Industry Leaders to Show How a Closed-loop Approach to Product Quality Improves Business and Compliance
Charlotte, NC — May 20, 2010 — Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Mark Lincoln, VP Operations for Terumo and Karim Lokas, VP Product Strategy for Camstar will speak to Medical Device industry executives at the FDAnews Medical Device Quality Congress (MDQC) in Bethesda, MD on June 7, 2010. Executives from leading Medical Device companies will participate in the event.
The Terumo-Camstar session, titled “Beyond Compliance: A Closed-loop Approach to Advancing Product Quality and Delivering Business Value,” describes how manufacturers that adopt a closed-loop approach to product quality – rather than focusing only on traditional compliance-focused processes – are able to drive 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 case study, presented by Mr. Lincoln, reveals how Terumo’s strategy drives continuous improvement in its complex global manufacturing processes and quality systems. Industry benchmarks, presented by Mr. Lokas, will show proven business results of embracing a closed-loop approach.
For more details and to register for the event, visit FDAnews Medical Device Quality Congress website.
About Terumo
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation manufactures and markets medical devices for the global cardiac surgery market and is the U.S. distributor for Vascutek® Vascular Grafts. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan with manufacturing operations in Ann Arbor; Elkton, Maryland; and Ashland, Massachusetts. It is one of several subsidiaries of Terumo Corporation of Japan that is focused exclusively on cardiac and vascular specialties, including Terumo Heart Inc., developer of a ventricular assist device and Vascutek Ltd., a global leader in the design and manufacture of vascular grafts.
For more information, visit www.terumo-cvs.com.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience – all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.
Camstar is the largest in its market, including solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management and manufacturing intelligence. For over 20 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSolé, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Pacific Biosciences, Q-Cells, REMEC, Roche, SanDisk, SpectraWatt, Terumo, Xilinx, Zeiss, and ZOLL.
For more information, please visit www.camstar.com.