Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals - Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Medical Device Manufacturing: Today’s Approach to the 5Ms of Manufacturing

December 20, 2017

Pressure has never been greater for medical device manufacturers. The introduction of new products, accelerated clearance processes, and the ability to efficiently run new manufacturing activities in...

By Riccardo Consonni

Controlling the 5Ms in Medical Device Manufacturing | Automating Product Quality

December 06, 2017

This is a fundamental truth in manufacturing: delivering quality products means controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you are in medical device manufa...

By Riccardo Consonni

Siemens PLM joining LyoHUB (Advanced Lyophilization Technology Hub)

November 21, 2017

As an effect of globalization, the patent life of newly discovered drugs has decreased considerably, forcing manufacturers to minimize drug development time as well as maximize throughput. To achieve...

By Kristian Debus

Beyond the 5Ms | Part 6: Additional benefits of modern MES

November 15, 2017

In this blog series, we got back to basics for manufacturers. Delivering product quality is still rooted in controlling the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. However...

By Riccardo Consonni

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 5 - Method

November 08, 2017

There are some basic tenets of manufacturing that we’ve been reviewing in this blog series. Control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method – is critical for creatin...

By Riccardo Consonni

NX Manufacturing

PM-Bearings achieves excellent part quality with integrated NX solution

November 06, 2017

PM-Bearings specializes in the design and manufacture of high-precision linear bearings, motion systems and positioning stages, and supplies the high-end semiconductor, medical device an...

By Stephanie Aldrete

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 4 - Measure

November 01, 2017

In this blog series, we’ve been getting back to basics. Product quality is rooted in the control of the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. If you get those right, you...

By Riccardo Consonni

New accuracy study opens the door to CFD led clinical trials

October 31, 2017

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a vital tool for the research of blood flow dynamics in the human cardiovascular system as well as other biological flow phenomena. Recently, CFD has garnered in...

By Kristian Debus

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 3 - Machine

October 25, 2017

This blog series continues as we discuss the 5Ms of manufacturing – material, man, machine, measure, and method. Part 3 focuses on control of machines. In the previous blogs, we said that the p...

By Riccardo Consonni