Arena PLM

User friendly

Vantagens:

Very easy to use and implement in the manufacturing environment.

Desvantagens:

The interface could have been more intelligent.

Arena PLM Review

Comentários: Using Arena PLM has been straightforward and easy to teach to other cross-sector teams.

Vantagens:

- User friendly interface - Clear routing and approvals - Easy administrative backend controls

Desvantagens:

Arena had no notable cons or points of concern.

Functional but could have better usability

Vantagens:

The search menu is intuitive and easy to use

Desvantagens:

Creating new entries and searching doesn't have any smart features like auto complete.

Arena in Manufacturing

Comentários: Good, we use for BOM, Chane Management and document archives. Researching Quality World for expansion

Vantagens:

Revision history and search capabilities. Available reporting works well for data extraction and offline analysis (Power BI).

Desvantagens:

Reporting does not have some key fields available to users.

Preferred over Windchill, but still leaves a bit to be desired

Comentários: Overall, I'm happy with my interaction with Arena.

Vantagens:

I love the simplicity of some functions that other PTC products, like Windchill, overly complicate.

Desvantagens:

There's no way to truly customize the dashboard to show ALL items where you are involved - instead of creating a quick link to a search which opens a separate window view of Changes I have open, I want to see a direct list of items I have open. It would also be nice if it could develop an interface to SolidWorks so we wouldn't have to use a convoluted process of getting our information between both programs.

Arena is a good system

Comentários: Easy to use. This is one of the better PLM systems I've used.

Vantagens:

Easy to use. The Change Order system works well. Tracking history of Items created is good. Creating BOMs is easy. Approval system flow is basic and works.

Desvantagens:

More difficult if administrator doesn't configure it correctly. Some sections are little vague on how to use properly like the Sourcing section. Everyone enters the information differently due to it's flexibility to use it. Redlines section is confusing how to use (I still don't know how to use it!) so I end up just attaching a document for redlines.

Solid Quality Product

Comentários: It works well for our companies needs for our quality system! We can control the process of uploading and revving documentation for our product with relative ease!

Vantagens:

Allows our company to collaborate on releasing and control documents and trainings

Desvantagens:

The UI is semi clunky and takes time to learn and parse

User Friendly Platform

Comentários: Simple to use, easy access to multiple file types and BOM locations. Even as a beginner the platform was very intuitive.

Vantagens:

Arena PLM is extremely user friendly. The ability to link products together combined with the BOM capability is top notch.

Desvantagens:

We have experienced issues with integration between platforms, although these issues are usually simply fixed.

Love the Organizational Aspect of Arena PLM

Comentários: I work with Arena PLM in a "user" capacity versus an "administrative" capacity. It's quick and easy to input the information needed to process DCOs.

Vantagens:

The best part of Arena PLM for me is the organizational aspect of the platform that allows me to stay on task. It's a fantastic time saver.

Desvantagens:

Nothing, everything is good about Arena PLM; especially the fact that new enhancements are added often.

Document Management

Comentários: very bad

Vantagens:

It's bad that I didn't like it very well, It could be more intuitive. Pros are overshadowed by Cons

Desvantagens:

No technical supports Documentation Management and Quality Management not relevant to medical device applicatons/

Arena Review

Comentários: Tough to learn, but overall pretty good

Vantagens:

Very customizable

Desvantagens:

Steep learning curve

Document Control Specialist

Comentários: Overall very positive. There isn't anything negative that would persuade me to not use it.

Vantagens:

Easy to look up and retrieve information.

Desvantagens:

If only the redline can be display and be shown by itself.

Straightforward, easy to use PLM

Comentários: Having used a different PLM before, I do like this one a lot better because of how straightforward and easy it is to use.

Vantagens:

Ease of use, decent amount of customization, straightforward BOM/Parts and Documentation revision/tracking.

Desvantagens:

Some options/fields don't jive with other tools we currently use. Customization needs customer support though in some cases.

Review of EQMS Useage

Comentários: The above being said, I do feel we have realized benefits from using the system in the way of organization and being able to process changes in the way they should be.

Vantagens:

I do like the Engineering Change function and that fact that with the change function as well as others you can attach files.

