Arena PLM + QMS for AWS GovCloud
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Arena BOM maintenance
What do you like best about the product?
Our Bills of Materials are now clear, synchronized with revisions and efficient in pricing. Part numbers and thumbnail pictures are easy to generate. Absolutely the best feature, however, is the Save to ARENA PLM function, which has removed hours of effort importing parts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a somewhat steep learning curve to get started.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had to take control of our BOM ordering procedures, which were haphazard. Our costs are now clearly represented in the BOM listing for prototypes and for production.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Available everywhere and easy to use, configure and train new staff.
What do you like best about the product?
Moving to Arena gave us the ability to have instant access to our data, 24-7 anywhere in the world. It makes my job easier since I can access the information I need right away on my smart phone.
Configuration is quick and easy and our training has been going great.
Configuration is quick and easy and our training has been going great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like Arena to add notification lists to their routings. This would help us to inform different groups of people when an ECO has been approved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With staff constantly on the move it lets us get approvals from where ever they are at and the information that they would need is always at their fingertips.
Arena Review for small-mid businesses
What do you like best about the product?
Everything you need is in the cloud, so it makes the progress of tracking changes and products very easily in a centralized location
What do you dislike about the product?
The slowness it takes load for specific activities. Arena has a tendency to crash even especially more recently with some of the updates that were done.
One of the updates I dislike the most was when Arena made the search function results within another scrolling window. Makes searches a lot more difficult to scroll through results.
One of the updates I dislike the most was when Arena made the search function results within another scrolling window. Makes searches a lot more difficult to scroll through results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Faster changes, consistency on which revisions or latest status everyone should be referring to.
Customizable PLM Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Arena is a great PLM system that is extremely flexible and has allowed us to manage not only document control processes but also quality processes and employee training records. Arena has always been very responsive to our questions and provided extensive help in implementing the system. I also like that Arena has its own validation, which allows us to more easily validate the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration with Solidworks is not as straightforward as I had hoped and was very frustrating to set up. There was a lot of confusion on my end with respect to which PDM solutions were compatible with the Arena integration. At this point, I am much more familiar with the integration and have a better understanding but it took a while to get to this point and also required troubleshooting from our IT team to get the system up and running.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena has allowed our company to move from a paper based document control system to an electronic system. This switch has greatly improved processes by making them more straightforward. Additionally, electronic document approval allows us to more quickly approve documents. We've improved employee training tracking and have implemented our own customized additional systems within Arena including equipment calibration tracking and inventory tracking.
Document Control Manager
What do you like best about the product?
The Arena PLM is very easy to set up and to use as well as administer. I have used many PLM's available and in my opinion, Arena is the best hosted option. It does everything that we need it to; upload to ERP, schematic capture, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are customizations and a few functionality items we would like to be able to add that we are not able to.
Saying that, the benefits of a hosted PLM far outweigh the slight disadvantage for our size company.
Saying that, the benefits of a hosted PLM far outweigh the slight disadvantage for our size company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Arena as a PLM only. We are not using the other modules at this company and are very happy with the PLM functionality.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Arena PLM is wonderful for the small to mid size company. You don't need internal IT support at all.
At other companies I have had Arena integrated with our ERP system and have found it the most efficient use of any PLM.
At other companies I have had Arena integrated with our ERP system and have found it the most efficient use of any PLM.
User friendly and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
The application is user friendly and offers a good suite of features to support operations. The online support documentation and videos are very good.
What do you dislike about the product?
They don't offer a floating license options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing product data.
Arena PLM review
What do you like best about the product?
The Arena PLM structure is in a way similar to the normal product evolution. Therefor it is intuitive and easy to use. The support provided by the technical staff is excellent and easily available.
What do you dislike about the product?
The functionality depends on a solid network connection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The gain is most important when I need to get CM quotations quickly for critical electronic assemblies. The pre entered information is instantly available.
Good
What do you like best about the product?
Accessibility, security and we can track all the change
What do you dislike about the product?
No tutorials available, on the site or a training needs to be published
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
document control
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes
Cost and business efficient
What do you like best about the product?
I can have a PLM solution when I don't have a many million dollar budget
What do you dislike about the product?
Changing my password :-) Changing my password :-) Changing my password :-) Changing my password :-)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
TQM requirements for Point of Sale Devices. The ability to keep track of changes made to our products by a Chinese ODM.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk to current customers about your business needs and cost...to see th ebenfits of Arena.
I am repaired test technician who used Arena Daily to fill in for my investigation.
What do you like best about the product?
upload picture, and write my evaluation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like to use Arena. Nothing about Arena.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fully investigation by capturing picture. Picture is a thousand word.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes
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