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Arena Helps Power IoT Revolution

More than 100 Companies Already Use Arena's cloud-based PLM to Speed Time to Market, Reduce Cost and Enhance their Product Quality

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Dec. 9, 2015 — (PRNewswire) —  Arena Solutions, the pioneer of cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) applications, today highlighted how more than 100 customers are already using Arena PLM for creating, designing and manufacturing of products that incorporate Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.

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IoT is an explosive technology megatrend in which previously unconnected devices are being connected to the Internet with fixed IP addresses — all without human intervention — so they can send data to and interact with a central database and, sometimes, with one another. Product companies of all stripes are only just beginning to tap the vast potential of IoT, embedding sensors in everything from medical devices to home appliances and clothes.

But it's no simple task to add IoT capability to products, especially for products that previously had no embedded electronics at all, and the pressure is growing to release them quickly. In an environment where components are changing fast and engineers are integrating entirely new systems into product designs, as the volume of new IoT devices increases, so have product launch failure rates.

To remain competitive and release IoT capable products on time, companies must:

Increasingly, technology, consumer electronics and medical device companies are turning to Arena PLM, a cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, to speed time to market, reduce costs and optimize their supply chain as they improve quality on complex electronics which have a high mix and high rates of change.  More than 100 innovative IoT companies such as Fitbit, Pebble and GoPro already rely on Arena, and more are turning to Arena every day.

For example, these two IoT companies are among the more than 100 who are benefiting from using Arena PLM:

"Arena allowed us to move from email chains and Excel spreadsheets to a centralized, common picture of our bill of materials," said Joe Burnette, product manager at i4c Innovations. "I greatly appreciate the plug-and-play ability of a cloud-based app."

"It just works," said Gary Howard, director of hardware development at Totus. "Product transitions and life cycle evolutions are continuous. Arena keeps it all accurate and documented."

"The Internet of Things represents a tectonic shift for new product possibilities in nascent and moribund enterprises alike.  Those who do not draft this movement's momentum and investigate how PLM can greatly enhance their ability to release high-quality products faster in this newfound and more complex world do so at their own peril," said Kent Killmer, vice president of marketing at Arena. "With Arena's cloud-based PLM, organizations can incorporate IoT into their products, reducing cost, improving quality and collapsing time to market." 

For more information on IoT and Arena PLM, download the whitepaper, " Secrets to Success in the Hot IoT Space."

About Arena Solutions
Pioneer of cloud-based PLM, Arena's suite of PLM and supply chain solutions enable engineering, manufacturing and their extended supply chains to speed prototyping, reduce scrap, streamline their supply chain, improve margins, and collapse time to market. Based in Foster City, Calif., Arena's PLM applications simplify bill of materials (BOM) and change management for organizations of all sizes, and the company has been ranked as a Top 10 PLM provider and Top 5 Supplier Collaboration solution. Arena also holds a spot on National Association for Business Resources' "San Francisco's Best & Brightest Companies to Work For" List for 2015. For more information, please visit: http://www.arenasolutions.com/ 

To learn more about Arena Solutions:

Visit the Arena Solutions website.
Read the Arena blog on product design, development and manufacturing.
Follow @arenasolutions on Twitter.
Follow Arena on LinkedIn.

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