Bluestar PLM for Medical Devices
Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.
Keep your designs safe, and make your organisation agile to launch innovative, and compliant medical products
Medical devices manufacturers face a myriad of challenges to successfully deliver innovative and safe products to scaled global markets while complying with quality system regulations. Obstacles include that traditional document management tools fail to manage full product records or complete Bill of Materials (BOM).
Companies having non-integrated systems of data are challenged on several levels. With CAD, PLM and ERP as stand-alone solutions, each with its own data structure, interface and capabilities to fulfill engineering, operations and manufacturing requirements respectively, your employees will bear a burden not compatible with success. To stay competitive, you need to provide a set-up of solutions that interconnect information and processes, not only across the internal enterprise and departments, but to external partners and suppliers as well. Lack of data integrity is fatal to growth.
When CAD, PLM and ERP are not fully integrated and operate as silos, corporate-wide information sharing and collaboration becomes nearly impossible. Consequentially, your business suffers delays, miss cost targets, slow change cycles and orders that end up not fulfilling customer requirements. These increased industry demands means that manufacturing companies are facing several critical challenges that are tightly connected to a deep integration between Engineering and Manufacturing.
Challenges of non-embedded PLM and ERP systems
- Manual data synchronization between the ERP, PLM and CAD systems can cause data misalignments.
- Reusing data is challenging due to time-consuming manual data transfers.
- Missing visibility in end-to-end business processes leads to non-value-added work time.
- Order fulfillments are delayed by bottlenecks causing operational performance to suffer.
- Sharing engineering data between different sites can be troublesome without a common data management system.
- Engineering change orders are executed without understanding the impact on the supply chain.
Modules for your Engineering
How Bluestar PLM benefits Medical Device Manufacturing Companies
Exemption management
Assign approved exemptions to your items, so you will know when allowances permit you to make products that otherwise go against regulations.
Compliance calculation
Bluestar Compliance is capable of automatically calculating the mass and concentration of each substance against the thresholds of specifications. When calculations are easy to perform like this, you reduce the risk of making non-compliant products.
Importing/exporting full material disclosures
Import chemical data and full material disclosure reports into Bluestar Compliance or export them to your suppliers and customers, to ensure all your partners and stakeholders are able to document compliance as they are obliged to. The data is imported automatically in a controlled manner, eliminating the need for manually mapping the data.
Alternative substance names
Any substance can easily be found in the Bluestar system, as you can search for it by both its trivial and a chemical name; i.e. lead = Pb.
Manage manufacturing items
Every manufacturing item gives you a full material disclosure with all chemical data associated with that item. Centralizes all your compliance data in one system for everyone to access.
Revision control
Revise and manage all your manufacturing items and associated data, so you will always know which is the latest version. With revisions, you can also backtrack to find out how and when errors or mistakes happened during engineering change processes.
Where-used analyses
Reveals all the manufacturing items, exemptions and specifications containing any particular substance. Makes you aware of which products and substances are affected by regulated specifications across your entire product line.
Silicon Expert integration
Seamlessly import and map reliable chemical data on manufacturing items, substances, and specifications from a Silicon Expert, which you need to follow as a compliance obligation. Saves you the effort of doing otherwise error-prone work when manually transferring data from one system to another.
Phase out products End-of-life – EOL
Define and manage the last stages of the electrical component’s life, and determine when to stop marketing, selling or reworking for sustaining the product.
Our customers gain competitive advantages
We have implemented Bluestar PLM for more than hundreds of enterprises and world-wide 10,000 users. Following implementations, we have evaluated on our customers’ user experiences and benefits achieved from having our system onboard. These evaluations have given us great examples of the results gained from Bluestar PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX.
Whitepaper
“10 Reasons Why You Need ERP-based PLM”
Learn why PLM – Product Lifecycle Management, is essential for your manufacturing company to enter Industry 4.0. By having a single solution where the PLM system is embedded in ERP, you can fully leverage product data to satisfy customer demands and deliver orders on time and within budget.
Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com