Product lifecycle management
With IMT as your partner, you can rely on sustainable and far-reaching product lifecycle management. In addition to conception, development, testing and market launch, IMT also helps you with lifecycle design, design transfer to production and keeping your products on the market.
Particularly in the case of medical devices, great importance is attached to the longevity of the devices on the market. Let us work together to extend the maturity phase of your devices and find efficient and sustainable solutions to maintain the function and conformity of your devices.
With decades of experience in market launches, in-house production, and comprehensive maintenance of devices from both design and production perspectives, we offer support at every stage of the product lifecycle. Our team of experts guides you from the early stages of device development, providing product lifecycle analysis (LCA) and product lifecycle development (LCD) to help you meet your sustainability goals right from the start.
When launching your new products, we provide end-to-end support through to production, ensuring that supply chains and manufacturing processes are established, implemented, and maintained in accordance with current standards and cutting-edge technology. Our extensive expertise also extends to maintaining products already on the market. IMT offers comprehensive technical and regulatory support at both the product and production levels. We partner with you from the initial concept through to sustainable production, and continue with ongoing optimization even after your product enters the market.
Concept development
Do you have a vision but need technical know-how and regulatory support in the concept phase? We help you to create a solid basis for decision-making by drawing up a development roadmap, an approval path and a cost estimate.
Lifecycle analysis
As part of the concept phase, we can carry out lifecycle analyses (“cradle to gate” and “cradle to grave”) for materials to be used and your product to be developed. This enables you to achieve your sustainability goals during product development.
Product development
We support every phase of development, right through to verification and validation (V&V) and design transfer to production. Our expertise and experience in product lifecycle management flows into every development phase to maximize the sustainability, efficiency and longevity of your product.
Lifecycle development
We develop a sustainable product lifecycle according to your specifications. The findings from the lifecycle analysis are used to make all phases of the lifecycle - from raw material extraction, production and use through to disposal or recycling - sustainable and to maximize the service life of your product.
Design transfer to production
When introducing your new products, we support you right through to production. We create all production-relevant documents and tools and qualify processes and equipment where necessary (IQ, OQ, PQ). We also focus on the design of production workstations, incoming goods inspections and employee training in order to achieve maximum efficiency, reproducibility and quality from your processes.
Product maintenance
Our product maintenance (sustaining engineering) service helps you to keep your products up to date, replace obsolete components and monitor and continuously improve product performance. We ensure that your products comply with current norms and standards.
Operations engineering
We offer comprehensive support in the area of operations engineering to monitor your existing production processes, qualify new processes and maximize efficiency. Our goal is to help you manufacture high-quality products economically.
Product lifecycle management
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a comprehensive approach to managing the entire lifecycle of a product from the initial idea through development, production, use, maintenance and disposal. PLM integrates people, processes, business systems and information to promote innovation, shorten time to market, improve product quality and extend product maturity.
Your benefits
Expert know-how in lifecycle management
Proven expertise
Our more than 30 years of experience in medical technology and systems engineering guarantee you a partner with proven expertise.
A team of experts
Our engineers and approval specialists use the latest technologies and work in accordance with current standards and regulations.
Comprehensive lifecycle management
We support you from the concept and prototype phase through to product registration and lifecycle support.
Internal test lab
Our in-house test lab speeds up design review and pre-compliance testing, reducing your time to market.
Flexibility
Our solutions integrate seamlessly into your existing R&D tools and processes to ensure smooth transitions and handovers.
Efficiency
IMT's lean structures allow us to react flexibly, create value and reduce projects costs in order to meet your changing needs.
Contact
Do you have any questions or need support with your project? Our team of experts will be happy to guide you through the entire product lifecycle and develop sustainable, efficient solutions. Get in touch with us today.
Benno Bieri
Business Development Manager
Medical Devices, System Engineering