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The PLM implementation provides a digital thread for managing medical device development, compliance documentation, change processes, and product data.
Sahajanand Medical Technologies Ltd. (SMT), a manufacturer of cardiovascular medical devices, has deployed Siemens Teamcenter software to establish a digital thread connecting product development, quality, and regulatory processes across its business.
Teamcenter, part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, provides SMT with a centralized environment for managing engineering, quality, and program management information. The implementation is intended to improve collaboration across teams, streamline new product development, and support compliance as the company expands into additional global healthcare markets.
Medical device manufacturers must maintain detailed records throughout the product lifecycle while managing changes across requirements, design, testing, manufacturing, and quality processes. By consolidating this information within a common PLM environment, SMT can provide teams with a controlled source of product information and improve visibility across development activities.
Connecting Product Development and Quality
SMT is using Teamcenter capabilities for collaboration, product classification, program planning, and schedule management. The implementation also includes medical device-specific functions supporting design history files, device master records, change management, and test and verification processes.
The platform provides traceability from initial product requirements and risk analysis through design, verification, manufacturing, quality, product release, and subsequent engineering changes. This can help teams identify relationships among requirements, design decisions, test results, approvals, and released product records.
The Teamcenter deployment supports several areas of SMT’s product development environment:
Centralized Product Information: Engineering, quality, and program data are managed within a shared PLM environment.
Design History Files: Product development records can be maintained and traced throughout the design lifecycle.
Device Master Records: Teams can manage the specifications and documentation needed to manufacture and maintain medical devices.
Change Management: Formal workflows support the review, approval, implementation, and traceability of product changes.
Testing and Verification: Requirements can be linked with verification activities and supporting results.
Program Planning: Project schedules, responsibilities, and development activities can be coordinated within the wider product record.
Supporting Medical Device Compliance
The implementation is intended to help SMT manage documentation and traceability requirements associated with US FDA 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485. These frameworks require medical device manufacturers to maintain controlled quality processes and documented evidence covering product design, manufacturing, verification, and change activities.
A connected digital thread can reduce dependence on disconnected documents and manual handoffs between engineering and quality teams. It can also make it easier to determine which requirements, components, test results, or regulatory records are affected when a design change occurs.
Teamcenter provides workflow controls for managing reviews and approvals while maintaining a record of decisions and revisions. This supports consistency across the product lifecycle and can help teams prepare the documentation required for internal reviews, audits, and regulatory submissions.
Establishing a Unified PLM Environment
ThinkInnov Solutions, a Siemens implementation partner, delivered the deployment, configuration, and user onboarding services. The resulting PLM environment connects SMT’s research and development and quality teams and digitizes processes from initial requirements and risk analysis through product release and change execution.
The implementation reflects the broader use of PLM as an enterprise digital backbone rather than only an engineering data repository. Connecting product, quality, program, and regulatory information can help medical device manufacturers improve cross-functional collaboration while maintaining the traceability required in a highly regulated industry.
For SMT, the deployment provides a foundation for managing increasing product and organizational complexity as the company develops cardiovascular technologies for multiple markets. It also creates a consistent product information structure that can support future process expansion and broader digital transformation initiatives.
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The SMT implementation reflects the expanding role of PLM as a digital thread connecting product development, quality, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration across regulated manufacturing environments. Related ARC Advisory Group coverage includes:
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