Medical Technology
The medical technology industry is facing major changes due to changing markets and regulations
Safe and high-quality medical devices form the foundation for first-class medical care for patients. Current and future technologies, increasing regulatory requirements and changing market environments are just some of the challenges that medical device manufacturers are facing. With our industry and technical expertise, we help our customers meet these challenges.
Together, we realize regulatory compliance while improving business efficiency. This helps to gain a better understanding of customers and align products more closely with market needs and patients.
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How do we help our customers in medical technology?
Development
The development of medical products is driven by future market trends, increasing pressure on margins and a shorter time-to-market. The goal here is to build IoMT ecosystems in which the boundaries between medical and non-medical products become blurred. In this context, developing new innovative products means rethinking development. Together with our customers, we implement both product-related topics, such as interfaces for interoperability and artificial intelligence, and the methodological and system-side frameworks, such as systems engineering and product lifecycle management. In doing so, we reduce the increasing complexity of products and product systems.
Operations & IT
Medical technology companies are often confronted with structures that have grown throughout the past decades. These were created in times of high margins and the accompanying lack of pressure to modernize production. Companies that are now undergoing change require a holistic transformation plan in digitalization, organization and culture that must be implemented in harmony with operations. In addition to cost savings and efficiency improvements through process adjustments and modernized IT systems, an important lever lies in the area of production. Guaranteed rapid success comes from a combination of transferring technologies that have been established across industries and a holistic change management approach.
Quality & Regulatory
Medical device manufacturers are being confronted with globalized markets as well as the regulatory requirements associated with them in each market. This is accompanied by increasing requirements for traceability upstream and downstream at the product level. In many cases, meeting these requirements leads to internal overregulation of processes, which are mostly performed manually.
These challenges can be mastered by efficiency-driven, business-oriented processes which should be supported at the appropriate stages by using digital tools (Quality IT).
Product and Market Strategy
Increasingly, users of medical products expect shorter supply cycles as well as physical products that are digitally enhanced. Accordingly, the product portfolio of tomorrow requires a departure from the traditional product-oriented mindset.
Instead, the orientation of the product portfolio should be offered across different manufacturers by realizing use cases from a combination of physical and digital medical products, as well as non-medical products. The associated processes, including interconnecting marketing, R&D and business units, form the basis for positioning innovative use cases in the market successfully.
