\u201cThe sooner, the better\u201d may be the best answer to the question of\nwhen medical device and diagnostics manufacturers should digitalize their\noperations \u2014 both because of a rapid return on investment (ROI) and because\ndigital technologies will be paying dividends well into the future. Benefits of\ndigitalization will be considerable for med-tech companies in particular, given\nthe demands of today\u2019s healthcare marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital technologies can turn healthcare market pressures into\nmarket opportunities, empowering you to keep up with, or even leapfrog, the\ncompetition. This is especially true of those technologies that handle the\ncentral functions of Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) \u2014 what we call\nthe \u201cdigital brain\u201d of manufacturing and quality operations. Here are some key\nbenefits to med-tech companies that invest in and implement MOM digital\nsolutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benefit #1: Paperless Manufacturing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Far beyond good environmental stewardship and sustainability, going\npaperless on the medical device manufacturing floor means digital accessibility\nto information critical to any and all stakeholders in the value chain. Instead\nof fumbling through files and flipping through pages to follow work\ninstructions, your production team will click the \u201cNext\u201d button on a tablet.\nInstead of filling warehouses with product documentation that must be\nmaintained for many years (leaving you vulnerable to paper risk), your\noperations team will upload automatically populated documents to digital\nstorage \u2014 and anyone wishing to access that information will find what they are\nlooking for with a few keystrokes. Paperless manufacturing means that med-tech\ncompanies will be able to shift from managing dumb documents to managing product\nquality and operational efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefit #2: Compliance as a Byproduct of Quality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other\nregulators shifting to a focus on quality over compliance, integrated MOM\nsolutions enable manufacturers to do likewise. A MOM system automatically\ncontrols the manufacturing environment according to product and process\ndefinitions, while simultaneously collecting as-built data. Opportunities for\nerrors, non-conformance events and field failures are dramatically reduced, and\ncompliance becomes a byproduct of a digitally controlled process. Managing\ninspections is greatly simplified with technology solutions that provide rich,\ntimely and accurate data, reducing the time and overhead of producing\ndocumented evidence. And manufacturers can leverage their MOM solution to\nautomatically create electronic device history records (eDHR), accelerating\ntheir ability to respond to compliance concerns and more intelligently prevent\nquality issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefit #3: Closed Loop Cycles of Virtue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By feeding actual product, production and performance data back to\nthe Digital Twins generated and utilized during design and development,\nmanufacturers benefit from a \u201cClosed-loop Manufacturing\u201d (CLM) system centered\non MOM technology. CLM enables you to compare the predicted performance of a\nproduct or manufacturing process with actual performance. Based on insights\ngained in this comparison, you can make rapid adjustments in device design and\nmanufacturing processes engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shorter commissioning and validation times, increased process\nreliability and product quality are the outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefit #4: New Production Efficiencies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Though greater efficiency results from other benefits listed here, it\nalso stands on its own as a key benefit to consider as you decide upon the\nsteps in your digitalization journey. An integrated MOM solution knows what\nresources are on local production lines and can optimize production based on\nmanufacturing orders. It also makes manufacturing intelligence available so you\ncan understand key performance indicators (KPIs) such as overall equipment\nefficiency (OEE), utilization, throughput, rework and scrap, and more. MOM\ntechnology will help to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefit #5: Insights from Contextualized Data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With digital sources increasing exponentially all along the med-tech value chain, Big Data is readily available to help manufacturers identify factors that affect production costs and quality. But \u201cavailable\u201d is not that same as \u201caccessible\u201d or \u201cuseful.\u201d For medical device companies wanting to leverage this pool of data to their benefit, MOM technology is indispensable. It can contextualize data from various functions and sources and synthesize it into global performance reviews. Large volumes of real-world data (RWD) are also being generated to monitor medical devices as they are used by clinicians and patients. Digital solutions that capture learning from the real world and integrate it with data from other relevant sources can create new dimensions of predictive insights for decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDA recently determined that 54% of\nproduct recalls in the years 2013 to 2016 were caused by preventable errors\nassociated with manufacturing controls in the production process. An effective\nMOM system anticipates and enables prevention of these recalls. This single\nbenefit more than justifies your investment in MOM technology; and all the\nbenefits covered here build a compelling case for MOM: the sooner, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe sooner, the better\u201d may be the best answer to the question of when medical device and diagnostics manufacturers should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29114,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[173,265,119,288,287,56],"industry":[196,225],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-resources","tag-diagnostics","tag-digital-transformation","tag-digitalization","tag-manufacturing-execution-system-mes","tag-manufacturing-operations-management-mom","tag-smart-manufacturing","industry-consumer-products-retail","industry-medical-devices-pharmaceuticals"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/Siemens-PLM-medical-device-5600x3738-V4-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}