Integration

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Integration Overview

Arena PLM tracks the items and BOMs you select, and a monitoring feature indicates when they change. You can manage your own reconciliation process, or select one of our automated integration solutions for synchronization with leading CAD, EDA, and ERP systems. Arena also offers comprehensive custom integration services to assist with project management, data mapping, or testing to support your own unique requirements.

 

Managed or automated, it’s your choice
Arena PLM puts you in control: you can perform your own reconciliation, or choose an automated solution. Whatever solution you choose, Arena supports you every step of the way with monitoring and configuration assistance. You get peace of mind from knowing which changes in Arena have been propagated to your enterprise applications—with no guesswork, no headaches, and no astronomical price tag.

 

Managed integrations
If you choose to manage your reconciliation yourself, we’ll tell you what’s changed and help you track your progress. With the built-in integration management capability of Arena PLM, you’ll be able to manage the data synchronization of multiple enterprise systems, each with its own uniquely defined administrator…download datasheet

The managed integration capability will allow you to:

• Establish an integration for each destination enterprise application.
• Track multiple items for each integration.
• Assign unique Integration Administrators to each integration.
• Review the changed data in a single view.
• Easily reconcile each update.

 

Automated integrations
We’ve also built a collection of powerful integration solutions that synchronize Arena PLM data with leading enterprise software packages. These automated solutions connect directly with your enterprise applications to ensure that Arena PLM data is properly integrated. You get accurate data transfers built on a sophisticated platform configured for you by our expert integration team.

Our available automated integration solutions include:

EDA Integration Solutions

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  Arena PLM EDA Adapter for Altium Designer^{® new}
  Arena PLM EDA Adapter for Altium Designer brings Arena PLM’s centralized product data to your engineer’s schematic design tool, so engineers can make better design decisions, maximize reuse of preferred company parts, accelerate design completion, and easily generate manufacturing-ready bills of materials (BOMs).
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  Arena PLM EDA Adapter for DxDatabook^{® revised}
  This datasheet provides an explanation of the Arena PLM integration with DxDataBook for DxDesigner, allowing design engineers to make critical design decisions, maximize part reuse, accelerate design, and produce manufacturing-ready Bills of Materials (BOMs) …download now

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  Arena PLM EDA Adapter for OrCAD^® Capture CIS^{® revised}
  The Arena PLM OrCAD Capture CIS Integration enables design engineers to quickly and accurately make critical design decisions, maximize reuse of preferred company parts, accelerate design completion, and produce manufacturing-ready Bills of Materials (BOMs) …download now

PDM Integration Solutions

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  Arena PLM Input Adapter (formerly PDM Exchange)^revised
  This datasheet provides a detailed description of the Arena PLM PDM Exchange integration solution, explaining how the two systems offer an accurate, controlled and fully electronic flow of specification data from design to manufacturing…download now

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  Arena PLM PDMWorks™ Integration^revised
  This datasheet provides a closer look at the integration between Arena PLM and PDMWorks, explaining how the two systems offer an accurate, controlled and fully electronic flow of specification data from design to manufacturing…download now

ERP Integration Solutions

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  Arena PLM ERP Integration^revised
  This datasheet provides a closer look at integrating Arena PLM with a manufacturer’s ERP or MRP system utilizing Arena PLM API Output Adapter (formerly ERP Exchange)…download now

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  Arena PLM Expandable Integration^revised
  Integrating Arena PLM with Expandable ensures accurate propagation of approved product changes to all departments that use Expandable, including materials planning and manufacturing…download now

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  Arena PLM Microsoft Dynamics® Integration^new
  Arena PLM Microsoft Dynamics ERP Integration reconciles the changes you make to your product data in Arena PLM with three of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems: AX, GP and NAV — accurately, securely, and on your schedule…download now

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  Arena PLM Oracle® Manufacturing Integration^revised
  Arena PLM Oracle ERP Integration reconciles the changes you make to your product data in Arena PLM with Oracle ERP—accurately, securely, and on your schedule…download now

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  Arena PLM QAD MFG/PRO™ Integration^revised
  This datasheet explains how Arena PLM integrates with the QAD MFG/PRO ERP system and reviews the capabilities and benefits of this turnkey solution…download now

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  Arena PLM SAGE MAS90™ / MAS200™ Integration^new
  This datasheet explains how Arena PLM integrates with the SAGE MAS90/MAS200 ERP systems and reviews the capabilities and benefits of this turnkey solution…download now

Don’t see the integration you’re looking for? Just contact us, we have a network of partners that can build an adapter specific to your needs, and we’re continually adding to our supported integrations—all part of our continuous innovation.

 

Instant visibility into your
integration progress
Whether you choose managed or automated integration, the Integration Monitoring & Management tool tracks the items you specify and indicates when the data has been changed in Arena PLM. You can track changes to inventory disposition notes, specifications (including custom attributes), BOMs, and sourcing information. You get a clear list of accumulating changes, updated on the fly, so you know instantly what data is waiting to be reconciled.

 

Status at a glance
Arena gives you an extra level of visibility into the status of your integration system: the Integration Monitoring & Management tool—right on your Arena Dashboard. This module uses a straightforward, color-coded system to show you whether your automated synchronization is completely up to date, has queued changes to be reconciled, needs your attention, or has been disabled. From your Dashboard, you can access the list of changed data that has been queued, and if you need to, you can access the Integration Maintenance Tool for more in-depth information.

 

Integration Services make it easy
Arena’s team of experts and partners has assisted with hundreds of integration projects. If you need assistance with integration tasks like project management, data mapping, or testing, our Integration Services team is ready to help…learn more

 

Expandable is a registered trademark of Expandable Software, Inc. Great Plains is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. MFG/PRO is a registered trademark of QAD. PDMWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Pro/INTRALINK is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation. OrCAD is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. DxDataBook is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation.