Case Study: Filtronic achieves 50% faster engineering changes and 50% faster quality resolution with Arena Solutions

Enhancing Quality and Compliance Processes With a Global, Unified System

Filtronic is a global designer and manufacturer of RF, microwave, and mmWave technologies for telecom, aerospace, defense, space, and critical-communications markets. Operating across the U.K., U.S., and China, the company struggled with a homegrown product-development tool that created design, manufacturing, and quality silos, slowed tracking and releases, and required manual, error-prone compliance and audit workflows — all while tying up internal IT and engineering resources.

Filtronic implemented Arena’s cloud PLM to centralize the complete product record, revision-controlled documentation, and multilevel BOMs, enabling real-time collaboration across global teams and remote work continuity. The unified system improved traceability between parts, procedures, and quality records, halved engineering change and quality-resolution cycle times, increased customer satisfaction, streamlined audit preparation, and accelerated time to market.

Filtronic

Richard Rushton

Quality Environmental Health and Safety Manager