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Does your Document Management System (DMS) apply the five Lean principles to the way you work?
Does your Document Management System (DMS) apply the five Lean principles to the way you work?
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Unstructured data present both a compliance risk and a missed opportunity for growing organisational knowledge...
For pharmaceutical and other life science disciplines, the ‘5Ps of GMP’ are a useful way of thinking about the...
Inadequate document review is often to blame for failure in new product development and manufacturing processe...
GMP is part of the best practice guidelines (GxP) which the FDA and other official bodies refer to in their re...
In a Lean approach to product development, customer value is defined as ‘everything the customer is prepared t...
It’s much easier to screw up a new product development process than mastermind a successful one. Here’s how.
cGxP (also known simply as GxP) is an acronym used by the FDA and other regulators within the life science ind...
Research shows one of the key challenges for life science companies is balancing the need for rapid innovation...
The outlook for many companies might be unpredictable at the moment, but access to the right document manageme...
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Managing the quality of medical products as they are stored and distributed brings with it many challenges. Di...
There are five stages of document control critical to NPD and product management. If you have the digital tool...
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The expense and effort of achieving ISO certification is sometimes regarded as excessive and onerous by SMEs -...
There are four entities defined under the EU MDR and IVDR as “economic operators”. Under the regulation, these...
Cambridge, UK, 22 May 2020: Cognidox, a leading provider of document management solutions for the high-tech, m...
A brief internet search will confidently tell you that there are anywhere between 4 and 8 stages of the ‘ideal...
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For most high tech companies, developing profitable new products is their entire reason for being.
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The third edition of ISO 14971 (Application of Risk Management to Medical Devices) was released in December 20...
Many organisations still operate without a central, shared Document Management System (DMS) that effectively m...
Cognidox’s commitment to improving usability and cross platform accessibility continues with the release of v1...
If you took a snapshot of document management around 20 years ago, the general situation was that in my indust...
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What should come first in a med tech project? Product development or documentation?
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Companies are often spurred to undertake business process mapping to improve their quality management.
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