Medical Device Manufacturing

Medical device manufacturers are facing shorter product lifecycles driven by intense pressure to deliver ahead of the competition, thus capturing maximum market share. In addition, regulatory requirements from government agencies worldwide continue to grow in number and complexity mandating granular traceability across the organization. Increasingly complex medical products also call for specialized skills management across distributed teams and rapid shifts in priorities to combat competitive threats. To help address these challenges formal program management offices are beginning to take shape, however a large share of project and resource managers still work in cross-functional engineering organizations. File based solutions for project and resource management are pervasive in this environment, unfortunately they provide limited benefit in this chaotic world.

To succeed in this environment the entire engineering team must be enabled via a live repository of product schedules and team allocations enabling informed decisions as work is prioritized and executed across the organization. The product schedule must distribute accountability across the entire team and provide proper visibility to key stakeholders at all levels to ensure predictable results. Ancillary organizations - product management, marketing, quality, legal, manufacturing and documentation - must also benefit from visibility and schedule participation. Each team must be empowered to manage their schedules, adjust resource / schedule priorities, react to change and collaboratively track status via role-based decision support dashboards.

CrossPoint delivers a solution that meets these demanding requirements enabled by a traditional top down or team-based bottom up implementation approach; in either case roll outs are structured to provide early wins helping to build solution momentum and advocacy while enabling successful project execution. CrossPoint provides the following solution capabilities enabling on time delivery for medical device manufacturing organizations:

• Product centric, real-time scheduling that connects diverse cross-functional teams across organizations
• Schedule visibility at all levels - portfolio, project and task - including status, issues, changes and financials
• Increased accountability via distributed plan management at program, team and individual contributor levels
• Reduce risk through early insight into potential program slippage enabled by the CrossPoint calculation engine
• Accurate forecasts for new product release schedules and resource availability using "real" project data
• Visibility to what resources are really working on - track and manage all work items: project tasks, unplanned work, action items, escalations, issues, risks, and others...
• Flexible process management supporting organizational goals and best practices - Six Sigma, ISO, lean engineering practices
• Process traceability for regulatory compliance and full audit trail
• Schedule impact analysis - assess the schedule / resource impact for changing project requirements, resources and priorities
• Self documenting projects and tasks capture full execution history, collaborations and attachments as a natural bi-product of system use
• Ease of use - CrossPoint was designed from the ground up for real-time schedule and resource management, ensuring that all users benefit from the solution with minimal administrative overhead

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