BionX Medical Technologies adopted Omnify Empower PLM

for the development of their next-generation product

 

Adopting Empower PLM Helps Meet Time-to-market, Compliance and Efficiency Goals to Produce World's Only Active Prosthetic Foot

 

As a small developer and manufacturer of a complex robotic prosthetic device, maintaining a paper-based document control and change control system was becoming unmanageable. The complexity of the device meant that even a small change to the product or documentation resulted in a large paper documentation package which had to be manually compiled and routed for review and approval.

 

With a major re-design project on the immediate horizon, it was essential to identify and implement a more efficient document control solution ahead of the large volume of new product design documentation that was expected. BionX wanted an electronic system that would be able to efficiently manage a multi-level product structure/Bill of Material (BOM) and engineering change orders with the ability to expand into other electronic records management such as Training Records, CAPA/Quality issues and supplier management. The system also had to meet the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance requirements for electronic records and electronic signatures.

 

"We went through a discovery process over the course of several months, evaluating about five different solutions," stated Rick Smith, Sr. Director, Quality & Regulatory for BionX Medical Technologies. "A matrix of requirements was created and the different solutions were ranked as to how well they solved our particular needs and Omnify Empower PLM was our top choice."

 

Key benefits:

• Time to market: Launched a completely overhauled product iteration from concept to sales in 15 months and on schedule
• Compliance: Electronic signatures and workflows with mandatory data requirements, ability to efficiently pull up procedure, records and approval history for external compliance audits, ISO 13485 re-certification resulting in zero non-conformances
• Efficiency: ECO cycle time reduced to less than five calendar days

 

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