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Proven Success With Cloud Product Development

Arena’s cloud-native product development solutions have fueled success for over 1,450 life sciences, aerospace, and high-tech electronics manufacturers. Here are just a few examples highlighting how companies overcame obstacles and achieved commercialization success with Arena.

STREAMLINING SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS WITH PLM AND SOURCING PLATFORM INTEGRATION

Digi International (Digi) provides IoT connectivity products, services, and solutions for a wide range of industries and applications, from enterprise and industrial to transportation and smart cities. Like most companies in the fast-paced electronics industry, Digi had difficulty aligning their engineering, sourcing, and supply chain operations. Engineering teams used Arena PLM to manage BOMs while supply chain partners used Part Analytics to manage sourcing information. This resulted in information silos, manual data entry errors, and ineffective collaboration among product teams and external partners.

After integrating Arena and Part Analytics, Digi experienced notable improvements including:

• Enhanced collaboration with external supply chain partners
• Efficiency gains upwards of 50% through real-time accessibility across internal and external teams
• Greater team-wide visibility across the entire product lifecycle
• 2x faster request for anything (RFX) cycles
• Additional cost savings stemming from insights into component availability, lead times, and usage

The impact on our supply chain’s efficiency and our bottom line has been profound. It’s clear that this integration was not just an operational decision but a strategic move that has set us apart in the industry.”

—Terry Schneider, Vice President of Supply Chain Management

SPEEDING THE DELIVERY OF NEXT-GENERATION PRINTERS

Kornit Digital, a global leader in on-demand sustainable fashion production, relies on several suppliers and contract manufacturers to ensure that their printers are manufactured to the highest quality standards. Early on, the company lacked a dedicated PLM solution, making it challenging to manage their products’ growing complexity.

Since transitioning to Arena, Kornit has enhanced supply chain collaboration, reduced errors, and increased operational efficiency.

Arena has made our lives much easier. Having all our product information in one secure place keeps our product teams and supply chain partners aligned on delivering high-quality products to customers.”

—Liran Vaintrov, PLM Business Analyst

INSTANT 24/7 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATION WITH GLOBAL TEAMS

Globally recognized for delivering intelligent and connected energy systems for over a thousand solar power plants worldwide, Nextracker, a Flex Company, is one of the fastest-growing cleantech companies in solar today. Its breakthrough technology enables plant owners to harvest the sun more efficiently, at lower costs, and with more flexibility.

Prior to Arena, the company did not have a single source of truth system to track and manage its engineering design and development processes. Product information was tracked manually in workbooks, spreadsheets, and personal file folders, requiring too much reliance on tribal knowledge.

Rapid growth, coupled with the need to collaborate with a global team, meant that Nextracker needed to modify its product development processes. After implementing Arena PLM, Nextracker was able to cut review and approval times by nearly 60%, eliminate time-zone delays with global partners, and accelerate product introductions by 25%.

Arena PLM has changed the way to design and get products to market. It is the well-oiled machine that complex, global product companies need to run their business. We have a much faster and transparent process that allows for better visibility to identify where obstacles lie and helps us become even more efficient.”

—Ratana Lee, Senior Manager, NPI Master Archivist

ACHIEVING COMMERCIALIZATION AND COMPLIANCE SUCCESS

Accuryn Medical is a predictive health company pioneering the next generation of medical devices with smart sensors and artificial intelligence. The company developed the Accuryn Monitoring System, which enables the remote monitoring of urine output, intra-abdominal pressure, and core body temperature to help guide clinicians in treating critically ill patients. The system’s remote monitoring capabilities are also helping frontline workers combat the spread of COVID-19.

Initially, Accuryn’s product and quality information was managed using paper-based processes, where bills of materials (BOMs) were documented on paper and then uploaded to a manufacturing system. Engineering change orders (ECOs) were also reviewed manually with limited supplier communication.

“We didn’t have a system that was robust enough for new product introduction and compliance processes. We had FDA clearance, but our product was not commercialized yet and our current manual processes would not scale or hold up to the scrutiny of audits,” stated Sanjay Banerjee, COO for Accuryn Medical.

Since implementing Arena QMS, Accuryn has seen significant improvements across product design and quality, including the improvement of product nonconformance by nearly 20% and a decrease in complaint resolution cycle time by 25%.

We have all the phases of design and development managed in Arena QMS. This includes secure access for our suppliers, which are located globally, allowing them to be notified immediately of any change and ensure their system is up to date.”

—Sanjay Banerjee, COO

DELIVERING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY

With its mission to provide the most modular cyber-electronics systems in the world, Pacific Defense has pioneered hardware and software solutions for defense primes, military groups, government agencies, and commercial industries.

Initially, Pacific Defense relied on engineering tools, spreadsheets, and emails to conduct early concept and prototype design work. To support its rapid growth and shift to product commercialization in the highly regulated defense sector, the company needed a secure, controlled process for managing product development, undergoing customer risk-based assessment audits, and demonstrating thorough configuration management practices.

After adopting Arena PLM for AWS GovCloud, Pacific Defense was able to effectively manage product development and change processes. The company was also able to run nonconformance material report (NCMR) and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) processes and conduct supply chain management with better traceability.

We’ve developed strong working models of processes that now include remote teams—Arena supports all this with ease in a secure platform. Since going live with Arena, the benefits have been countless.”

—Vicky Orozco, Sr. Document Control Specialist