Mastercontrol has released the Mastercontrol ENG solution and associated Mastercontrol services.
The Mastercontrol ENG accelerates the time needed to get a product to market by allowing cross-functional teams to efficiently collaborate on critical documents and processes.
Some of the Mastercontrol ENG benefits that help get products to market more rapidly include: collaboration workspaces that offer the capability to involve multiple departments, outside suppliers and consultants; a means to easily organise design-history files and technical dossiers; electronic collaborations and approvals across geographically dispersed design teams that maximise the effectiveness of design reviews and ease the design transfer to manufacturing; automated approval workflows that eliminate time otherwise wasted waiting for approval signatures; and a web-based system that involves manufacturing, marketing, quality and regulatory personnel early in the development cycle to maximise the likelihood of product success.
Mastercontrol offers out-of-the-box best-practices configuration for compliance to standards such as 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485.
It features tools that make product development and quality more efficient.
For example, design engineers can remain in their native CAD environments and still share essential product specs with the rest of the enterprise.
Quality professionals can achieve compliance without deterring the development cycle.
Regulatory specialists can use Mastercontrol to participate in the development cycle and can easily repurpose documentation for use in regulatory submissions.
Automated status-tracking functionality ensures supplier compliance.
Mastercontrol offers seamless integration and the capability to expand as enterprises grow, develop and thrive.
Other benefits of the Mastercontrol ENG solution include: seamless integration with tools personnel use every day, for example CAD, Outlook, Word and MS Project.
As companies mature, additional beneficial Mastercontrol solutions - such as Mastercontrol Process and Mastercontrol Training - can be added to fit expanding needs.
Mastercontrol serves as a single source for product definition, providing a central repository for all drawings, specs, manufacturing procedures, inspection criteria, marketing collaterals and bills of materials.
The Mastercontrol ENG solution manages product spec iterations and keeps manufacturing, purchasing, document control and the supply chain up to date.
Design engineers can continue to work in the CAD environments where they are most familiar without risking non-compliance or hampering the development cycle.
The solution ensures that documents crucial to manufacturing processes are up to date.
Mastercontrol ENG is suitable for engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, purchasing and regulatory personnel.
Mastercontrol means manufacturing and operations personnel are connected earlier in the development process.
The Mastercontrol system can reduce manufacturing costs and line up the supply chain more rapidly.
Quality professionals can use the ENG solution to gain more insight into the development process and resulting documentation.
Mastercontrol can maintain a rapidly evolving Approved Vendor List (AVL) and make certain it is used appropriately.
It gives buying departments a single source for product specifications and approved vendor information.
Managers have an overview of changes in processes and can utilise the system to enhance efficiency and prevent rework or scrapped product.
Mastercontrol also gives users the assurance that purchasing decisions are based on correct and up-to-date data.
Mastercontrol gives regulatory professionals the means to effortlessly collaborate with cross-functional development teams to gather documentation for submissions to regulatory entities such as the FDA.
Because it provides a single access point for all regulatory information, even correspondence with regulatory agencies can be stored and tracked in the Mastercontrol system.
Mastercontrol ENG can serve as a comprehensive solution for any organisation, regardless of existing in-house capabilities.
ENG can be packaged with any level of service and support the organisation requires.
An organisation lacking knowledge of particular requirements that must be addressed can have Mastercontrol's expert advisory team analyse the circumstances and develop and clearly map out those requirements.
The Mastercontrol Documents, BOM, PDM Connectors and supplier solutions inclusive in the Mastercontrol ENG package provide an enterprise with core functionality for product-lifecycle management (PLM) while simultaneously maintaining ease of use and accessibility.
