Arena PLM + QMS for AWS GovCloud
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Effective, all encompassing, user friendly, and great for suppliers/quality/managers/purchasing dept
What do you like best about the product?
The tabs for items, training, quality, etc are very helpful. I also really like the advanced search tool and how easy it is to locate a document or record (or anything really) with limited information. In a quality department, it is often difficult to make huge records repetitively without making some errors or miss information. Arena makes that easier to locate, update, and access. The employee and supplier accounts are also very easy to manage, which I really appreciate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is not clear whether an item is still in use or referenced in a training plan/record/document. For example, if you go to an item that a department no longer trains to, it may say under "items" that that training plan is still using it, even if it has been removed from the training plan. That's one bug I've found. I think there should also be more differentiation between the types of items/training plans. Like make separate categories or folders for the individual vs. departmental, or folders for different types of items.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Here is a list of some of the things that we use Arena to optimize at my company: Company changing brand name, making the communication between engineers and manufacturing/distribution optimized and efficient, solving quality processes and keeping documentation and changes logged and current, updating training plans and improving the quality of professional education for employees, records/documents/audits/item histories/purchasing logistics/etc. all use Arena to collaborate with quality and document all functions of the company.
The best PLM platform I have ever used
What do you like best about the product?
It's a friendly user and allows me to create and follow up with all the documentation and approvals in an easy flow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's hard to find documents if I don't have the right name.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have access to all the approved documentation, it's easy to define the approvers, and if they are not available, to change them. Several options are depending on the needs of the company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Improve the search engine.
Highly customizable PLM software with a slow often clunky UI.
What do you like best about the product?
How customizable it is, there are virtually infinite configurations you can have to make Arena most effective for your company's needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
How slow all of the loading times are. I understand it is a database and there is lots of data it is handling with each query. However, uploading new files or updating old files is a slow and tedious process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Version control with our projects. Also, having a single source of truth that we can reference both internally and provide to external partners or contractors as needed.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive to use for users. Covers most of the bases needed as a PLM
What do you dislike about the product?
Admin functions can be limited to change or remove some customizations.
Our company has a part/supplier quality database that is difficult to cover in Arena.
Our company has a part/supplier quality database that is difficult to cover in Arena.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have custom made parts management databases that are becoming difficult to maintain. A cloud system works for teams around the world without having to be on VPN or corp domains.
ARENA PLM
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly not complex and quick implementation process
What do you dislike about the product?
request for new features takes a lot of time to implement if any.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex Product life cycle management challenges.
from a benefits perspective, the ARENA system gives us a complete and overall solution to achieve this.
from a benefits perspective, the ARENA system gives us a complete and overall solution to achieve this.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
User friendly not complex and quick implementation process
Very helpful in managing and improving our BOM management.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to navigate through. Changes are easily trackable.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is sometimes trouble with having a good overview of products/configurations. Perhaps a visual representation would be more helpful than a list.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving & improving BOM errors. Overall quality. Increasing traceability. We are allowing easier expansion of market variants.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make use of the training space.
My Experience with Arena as a QMS is the best one Ive used so far.
What do you like best about the product?
I like Arena because of the interface. I think the design is lightyears ahead of ETQ Reliance. ETQ Reliance was made by developers who have never used their own product where every text entry and workflow was counter-intuitive; You couldn't even have multiple tabs open. Here in Arena, Everything is made straightforward. It is easy to navigate and changes are easy to make.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things could be improved, such as the permissions. I've ran into a few cases where I've edited "in production" revisions, and there is no way to revert the changes done if changes were made by accident. One thing I would like to see is making batch edits where multiple items can be edited at one time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The business problems that we are solving revolve around product verification.
The benefits are the facts that we can easily upload required documents in batches.
The benefits are the facts that we can easily upload required documents in batches.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly suggest this service due to the easy navigation and clean user interface. You can tell that the designers have put a lot of effort into making it very user friendly. Again, I have used ETQ reliance at another company and it was like working with hand tied behind my back. Nothing, that program was about made any sense. The fact that you cant have multiple browser tabs open, the fact that you couldnt select text. Arena is a breathe of fresh air, and according to coworkers, its what all the big successful companies use.
Arena PLM the right solution for small to medium scale firms
What do you like best about the product?
The SaaS solution and complete configuration based system
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability and customization capabilities can be a limitation at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing product data, integration with CAD, Change management, Supplier management
A little Buggy
What do you like best about the product?
The system is a relatively easy platform to use but buggy at times.
What do you dislike about the product?
SmartLinks have issues when not properly logged out of various access points.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We enjoy the ability to have controlled document links so that everyone has the most up-to-date files.
the connection is TRASH. you should not be happy about it. other than that it works pretty good.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the organization of documents the best
What do you dislike about the product?
the slow connection is the worst. sometimes it also doesnt allow me to do something, then i refresh and it does ( and nothing else changed)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
organization. having organized documents
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