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Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/arena-plm-qms/reviews) # Arena PLM & QMS Features ##### ## Quality Management (4) Design Controls Ensures that the product development process stays on track and continues to meet both user and vendor needs Audit Management Prepares for, plans, manages, schedules, and conducts internal and external audits Supplier Network Management Connects suppliers with product developers with consumers Risk Management Reviews, identifies, and assesses sources of risk in research and development Show More ##### ## Quality System (4) Analytics & Reporting Collects both vendor- and customer-facing data relevant to the product development lifecycle, and generates performance and health reports Real-time Collaboration Enables real-time collaboration like automated notifications and rich editing and commenting capabilities to minimize miscommunication Document Control Automates, centralizes, and archives documents and forms to create a single source of truth Quality Processes Automates and manages processes like CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) to monitor quality and complaints and promote transparency Show More ##### ## Nonconformance (3) Conformance Records Allows users to create, track and maintain accurate, auditable conformance records. CAPA Allows users to assign tasks for corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to employees in nonconformance Change Management Allows users to submit change requests and control plan revisions at any point in the production process and track all revisions. Show More ##### ## Quality system (3) Document Control Allow users to centralize and archive documents for quality management Collaboration Allows users to collaborate in real time with editing and commenting capabilities to minimize miscommunication Analytics and Reports Allows users to collects both vendor- and customer-facing data relevant to the product development lifecycle, and generates performance and health reports Show More ##### ## Risk Management (2) Operational Risk Allows users to estimate the impact of EHS risks on the operations of the company Supplier Evaluation Allows users to evaluate suppliers using safety and environmental criteria Show More ##### ## Inspection Management (3) Templates Allows users to choose from templates for multiple types of inspections such as safety or quality Workflows Provides users with workflows to assign tasks for audit and inspections Corrective Actions Allows users to identify corrective actions to address incidents and accidents Show More ##### ## Compliance (3) Standards & Regulations Provides users with regulations to follow under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) Permits Allows users to track permits required for environmental and safety compliance Certifications Allows users to manage certifications to comply with regulations and standards Show More ##### ## Platform (4) Integration Delivers APIs and standard integrations with other software systems. Security & Privacy Complies with security and privacy regulations and standards. Mobile Access Allows users to access the software using mobile devices. Flexibility Facilitates software configuration without the need for technical experise. Show More ##### ## Services (4) Implementation Assists customes through all the phases of the implementation process. Training & Learning Provides software users with training courses and learning content. Customer Support Delivers customer and technical support, directly or trough partners. Professional Services The vendor provides consulting services such as business process reengineering. Show More ##### ## New Product Introduction (4) Ideation Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements Time-to-market Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products Cost estimating Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements Product approval Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features Show More ##### ## CAD (3) CAD Models Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems CAD Options Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE) Conversion Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM) Show More ##### ## Collaboration (4) Supplier alignment Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects Communication Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate Development Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities Document Management Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files Show More ##### ## Product Data Management (3) Product Metadata Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company Data Quality Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date Version Control Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out Show More ##### ## Bill of Materials (4) BOM management Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order Multi-level BOM Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs BOM Types Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM) BOM visualization Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment. Show More ##### ## Engineering Change Management (3) ECR Workflows Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR) Change Management Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle. ECO Management Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch Show More ##### ## Simulation (3) Virtual Testing Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics Analysis Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses Optimization Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development Show More ##### ## Analytics (3) Reporting Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle. Costing Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities Product Intelligence Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources Show More ##### ## Quality management (3) Quality planning Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle Traceability Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes Compliance Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications Show More ##### ## Integration (4) ERP Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions MES Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) PIM Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software Maintenance Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM) Show More ##### ## Generative AI (1) AI Text Summarization Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. 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