Medical Device - Calibration

Sector/Industry: Medical Device

Location:West, Ireland

Project Duration: 2015 – Present

Solution:Calibration

Project Description
Our client is one of the world’s leading medical device manufacturers offering innovative orthopedic medical devices. Our relationship with this client began in 2015, providing calibration services on site. Today, LotusWorks is a strategic partner to this client, having developed a calibration programme in alignment with the client’s requirements. The LotusWorks team on-site continues to ramp up or ramp down in response to the client’s needs, allowing the client a level of flexibility without compromising quality and talent.

Project Services

• Manage all calibration activities across the site through onsite calibration teams
• Providing specialist engineering project resources, supporting functions such as validation, quality control, programming, etc.
• Delivering calibration optimisation, project resources, and consultation services.
• Management of the calibration programme across all three of the client sites, including management of any 3rd Party Vendor specialised calibrations under the LotusWorks quality management system.
• Compliance of the quality procedures in line with various regulatory authorities
• Ongoing cost improvement by continuously reducing the number of tasks being carried out per annum in a controlled manner.

Outcomes

• The culture of continuous improvement within the company means that our client experienced the best value-add improvement from the LotusWorks team. 
• There have been 34 CI’s implemented on-site with a total cost saving of €524,429 to date.
• The client has peace of mind that product quality and compliance are maintained resulting in reduced waste and increased productivity due to the LotusWorks team continuing to drive operational excellence.
• Our calibration optimisation model implemented, has eliminated unnecessary calibration leading to financial benefit for the client.
• Accurate reporting based on real-time data analysis enables proactive and reactive decision making, and accurate cost and task forecasting.
• Our client gained comprehensive calibration expertise in a facility incorporating multiple equipment types as the LotusWorks team is skilled in the calibration of all equipment & products.