The medical device sector is one of the fastest moving and most challenging sectors of manufacturing. Dealing with legal rigors, client requests, maintenance activities and scheduling simultaneously can be managed effectively through a sustainable, information-driven manufacturing improvement programme. In this article, Steven McCluskey, Medical Device Manager at EmsPT, offers a prescription for medical device manufacturers who want to improve the overall health of their systems and processes.
As up to 80% of the cost of introducing a new product can be attributed to meeting validation and compliance requirements, it makes sense for manufacturers to use manufacturing IT and operational solutions to reduce the effort and associated costs of a product launch.
The starting point for plant optimisation activities should be a sustainable, information-driven manufacturing improvement programme. The focus is to align business goals with solutions and ensure a measurable business benefit is achieved at incremental stages in the process.
EmsPT identified the solution to managing these challenges in the form of six key concepts of manufacturing operational excellence. Performance, compliance, operations, intelligence, agility and innovation are the six pillars on which all medical device manufacturing improvement should be based. By addressing each of them, businesses can bring new product innovations to market quickly and consistently whilst ensuring the highest standard of quality and reliability.
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