DESIGN CONTROLS

Get your medical device
to market faster

Pull your device design data together and stamp out risks.
Focus on building a great medical device - without the
headache of manual compliance work.

 

A smarter way to manage design controls

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Challenge

Quality teams work in one system. Engineering teams in another.

Siloed and disconnected teams and platforms make traceable, compliant product development impossible to manage.

Work grinds to a halt, quality and development work against each other, and your path to market becomes a complex nightmare.

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Solution

Qualio Design Controls offers a single source of truth for all your product development activities.

Pull product data into Qualio with integrations. Control inputs, requirements and risks. Bring your quality and engineering teams into sync.

All underpinned by a complete, compliant document stack to show your auditors.

Unite systems and data to enable effective collaboration and stop delays

  • Demolish quality and engineering siloes by connecting systems like Jira, Azure DevOps and TestRail to Qualio
  • Build a real-time, always-up-to-date document stack that flows seamlessly from your engineering team to quality 
  • Centralize all design control data by product, from requirements to inputs, outputs, risks and drag-and-drop attachments
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Maintain end-to-end traceability across systems in real time

  • Easily pinpoint missing tests, risk mitigations and more for a right-first-time approach
  • Drive changes and product updates quickly and easily
  • Unlock 100% traceability across design elements while your engineering teams work in the source systems they know and love
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Generate release documentation with one click

  • Easily produce quality documentation to ensure you’re delivering a safe and effective product, eliminating time-consuming paper-based processes and manual governance
  • Be 100% audit-ready at all times with documentation, e-signatures and objective evidence
  • Access automated snapshots of product documentation for each stage of your product lifecycle
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Purpose-built for your quality and product teams

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Quality teams

For medical device, SaMD and SiMD companies enjoy a single source of truth for design controls and product data.

Export automated documentation, embed FMEA and ISO 14971 risk management and unlock complete traceability from input to output.

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Product teams

Enjoy uninterrupted development as the engineering systems they're used to are linked directly to Qualio.

Develop and innovate, safe in the knowledge that your work is flowing accurately and in real time straight to the quality department.

Design controls management resources

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Ultimate guide to medical device design controls

Become a design controls expert and start applying the 9 core elements of medical device design controls with our comprehensive breakdown guide.

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Design controls datasheet

Learn how Qualio Design Controls combines powerful functionality with ease of use for a controlled, compliant pathway to market that meets ISO and FDA requirements.

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See other features that make Qualio
the #1 top-rated cloud QMS

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Document management

Make paper, filing cabinets, folders and spreadsheets a thing of the past. 

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Risk management

Detect and mitigate risks and comply with
ISO 14971 and ICH Q9.

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Supplier management

Control and categorize suppliers and third parties with complete visibility.

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Training management

Build a competent, confident, compliant, continuously improving workforce.

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Change control management

Manage change activity easily and effectively with complete traceability.

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Audit management

Make compliance and audit readiness the natural core of your business DNA.

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CAPA & NCR management

Build automated response workflows for any quality event. 

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