Medical Devices
Medical device manufacturers confront numerous challenges ranging from conceptualization to final product. These include compliance, product quality, managing documentation, and preventing revisions to the product. In addition to these challenges supply chain disruptions leading to delayed deliveries and production bottlenecks further intensify the challenges of a medical device manufacturer.
Leveraging digital solutions proves instrumental in overcoming these challenges. Plural Technology, with its extensive experience in delivering digital solutions proves a prudent partner and helps medical device manufacturers overcome various challenges. Here’s how our digital solutions with PLM at its center helps in implementing various technologies for the medical device manufacturing sector.
PLM
Our PLM solutions cover various aspects of a product’s lifecycle, including developing, testing, manufacturing, and maintenance. Some areas in which it proves useful include,
- Meeting a product’s regulatory needs.
- Facilitating collaboration between different departments involved in the product development process.
- Designing and developing compliant products by helping manufacturers manage design inputs, outputs, reviews, verification, and validation processes.
- Managing change control, including document management, revision control, and change approval workflows.
- Providing end-to-end traceability, enabling tracking and auditing the entire process.
- Enhancing the maintenance aspect by helping track maintenance schedules, manage service requests, and monitor device performance.
IoT
IoT proves a transformative technology by helping enhance efficiency, reduce costs and increase medical device safety. Some ways IoT proves helpful include the following.
- Help monitor performance and predict a maintenance need, thus helping manufacturers avoid costly downtime and increase system availability.
- Track raw material and finished goods movement across the manufacturing process, helping optimize inventory levels, reduce waste, and improve supply chain efficiency.
- Identify defects during the production process and thus prevent the risk of defective products reaching the market.
- Make factories more efficient and flexible. Machines connect to a central system to adjust production schedules and prioritize orders based on demand.
- Monitor worker safety in manufacturing through wearable devices to track workers' movements and alert managers during a threat situation.
AI
With allied technologies like ML, DL, and NLP, AI can enhance accuracy, increase efficiency and augment healthcare standards.
AR/VR
AR and VR help develop immersive training environments for healthcare providers and patients, enhance medical devices and UIs.
The medical device industry is undergoing rapid transformations with technology at their core. Hence, the sooner you adopt technology, the better. Plural Technology can help you expedite your journey towards adoption and integration of technologies in your offerings. Our focused strategies, years of experience, technology expertise and a comprehensive understanding of the medical device manufacturing sector qualify us as the digital transformation and technology partners to reckon with. So, choose us to give your organization the digital edge.