Arena PLM + QMS for AWS GovCloud
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Its improved a lot since but has ways to go
What do you like best about the product?
customer support in arena is very good and are quick to reply and answer our needs. I like the freedom on being able to create the templates to fit your need. Buying the product package that includes courses on how to set up arena is extremely beneficial to understand how to create an effective template for your organizational needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
some of the processes are redundant can be made better by changing the way it is implemented. A lot of the stuff that requires manual attention can be automated. Setting up arena can be hard especially without the tutorial series offered by the arena. The number of people familiar with arena is still limited and could be hard to source people to work on and could lead to a long training plan to bring people up to speed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
QMS and PLM problems.
Great quality management system
What do you like best about the product?
With the newest update, you're able to drag and drop files to upload. Once you have the workstation set up, it's easy to create new items and route for approvals. It's very user friendly and the ability to report out data makes it useful for analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that when you search items, the default is only 20 items and you have to "select all" every time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a fast and easy way to manage all your quality documents, drawings, work instructions, and test protocols and reports that are required per ISO / FDA regulations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I've used Master Control, QAD, and various other software. Arena is one of the best and they update it regularly.
Product Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely organized and regimented - perfect for intensive quality management systems; reliable
What do you dislike about the product?
Not the best user interface - could be a bit more user friendly; for new employees, it takes a decent amount of time to train and get used to system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At first, Arena started out as a basic quality management, but now as we grow as a business we are using it to solve other problems like supplier change requests and marketing data storage. Especially as our team grows in size, it provides us with a common platform to monitor issues and upcoming changes and allows us all to stay on same page and not forget about tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
System is reliable and does what you need it to do!
Straight forward usage
What do you like best about the product?
Track progress and stay up to date for any projects
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes hard to navigate and find documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly using it to get approvals routed for documents,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get trained well so that you can use it.
Arena QMS
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand interface and easily accessible files.
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit confusing to access certain QMS documents without proper knowledge. No clear path to some files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving business QMS issues. Benefits are that it is much easier to use than previous software/methods.
HP Arena Review
What do you like best about the product?
Simple GUI and User Friendly. No complex features. I like the report tool which is easy to handle compared to other PLM tool in the market. I like the feature to add additional attributes for each company users. I like the update and training that Arena gurus are scheduling quarterly. Help tool within the Arena is helping us to train other people and videos and screenshots used under that help is great. I like the file feature which is supporting lots of file format. I found Administrators have good right and very easy to operate in work space setting. Linkage between all worlds to ECO which is great feature compared to other PLM tools available in the market. Supply chain department is happy to see the amount of information that Arena allows to add for supplier creation and supplier items which is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more simple Disposition of parts. I would like to see more integration to current ERP tools available in the market. Not having this feature sometime creating integration problems and customer has to spend more money to buy additional software so PLM and ERP can talk to each other. I would like to see the more powerful Integration between CAD tools and Arena PLM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Arena PLM for change management and data management. The most important benefit is easy admin rules and few click to get results and multiple way to get results.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend Arena to others. I have extensive experience on Enovia, SAP, Oracle 11i and other PLM platform. I like Arena the most because of ease of use and simplicity.
Solid PLM System with Constant Evolution and Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
Arena has a clean UI with a solid backbone that enforces change management rules at a fundamental level. Every part of Arena was designed around proper change management practices and it reflects very well to easy to follow changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The overall system can be rather slow, with me waiting to click on the next item before the screen has finished loading. This is not just in large queries, but also just in item creation, supplier item creation, and swapping tabs within Arena. Additionally, there are some automation features to speed up change management, like routing lists, yet there are no systems for adding lists of people to be notified or lists to add supplier access to the change, which can become sluggish when there are 30 members from my CM that need access to each change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like with any PLM and QMS system, benefits include better quality and control of BOMs, components, and changes. As stated in what I like about Arena, the change management process and UI make it intuitive and easy to get through the system and constantly push out new changes.
Review, approve documents, conduct training in Arena
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Friendly interface. Full QMS workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to login due to server not responding
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Document control. QMS workflow.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good QMS tool
A must have tool for medical device companies
What do you like best about the product?
It keeps all our documents e.g. BOMs, drawings, and work instructions organised simply.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be more user friendly and smooth (in terms of their servers and UX).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Arena saves you a great deal of money certainly, however you do not realise this until your audit comes up.
Arena PLM system helps to manage all BOM and product ongoing changes to our vendors and CMS
What do you like best about the product?
Very good customer interface, very user friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to improve Supplier management and interface
improve change implementation management
improve change implementation management
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing product configuration and change management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to integrate with other IS
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