Top Medical Device Manufacturer Selects Single Platform for Manufacturing Execution and Quality Management to Enable Quality Improvements and to Reduce Risk
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (CVS), a premier global provider of medical devices focused on cardiac and vascular specialties, has selected the Camstar Enterprise PlatformTM to support continuous improvement, and to ensure consistent process enforcement and top product quality across the enterprise. The multi-site deployment of Camstar's integrated enterprise Manufacturing Execution (MES), Quality Management (QMS) - including Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Event Management and Nonconformance Management - and Manufacturing Intelligence capabilities, will help close the loop on manufacturing and quality processes.
"Terumo CVS delivers precisely designed and meticulously manufactured products to our customers," said Mark Lincoln, Vice President of Operations for Terumo CVS. "Our objective with Camstar is to drive continuous improvement in our manufacturing processes and quality systems. Camstar's closed-loop approach to quality will help us move beyond traditional compliance-focused processes to a proactive environment with early detection and prevention of issues, the visibility to quickly find and correct root causes and drive consistency across all plants in order to achieve world class manufacturing."
"We needed a proven solution in the Medical Device industry that we could deploy quickly for immediate benefits," said Kevin Doughty, Director of Supply Chain for Terumo CVS. "Camstar stands out for its integrated and easy-to-use MES and QMS, robust technology that will grow with us, knowledgeable people and totally satisfied customers. We are confident that with Camstar we'll move our processes forward rapidly."
"Medical Device companies continue to adopt Camstar's Enterprise Platform for their complex, global operations," said Jason Adams, Camstar's Vice President of Sales for North America and Europe. "As they focus on achieving consistent high product quality across the global value chain, they rely on a comprehensive platform for manufacturing execution and quality to make it possible."
Learn more about Version 4.5 of Camstar's Enterprise Platform for Advancing Product Quality.
About Terumo
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation manufactures and markets medical devices for the global cardiac surgery market and is the U.S. distributor for Vascutek® Vascular Grafts. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan with manufacturing operations in Ann Arbor; Elkton, Maryland; and Ashland, Massachusetts. It is one of several subsidiaries of Terumo Corporation of Japan that is focused exclusively on cardiac and vascular specialties, including Terumo Heart Inc., developer of a ventricular assist device and Vascutek Ltd., a global leader in the design and manufacture of vascular grafts.
For more information, visit www.terumo-cvs.com.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience - all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.
Camstar is the largest in its market, including solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management and manufacturing intelligence. For over 25 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSole, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, SpectraWatt, Xilinx, Zeiss and ZOLL.
For more information, please visit www.camstar.com.
CONTACT:
Camstar Systems, Inc.
Dana Saylors, 704-227-6673
dsaylors@camstar.com