Data Panda brings your Arena PLM data together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn it into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your team uses every day.
Arena is a cloud PLM and QMS platform built for hardware companies, with a strong base in medical devices, aerospace, high-tech and electric vehicles. The product runs in a multi-tenant cloud and is owned by PTC since 2021. Customers like Rivian, Nutanix and Sonos sit alongside hundreds of medtech and industrial OEMs that need design controls, an audit trail and a closed-loop quality process from one tool.
Inside Arena you find items, bills of materials, engineering change orders, AMLs, requirements, supplier records, training records, CAPAs and the documents that go with them. For regulated buyers, that includes the device master record, the design history file and the SOPs that auditors ask for. The interesting question in a warehouse is not what is inside Arena. It is whether the BOM in Arena, the routing in your ERP, the part on the supplier portal and the change that shipped on the line still tell the same story.
BOM accuracy, change cycle time and quality trends beyond what the Arena dashboard shows.
Keep ERP, supplier portals and the shop floor in step with what Arena already approved.
Use the structured change and quality history to draft, classify and pre-fill faster.
Small tools on top of Arena for people who should not need a PLM seat to do their job.
A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on Arena PLM data. Pick the one that matches your situation.
Is the BOM the line is building the BOM Arena released?
Arena items, revisions and BOM lines are joined to the ERP item master, the routing and the production order in the warehouse. Mismatches between the released revision in Arena and the rev being consumed on the work order surface as a report, so the discussion in the production meeting is grounded in data instead of in who emailed who last.
Where are our change orders losing days?
Each ECO has a queue history: who held it, for how long, on which board. The cycle-time report breaks the days down by reviewer step and by product line, so you can see whether the bottleneck is engineering review, quality sign-off or supplier confirmation rather than guessing.
Are we audit-ready on training and SOPs right now?
Training records and SOP revisions in Arena are joined to the role assignments in your HR system. The dashboard shows percent trained on the current revision per role and per site, plus the gap list the auditor will ask for, so a notified-body visit does not start with a panic export.
Cost roll-ups in Arena and actual landed cost in the ERP get reconciled per top-level assembly. Margin surprises on a build-to-order quote stop being a surprise, and standard cost stays close to reality on the parts the business sells.
Field engineering and account managers see released revisions, open ECOs and known issues for the products their customers run. Renewal and quote conversations no longer rely on a screenshot pulled out of Arena the night before.
Supply chain, manufacturing and quality leads share one view of BOM accuracy, supplier quality and CAPA backlog. The escalation list at the weekly production meeting is built from the warehouse, not from three separate exports stitched together in Excel.
Released items, current revisions and open change orders from Arena are joined to the products on Salesforce opportunities and installed-base records. Account managers see which customers run which revision, and field engineering gets a heads-up when an ECO touches a part that sits in a customer environment.
CAPAs and NCRs from Arena that match the products on HubSpot tickets surface alongside the case. Support agents see whether a complaint is already a known nonconformance, and the quality team gets a feed of customer-facing symptoms to triage against the existing CAPA backlog.
New-product-introduction items in monday.com are kept in step with the project, item and change records in Arena. When an ECO releases or a milestone closes, the monday board updates without somebody copying status across, and the NPI status review is built on the same data as the engineering log.
Released Arena items and BOM structures land as item records and bill-of-material lines in Exact Online, with revision and effectivity tracked. Production planning and purchasing work from the same revision the engineering team released, instead of a CSV that was current last week.
Arena items, AMLs and released BOMs feed the item card, vendor item record and production BOM in Business Central. Cost roll-ups, replacement parts and supplier choices stay in step with the engineering decision, and any drift between the two is visible as a warehouse report instead of a month-end surprise.
ECO state changes, CAPA escalations and supplier-affecting releases from Arena are routed into the Slack channels of the teams that own them. Engineering, quality and supply chain see the events that need a response in the same place they already work, with a deep link back to the Arena record.
You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your Arena PLM data lives.
OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.
Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.
We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.
We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.
Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.
We build the whole thing, end to end.
Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.
You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.
Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.
No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.
We connect to Arena's REST API and pull the standard objects Arena documents: items, item revisions, BOMs, AMLs, change orders, change requests, requirements, training plans, training records, quality records (NCRs and CAPAs), suppliers and the documents attached to them. Incremental pulls use the modified-since filter on items and changes, so the warehouse is not re-reading the full catalogue on every run.
Yes. Each item carries its revision history and the effectivity dates from the change orders that released it, and BOM lines are stored against the parent revision they belong to. That means a report can ask which BOM was effective on a given date, not just what the current BOM looks like, which is what auditors and field-failure investigations need.
No. Arena remains the system of record for electronic signatures, change-order approvals and the controlled audit trail. The warehouse is a read-only copy: it carries the audit-trail fields Arena exposes through the API, but signatures and approvals are still done in Arena. Reports cite the Arena record id so an auditor can always trace a number back to the source.
We review your Arena PLM setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.