According to Swapan Jha, vice president of PLM at PTC, “Together with the USDM solution, the PTC solution enables medical device industry customers to accelerate and streamline the validation process, allowing them to reduce cost of poor quality (COPQ), improve compliance with government regulatory requirements, and improve new product introduction (NPI) cycles and performance.”
To that end, PTC’s medical device VRD includes PTC’s Windchill, optimized and preconfigured for medical device manufacturers. Additionally, the package includes “best practices” tools that can come in the form of modular web training seminars, and interactive tools like story boards, demo scripts and sample data that can be used to aid adoption of the new PLM package.
Aside from training tools, PTC’s VRD also includes a number of tools critical for product development. Those tools include computer system validation plans, system requirement specifications, validation test scripts, software validation summary reports and more.
Finally, the medical device VRD comes fully equipped with a streamlined cloud onboarding process for rapid deployment and on-premise onboarding tools for those who are looking for an in-house deployment scheme.
Currently, the PTC medical instrument VRD supports the U.S. FDA’s “Case for Quality” initiative, making it agile enough to deal with the rigors of medical product development bureaucracy. To make the software even more nimble, PTC has also decided that its medical solution can be deployed in the cloud as a software as a service (SaaS)-based product, making it easy to deploy no matter how large or small your firm may be.