--- description: Discover the benefits and disadvantages of Arena PLM. Learn the software price, see the description, and read the most helpful reviews for UK business users. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Arena PLM Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra UK 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Product Lifecycle Management Software](/directory/30009/product-lifecycle-management/software) > [Arena PLM](/software/6101/arena-plm) # Arena PLM Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/6101/arena-plm Page: 1 / 6\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/6101/arena-plm?page=2) > Cloud-based PLM and QMS system that enables collaboration among dispersed teams and supply chain partners for new product development. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 116 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Arena PLM? Arena PLM caters to businesses across various industries, including high-tech electronics, consumer electronics, medical devices, life sciences, aerospace, defense, and transportation electronics. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 116 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Arena, a PTC Business - **Location**: Foster City, US - **Founded**: 2000 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Please contact Arena Solutions directly for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English, French, German, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and 2 more ## Features - Audit Management - BOM Creation - Bills of Material - Change Management - Collaboration Tools - Complaint Management - Compliance Management - Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) - Cost Tracking - Data Catalog - Design Management - Document Coding & Control - Document Management - Item Management - Lifecycle Management - Parts Management - Price and Cost Calculations - Product Lifecycle Management - Production Management - Project Management - Quality Control - Quality Management - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Requirements Management - Supplier Management - Supply Chain Management - Third-Party Integration - Third-Party Integrations - Training Management ## Integrations (16 total) - Acumatica Cloud ERP - Altium Develop - Bild - CADTALK - Dynamics 365 - Expandable - Expandable ERP - FlowEQ - Instrumental - Jira - NetSuite - Onshape - OrCAD X - Part Analytics - Sage 100 ... and 1 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Product Lifecycle Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30009/product-lifecycle-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Product Lifecycle Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30009/product-lifecycle-management/software) - [Manufacturing Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30918/manufacturing/software) - [Supply Chain Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/4/supply-chain-management/software) - [Quality Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30099/quality-management/software) - [Bill of Materials (BOM) Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/32498/bill-of-materials/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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We would then have to build out and maintain these on our own. > > It has been very positive. Arena PLM makes product management easy. ----- ### "Review from an engineering user" — 4.0/5 > **joe** | *4 June 2026* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Arena is a useful document control/management tool with a straightforward training module system. As an engineer who uses the Change Control, Items, and Project modules, Arena has a decent search interface with an evolving user interface. > > **Cons**: The usability of Arena is decent, but it's seemingly two steps forward, one step backwards. They're as likely to break a useful feature as to resolve an existing headache, but they're trending towards an ever more useful product. > > Arena is a decent product with an evolving user interface. They do listen, so be sure to send them comments/suggestions. ----- ### "I dread having to use Arena PLM." — 2.0/5 > **Dan** | *19 September 2024* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Arena PLM has a lot of functionality, so much we don't really use more than half the features. > > **Cons**: The UI is very inconsistent, with every place requiring different interactions, boxes checked to proceded, etc. The UI also does not scale so you need to scroll your browser on nearly every page to find the "save" or other button way off in the corner off the page. > > Every interaction is a frustrating experience, having to remember what to click on this page, where a secrete setting is on another. It is the least intuitive software I've used in my 30 year career, and I've had to use clunkers like SAP. I regularly lose work because I thought I was done with a workflow but there was yet another save that seemed totally redundant. Every ECO I submit is kicked back because some tiny checkbox I didn't notice wasn't selected, some files I entered defaulted to the wrong settings, some input I made wasn't saved because the UI requires to much interaction for each feature. ----- ### "A good PLM with revision control and approvals. Improvements can be made on notification and automations" — 4.0/5 > **Ankitkumar** | *29 May 2026* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The document management and approvals are intuitive. The revision control is easy to understand and work on across the organization. Timely emails about the changes and notifications on the process updates reduce time required to manage multiple processes > > **Cons**: The search could be better for individual items and lists. The results should show if the query is part of an item's name irrespective of whether it starts with it or not. Also, I think there should be some bubbles that can help understand individual buttons with org-specific information. e.g. The editions should show how my org uses it. The bubble could say, editions function as versions at XYZ to keep a single file code across revisions. > > Overall, the experience is good and satisfactory. I would like to see features to automate trackers and get notifications on new request creations or part creations irrespective of me being a part of it directly. Right now I only get notification if someone adds me to a request which rarely happens in our workflow since we have multiple people working on similar requests. ----- ### "A honest user feedback" — 5.0/5 > **fausto** | *5 June 2026* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The last updated was pretty nice, the interfase have been change in a good way. Also the documentation visualization has improve as well. > > **Cons**: I dont know about the money we paid for it, but as a eQMS it is a nice solution, but for the team the interfase is not as friendly as we can, I think the research motor could be improved and automate the salection when it's a quality record or ECO. so what I like least about arena is to look for an Quality record and manually must select quality to complete the research > > I didn't use the customer support yet, but the overall experience from customer point of view, it is a good PLM, the data management is a strenght over the competitors, but the customatization could be improved, for us it is a challenge the audit management, with more customizable features we could alignt our requirements easier. 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