Published on 29-Nov-2010
"Improved collaboration accelerates our development time." - Diagnostic Grifols
Customer:
Diagnostic Grifols
Industry:
Electronics
Deployment country:
Spain
Smarter Planet:
Smart Products, Smarter Healthcare
Overview
Diagnostic Grifols, a leading medical device provider, implementing an Agile solution to enhance collaboration throughout its product development cycle, sees significant results in time to market and regulation compliance.
Business need:
The international scale of this company’s business calls for strict compliance of the software it uses to manage and control the development of its products. And the complexity of its development cycle requires software that can enhance teams’ collaboration to deliver products faster.
Solution:
The solution connects all stages of the development cycle, allowing different developers working on the same project to build and share all regulated product data in a controlled environment. Through enhanced collaboration, teams have flexibility to adapt to changes in regulations and take action on potential conflict. By better anticipating schedules, teams keep investment and profitability on track. Automation of operations documentation allows the company to better support compliance audits.
Benefits:
• Time to market decreased by 20 percent
• Error rates significantly reduced
Case Study
About the Company
Diagnostic Grifols is part of a holding company which serves the healthcare industry in over 90 countries around the world. This division’s main activity is to develop medical devices for clinical diagnostics, mainly focused in three critical categories: Blood Banking, Hemostasis and Immunology. These devices must be compliant with FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulations. FDA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for regulating food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, medications, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, etc.
The Opportunity
The international scale of this company’s business calls for strict compliance of the software it uses to manage and control the development of its products. And the complexity of its development cycle requires software that can enhance teams’ collaboration to deliver products faster.
What Makes it Smarter
Together with IBM, Diagnostic Grifols implemented an Agile solution to manage the entire development process and enhance collaboration between teams. The solution connects all the stages of the development cycle, allowing different developers working on the same project to build and share all the regulated product data in a controlled environment. Through enhanced collaboration, the teams have flexibility to adapt to changes in regulations and take action on the potential conflict. By better anticipating schedules, the teams can keep investment and profitability on track. And through the automation of operations documentation, the company can better support compliance audits.
Business Results
• Time to market decreased by 20 percent
• Error rates significantly reduced
For more information
Please contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner. Visit us at:
ibm.com/healthcare
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Software:
Rational Change, Rational Synergy, Rational DOORS
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