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 organisations with their supply chains.

Overview of Arena
Arena gets products to market on time, within budget by giving small to mid-sized manufacturers a collaborative environment for centralising, controlling and analysing complex and constantly changing product information.

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

Arena enables companies to effectively manage product information across the product lifecycle and selectively share it with design partners, component suppliers and outsourced manufacturers.

Business Benefits of Arena
Arena enables you to:

• accelerate new product introduction (NPI) by up to 50%
• reduce change cycle times by up to 70%
• reduce outsourcing, product and development costs
• reduce scrap and rework costs
• achieve quality and regulatory requirements 
• reduce compliance costs

Key Features of Arena
Functionality includes:

• Bill of materials (BOM) management
• Change management (ECO, ECR, MCO, CAR)
• File and document management
• Cost management
• Design and supply chain collaboration
• Compliance management (FDA, UL, CE, ISO9000)
• Project collaboration
• Integration (CAD, EDA, PDM, ERP)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)

Key Differentiators of Arena

• Quick return on investment (ROI)
• Low cost
• Fast start
• Scalable subscription pricing
• Secure access via web
• No hardware or software needed (SaaS)
• Global supplier and contract manufacturer collaboration
• Robust integrations

Who could Benefit?

• Engineers & Designers - coordinate and manage product information more effectively.
• Product Managers - collaborate with the extended enterprise across the product lifecycle.
• Operations & Quality - single version of the truth for supply chain control.
• Executives - visibility into costs, schedules, and progress for new product success.  

Why Arena?
Why spend months (and $) with PLM software implementation?  Arena provides a ready-to-use application as a secure software as a service (SaaS). Its innovative on-demand technology enables extended product teams to interact transparently with each other regardless of geographic or organisational boundaries. Other than a commercial web browser and an internet connection, Arena requires no software or IT infrastructure. It is a ready-to-use application delivered as a service over the web. Go live with your own data within days.

Why Matrix?
Matrix offers extensive expertise and experience with product lifecycle management and design applications, as well as information engineering and general IT to ensure you realise a fast and effective implementation of a PLM solution.  Matrix offers needs analysis, implementation and ongoing support for your Arena solution.  

Customer Success
There are many satisfied Arena customers in Australia and New Zealand. Browse the case study section on the right hand column for more details.

More information
For more information visit the Arena website.  Stay current with news, customer success and updates by subscribing to the PLM newsletter in the News section.

Browse the other information on the right hand column, and visit the Matrix Solutions page for PDM/PLM.

Contact Matrix or Request More Information at any time and Matrix will listen to and respond to your needs.