Arena Solutions Announces Winter ’09 Release
 FOSTER
CITY, CA,
Feb 4, 2009 - Arena Solutions, a provider of on-demand software that helps
small and mid-size manufacturers manage their complex and constantly
changing product record, today announced it will go live with its new Arena
Winter ’09 release on Sunday, February 15, 2009. With more than 30 new
enhancements—including the new Arena-SolidWorks Integration—the Winter ’09
release strengthens the position of Arena as the central hub of the product
development process, connecting with systems like CAD, EDA, PDM and ERP, and
simplifying how product information is shared across organizations and
throughout the supply chain, without imposing overhead, demanding changes in
workflow or requiring heavy investments in consulting and customization.
The new integration enables engineers to access and update the latest
product information in Arena—and share updates with key stakeholders in
engineering, operations, purchasing, quality, contract manufacturing and the
supply chain—without having to leave the SolidWorks design environment. From
within the SolidWorks application, for example, engineers can now assign new
intelligent part numbers and link SolidWorks parts, assemblies,
configurations or drawings to new or existing Arena items. They also can
update linked Arena items with information from SolidWorks properties. Using
the Arena-SolidWorks Integration, these manufacturers can reduce the risk of
product record disparity, make earlier and better-informed decisions, avoid
scrap and rework and significantly improve productivity by streamlining the
hand-off of important product information.
“SolidWorks and Arena are both critical to our business’s success, and
this integration is like a marriage of two best-of-breed systems. As a new
Arena customer, we’re excited to use the integration from the start, to make
sure our data is in order from day one,” said Todd DeVore, director of
product development and quality at AcuTemp Thermal Systems, which delivers
high-performance temperature management solutions for the pharmaceutical,
biomedical and logistics markets. “Anything that promises to reduce time
spent doing manual, error-prone and time-consuming data entry and that,
frankly, lets our engineers be engineers, will be embraced by users and will
have tangible benefits for our counterparts in operations and the
organization as a whole. We believe that will certainly have a positive
impact on us getting our products to market on time and on budget.”
“A tool like Arena is most effective when high-quality data is fed into
it—after all, that’s the data that operations teams use to get their
products to market. If their engineering counterparts are reluctant to enter
design and change information—because doing so would require double work—the
whole system breaks down,” said Marc Escobosa, vice president of product
design at Arena Solutions. “By letting engineers enter information one time,
in one place, from within the SolidWorks design environment where they spend
all of their time, the Arena-SolidWorks Integration goes a long way toward
removing the roadblocks to a clean, complete, up-to-date product record.”
On Thursday, February 5, 2009, from 10 to 11 a.m. Pacific, Arena
Solutions will host a one-hour webcast to demonstrate how the Winter ’09
release, with the new Arena-SolidWorks Integration, helps companies meet and
exceed their time, cost and quality objectives when bringing products to
market. Registration, which is required for all attendees, is currently
underway at
http://www.arenasolutions.com/winter09.
In addition, Arena Solutions will be demonstrating the new Winter ’09
release of Arena software and the Arena-SolidWorks Integration at the
SolidWorks World 2009 Conference, February 8-11, 2009 in Orlando, Fla. Show
attendees can come to the Arena booth (#305) to learn more about how Arena,
in conjunction with SolidWorks software, simplifies how product information
is shared across organizations and throughout the supply chain. Along with
software demonstrations, Arena experts, who have helped hundreds of
manufacturers improve the way they bring products to market, will conduct
complimentary 20-minute, one-on-one business process improvement
consultations.
Each session will center on the individual’s company’s particular
challenges and offer concrete advice about how to solve pressing product
development issues and transform internal and external product
communications. Space is limited and consultation appointments must be
booked in advance by emailing Sheryl Johnson at
sjohnson@arenasolutions.com
with your name, title, company name, industry and the product development
challenges you wish to discuss. Arena will respond to arrange individual
appointment times. For those not attending the conference, Arena will also
schedule a limited number of complimentary telephone consultations on a
first-come, first-served basis.
About Arena Solutions
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 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.
For more information, visit
www.arenasolutions.com.
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