News systems will be installed in all Raumedic production locations in Germany and the United States by 2019.

The medical technology manufacturer has established a partnership with software provider Guardus Solutions, which will see the latter design the manufacturing execution system (MES) for both existing machinery of Raumedic and for future investments in October.

With the help of the new system, the status of machinery, production data and necessary work documents will be available at all times on a single platform. The MES can help reduce potential sources of error, and identify savings potential.

The solution also offers standardised, cross-location performance figures as well as reporting and analysis data in real time.

The MES will eliminate decentralised island systems, excel lists and paper documents.

The solution will also make significant improvements in quality management, according to Raumedic. Individual products can be tracked all the way back to the raw material and can also be digitalised, cross-linked, managed and documented from the time of their development to their delivery. The MES covers the entire product cycle.

“The use of digitalised processes will not just open up undreamed of possibilities. Above all, it will boost the value that we can and will generate for our customers,” said Martin Schenkel, head of operations at Raumedic.

“Medical technology and pharmaceuticals are sensitive business areas that have extremely high quality requirements,” CEO Martin Bayer said.

Bayer said that government regulators place strict demands on the documentation of product and process data. As a result, a central standardised data management system will create significant improvements, he added.

Florian Pöhner, head of IT at Raumedic, is overseeing the implementation of the IT solution. “The system creates an optimal link between our quality control and production units,” Pöhner said. “The MES is a consequential step for us and will enable us to take on future projects in terms of Industry 4.0.”

Pöhner said that the company selected Guardus Solutions because the IT provider had an excellent reputation in the area of medical technology and offered a solution with a high level of usability.