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Driving Transparency – How Quality Management Systems Prevent Catastrophe

August 22, 2017

We have all heard about public disasters around potential systematic disregard for quality problems in companies – from the automotive industry (think emissions tests, brake failures) to the oil &amp…

By JuliaGrainger
2 MIN READ

Digitization vs. Digital Transformation in MedTech

August 16, 2017

We hear a lot of buzzwords – Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, Digital Enterprise, Digital Twin, Virtual Factory, and so many more. We are going to focus on two here: D…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Quality Management – A Holistic Approach

August 10, 2017

Strategic quality management professionals envision a holistic solution across the entire product life cycle and supply chain that is able to

Support compliance
Detect risks and failures
Mit…

By Claudia Basso
< 1 MIN READ

Global trends for Medical Device companies – An executive view from Terumo

August 9, 2017

In a series of interviews conducted by Dan Matlis, President of analyst firm Axendia, Terumo Cardiovascular Group executives Mark Lincoln, VP Global Operations, and Chris Zarecki, Director of Manufac…

By Riccardo Consonni
3 MIN READ

Using Quality Systems to Gain Efficiency – Is that even possible?

August 3, 2017

Cost and Quality. They are often thought of as two sides in a game of “tug of war.” When one side gains traction the other loses. However, that is a very non-strategic view of how well-architected ma…

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ

Why focusing on Quality rather than Compliance makes good business sense

August 2, 2017

In medical device manufacturing, as well as other regulated industries, we have served two masters. One is the end consumer, without whom we have no business. The other is the FDA (or other regulator…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Key criteria for getting faster ROI from your QMS implementation

July 27, 2017

Hopefully you are not thinking about how to get ROI on the Quality Management System you have already decided to invest in. If you’ve made the decision to invest funds, you’ve probably already made t…

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ

Can you afford to aim for average? The cost of change in the med-tech industry

July 26, 2017

John F. Kennedy once said, “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” It is an appropriate concept for the state of the medical de…

By Riccardo Consonni
2 MIN READ

Camstar Enterprise Platform v7 is now available

July 20, 2017

We are excited to announce the latest version of the Camstar™ Enterprise Platform has been released!

Version 7 is now available. Camstar is the leading manufacturing execution system (MES) in t…

By Alessandro Cereseto
< 1 MIN READ