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Engineering Change Management Software

Streamline formal engineering change management processes with automated document routing, follow-ups, escalation, and approvals. Decrease review cycle times and time to market.

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What’s in SimplerQMS Engineering Change Management Software?

SimplerQMS provides a cloud-based QMS software for life science organizations with a built-in engineering change management solution that allows your organization to create, share, review, and release engineering-related changes to speed up approvals.

Here are some of the core engineering change management features and benefits you get using SimplerQMS.

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Streamline Engineering Change Management Process

Gain a competitive edge by cutting down your administrative overhead and costs related to disconnected and ineffective tools.

With SimplerQMS engineering change management software you can create and manage engineering changes with ease. Create documents using our best-practice engineering change request (ECR) forms, route documents for review or approval, follow up on approvals, escalate pending approvals, and more.

Easily create relationships between ECR, ECO, ECN, and documents related to engineering changes, so you always have complete visibility and control over your engineering changes.

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Automate Design Review and Approval Processes

Design changes are a common occurrence in medical device engineering. When these changes happen, you need to have a structured process in place to review the changes, get approvals, and implement the changes.

SimplerQMS automatically notifies and sends email reminders to those who need to review or approve changes. Assignments can be escalated to the managers if someone doesn’t act in a timely manner.

You can also track the status of engineering changes, so you always know what’s happening and where things are in the process.

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Connect Quality Processes In One Platform

When teams, data, and processes are siloed, engineering change management becomes complex and difficult. Disconnected tools only add to the problem by creating more inefficiencies. SimplerQMS is designed to help you overcome these challenges and streamline your medical device engineering change process.

The software integrates with various quality processes to ensure flawless change implementation, such as suppliers, training, non-conformances, CAPAs, and other processes. All documents can be linked to each other and are stored in a secure, centralized cloud-based storage for easy access and retrieval.

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Enable End-To-End Traceability and Ensure Compliance

The ability to track engineering changes throughout the product life cycle is critical for quality and compliance.

SimplerQMS allows you to easily review changes in light of engineering drawings, requirements, artifacts, bills of material (BOMs), and documents linked to quality processes.

Furthermore, SimplerQMS is designed to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and helps you comply with ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, 21 CFR Part 11, and GxP requirements. We provide features like electronic signatures, password authentication prior to approval, document versioning, time-stamped audit trails, and more. This makes it an ideal solution for businesses in highly regulated industries, like medical devices.

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Solution That Goes Far Beyond Change Management

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Document Control

Keep your documents audit-ready while managing a high volume of data accurately.

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Training Management

Develop employee competence while maintaining compliance. Streamline the training process with learning rules and training groups, automate task assignments, reminders, and more.

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Change Management

Streamline change control processes from change request submission to final approval and successful implementation.

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Deviation Management

Enhance investigation, documentation, and resolution of deviations through a streamlined deviation management process.

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CAPA Management

Enhance your corrective and preventive actions to enforce continuous improvement and resolve issues as they arise.

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Complaint Management

Streamline your complaint management workflow and turn complaints into product improvement opportunities and increase customer satisfaction.

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Audit Management

Reduce the time and effort needed to pass audits successfully by streamlining audit-related activities.

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Risk Management

Consolidate and organize risk management documentation throughout all quality processes.

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Equipment Management

Simplify the equipment registration, calibration, and maintenance tasks with straightforward workflows.

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Supplier Management

Manage your supplier quality management processes across your supply chains, from initial qualification and selection through ongoing monitoring and performance measurement.

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What Customers Achieve With SimplerQMS

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SimplerQMS is built on Microsoft & M-Files Technology which serves over 5,000 customers worldwide.

Pass audit more easily

Access needed documentation and present it to the auditor with a couple of clicks from anywhere in the world.

Gain high level of traceability

Gain cross-functional visibility and trace back to the root cause of each nonconformance.

“It’s very flexible, smooth, and easy to use. Documents no longer get lost and the whole history of all products is accessible for anyone at any time.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

A digital engineering change management system helps medical device organizations streamline and automate their engineering change management processes. The software includes features like automated document routing, document versioning, audit trails, electronic signatures, reminders and notifications, follow-ups, escalation of activities, and more.

It helps ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the changes, that the changes are reviewed and approved in a timely manner, and that the final engineering documents are accurate and up-to-date.

Popular engineering change control software features include:

  • Document linking: Link engineering changes to other quality processes like suppliers, training, non-conformances, CAPAs, and more.
  • Automated review and approval processes: Automatically notify and send email reminders to those who need to review or approve changes.
  • Change status tracking: Track the status of engineering changes, so you always know what’s happening and where things are in the process.
  • Cloud-based storage: Store documents in a secure, centralized cloud-based storage for easy access and retrieval.
  • Microsoft Office integration: Open and edit documents directly in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
  • Out-of-the-box regulatory compliance: SimplerQMS is designed to help you comply with requirements applicable to medical device manufacturers, such as ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, 21 CFR Part 11, and GxP requirements.

SimplerQMS provides a fully validated solution, which complies with the requirements of the GxP, GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and ISO 13485:2016.

We ensure continuous re-validation of the software and provide extensive validation evidence for use during audits and inspections. Including a validation plan, procedures, reports, as well as, IQ, OQ, and PQ documentation.

SimplerQMS software solution is a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant software system, designed to help Life Science organizations comply with the Electronic Signature and Digital Record practices set forth by the US FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11.

The SimplerQMS engineering change management solution is part of a QMS software subscription that includes all core QMS modules, implementation, training, ongoing support, validation, hosting, and more. This means that everything is included in the price you pay and there are no other costs associated with subscribing to SimplerQMS.

The total price depends on the number of users and the type of licenses. Therefore, we recommend you talk to our experts and request a pricing quote for the needs of your organization.

What Our Customers Say

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“Spending most of my day using SimplerQMS, I would say I am very pleased with the ease of use.”

Dorthe W.

QA/RA Manager, Cortex Technology

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“SimplerQMS gave us excellent pricing, customer support for understanding how to use their system and set up our QMS, and is easy to use.”

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Chief Technology Officer, CollaMedix

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“Easy to work with. Intuitive. Rather easy to setup. Very good customer support. Good quality to price ratio.”

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Head of Hardware and Software Development, hemotune

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