ARENA PLM

Turning Ideas Into Products

SOLUTIONBRIEF

CREATING QUALITY PRODUCTS IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD ISN’T EASY

Increase your advantage with a comprehensive product development platform that controls product development, production, and quality processes anytime and anywhere.

Arena PLM links new product development, quality activities, and change processes to the complete product record. With Arena, your entire team and supply chain partners can collaborate on everything product from design to sustaining activities.

STREAMLINE DEVELOPMENT
One Secure Place Unify your entire product definition for a complete digitized product record—visibility and traceability with no silos, gaps, or surprises.	CONFIDENT DESIGN CONTROL
ADVANCE QUALITY
Connected and Transparent Accelerate engineering change and quality processes by connecting all product teams to the right information for continuous improvement.	FULL TEAM COLLABORATION
DRIVE INNOVATION
Strategic Disrupt your market, exceed your quality goals, and surpass your cost goals. Mature your business with supply chain collaboration, process optimization, NPI management, compliance, and enterprise integrations.	MARKET ADVANTAGE

ARENA PLM BENEFITS

Start Right, Start Early to Be Faster
“Leveraging Cloud PLM to manage product data from conception can give you the competitive edge when racing to be first to market. You have to be faster than the competition to beat them.”
– Ranjan, VP Operations, SunLink
Succeed at New Product Introduction
Beat the odds with your NPI efforts? Yes, you can, according to our customers.
Set Your Team Up to Scale With Success
Customers report 10x efficiencies and confidence in meeting product requirements. You can benefit at any size from startup to enterprise.

TRUST US WITH YOUR BUSINESS TODAY AND TOMORROW

No matter the size of your team, complexity of your products, or stage of your company, you need solutions you will never outgrow.

Arena is with you every step in the product realization journey. With included enterprise cloud functionality, Arena is available anywhere, anytime for your entire team.

TRANSPARENCY

Embrace Visibility
Visibility directly correlates to revenue. Your teams need unprecedented information transparency and access throughout the entire product lifecycle. Arena gives your teams secure, appropriate access coupled with critical audit history tracking.

COLLABORATION

Be Hive Minded
Everyone has a role to play in the product realization process. Arena provides multiple avenues for formal and informal collaboration, all secure, all auditable. Ensure standard workflows and controlled processes when you need them. And get lighter, fast team chat and sharing for the rapid iterations when less is more. Should everyone in your company use Arena? Read about one customer who says yes.

BUSINESS INSIGHTS

Better Business Decisions
To push for excellence, top-performing companies rely on advanced reporting and analytics to uncover gaps and opportunities in product processes. Discover how our customers use Arena’s product analytics to speed up quality processes and achieve product delivery goals.

Security

A Layered Defense to Protect You
Arena is architected to address every layer of security to protect our customers’ product and quality information. We have a risk-based approach and utilize industry-standard protocols and mechanisms throughout our solution, from the physical layer to policies and the application layer. Learn more.

INFORMATION SHARING AND INTEGRATIONS

Extend the Value
All valuable information is or will soon be digital. It is important that data can flow between Arena and other related systems to increase your process efficiency and ensure data accuracy. Explore our enterprise integrations and tools available to connect Arena to the rest of your digital environment. CAD, ERP, CRM, MES, and more—we’ve got you digitally connected.

WORK TOGETHER TO DELIVER INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS

Executive Stakeholders
Speed time to value and ensure strategic product goals are met with a single source of truth

Quality Control
Cultivate a proactive quality culture of process automation, evaluation, and improvement

Expedite internal and external audits

Engineering
Improve innovation, quality, and design with input from extended product team, product transparency, and product quality control

Operations
Streamline new product introduction and eliminate production mistakes with access to the product record

Training Manager
Simplify training record administration, access, and traceability

Supply Chain
Bring partners into your processes and take action to improve quality and reduce risks

Customer Service
Accelerate complaint processes for improved customer satisfaction

Purchasing
Factor COGS data into product team design decisions for accurate price negotiations and faster fulfillment, and obtain better component pricing from suppliers with aggregate component demand

IT
Eliminate upgrade, disaster recovery, and backup activities

SECURELY EXTEND TO YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN TEAM

Your product processes involve multiple teams, locations, partners, suppliers, and vendors. These dispersed teams must comply with the latest regulations and standards. They need to work from the same design, stay on budget, and respond to customer demands. Ensure processes are followed and everyone is collaborating.

Worldwide

66% of customers and their supply chain partners use Arena from outside the United States every day

INDUSTRY STANDARD

92% of top EMS providers in the industry access Arena customer systems for product collaboration

YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

Arena helps today’s product companies accelerate new product introduction and continuous product improvement. Arena PLM is a complete product development platform to accelerate your innovation efforts and deliver superior products fast.

PRODUCT RECORD CONTROL

Begin with a single, unified version of the complete product record for visibility and traceability. All product data includes items, BOMs, AML, SOPs, packaging, and documentation.

DOCUMENT

Manage all your product information through engineering change approval processes, document management, and compliance management with your extended product supply chain.

Change

Improve product development by leveraging your extended product team’s expertise in the review and approval processes. Your extended product team? Everyone from engineering to purchasing, manufacturing, and your external supply chain.

QUALITY

Speed time to market and product accuracy with controlled quality management processes. Define and execute product quality business processes to better meet environmental requirements (e.g., RoHS, Conflict Minerals) and regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, ISO, UL, EN).

REQUIREMENTS

Give the entire development team a way to manage requirements to lower costs and continuously innovate throughout the product lifecycle for traceability and impact analysis.

ISSUE MANAGEMENT

Provide streamlined end-to-end defect and issue management for software, hardware, electrical, and firmware against requirements, quality process actions, product record, and project efforts.

PROJECT

Ensure project execution, avoid missteps, and track accountability with collaborative project management. Manage projects with easy-to-use scheduling and task assignment, all linked to the product record, quality process, changes, and requirements.

SUPPLIER QUALITY

Securely bring your supply chain partners into collaborative product and quality processes for accountability and early and often communication throughout product development and sustaining processes.

REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE

Reduce product sourcing and compliance risks with transparency across the product record, access to electronic component market availability, and visibility of compliance information.

TRAINING

Manage product and corporate training to ensure corporate, quality, and regulatory compliance. Increase effectiveness of training programs across the company and streamline the training process.

ARENA IS YOUR TRUSTED PARTNER

Arena offers the most comprehensive product development platform to help you innovate rapidly. We improve, accelerate, and track your product processes across multiple teams, locations, and partners. We help your teams collaborate through the entire product lifecycle, stay on budget, and respond effectively to customer demands. All of this helps you bring better products to market, faster and easier, so you can change the world.

To find out how you can join some of the most innovative customers in the world, contact [email protected].