIT and Arena PLM integration, organizations can reduce development costs, streamline processes, share product information, and introduce products faster – ultimately extending the value of their Arena PLM investment.

CLOVER IntegrateIT enables Arena PLM connection to any system for a smarter, more reliable data exchange. IntegrateIT provides common pre-built connectors that simplify the way files and data synchronize between Arena PLM and ERP, CRM, MES, and other systems. With IntegrateIT, product data and information are delivered to every area of the organization to ensure data accuracy, reduce implementation costs, and mitigate risks by providing access to the most current data set.

Arena Worlds required for any integration depends upon the scope of the integration required.