Industry: Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Good news for MedTech manufacturers: Siemens MES positioned as Leader by Gartner

Siemens has been named by Gartner, Inc. as a “Leader” in its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems/Manufacturing Operations Management (MES/MOM).

Why is that good news fo…

Medical Device Manufacturing: Today’s Approach to the 5Ms of Manufacturing

Pressure has never been greater for medical device manufacturers. The introduction of new products, accelerated clearance processes, and the ability to efficiently run new manufacturing activities in…

Controlling the 5Ms in Medical Device Manufacturing | Automating Product Quality

This is a fundamental truth in manufacturing: delivering quality products means controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you are in medical device manufa…

Beyond the 5Ms | Part 6: Additional benefits of modern MES

In this blog series, we got back to basics for manufacturers. Delivering product quality is still rooted in controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. However…

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 5 – Method

There are some basic tenets of manufacturing that we’ve been reviewing in this blog series. Control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method – is critical for creatin…

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 4 – Measure

In this blog series, we’ve been getting back to basics. Product quality is rooted in the control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you get those right, you…

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 3 – Machine

This blog series continues as we discuss the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. Part 3 focuses on control of machines.
In the previous blogs, we said that the p…

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 2 – Man

In the first part of our blog in this series, we made the observation that, despite the environment of change we see in the manufacturing industry today, some things always stay the same. Like the ba…