Arena Solutions enables small and mid-size manufacturers to deliver quality products to market on time and on budget. Arena provides a collaborative environment for centralizing, controlling and analyzing complex and constantly changing product information, including bills of materials (BOMs), part specifications and change orders.
The repository for the product record, Arena sits at the epicenter of the broader product lifecycle management (PLM) landscape, connecting with systems like CAD, EDA, PDM and ERP and linking organizations with their supply chains. With its on-demand, software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, Arena is a low-risk, rapid-return proposition that makes enterprise-class functionality available to companies that would otherwise have to contend with manual, time-consuming and error-prone product data management processes.
Founded in February 2000, Arena Solutions is headquartered in Foster City, California.
Specialties
Collaborative BOM & Change Management, Supply Chain Collaboration
Arena Solutions Company Blog
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Arena Solutions Activity on LinkedIn
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Arena Solutions Today we're taking a look at how outsourcing has changed the U.S. economy (w/a cool NYT infographic) and providing some resources for manufacturers interested in on-shoring -
Arena Solutions "I don’t think business experience is as important as you might think. We had physics backgrounds but we didn’t have any business or industry experience. We were able to pick up the business side of things as we went along. But without a physics background, picking up the technical aspects would have been much more difficult." - Sam Wurzel, co-founder of Octopart (an electronic component search engine startup.) -
Arena Solutions If you're trying to collaborate around BOM data without the PDX standard . . . this will sound familiar to you - -
Arena Solutions Are you ready to grow when the market demands it? Here are some tips for scaling your production successfully, and links to one of our most popular white papers - -
Arena Solutions Our recent series on intelligent vs. non-intelligent part numbering schemes, prompted many of you to weigh in and share your own experiences on the topic. Check out the wide variety of opinions we saw about intelligent vs. non-intelligent schemes. -
Arena Solutions If you’re part of an organization that’s scaling to production, we’ve got you covered with our scalable cloud PLM solution. But what if you’re just starting out? You need to capture and document parts, but without changes and a supply chain to manage, you may not be ready to implement a full-service solution. You may just need something that helps you design and document a prototype, or turn your parts into BOMs. -
Arena Solutions Launching a new product is a group sport. Every person in the organization can help make it a success. Check out this article for ways sales and marketing, engineering and operations contribute to new product introduction (NPI) as well as an invite to a webinar hosted by our partner, PRG. -
Arena Solutions We have some news at Arena - two new products = whole new end-to-end cloud BOM management solution! Check it out! -
Arena Solutions The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy - If the technology continues to advance at the same rate, in 10 or 20 years you might be printing a new pair of Nikes in the comfort of your own home. What do you think? Should these advances be stopped? Or are they healthy competition? -
Arena Solutions 2011 sales numbers were up, but is that enough to show recovery in manufacturing?