Manufacturer Cites Electronic Quality Control and Traceability plus Increased Efficiency as Key Benefits
Charlotte, NC (February 7, 2006) - Camstar, the leading provider of enterprise manufacturing execution and quality management solutions, announced today that BIOTRONIK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical products for the electrotherapy of the heart and vascular intervention, has chosen Camstar's Medical Device Suite application, powered by Camstar's award winning InSite platform, to further its quality and efficiency initiatives in North America and Europe.
"BIOTRONIK’s products help to restore and secure the patient's quality of life in a lasting way," said Dr. Bernhard Saretz, Corporate Vice President of Production. "Our first goal with the Camstar solution is to be sure that as we grow and expand, product quality remains high. Camstar has shown us how we can improve not only product traceability, but also process traceability and in-process enforcement."
Camstar’s Medical Device Suite will provide BIOTRONIK with real-time, comprehensive production information, traceability and control. The vertically integrated German manufacturing company will first deploy the solution at Micro Systems Engineering, Inc. (MSEI), a subsidiary of BIOTRONIK in Lake Oswego, Oregon. "Camstar’s Medical Device Suite will become a valuable quality management tool by ensuring all processes are strictly followed and by providing process alarms," said Bob Erb, Vice President of Operations at MSEI. "It will also become a valuable tool to improve manufacturing yields and to better integrate CAPA with manufacturing. We will spend more time improving quality and operational efficiency rather than collecting data."
"It’s very important to integrate the manufacturing information with our SAP system, which is the backbone to order management," said Christof Buchholz, Director of Production Systems at BIOTRONIK. "And we will also be able harmonize our heterogeneous shop floor databases."
The solution will be rolled out to five additional plants in North America and Europe as well, and Dr. Saretz envisions it as a point of standardization for the enterprise. "The sites will be more able to communicate and improve their processes because they are not alone," he said. "We can all share experiences and improve."
We welcome BIOTRONIK to Camstar’s rapidly growing group of international Medical Device customers," said Jason Adams, Camstar's Managing Director, Life Sciences. "Camstar’s leadership in the Medical Device and Diagnostics industry is again proven by continued adoption of our Medical Device Suite in Europe as well as North America. We are committed to helping our customers reach their goals of greater efficiency, higher yields and manufacturing visibility by providing complete, configurable and easily-validated vertical solutions."
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading provider of enterprise manufacturing execution and quality systems. Camstar’s Medical Device Suite application manages, monitors, and synchronizes manufacturing activities across globally distributed plants, and integrates them in real-time with core business processes. Rapid to implement, it provides the manufacturing control needed to help eliminate scrap, rework, paperwork errors and redundant checks. As a result, manufacturers improve yields and product quality, shorten lead times and reach volumes quickly, respond to changing demand, and reduce the cost of compliance. More than 100 leading companies, including Tyco, CIBA Vision, ZOLL, Zeiss, BIOTRONIK, Kinetic Concepts, IBM, Kodak, AMD, Philips and Hitachi rely on Camstar as a trusted software partner.
For more information about Camstar and its InSite product solutions, call (704) 227-6600 or (800) 588-0030 or visit www.camstar.com.
About BIOTRONIK GmbH & Co. KG
BIOTRONIK is a leading European manufacturer of biomedical technology that does business all over the world. The company offers comprehensive solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and advanced therapy support in the areas of cardiac rhythm management and vascular intervention.
For more information, please visit www.biotronik.com.
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