Arena PLM

Arena PLM is the cloud product-lifecycle system most hardware startups and mid-market manufacturers land on — particularly in medical device, aerospace, and high-volume electronics. The integration treats Arena as a live data source for chats, canvases, and functions: items, BOMs, change orders, quality processes, and supplier data all reachable through one credential, so the engineering-side state your team manages in Arena becomes usable from operations and manufacturing automations.

What you can do

• Pull BOM and item data into a chat — "show me the BOM for assembly X" returns the full structure with revisions, lead times, and supplier links.
• Change-order awareness — automations can flag stalled ECOs, route approvals through Teams, or notify the right engineers when an item they own gets modified.
• Quality-process integration — read CAPA, NCMR, or other quality records from Arena alongside other operational state.
• Supplier-data sync — pull supplier records for procurement workflows or status checks.
• File access — Arena's attached documents (drawings, datasheets, specs) reachable through the same credential.
• Cross-system manufacturing visibility — Arena's engineering view joined with ERP manufacturing data for the "what we designed vs what's actually running" comparison.

How to connect

API key authentication. Provide your Arena Instance URL + API Key (generated in your Arena account settings). The integration exchanges the API key for a session token on each call, transparent to the user.

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Common use cases

• ECO-stuck triage — function reads pending changes, flags ones past the SLA, pings the right engineering lead.
• BOM-vs-ERP reconciliation — daily function diffs the Arena BOM against the ERP routing, surfaces discrepancies before they cause production problems.
• Quality-trend reporting — CAPA and NCMR data joined with production output for the closed-loop quality view.

Reference

• Connection model: API key + session token exchange
• Scope: ~35 operations across items, BOMs, changes, quality, files, suppliers
• Per-instance credential — multi-tenant Arena deployments each get their own connection