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, and release 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, bills of materials (BOMs), and drawings to give teams everything they need to approve new designs or changes to existing products. Find stalled changes and bottlenecks. Shrink your backlog. Gain greater transparency. We instill greater confidence by enabling your entire team to release and deliver products to your customers fast.

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.

STREAMLINE RELEASE PROCESSES

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

IMPROVE VISIBILITY WITH TEAMS

Enhance visibility and speed product releases with email notifications and dashboards
Review changes in context with all parts, BOMs, and documents linked to product and quality processes

IMPROVE
PROFITABILITY

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

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.

READ WHITE PAPER

“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