Desvantagens:

I do not like the fact that some of the features needed for quality functions have to be made in the Quality World and require alot of clicks for approvals, complete etc. Currently to set up annual procedure reviews we are having to set it up as a project for notifications to go out 1 year from last revision. One of the most troubling areas for me is that if something changes in one document, such as a revision to a stated value the system does not provide you a list of all documents that the value is found in as some other systems do. For Engineering I think a very good system; for the actual needed quality actions I feel there are some areas lacking. Also have not been able to find an escalation process.

Daily User

Comentários: Overall experience has been great. Arena support, Arena Help, and pagetips is are very helpful

Vantagens:

Ease of use! Able to train users very easily

Desvantagens:

Searchability is a bit wonky and it causes users to be confused

I recommend Arena PLM since it is friendly user

Comentários: Arena PLM is a friendly user tool.

Vantagens:

The features I like most about Arena PLM is the software memorirzed what I searched so I do not need to re-enter the part number again. It is an excellent feature.

Desvantagens:

I need to set up correctly to get the correct export file in Excell format

Great PLM tool

Vantagens:

Ease of use, very intuitive frontend. Customisable in many ways, can be adapted to the business

Desvantagens:

Expensive for the features it has and new features are also add-ons which need to be bought with upgraded licenses.

Worth considering

Vantagens:

The integration aspect into the business was not too difficult for us

Desvantagens:

Setting up the views when you have multiple projects is hard at first

A Base User's Look at Arena PLM

Vantagens:

Relatively easy to take care of trainings required and review current and prior versions of documents.

Desvantagens:

The dashboard feels unintuitive and sometimes seems like activities are left longer than expected, leading to times I second-guess if I've completed a training.

Great Product

Vantagens:

I love how easy it is to use, very user friendly, can do all kinds of changes, document all of it,

Desvantagens:

there's nothing I haven't really liked on this software, so far so good.

Arena PLM insights

Comentários: Overall the experience is good compared to other PLM software I used in the past.

Vantagens:

Streamlined workflows. Being on the cloud not worry about updates.

Desvantagens:

Some features are hard to use, in particular when it comes to creating ECOs. We have a dedicated product documentation team to help with that.

Seems to get the job done

Vantagens:

It's fairly intuitive to use and is packed with all the different "worlds that you can need" - Training, NCRs, Documents, etc.

Desvantagens:

The NCR world seems to need the most improvement - it's not very intuitive to navigate and seems to be missing a lot of the key steps/info required to complete a thorough investigation.

VERY FLEXIBLE AND POWERFUL, BUT ALSO CUMBERSOME

Comentários: Arena has served us well as our PLM. It does what we need it to do!

Vantagens:

The thing I liked most about the product was the ability to customize it to fit our needs. Once you understand how to use it the software can keep an excellent record of your product, parts, documents etc. that is easy to navigate.

Desvantagens:

The thing I like least about this product is the number of steps required to complete a task. Updating information for lots of items is cumbersome and the import tool that is meant to speed this up lacks documentation making it frustrating to learn. While I understand that some of this might be related to the flexibility that it offers there are a few features that could greatly improve efficiency, specifically related to making the same change to a large batch of items.

Arena Review

Comentários: Excellent

Vantagens:

Searching for parts and pulling up the drawings to compare them to like parts. Also to look up BOMs to see what we need for certain assemblies.

Desvantagens:

Adding parts to an assembly is one by one. Would be nice to be able to add multiple parts in one go.

Great for planning an expansion without risking huge CapEx.

Comentários: Overall this is a really great product. The high level actions are easy to understand, and there are even graphics that can be used as specific inputs and outputs so that a presentation can have products rather than widgets. Also, the negatives of the strange statistical anomalies really are not a big deal. An experienced operations manager or engineer will know what to pay attention to and what is noise.

Vantagens:

This program's biggest upside is its ability to provide a testing ground for potential upgrades, expansions, or new factories, facilities, etc. without needing to spend huge dollars on a physical pilot or building or the labor cost of a time study or statistical analysis from a Black Belt or other highly paid employee

Desvantagens:

Some of the random variables do not take into account reality well enough. I understand that true AI is not possible right now, but the fact is that purely statistics based tools can produce results that would never occur in the real world (i.e. A factory only attempts to build 3 units in an entire day and 3,000 the next day because it is possible in a Poisson Process).