It's not surprising that evolving regulatory compliances continue to be the medical industry's biggest challenge. And, as much of the regulation concerns identifying different products correctly, labeling has taken center stage.
The pressure to reduce the overall costs, maintain quality, and minimize labeling errors, is high especially in the supply chain. This can potentially lead to mistakes that may open you up to lawsuits that can be highly costly in terms of labor and business.
With the introduction of label management tools, it is easier to streamline labeling operations, consolidate data and reduce all sorts of errors. Here's how modern label management benefits medical device manufacturers.
Providing Traceability
A modern label management system can help manufacturers create labels that include the required UDI device identifier and production identifier information. It can also store the labels in a three electronic label catalog and document actions history for responding to regulatory audits and resolve some of the issues stemming from risky devices that more consistent screening processes might have flagged.
Another primary concern that scanning UDI can help is to pull up a device’s date of manufacture and its lot and serial numbers. With this detailed information, distributors, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations can search their inventories to find devices that meet the criteria for a recall, such as all models produced after a specific period or at a particular facility and save them. The system also provides web-based label printing, making it simple to extend label changes to other sites and throughout the medical device supply chain.
Reduced Overall Cost
Implementing a label management system calls for centralized labeling, which is the best way to simplify your labeling environment by reducing manual processes.
It leads to more efficient use of labor, fewer product recalls, and minor reworking of products that saves time. Companies may waste time copying labels or updating them in multiple slots without it, making the process time-consuming and prone to errors.
Labeling allows manufacturers to establish role-based access and permission parameters. This added level of security can highly reduce errors related to and production. Organizations can easily integrate labeled data with other systems’ databases such as Oracle, MS Access, or SQL, and better maintain the in-house data rather than setting it separately.
A Cost-effective Way to Control Quality
The modern label management system is particularly compelling for medical device manufacturers. It efficiently adjusts labels to meet compliance requirements or even changing customer requirements. This ability to react swiftly to required changes is of the utmost importance to medical device manufacturers and ease quality control.
It is a cost-effective way to ensure quality by providing transparency and accountability. Every user within a label management system is assigned a unique ID and allocated permission-specific rights based on their responsibility area.
A transparent system promises a single source of truth and fewer chances of errors.
Modern Label Management: The Recipe for Succeeding In the Medical World
The modern labeling management system can help to enhance the existing method of the medical industry. It can generate significant savings for medical device manufacturers while ensuring the devices are labeled safely for both medical facilities and patients who rely on them.
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