Arena Connector
Empower manufacturing engineers to design newly manufactured parts and modify existing parts inside Arena by PTC. Manage engineering changes for the full product record and engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, software, packaging, and documentation with supply chain collaboration, regulatory compliance, and quality management.
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Streamline Manufacturing Product Release and Revision Processes
Engineers live inside engineering design applications like Arena by PTC. Access to manufacturing bill of material, item, and vendor data inside the ERP system is crucial for product design and revisions. Acumatica for Arena Native Connector synchronises pre-production engineering bills of material, revisions, and items from Arena to Acumatica. Manage the entire product lifecycle inside Arena’s cloud-based platform with native connectivity to generate manufacturing bills of material inside Acumatica.
Expedite the Engineering to Manufacturing Hand-off with Connected Product Lifecycle Management
Acumatica for Arena Native Connector enables manufacturing engineers to design newly manufactured parts and modify existing parts inside Arena. Manage engineering changes for the full product record and engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, software, packaging, and documentation with supply chain collaboration, regulatory compliance, and quality management. Connectivity eliminates duplicate data entry preserving user-defined attributes for items between applications.
About PTC
PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it.
We were running blind before. Now, we can see volume, location, type of product, and managers can prepare and put new orders into the production schedule.
–Tim Patton, ICT Director, SAM
Resource Capacity
Use rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) to plan, monitor, and manage work centre, machine, tool, and labour capacity. Finite scheduling considers operation durations based on crew sizes and labour efficiency.
Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)
RCCP schedules open production orders against finite capacity constraints. Optionally, the orders selected can be released. Orders are loaded and scheduled in sequence based on priority, constraint dates, and production order numbers. The availability of material is considered including supply orders such as purchase orders, transfer orders, or component production orders. Planners may exclude planning orders from RCCP to focus only on actual production orders.
Capable to Promise (CTP)
Use Advanced Planning and Scheduling to determine how many units of an item will be available by a specified date or calculate availability dates for a quantity of items based on finite capacity constraints, material availability, and vendor lead times.
Dispatch Lists
Utilize work centre and machine dispatch reports for a clear view of scheduled production orders and operations. View reports identifying required resources for scheduled production orders.
Visual Schedule Board
Visualise your production schedule with a graphical view of production order schedules by work centre and machine. Visual scheduling enables users to view scheduled operations against work centres and machines for individual production orders or all orders simultaneously.
Firm Schedules
Firm schedules to lock in planned production operations for work centres and machines.
Scheduling Utilities
Use filters to locate production orders by sales order, scheduling status, and other criteria. Identify work centre and machine capacity with built-in histograms. The color-coded schedule makes it easy to identify production orders and operations.
Queue, Finish, and Move Time
Improve scheduling precision by defining finish, move, and queue times for manufacturing operations that require cooling, drying, movement to upstream operations (such as outsourced manufacturing services), and other expected non-production scheduling time.
Scheduling Changes
Adjust constraint dates and priorities and firm schedules from the visual schedule board.
Real-Time Insights
Gain insights into production schedules with real-time data from the shop floor feeding role-based dashboards, live Generic Inquiries, and actionable Business Events for push notifications when scheduling issues require immediate action.