Life Sciences and Medical Device Industry

Life Sciences and Medical Device industry focuses on improving quality of life through better clinical outcomes. Rapid pace of scientific and technological advances have resulted in a great number of ground-breaking surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic possibilities for surgeons and patients worldwide. TCS can help you meet your business objective through our strategic, innovative and cost efficient solutions.

Client Challenges

  • Reducing time-to-market span and manage an increased product portfolio
  • Optimizing expenditure on New Product Development
  • Enhancing operational efficiencies
  • Managing supply chain complexities effectively
  • Complying with complex regulatory processes

What TCS Provides 

TCS’ Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS) has competencies across the product life cycle for life sciences and medical device industry, from concept to commercialization, manufacturing, post market surveillance to end of life management. Our key offerings are as follows:

Engineering Services: New Product Development (NPD), Mechanical Systems Design; Electro-Mechanical Design; Embedded Electronics Software; Prototyping; Plastics Engineering; Sustaining Engineering; Value Engineering; Materials Research and R&D Services.

Technology Solutions: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM); Enterprise Asset Management (EAM); Plant Automation Solutions (PAS); Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES); CAD / CAM / CAE; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Clinical Trials Support.

Manufacturing Solutions: Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence; Integrated Production Management System; Process Optimization and Analytics; Automation Solutions; Pharmaceutical Manufacturing IT Services; Plant Engineering; Strategic Sourcing.

Regulatory Compliance: FDA ‘21 CFR Part 820’ and ‘21 CFR Part 11’; EU MDD (CE); MHRA (Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency); Design Control (Class I, II and III) and Manufacturing Control; eDMR /eDHF /eDHR; CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive action); Recall Readiness; Traceability; LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System).

Business Value

  • Higher return on investment (ROI)
  • Reduced time-to-market
  • Reduced risk with compliance in New Product Introduction (NPI) and Manufacturing
  • Higher asset utilization by integrating plant layer with enterprise systems
  • Optimization of manufacturing processes leading to process improvements

Client Thoughts

“It is said that an important factor for individuals to have a successful business environment around them is to have a best friend in the workplace. Certainly I believe that my TCS team acts as a best friend when I am in need of effective and rapid response to design issues, honest and dedicated effort in engineering support, and engaged and intelligent partnership in technical problem resolution.”
-Zimmer Inc., Clive Scott, Director - Technical Services

“GSK has chosen to partner with TCS because of its strong record in knowledge process outsourcing, underpinned by operational excellence. I am confident our collaboration will benefit both partners and, most important, help to deliver new medicines to patients.” 
-GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Amber Salzman, Senior Vice President - Development Operations  

Alliances

  • SAP
  • Siemens PLM Software
  • Camstar
  • Apriso
  • Ansys
  • Dassault Systemes

Associated Products

Teamcenter for Medical Device Industry: Developed by TCS and Siemens PLM Software, it is the first fully integrated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for medical device industry. It caters to the compliance needs of the industry aligning it to FDA regulation. Teamcenter enables companies to fully trace all activities from concept to retirement by automatically linking compliance requirements with engineering and specification data. It also has a built in CAPA and complaints handling solution.

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Medical Device Industry

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