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Use MES to Keep up with Change, Improve Yields and Output, Ensure Compliance

With accelerating innovation comes more rapid change into manufacturing, increasing variability and putting added pressure on operations to maintain high quality levels. Manufacturers using Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are ahead of the game, with proven ability to improve quality levels and reduce time to volume. MES users have achieved:

• More Rapid time to Volume
• Improved Yields
• Lower Operating Costs
• Increased Compliance

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Attendees to Learn Best Practices to Achieve Business Benefits from Improved Product Quality, Efficiency and Compliance

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (February 2, 2012) – Camstar Systems, Inc. today announced that Karim Lokas, Vice President of Product Strategy for Camstar, is Chairperson of the CBI West Coast Forum on Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry, March 7-8, 2012 in Irvine, CA.

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In New Video, VP Quality and Operations Reveals How Company is Turning FDA Initiatives into Impetus for Higher Product Quality, Growth and Profitability

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 26, 2012) – Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (CVS), a leading manufacturer of medical devices for cardiac and vascular surgery with an emphasis on cardiopulmonary bypass, intra–operative monitoring and vascular grafting, has deployed the Camstar Enterprise Platform – including Manufacturing Execution, Quality Management and CAPA – to enable its closed-loop approach to product quality.

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February 16, 2012,
1:00 pm ET

Speaker:
Mark Lincoln
Vice President of Quality and Operations,
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems

Terumo is adopting a closed-loop approach to product quality – rather than focusing only on their traditional compliance-focused processes – and will be able to drive more business value from: Good quality processes, early detection and prevention of issues, the visibility to quickly find and correct root causes, and enforcement to drive consistency across all plants. The initiative has helped the company increased productivity and output while it reduced:

• Production nonconformances (NCRs) and process issues by 41%
• Workmanship complaints by 65%
• Overall complaints (CPMs) by 58%

Attend this important webcast to learn:

• Characteristics of a low-risk, high quality operation
• How to turn FDA regulations into an impetus for proactive business decisions that enable higher product quality, growth and profitability
• How Terumo's Platform approach with MES, QMS and Intelligence enables this continuous improvement
• Specific positive business results of embracing a closed-loop approach
• Recommendations for manufacturers in any industry on how to view quality from the customer perspective.

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Half-day Seminar to be hosted on February 7, 2012 at Agilent Technologies in Santa Clara.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 13, 2012) – Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that it will participate in a half-day global manufacturing seminar with Professional Reliability Engineering firm Ops A La Carte and Agilent Technologies, a worldwide leader in bio-analytical and electronic measurement instruments for the communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis industries.

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Together Camstar and PTC Solutions Deliver Integrated Product/Process Change Management and Closed-loop Quality for Manufacturers and Global Supply Partners

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 5, 2012) – Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that it has joined the PTC® PartnerAdvantage™ Program at the Gold Tier.

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Improving Quality, Efficiency and Compliance with Paperless Manufacturing through eDHR and eBR Systems

March 7 – 8, 2012
Irvine, CA

Whether you are a multi-billion dollar orthopedic manufacturer, a mid-sized cardiovascular manufacturer or a start-up home diagnostic manufacturer, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or eDHR/eBR solutions can help you improve product quality while significantly reducing your operational costs and regulatory risks.

Hear outstanding speakers from Alere, Boston Scientific, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Camstar, Covidien, Dexcom, Gartner, Illumina, Roche Diagnostics, Sorin Group.

Learn directly from your industry peers how they have successfully deployed and expanded their MES. Hear first-hand their strategies and techniques to:

• Create and extend the business case and ROI for MES
• Prepare for change management
• Use MES to support business decisions
• Enable lean operations with removal of paperwork, prevention of errors (poke-a-yoke), reduction of nonconformances and scrap, self-auditing eDHR/eBR, and more
• Enable a smooth MES deployment and cutover
• Simplify compliance with global regulatory GMPs and FDA Title 21 Part 11
• Standardize globally for consistent quality.

Karim Lokas, VP of Product Strategy at Camstar and noted speaker in the industry, is the Forum Chairperson.

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March 13 – 15, 2012
Stuttgart, Germany
Booth #2229

The MEDTEC Europe Conference is part of the biggest annual event for medical device manufacturers. Senior medical device professionals will come together to learn about and discuss best practice in product development, regulation and market access of devices.

Don't miss Camstar's session: "Paperless Shop-Floor Control & Visibility: Best Practices for Paperless Manufacturing and Electronic Device History Records (eDHR) for Complex, High-Risk Medical Device Manufacturing"

Abstract
Medical Device Manufacturing organizations are faced with a multi-tiered challenge: efficiently manufacture a high quality, safe and effective medical device at a competitive cost while simultaneously mitigating shop floor disruptions associated with introducing new products, product improvements, and process improvements. This must be achieved while maintaining compliance with strict regulatory requirements. Attaining these goals with manual, paper-based manufacturing processes, or with legacy home-grown shop-floor systems, adds layers of unnecessary overhead, costs and waste and exposes manufacturers of complex, high-risk medical devices to significant risk. Learn how leading global medical device manufacturers are thriving against these challenges with the use of Manufacturing Execution and eDHR technology in both manual and automated processes.

In this session, you will hear case studies on how your Medical Device peers are leveraging state-of-the art manufacturing execution technology to:

• Rapidly lean processes with a “self-auditing eDHR” to accelerate manufacturing velocity
• Reduce risks associated with manual, paper-based manufacturing control, visibility and DHR systems
• Enable Operational Excellence with “systemic poke-a-yoke” and Global Visibility into granular product/process performance metrics
• Significantly improve Product Quality while mitigating Scrap, Product Quality Incidents, Non-Conformances, CAPAs, and even Recalls associated with preventable mistakes

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July 10 - 12, 2012
Muscone Center
San Francisco, CA
Booth #6774

If you're looking to learn about the latest developments in semiconductor manufacturing, explore new opportunities in LEDs or printed electronics, discover the trends shaping the business of microelectronics, or simply connect with hundreds of leading experts, executives, and technologists, SEMICON West is the place to be.

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