Application Lifecycle Management

Polarion for Medical Devices

Accelerate Medical Device Innovation and Automate Proof of Compliance.

Software has become the key differentiator for manufacturers of medical devices.

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  • Enhance efficiency with AI-Driven Requirements Management
  • Achieve proof of compliance, faster
  • Automate risk management and compliance
  • Quick-Start with automated industry processes
  • Synchronize collaboration in real time
  • Automate your validation and verification (V&V)

Enhancing Efficiency in Polarion with AI-Driven Requirements Management

blog by Denis Liwoch

Requirements management is one of the most complex and error-prone aspects of project development. Without the right toolchain, teams struggle with inconsistencies, missing traceability, and inefficient handling of requirements updates. Extracting relevant requirements from incoming RFQs, tenders, or contracts is a tedious and time-consuming process – one that is challenging to every organization.

The solution, AI-powered requirements management in Polarion – a breakthrough that streamlines the entire process. AI-driven automation ensures seamless requirement extraction, intelligent mapping, and automated tracking, reducing manual efforts and significantly improving project estimation.

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Speed up time-to-market for Medical device innovation

Developing medical devices is a complex and highly regulated process. Managing requirements, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance with industry standards requires a solution that can handle the complexity while keeping the team focused on innovation.

Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Polarion™ platform offers a next-generation approach to medical device design control. It’s built to streamline process management, with live-linked, multidimensional data that ensures all key project relationships are established once—letting your team focus on advancing the product, not paperwork.

Explore our white paper to dive deeper into how Polarion™ helps overcome the limitations of traditional tools, offering a smarter way to navigate the challenges of medical device manufacturing.

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Digitalizing Lifecycle Processes

The field of medical technology stands out worldwide as a beacon of innovation. However, its progress is frequently impeded by burdensome regulatory demands. 

Within Europe, the Medtech industry is witnessing a downturn in creativity due to complicated regulatory frameworks governing medical devices (MDR/IVDR) and slow adoption of digitalization, coupled with underutilization of data. Demonstrating regulatory compliance through technical documentation is pivotal for medical device manufacturers, yet navigating through the product development process and its various interfaces can overwhelm them.

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  • Speed up documentation creation and regulatory process compliance
  • Enable easy reuse of information in different processes and document and more

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Accelerate Medical Device Innovation and Automate Proof of Compliance

Software has become the key differentiator for manufacturers of medical devices. There are countless opportunities for software innovation but are counterbalanced by stringent quality requirements, risks of product failure, and growing regulatory complexities.

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Achieve Proof of Compliance, Faster

Bridge the gap between fast-paced development, complex quality assurance, and cumbersome proof of compliance.

Siemens PLM Software’s knowledge of industry standards combined with unified Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities help accelerate innovation for our medical customers, while streamlining quality assurance and automating proof of compliance.

Solution Highlights

Automate Risk Management and Compliance

  • Workflow control of individual work items enables streamlined, interdependent processes
  • Linking of work items delivers full traceability throughout the lifecycle and across projects
  • Comprehensive, automated history of all artifacts facilitates proof of compliance - Integrate risk management processes leveraging the ISO 14971 Template


Quick-Start with Automated Industry Processes

  • Proven medical processes including the above customizable templates help get your started
  • Automated workflow control includes routing, approval and escalation
  • Support for unlimited, fully linked variants speeds up development


Synchronize Collaboration In Real Time

  • Centralized 100% browser-based tool drives real-time collaboration
  • Online “easy-as-Word” authoring speeds up adoption
  • Polarion Round-trip™ for Microsoft® Word/Excel® smooths external exchange
  • Native RIF/ReqIF exchange with IBM® Rational® DOORS® etc. connects specialists


Automate Your Validation and Verification (V&V):
V&V is supported via comprehensive traceability, automated forensic-level accountability, and real-time reporting throughout the lifecycle as well as across projects.

Furthermore, it is supported via review and approval of any work item with electronic signature, combined with uninterrupted traceability starting at the design phase.

Benefits for Development Managers

Unlock Complexity and Streamline Processes

  • Get started quickly using Polarion work items and workflows and intuitively customize them to reflect unique company processes
  • Enforce workflows in the product development process using the sophisticated rules engine
  • Seamlessly integrate ISO standards and SOP requirements into product requirements
  • Manage QMS documents in Polarion for full traceability and easy proof of compliance
  • Leverage generic Medical Device traceability tables

Automate Proof of Compliance

  • Leverage Polarion’s compliant electronic signature functionality for FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Fully integrate company product design controls
  • Easily set up automated traceability across design, manufacturing, and testing
  • Plan user management and improve release predictability

Extend and Reuse Your Work

  • Integrate Requirements with Verification and Validation (Design V&V) processes
  • Drive requirements into Manufacturing
  • Integrate the design Master Validation Plan
  • Execute flawless design transfer
  • Accelerate external exchanges with Polarion Round-trip™ and native RIF/ReqIF

Benefits for Quality Manager

Automate Proof of Medical Device Compliance

  • Leverage Polarion’s compliant electronic signature functionality for FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Full integration of company product design controls
  • Very specific requirements traceability including integration with design, manufacturing, and testing traceability
  • Predictable user management and integrated workflows

Create and Manage your company SOPs in Polarion

  • Quickly construct a QMS traceability table
  • Easily integrate SOP requirements with product requirements
  • Benefit from managing all QMS documents in Polarion for multi-directional traceability
  • Effectively plan for and manage internal audits

Help your development group manage complexity

  • Integrate ISO standards with product requirements
  • Establish a Medical Device comprehensive traceability table
  • Easily enforce workflows in the product development process

Extend and Reuse Your Work

  • Integrate Requirements with Verification and Validation (Design V&V) processes
  • Drive requirements into Manufacturing
  • Integrate the design Master Validation Plan
  • Execute flawless design transfer
  • Accelerate external exchanges with Polarion Round-trip™ and native RIF/ReqIF

ALM Benefits

Polarion ALM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. Everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. This helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demand.

Immediate Benefits and Value

  • Unlock synergies across all collaborators with 100% browser-based access to a single data source
  • Increase productivity with intuitive and role-based user interface
  • Achieve better quality and regulatory compliance through end-to-end traceability and automated audit trails
  • Adopt modern agile techniques at once or incrementally with out of the box project templates that can be adjusted to your needs
  • Optimize planning, prioritization and release predictability via flexible planning and real-time reporting


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